This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1934.
For an overview of world literature see 1934 in literature.
See also: 1933 in Australian literature, 1934 in Australia, 1935 in Australian literature.
Martin Boyd – Scandal of Spring
Eleanor Dark – Prelude to Christopher
Arthur Gask
The Hidden Door
The Judgement of Larose
The Poisoned Goblet
Vance Palmer – The Swain Family
Alice Grant Rosman – Somebody Must
Steele Rudd – Grey Green Homestead
Christina Stead – Seven Poor Men of Sydney
E. V. Timms – Conflict
Vance Palmer – Sea and Spinifex
Henry Handel Richardson – The End of Childhood and Other Stories
Christina Stead – The Salzburg Tales
Ruth Bedford – Hundreds and Thousands
P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins
Alan J. Villiers – Whalers of the Midnight Sun
Dorothy Wall
Blinky Bill Grows Up
The Tale of Bridget and the Bees
Emily Coungeau – Fern Leaves: Poems and Verse
Rudyard Kipling – "Ode : Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, 1934"
Will Lawson – "The Bunyip"
Furnley Maurice – Melbourne Odes
John Shaw Neilson – The Collected Works of John Shaw Neilson
Patrick White – "The Ploughman"
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1934 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
17 February – Barry Humphries, actor and writer
20 March – David Malouf, novelist and poet
6 May – Chris Wallace-Crabbe, poet
20 June – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (died 2005)
5 August – James McQueen, novelist (died 1998)
17 August – Inga Clendinnen, academic and author
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1934 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
22 December – Grace Ethel Martyr, poet (born 1888)
