Peter Craven (literary critic)

Peter Craven is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer. Craven has written for The Age, The Australian and the Australian Literary Review. His work has also appeared in Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.

Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles". In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.

While enrolled in a Masters of Arts at the University of Melbourne Craven met Michael Heyward with whom he founded Scripsi, a literary magazine which ran from 1991 to 1994.