This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1933.
Books
Miles Franklin – Bring the Monkey
Ion Idriess – Drums of Mer
G. B. Lancaster
Pageant
The World is Yours
Norman Lindsay
Pan in the Parlour
Saturdee
Louise Mack – Teens Triumphant
Jack McLaren – The Money Stones
Alice Grant Rosman – Protecting Margot
Arthur W. Upfield – The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery
Short stories
Katharine Susannah Prichard – "The Bride of Far-Away" Henry Handel Richardson "The Professor's Experiment" "The Wrong Turning"
Children's and Young Adult
Mary Grant Bruce – Billabong's Luck
Kenneth Slessor – Funny Farmyard
Dorothy Wall – Blinky Bill: The Quaint Little Australian
Poetry
E. J. Brady – Wardens of the Seas : Poems
C. J. Dennis – "Tall Timber" John Manifold – Verses 1930–1933 A. B. Paterson – The Animals Noah Forgot Kenneth Slessor – Darlinghurst Nights
Awards and honours
Literary
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1933 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
3 June – Vivian Smith, poet
30 June – John Button, writer and politician (died 2008) 4 July – Fay Zwicky, poet and critic (died 2017) 10 July – Kevin Gilbert, poet and playwright (died 1993) 14 August – Bryce Courtenay, novelist (died 2012) 21 December – Wendy Richardson, playwright
Unknown date
Jennifer Strauss, poet and academic
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1933 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
2 February – John Le Gay Brereton, poet (born 1871) 1 April – Gilbert White, clergyman and poet (born 1859) 10 April — Ernest Buley, journalist and author (born 1869) 15 April – Alfred Stephens, writer and critic (born 1865) 27 August – George Robertson, publisher (born 1860) 6 November – Grant Hervey, poet (born 1880)