This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1941.
For an overview of world literature see 1941 in literature.
See also: 1940 in Australian literature, 1941 in Australia, 1942 in Australian literature.
Eleanor Dark – The Timeless Land
Arthur Gask – The Beachy Head Murder
Ernestine Hill – My Love Must Wait : The Story of Matthew Flinders
Michael Innes – Appleby on Ararat
Jack Lindsay
Hannibal Takes a Hand
The Stormy Violence
Jack McLaren – Their Isle of Desire
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Moon of Desire
Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
Patrick White – The Living and the Dead
Mary Durack – The Way of the Whirlwind
May Gibbs – Scotty in Gumnut Land
P. L. Travers – I Go By Sea, I Go By Land
Marjorie Barnard – "Dry Spell"
Xavier Herbert – "Josie"
Lennie Lower – The Bachelors' Guide to the Care of the Young and Other Stories
Vance Palmer – "Kaijek the Songman"
Kathleen Dalziel – Known and Not Held : Verses
James Devaney – "Bamba"
Mary Gilmore – The Disinherited
Lesbia Harford – The Poems of Lesbia Harford
Furnley Maurice – "Apples in the Moon"
Ian Mudie – This is Australia
John Shaw Neilson – "Say This For Love"
Bernard O'Dowd – The Poems of Bernard O'Dowd
Douglas Stewart – Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier
Douglas Stewart – The Fire on the Snow
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
7 February – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer
31 May – Julian Croft, poet
23 June – Roger McDonald, novelist
22 September – Murray Bail, novelist
18 November – Jennifer Rankin, poet and playwright (died 1979)
15 December – Richard Neville, author and editor
21 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator
Unknown date
Hilary McPhee, publisher and editor
Barry Maitland, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
5 February – A. B. Paterson, author and poet (born 1864)
7 July – Randolph Bedford, poet and novelist (born 1868)
