This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1946.
For an overview of world literature see 1946 in literature.
See also: 1945 in Australian literature, 1946 in Australia, 1947 in Australian literature.
James Aldridge – Of Many Men
Dora Birtles – The Overlanders : A Novel
Capel Boake – The Twig is Bent
Martin Boyd – Lucinda Brayford
Errol Flynn – Showdown
Miles Franklin – My Career Goes Bung
Catherine Gaskin – This Other Eden
Michael Innes
From London Far
What Happened at Hazlewood
Katharine Susannah Prichard – The Roaring Nineties
Christina Stead – Letty Fox: Her Luck
Kylie Tennant – Lost Haven
Arthur Upfield – The Devil's Steps
Jon Cleary – These Small Glories
Alan Marshall
"The Grey Kangaroo"
Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories
Vance Palmer – '"The Foal"
Douglas Stewart – "The Three Jolly Foxes"
Dal Stivens – The Courtship of Uncle Henry : A Collection of Tales and Stories
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Leslie Rees – The Story of Karrawingi the Emu
Rosemary Dobson – "In My End is My Beginning"
Dorothy Hewett – "Clancy and Dooley and Don Mcleod"
James Macauley – Under Aldebaran
George Mackaness – Poets of Australia: An Anthology of Australian Verse (compiled)
J. S. Manifold
Selected Verse
"The Bunyip and the Whistling Kettle"
John Shaw Neilson – "To the Red Lory"
Will H. Ogilvie – From Sunset to Dawn
Elizabeth Riddell – "The Letter"
Douglas Stewart – The Dosser in Springtime
Judith Wright
"The Killer"
The Moving Image : Poems
"Woman to Child"
"Woman to Man"
Dymphna Cusack – Eternal Now : A Play in Three Acts
Sumner Locke Elliott – The Invisible Circus : A Play in Three Acts
Louis Esson – The Southern Cross and Other Plays
Nevil Shute – Vinland the Good
Alec H. Chisholm – The Making of the Sentimental Bloke : A Sketch of the Remarkable Career of C.J. Dennis
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1946 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
5 March – Mem Fox, writer for children
4 February – Jean Bedford, novelist
26 February – Gabrielle Lord, novelist
1 August – Michael Sharkey, poet
25 August – Shelton Lea, poet (died 2005)
5 September – Lily Brett, poet and novelist
17 October – Drusilla Modjeska, biographer and novelist
Unknown date
Raimond Gaita, author
Stephen Matthews, author
Sally Morrison, novelist and biographer
Peter Robb, novelist
Peter Temple, novelist
Rod Usher, poet and novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1946 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
23 February – Mary Eliza Fullerton, novelist (born 1868)
20 March – Henry Handel Richardson, novelist (born 1870)
18 November — Walter J. Turner, poet and playwright (born 1889)
