This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1948.
For an overview of world literature see 1948 in literature.
See also: 1947 in Australian literature, 1948 in Australia, 1949 in Australian literature.
Eleanor Dark – Storm of Time
George Johnston
Death Takes Small Bites
The Moon at Perigee
Jack Lindsay – Men of Forty-Eight
Alan Moorehead – The Rage of the Vulture
Vance Palmer – Golconda
Ruth Park
The Harp in the South
Missus
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Golden Miles
Nevil Shute – No Highway
Christina Stead – A Little Tea, a Little Chat
E. V. Timms – Forever to Remain
Arthur Upfield
An Author Bites the Dust
The Mountains Have a Secret
Patrick White – The Aunt's Story
June Wright – Murder in the Telephone Exchange
A. Bertram Chandler – "Dawn of Nothing"
Judah Waten – "Black Girl in the Street"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – They Found a Cave
David Campbell – "The End of Exploring"
Dulcie Deamer – The Silver Branch : Twenty-Seven Poems
Rosemary Dobson
"Carried Away"
"On a Tapestry"
The Ship of Ice : With Other Poems
Mary Gilmore – Selected Verse
Nan McDonald – "The Barren Ground"
Kenneth Mackenzie – "The Children Go"
Elizabeth Riddell – Poems
Roland Robinson
"Swift"
"Would I Might Find My Country"
Francis Webb
A Drum for Ben Boyd
"For My Grandfather"
Judith Wright
"Train Journey"
"Wonga Vine"
Sumner Locke Elliott – Rusty Bugles
Ruth Park – The Uninvited Guest
Henry Handel Richardson – Myself When Young
Children's and Young Adults non-fiction
Frank Hurley – Shackleton's Argonauts : A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1948 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
16 February – Jeff Guess, poet
18 March – Di Morrissey, novelist
20 March – Dianne Bates, writer for children
2 April – Jennifer Rowe, novelist
20 May – Kate Jennings, novelist and poet
24 July — Joan London, novelist
12 September – Michael Dransfield, poet (died 1973)
21 September – Sean McMullen, novelist
2 November – Jenny Pausacker, novelist
Unknown date
Pam Brown, poet
Martin Duwell, editor
Dennis Haskell, poet
Dorothy Johnston, novelist
John A. Scott, novelist
Alan Wearne, poet
Margaret Wild, writer for children
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1948 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
20 May – Marie E. J. Pitt, poet (born 1869)
Unknown date
R. J. Cassidy, poet (born 1880)
