亨利·劳森(Henry Lawson、1867年6月17日—1922年9月2日),澳大利亚小说家和诗人,澳洲本土文化的创始人之一,生于劳动贫民家庭。父亲是挪威人,1866年移居澳洲,最早是金矿工人,后来经营农耕。劳森只念过三年书,14岁就开始工作,当过油漆工、锯木工、电报线路工。生活非常艰难。他很早就在报纸上发表诗歌、散文与小说,内容大多描写了澳洲丛林生活、淘金者、农场经营、剪羊毛工人、城市贫民的革命风暴等,体现了澳洲本土文化特色和独有的风格,呈现出一幅澳大利亚劳动人民的生活图景。亨利·劳森主要以短篇小说蜚声文坛,出版过诗集《在海阔天空的日子里》、短篇小说集《当罐里的水沸腾的时候》。
诗集
While the Billy Boils (1896)
On the Track (1900)
Over The Sliprails (1900)
The Country I Come From (1901)
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901)
Verses: Popular and Humorous
The Romance of the Swag (1907)
Send Round the Hat (1907)
The Rising Of The Court, and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse (1910)
Triangles of Life and Other Stories (1913)
Children of the Bush
最著名的诗与短篇小说
"Andy's Gone with Cattle" (poem)
"Freedom on the Wallaby" (poem, 1891)
"Saint Peter" (poem, 1893)
"Scots of the Riverina" (poem, 1917)
"The Teams" (poem, 1896)
"Up The Country" (poem, 1892)
"The Drover's Wife" (short story, 1892)
"The Bush Undertaker" (short story, 1892)
"The Loaded Dog" (short story, 1901)
"The Iron-Bark Chip" (short story,1900)
"Steelman's Pupil" (short story)
"The Geological Spieler" (short story, 1896)
"A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father" (short story, 1902)
"The Union Buries Its Dead" (short story, 1893)
"A Neglected History" (essay)
"Australian Loyalty" (essay, 1887)
"United Division" (essay, 1888)