1960 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1960.

For an overview of world literature see 1960 in literature.

See also: 1959 in Australian literature, 1960 in Australia, 1961 in Australian literature.

Events

• The first Adelaide Writers' Week was held as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Major publications

Books

• Thea Astley – A Descant for Gossips
• Russell Braddon – The Proud American Boy
• Nancy Cato – Green Grows the Vine
• Jon Cleary – North from Thursday
• Charmian Clift – Walk to the Paradise Gardens
• Nino Culotta – Cop this Lot
• Catherine Gaskin – Corporation Wife
• Elizabeth Harrower – The Catherine Wheel
• George Johnston – Closer to the Sun
• Elizabeth O'Conner – The Irishman
• Nevil Shute – Trustee from the Toolroom
• Arthur Upfield – Valley of Smugglers

Short stories

• James Aldridge – Gold and Sand : Stories
• Ion Idriess – The Wild North
• John Morrison – "Dog-Box"
• Hal Porter – "Party 42 and Mrs Brewer"

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• James Aldridge – The Shark Cage
• Nan Chauncy – Tangara
• John Gunn
  • The Humpy in the Hills
  • Peter Kent's Command
• Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby's Daughter
• Eleanor Spence – Lillipilly Hill
• Judith Wright – The Day the Mountains Played
• Patricia Wrightson – The Rocks of Honey

Poetry

• Christopher Brennan – The Verse of Christopher Brennan, edited by A. R. Chisholm and John Joseph Quinn
• David Campbell
  • "Town Planning"
  • "Under the Wattles"
  • "Windy Nights"
• Rosemary Dobson – "Ghost Town : New England"
• Geoffrey Dutton – Night Fishing
• R. D. Fitzgerald – "Bog and Candle"
• Gwen Harwood
  • "The Glass-Jar"
  • "Group from Tartarus
• A. D. Hope
  • "The Coasts of Cerrigo"
  • Poems
• Colin Thiele – Man in a Landscape
• Judith Wright – Australian Bird Poems

Drama

• Alan Seymour – The One Day of the Year

Awards and honours

Literary

Children and Young Adult

Poetry

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 4 August – Tim Winton, novelist

Unknown date

• Pamela Freeman, novelist
• Margo Lanagan, novelist and short story writer
• Fiona McIntosh, novelist
• Michael Robotham, novelist

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 12 January – Nevil Shute, novelist (born 1899)
• 14 June – E. V. Timms, novelist (born 1895)

See also

• 1960 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References