1926 in Australian literature

• Mary Grant Bruce – The Tower Rooms
• Carlton Dawe – The Forbidden Shrine
• Jean Devanny
  • The Butcher Shop
  • Lenore Divine
• Mabel Forrest – Gaming Gods
• Mary Gaunt – The Forbidden Town
• Jack McLaren
  • The Hidden Lagoon
  • Isle of Escape : A Story of the South Seas
• Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • The Wild Oats of Han
  • Working Bullocks
• Steele Rudd – The Romance of Runnibede
• Nevil Shute – Marazan

• Xavier Herbert – "The Maniac and the Full Moon"
• Vance Palmer – "The Birthday"
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Curse"
• Steele Rudd – The Rudd Family

• Mary Grant Bruce – Robin
• W. M. Fleming – Bunyip Told Me
• Ethel Turner – Funny
• Lilian Turner – The Happy Heriots

• Jack Lindsay – The Passionate Neatherd : a lyric sequence
• Dorothea Mackellar – Fancy Dress and Other Verse
• Furnley Maurice – "Beauty of the World"
• Myra Morris – "The Pallid Cuckoo"
• John Shaw Neilson
  • "The Birds Go By"
  • "The Flight of the Weary"
  • "The Gentle Water Bird"
• Nettie Palmer – "The Mystery Man"
• Kenneth Slessor – Earth-Visitors : Poems

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1926 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 7 January – Graham Stone, bibliographer (died 2013)[1][2]
• 31 July – Ian Moffitt, novelist (died 2000)[3]
• 26 August – Portia Robinson, historian (died 2023)[4]

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1926 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 6 June – Henry Tate, poet (born 1873)[5]
• 19 July – Ada Cambridge, novelist and poet (born 1844)[6]

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