This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1923.

Books J. H. M. Abbott – Sydney Cove Marie Bjelke Petersen – Jewelled Nights Capel Boake — The Romany Mark Bernard Cronin – Salvage Arthur Gask – The Red Paste Murders Mary Gaunt – As the Whirlwind Passeth Nat Gould – Beating the Favourite D. H. Lawrence – Kangaroo Jack McLaren – Fagaloa's Daughter Catherine Martin – The Incredible Journey

Short stories Henry Lawson – "Elder Man's Lane : XV : The Passing of Elder Man's Lane"

Children's and Young Adult fiction Mary Grant Bruce The Cousin from Town The Twins of Emu Plains Jean Curlewis – Beach Beyond May Gibbs – Nuttybub and Nittersing

Poetry

Emily Bulcock – Jacaranda Blooms and Other Poems Mabel Forrest – "The Burning" Mary Gilmore – "Second-Hand Beds" Jack Lindsay "Budding Spring" "Pacific Aphrodite" Dorothea Mackellar Dreamharbour and Other Verses "Fancy Dress" "Waste" Furnley Maurice – "The Mad Prophet" Jack Moses – "Nine Miles From Gundagai" John Shaw Neilson – Ballad and Lyrical Poems Will H. Ogilvie – Scattered Scarlet Kenneth Slessor "Adventure Bay" "Thieves' Kitchen"

Drama Katharine Susannah Prichard – The Pioneers

Non-fiction Walter Murdoch – Alfred Deakin: A Sketch

Births

28 January – Percy Trezise, children's writer (died 2005) 25 April – Eric Rolls, writer (died 2007) 21 May – Dorothy Hewett, poet and novelist (died 2002) 4 June – Elizabeth Jolley, novelist (born in England) (died 2007) 1 August – Carter Brown, novelist (died 1985) 30 August – Charmian Clift, novelist (died 1969) 4 October – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (died 2005) 7 September – Nancy Keesing, poet (died 1993) 16 December – Gerald Glaskin, writer (died 2000)

Deaths

2 June – Edmund James Banfield, writer and naturalist (born 1852 in England) 5 November – Dowell O'Reilly, poet (born 1865) 15 December – Frank Morton, poet and journalist (born 1869)

See also 1923 in Australia 1923 in literature 1923 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature

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