- Source: 1957 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1957.
Books
James Aldridge – I Wish He Would Not Die
Martin Boyd – Outbreak of Love
Jon Cleary – The Green Helmet
Nino Culotta – They're a Weird Mob
Elizabeth Harrower – Down in the City
D'Arcy Niland – Call Me When the Cross Turns Over
Vance Palmer – Seedtime
Ruth Park – One-a-Pecker, Two-a-Pecker
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Randolph Stow – The Bystander
F. J. Thwaites – White Moonlight
Arthur Upfield – The Bushman Who Came Back
Judah Waten – Shares in Murder
Morris West – The Big Story
Patrick White – Voss
Short stories
A. Bertram Chandler – "The Cage"
John Morrison – "A Man's World"
Vance Palmer – The Rainbow Bird and Other Stories
Steele Rudd – Sandy's Selection and Back At Our Selection
Dal Stivens – The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales
Judah Waten – "The Knife"
Patrick White – "On the Balcony"
Amy Witting – "A Bottle of Tears"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – Tiger in the Bush
Enid Moodie Heddle – The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales (edited) illustrated by Nancy Parker
Joan Phipson – It Happened One Summer
Patricia Wrightson – The Bunyip Hole
Poetry
David Campbell – "On Frosty Days"
Max Harris
"At the Circus"
"The Death of Bert Sassenowsky"
William Hart-Smith – "Boomerang"
Gwen Harwood – "Panther and Peacock"
Nancy Keesing & Douglas Stewart – Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times (edited)
Henry Kendall & T. Inglis Moore – Selected Poems of Henry Kendall
Jack Lindsay – Three Elegies
James McAuley – "Aubade"
Leonard Mann – Elegiac and Other Poems
Ian Mudie – "I Wouldn't be Lord Mayor"
Kenneth Slessor – Poems
Douglas Stewart – "The Silkworms"
Randolph Stow – Act One : Poems
Colin Thiele – "Bert Schultz"
Judith Wright – New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse (edited)
Plays
Richard Beynon – The Shifting Heart
Non-fiction
F. J. Thwaites – Husky Be My Guide (travel book)
Awards and honours
= Literary
== Children's 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 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
18 February – Kim Scott, novelist
31 March – Hannie Rayson, playwright
2 July – Sara Douglass, novelist (died 2011)
29 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (died 2014)
11 November – Michelle de Kretser, novelist
Unknown date
Tony Birch, novelist and critic
Anthony Lawrence, poet
Lucy Sussex, novelist and critic (born in Christchurch, New Zealand)
Brenda Walker, 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 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
29 June — Dorothy Cottrell, children's author, journalist, novelist (born 1902)
13 October – Will Lawson, poet and novelist (born 1876)
See also
1957 in Australia
1957 in literature
1957 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
References
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