Peter Craven (born 1949 or 1950)^[1] is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer.^[2]

While enrolled for a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Craven met Michael Heyward with whom he founded Scripsi, a literary magazine which was published from 1981 to 1994.^[3] Craven has written for The Age, The Australian and the Australian Literary Review.^[4] His work has also appeared in Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.^[3]

Craven has been described as both a "literary hack" and "one of the most prolific, erudite and opinionated voices in Australian literary circles".^[1] In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.

The legal academic Greg Craven is his younger brother.^[1]

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2018)

• Craven, Peter (March 2003). "Introduction". Quarterly Essay. 9: iii–vii.
• — (August 2005). "Enthralled by shadows". Griffith Review. 5.
• — (January–February 2018). "Makers of poetry and masters of prose : tradition and innovation in translating the Iliad". Quadrant. 62 (1–2 [543]): 94–101.

• List of contributions, The Australian

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