This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1931.
Books
M. Barnard Eldershaw – Green Memory
Miles Franklin
Back to Bool Bool
Old Blastus of Bandicoot
Ion Idriess – Lasseter's Last Ride
Jack Lindsay – Cressida's First Lover : a tale of ancient Greece
Alice Grant Rosman – The Sixth Journey
E. V. Timms – Whitehall
Arthur W. Upfield – The Sands of Windee
Short stories
J. H. M. Abbott – The King's School and Other Tales for Old Boys
Vance Palmer – Separate Lives
Henry Handel Richardson – Two Studies
Children's and Young Adult
Mary Grant Bruce – Bill of Billabong
Frank Dalby Davison – Man-Shy
Lilian Turner – Two Take the Road
Poetry
Mary Gilmore – The Rue Tree : Poems
Ronald McCuaig – "Love Me and Never Leave Me" John Shaw Neilson – "The Bard and the Lizard" Elizabeth Riddell – "Lifesaver" Kenneth Slessor – "Five Visions of Captain Cook"
Biography
Ion Idriess – Lasseter's Last Ride : An Epic of Central Australian Gold Discovery
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 1931 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
30 January – Shirley Hazzard, novelist (died 2016) 24 February – Barry Oakley, novelist and playwright 15 March – Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar (died 2019) 28 March – Philip Martin, poet (died 2005) 10 November – Evan Jones, poet (died 2022)
Unknown date
Peter Mathers, novelist (died 2004)
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1931 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
1 August – Bertha McNamara, writer and political activist (born 1853 in Poland) 22 August – Edward Dyson, editor, poet and short story writer (born 1865)