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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1941.

For an overview of world literature see 1941 in literature.

See also: 1940 in Australian literature, 1941 in Australia, 1942 in Australian literature.

Books

• Eleanor Dark – The Timeless Land
• Arthur Gask – The Beachy Head Murder
• Ernestine Hill – My Love Must Wait : The Story of Matthew Flinders
• Michael Innes – Appleby on Ararat
• Jack Lindsay
  • Hannibal Takes a Hand
  • The Stormy Violence
• Jack McLaren – Their Isle of Desire
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – Moon of Desire
• Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
• Patrick White – The Living and the Dead

Children's

• Mary Durack – The Way of the Whirlwind
• May Gibbs – Scotty in Gumnut Land
• P. L. Travers – I Go By Sea, I Go By Land

Short stories

• Marjorie Barnard – "Dry Spell"
• Xavier Herbert – "Josie"
• Lennie Lower – The Bachelors' Guide to the Care of the Young and Other Stories
• Vance Palmer – "Kaijek the Songman"

Poetry

• Kathleen Dalziel – Known and Not Held : Verses
• James Devaney – "Bamba"
• Mary Gilmore – The Disinherited
• Lesbia Harford – The Poems of Lesbia Harford
• Furnley Maurice – "Apples in the Moon"
• Ian Mudie – This is Australia
• John Shaw Neilson – "Say This For Love"
• Bernard O'Dowd – The Poems of Bernard O'Dowd
• Douglas Stewart – Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier

Drama

• Douglas Stewart – The Fire on the Snow

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal[1]	Patrick White	Happy Valley	Harrap

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 7 February – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer
• 31 May – Julian Croft, poet
• 23 June – Roger McDonald, novelist
• 22 September – Murray Bail, novelist
• 18 November – Jennifer Rankin, poet and playwright (died 1979)
• 15 December – Richard Neville, author and editor
• 21 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator

Unknown date

• Hilary McPhee, publisher and editor
• Barry Maitland, novelist

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 5 February – A. B. Paterson, author and poet (born 1864)
• 7 July – Randolph Bedford, poet and novelist (born 1868)

See also

• 1941 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References

1. "About People" The Age, 19 February 1941, p20