1937 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1937.

For an overview of world literature see 1937 in literature.

See also: 1936 in Australian literature, 1937 in Australia, 1938 in Australian literature.

Books

• Martin Boyd – The Picnic
• Eleanor Dark – Sun Across the Sky
• M. Barnard Eldershaw – Plaque with Laurel
• Arthur Gask – Night of the Storm
• Ion Idriess – Forty Fathoms Deep
• Michael Innes – Hamlet, Revenge!
• Seaforth Mackenzie – The Young Desire It
• Leonard Mann – A Murder in Sydney
• Vance Palmer – Legend for Sanderson
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – Intimate Strangers
• Helen Simpson – Under Capricorn
• Arthur Upfield – Winds of Evil

Poetry

• Rosemary Dobson – Poems
• Jack Lindsay – "On Guard for Spain"
• John Shaw Neilson – "I Spoke to the Violet"

Drama

• Sumner Locke Elliott
  • The Cow Jumped Over the Moon
  • Glorious Noon
• Miles Franklin – No Family
• T. Inglis Moore – Best Australian One-Act Plays complied with William Moore
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – Women of Spain

Awards and honours

Literary

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1937 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 19 February – Lee Harding, novelist
• 1 June – Colleen McCullough, novelist (died 2015)

Unknown date

• Philip Hammial – poet

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1937 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 15 March – Catherine Edith Macauley Martin, novelist (born 1848)

See also

• 1937 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References