This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1926.
For an overview of world literature see 1926 in literature.
See also: 1925 in Australian literature, 1926 in Australia, 1927 in Australian literature.
Mary Grant Bruce – The Tower Rooms
Carlton Dawe – The Forbidden Shrine
Jean Devanny
The Butcher Shop
Lenore Divine
Mabel Forrest – Gaming Gods
Mary Gaunt – The Forbidden Town
Jack McLaren
The Hidden Lagoon
Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas
Katharine Susannah Prichard
The Wild Oats of Han
Working Bullocks
Steele Rudd – The Romance of Runnibede
Nevil Shute – Marazan
Xavier Herbert – "The Maniac and the Full Moon"
Vance Palmer – "The Birthday"
Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Curse"
Steele Rudd – The Rudd Family
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Mary Grant Bruce – Robin
W. M. Fleming – Bunyip Told Me
Ethel Turner – Funny
Lilian Turner – The Happy Heriots
Jack Lindsay – The Passionate Neatherd : a lyric sequence
Dorothea Mackellar – Fancy Dress and Other Verse
Furnley Maurice – "Beauty of the World"
Myra Morris – "The Pallid Cuckoo"
John Shaw Neilson
"The Birds Go By"
"The Flight of the Weary"
"The Gentle Water Bird"
Nettie Palmer – "The Mystery Man"
Kenneth Slessor – Earth-Visitors : Poems
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1926 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
31 July – Ian Moffitt, novelist (died 2000)
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1926 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
27 April – Ada Cambridge, novelist and poet (born 1844)
6 June – Henry Tate, poet (born 1873)
