1941 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1941.
Books
- Eleanor Dark – The Timeless Land
- Arthur Gask – The Beachy Head Murder
- Ernestine Hill – My Love Must Wait : The Story of Matthew Flinders
- Michael Innes – Appleby on Ararat
- Jack Lindsay
- * Hannibal Takes a Hand
- * The Stormy Violence
- Jack McLaren – Their Isle of Desire
- Katharine Susannah Prichard – Moon of Desire
- Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
- F. J. Thwaites
- * Shadows Over Rangoon
- * Wind in the Bracken
- Patrick White – ''The Living and the Dead''
Children's
- Mary Durack and Elizabeth Durack – The Way of the Whirlwind
- May Gibbs – Scotty in Gumnut Land
- P. L. Travers – ''I Go By Sea, I Go By Land''
Short stories
- Marjorie Barnard – "Dry Spell"
- Xavier Herbert – "Kaijek the Songman"
- Lennie Lower – The Bachelors' Guide to the Care of the Young and Other Stories
- Vance Palmer – "Josie"
Poetry
- Kathleen Dalziel – Known and Not Held : Verses
- James Devaney – "Bamba"
- Mary Gilmore – The Disinherited
- Lesbia Harford – The Poems of Lesbia Harford
- Furnley Maurice – "Apples in the Moon"
- David McNicoll – "Air Mail—Palestine"
- Ian Mudie – This is Australia
- John Shaw Neilson – "Say This For Love"
- Bernard O'Dowd – The Poems of Bernard O'Dowd
- Douglas Stewart – ''Sonnets to the Unknown Soldier''
Drama
Awards and honours
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
| ALS Gold Medal | Patrick White | Happy Valley | Harrap |
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth of births in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.- 7 February – Beverley Farmer, novelist and short story writer
- 23 March – Bruce Bennett, literary academic
- 31 May – Julian Croft, poet
- 23 June
- * Margaret Hamilton, children's literature publisher and author
- * Roger McDonald, novelist
- 11 August – Rae Desmond Jones, poet, novelist, short story writer and politician
- 22 September – Murray Bail, novelist
- 28 November – Jennifer Rankin, poet and playwright
- 15 December – Richard Neville, author and editor
- 21 December – Mungo MacCallum, political journalist and commentator
- Elaine Forrestal, novelist
- Hilary McPhee, publisher and editor
- Barry Maitland, novelist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death of deaths in 1941 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.- 3 February – Thomas Welsby, businessman, politician and historian
- 5 February – A. B. Paterson, author and poet
- 27 April – Winifred Lewellin James, author
- 13 June — Alice Guerin Crist, poet, author and journalist
- 7 July – Randolph Bedford, poet and novelist
- 17 October – Alfred Thomas Chandler, journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor
- 13 November — Enid Derham, poet and academic