This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1929.
For an overview of world literature see 1929 in literature.
See also: 1928 in Australian literature, 1929 in Australia, 1930 in Australian literature.
Arthur H. Adams – A Man's Life
Martin Boyd – Dearest Idol
Bernard Cronin – Toad
Jean Devanny – Riven
M. Barnard Eldershaw – A House is Built
Arthur Gask – The Lonely House
Mary Gaunt – The Lawless Frontier
Norman Lindsay – Madam Life's Lovers : A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form
Jack McLaren – A Diver Went Down
Frederic Manning – The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916
Myra Morris – Enchantment
Henry Handel Richardson – Ultima Thule
Alice Grant Rosman – Visitors to Hugo
Arthur W. Upfield – The Barrakee Mystery
Dulcie Deamer – As It Was in the Beginning
Vance Palmer
"Ancestors"
"Jettisoned"
Henry Handel Richardson – "The Bath"
David Unaipon – Native Legends
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Mary Grant Bruce – The Happy Traveller
May Gibbs – Bib and Bub in Gumnut Town
Lilian Turner – Lady Billie
Ruth Bedford – Fairies and Fancies
Furnley Maurice – The Gully and Other Verses
Myra Morris – White Magic
John Shaw Neilson – "The Whistling Jack"
Kenneth Slessor
"Cucumber Kitty"
"Snowdrops"
Betty Roland – Morning
Alec H. Chisholm – Birds and Green Places : A Book of Australian Nature Gossip
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1929 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
5 January – Veronica Brady, poet and critic (died 2015)
1 February – R. A. Simpson, poet (died 2002)
16 February – Peter Porter, poet (died 2010)
2 April – Catherine Gaskin, novelist (died 2009)
14 April – Ray Mathew, novelist, poet and dramatist (died 2002)
5 May – Kenneth Cook, novelist (died 1987)
11 December – Desmond O'Grady, novelist and short story writer
Unknown date
David Lake, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1929 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
28 May – Barbara Baynton, novelist and short story writer (born 1857)
