This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1938.
For an overview of world literature see 1938 in literature.
See also: 1937 in Australian literature, 1938 in Australia, 1939 in Australian literature.
Martin Boyd – Night of the Party
Eleanor Dark – Waterway
Jean Devanny – Paradise Flow
Arthur Gask – The Fall of a Dictator
Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
Michael Innes – Lament for a Maker
Norman Lindsay – Age of Consent
Alice Grant Rosman – Unfamiliar Faces
Nevil Shute – Ruined City
Christina Stead – House of All Nations
E. V. Timms – Maelstrom
Arthur Upfield – The Bone is Pointed
Alan Marshall – "Clarkey's Dead"
Katharine Susannah Prichard – "Marlene"
R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre
A. D. Hope – "Standardisation"
Jack Moses – Nine Miles from Gundagai
John Shaw Neilson
Beauty Imposes : Some Recent Verse
"The Crane is My Neighbour"
Rosemary Dobson – Poems
Jack Lindsay – "On Guard for Spain"
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1938 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
10 March – Tony Morphett, scriptwriter
28 July – Robert Hughes, critic (died 2012)
21 August – Mudrooroo, novelist, poet and playwright
17 October – Les Murray, poet
30 October – Morris Lurie, novelist (died 2014)
21 December – Frank Moorhouse, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1938 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
21 January – Will Dyson, poet and artist (born 1880)
7 September – C. J. Dennis, poet (born 1876)
