1924 in Australian literature

Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 1924

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1924.

Books

Dale Collins – Ordeal : A Novel
Dulcie Deamer – The Devil's Saint
Ruby M. Doyle – The Winning of Miriam Heron
Mabel Forrest – The Wild Moth
Arthur Gask – The Secret of the Garden
D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner – The Boy in the Bush
Vance Palmer – Cronulla: A Story of Station Life
Lillian M. Pyke – The Harp of Life
Steele Rudd – Me an' th' Son
Ethel Turner – Nicola Silver

Short stories

Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Grey Horse"

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Charles Barrett – Bushland Babies
Mary Grant Bruce – Billabong's Daughter
Jean Curlewis – The Dawn Man
May Gibbs – Chucklebud and Wunkydoo
Lilian Turner – Jill of the Fourth Form

Poetry

Robert Crawford – "Shadow Song"
Dulcie Deamer – "Messalina"
C. J. Dennis – Rose of Spadgers
Mary Gilmore – "The Brucedale Scandal"
Henry Lawson – Humorous Verses
Dorothea Mackellar
- "Australian Autumn"
- "Heritage"
- "An Old Song"
Jack Moses – "Nine Miles From Gundagai"
John Shaw Neilson
- "Love in Absence"
- "So Sweet a Mouth Has She"
Will H. Ogilvie – "The Death of Ben Hall"
Dowell O'Reilly – The Prose and Verse of Dowell O'Reilly
Kenneth Slessor
- "Thief of the Moon"
- "Undine"

Drama

Vance Palmer – The Black Horse and Other Plays

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1924 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

8 April – David Denholm, author and historian who published fiction under the pseudonym David Forrest and history under his own name (died 1997)^[1]
31 May – Patsy Adam-Smith, author (died 2001)^[2]
16 July – Deirdre Cash (Criena Rohan), Australian novelist (died 1963)^[3]
27 August – David Rowbotham, poet (died 2010)^[4]
1 October – Leonie Kramer, academic and critic (died 2016)^[5]

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1924 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

11 March – Archibald Meston, journalist and explorer (born 1851 in Scotland)^[6]

References

^ "David Forrest (1924-1997)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
^ "Austlit — Patsy Adam-Smith (1924-2001)". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ "Cash, Deirdre (1924–1963) by James Griffin". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
^ "Austlit — David Rowbotham (1924-2010)". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ "Austlit — Leonie Kramer (1924-2016)". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ "Archibald Meston (1851-1924)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023.