This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1930.
For an overview of world literature see 1930 in literature.
See also: 1929 in Australian literature, 1930 in Australia, 1931 in Australian literature.
Marie Bjelke-Petersen – Monsoon Music
Jean Devanny
Bushman Burke
Devil Made Saint
Miles Franklin – Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee
Arthur Gask – The Shadow of Larose
Mary Gaunt – Joan of the Pilchard
Xavier Herbert – Black Velvet
Norman Lindsay – Redheap
Lennie Lower – Here's Luck
Vance Palmer
Men are Human
The Passage
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Haxby's Circus : The Lightest, Brightest Little Show on Earth
Alice Grant Rosman – The Young and Secret
E. V. Timms – The Cripple in Black
Arthur W. Upfield – The Beach of Atonement
Alice Grant Rosman – Jock the Scot
Lilian Turner – There Came a Call
Mary Gilmore – The Wild Swan : Poems
S. Elliott Napier – Potted Biographies
John Shaw Neilson – "The Uneven Player"
Kenneth Slessor – "Gardens in the Sky"
Sumner Locke Elliott – The Crazy Family
Louis Esson – The Quest : A Dramatic Legend in Six Scenes
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1930 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
15 February – Bruce Dawe, poet
11 March – Geoffrey Blainey, historian
21 May – Malcolm Fraser, politician and author (died 2015)
19 June – Anne Deveson, author
25 November – Brenda Niall, biographer
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1930 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
13 January – Robert Crawford, poet (born 1868)
28 March – Jean Curlewis, novelist (born 1898)
2 September – Archibald Strong, poet (born 1876)
