This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1920.
For an overview of world literature see 1920 in literature.
See also: 1919 in Australian literature, 1920 in Australia, 1921 in Australian literature.
H. M. Abbott — Castle Vane: A Romance of Bushranging on the Upper Hunter in the Olden Days
Arthur H. Adams — The Australians: A Novel
Roy Bridges — The Fenceless Ranges
Mary Grant Bruce — Dick Lester of Kurrajong
Bernard Cronin — The Timber Wolves
Isabel Dick — The Veil of Discretion
Mary Gaunt — The Surrender and Other Happenings
Nat Gould
A Chestnut Champion
The Silver Star
The Sweep Winner
Jack McLaren — The Savagery of Margaret Nestor: A Tale of Northern Queensland
Dowell O'Reilly - Five Corners
Vance Palmer — The Shantykeeper's Daughter
Arthur J. Rees — The Hand in the Dark
Lilian Turner — Rachel
Martin Boyd — Retrospect: Poems
James Hebblethwaite — The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
Henry Kendall — The Poems of Henry Kendall
Hugh McCrae — Columbine
Dorothea Mackellar — "Dusk in the Domain"
Furnley Maurice — Ways and Means: a poem and an argument
Nina Murdoch — "The Camphor Laurel Tree"
John Shaw Neilson
"The Eleventh Moon"
"Ride Him Away"
Vance Palmer
The Camp
"Europe"
"The Farmer Remembers the Somme"
"These Are My People"
Roderic Quinn — Poems
Kenneth Slessor — "In Tyrrell's Bookshop"
Edward Dyson — "A Terrible Bad Man"
Henry Lawson — "Asking Dad"
Dowell O'Reilly — "Crows"
Children's and young adult fiction
May Gibbs — Little Ragged Blossom: And More About Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
Ethel Turner — Laughing Water
Ernest Favenc — Dead Timber and Other Plays
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1920 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
8 June — Gwen Harwood, poet (died 1995)
18 June — Rosemary Dobson, poet (died (2012)
3 August — Max Fatchen, writer for children (died 2012)
3 November — Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet and activist (died 1993)
16 November — Colin Thiele, writer for children (died 2006)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1920 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
12 August — Louisa Lawson, poet (born 1848)
