This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1952.
For an overview of world literature see 1952 in literature.
See also: 1951 in Australian literature, 1952 in Australia, 1953 in Australian literature.
Martin Boyd – The Cardboard Crown
Jon Cleary – The Sundowners
T. A. G. Hungerford – The Ridge and the River
Rex Ingamells – Of Us Now Living
Philip Lindsay
The Merry Mistress
The Shadow of the Red Barn
Nevil Shute – The Far Country
Christina Stead – The People with the Dogs
E. V. Timms – The Challenge
Arthur Upfield – Venom House
A. Bertram Chandler – "Finishing Touch"
Peter Cowan – "The Red-Backed Spiders"
D'Arcy Niland – "Away to Moonlight"
Dal Stivens – "Ironbark Bill Meets the Bunyip"
Kylie Tennant – "The Face of Despair"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – World's End was Home
David Campbell
"Dance of Flame and Shadow : Hobo Chorus"
"Snow Gums"
C. J. Dennis and Margaret Herron – Random Verse : A Collection of Verse and Prose
Rosemary Dobson – "The Mirror : Jan Vermeer Speaks"
R. D. Fitzgerald – Between Two Tides
Max Harris – "Martin Buber in the Pub"
James McAuley
"Invocation"
"Mating Swans"
Kenneth Mackenzie
Australian Poetry 1951-52 (edited)
"The Snake"
"Two Trinities"
Ian Mudie – "They'll Tell You about Me"
Vivian Smith – "Bedlam Hills"
Douglas Stewart
"Marree"
Sun Orchids and Other Poems
Judith Wright
"The Ancestors"
"Birds"
"Our Love is So Natural"
Russell Braddon – The Naked Island
Frank Hardy – Journey Into the Future
Jack McLaren – My Civilised Adventure
Nettie Palmer – Henry Lawson
Children's and Young Adult non-fiction
Eve Pownall – The Australia Book, illustrated by Margaret Senior
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1952 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
9 November – Nicholas Jose, novelist
Unknown date
Janine Burke, novelist
Rod Moran, poet and journalist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1952 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
13 June – Harold Mercer, poet (born 1882)
25 July – E. J. Brady, poet (born 1869)
