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1923 in Australian literature

• J. H. M. Abbott – Sydney Cove^[1]
• Marie Bjelke Petersen – Jewelled Nights^[2]
• Capel Boake — The Romany Mark^[3]
• Bernard Cronin – Salvage^[4]
• Arthur Gask – The Red Paste Murders^[5]
• Mary Gaunt – As the Whirlwind Passeth^[6]
• Nat Gould – Beating the Favourite^[7]
• D. H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
• Jack McLaren – Fagaloa's Daughter^[8]
• Catherine Martin – The Incredible Journey^[9]

• Henry Lawson – "Elder Man's Lane : XV : The Passing of Elder Man's Lane"^[10]

• Mary Grant Bruce
  • The Cousin from Town^[11]
  • The Twins of Emu Plains^[12]
• Jean Curlewis – Beach Beyond^[13]
• May Gibbs – Nuttybub and Nittersing^[14]

• Emily Bulcock – Jacaranda Blooms and Other Poems^[15]
• Mabel Forrest – "The Burning"^[16]
• Mary Gilmore – "Second-Hand Beds"^[17]
• Jack Lindsay
  • "Budding Spring"^[18]
  • "Pacific Aphrodite"^[19]
• Dorothea Mackellar
  • Dreamharbour and Other Verses^[20]
  • "Fancy Dress"^[21]
  • "Waste"^[22]
• Furnley Maurice – "The Mad Prophet"^[23]
• John Shaw Neilson – Ballad and Lyrical Poems^[24]
• Will H. Ogilvie – Scattered Scarlet^[25]
• Kenneth Slessor
  • "Adventure Bay"^[26]
  • "Thieves' Kitchen"^[27]

• Katharine Susannah Prichard – The Pioneers^[28]

• Walter Murdoch – Alfred Deakin: A Sketch^[29]

• 28 January – Percy Trezise, children's writer (died 2005)^[30]
• 25 April – Eric Rolls, writer (died 2007)^[31]
• 21 May – Dorothy Hewett, poet and novelist (died 2002)^[32]
• 4 June – Elizabeth Jolley, novelist (born in England) (died 2007)^[33]
• 1 August – Carter Brown, novelist (died 1985)^[34]
• 30 August – Charmian Clift, novelist (died 1969)^[35]
• 4 October – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (died 2005)^[36]
• 7 September – Nancy Keesing, poet (died 1993)^[37]
• 16 December – Gerald Glaskin, writer (died 2000)^[38]

• 5 November – Dowell O'Reilly, poet (born 1865)^[39]
• 15 December – Frank Morton, poet and journalist (born 1869)^[40]

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