This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1950.
For an overview of world literature see 1950 in literature.
See also: 1949 in Australian literature, 1950 in Australia, 1951 in Australian literature.
James Aldridge – The Hunter
Jon Cleary – Just Let Me Be
Miles Franklin – Prelude to Waking
Catherine Gaskin
All Else is Folly
Dust in the Sunlight
Frank Hardy – Power Without Glory
Ion Idriess – The Wild White Man of Badu : A Story of the Coral Sea
Norman Lindsay – Dust or Polish?
Philip Lindsay – There is No Escape
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Winged Seeds
Nevil Shute – A Town Like Alice
E. V. Timms – The Beckoning Shore
Arthur Upfield
The Bachelors of Broken Hill
The Widows of Broome
Nancy Cato – "The Trap"
Alan Marshall – "Street Scene at Midday"
John Morrison – "The Children"
Dal Stivens – "The Batting Wizard from the City"
Judah Waten
"Mother"
"Uncle Isaac"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Ivan Southall – Meet Simon Black
Ruth C. Williams – Verity of Sydney Town
David Campbell
"Ariel"
"Night Sowing"
"Who Points the Swallow"
Nancy Cato
The Darkened Window : Poems
"Mallee Farmer"
C.J. Dennis & Alec H. Chisholm – Selected Verse of C. J. Dennis
Rosemary Dobson
"The Bystander"
"The Raising of the Dead"
Dorothy Hewett
"Go Down Red Roses"
"In Midland Where the Trains Go By"
"Once I Rode With Clancy..."
Jack Lindsay – Peace is Our Answer
Vance Palmer & Margaret Sutherland – Old Australian Bush Ballads
Roland Robinson
"The Coal"
"Deserted Homestead"
Douglas Stewart – "Helmet Orchid"
Francis Webb – "Morgan's Country"
Judith Wright
"The Cedars"
"The Cicadas"
"To a Child"
Kylie Tennant – Tether a Dragon
Don Bradman – Farewell to Cricket
Nettie Palmer – Henry Handel Richardson : A Study
Arthur Groom – I Saw A Strange Land: Journeys in Central Australia
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1950 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
16 January – Brian Castro, novelist
24 March – Andrea Goldsmith, novelist
8 August – Philip Salom, poet and novelist
1 September – John Forbes, poet (died 1998)
6 September – Robyn Davidson, travel writer
27 September – John Marsden, writer and teacher
14 October – Kate Grenville, novelist
25 November – Alexis Wright, novelist
12 December – Louis Nowra, playwright
22 December – Nick Enright, playwright (died 2003)
Unknown date
Terry Denton, writer and illustrator
Ian Irvine, novelist
Peter Pierce, academic, editor and critic
Andrew Sant, poet
Carole Wilkinson, 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 1950 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
10 August – Peter Airey, poet and politician (born 1865)
20 November – Erle Cox, novelist (born 1873)
