- Source: 1968 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1968.
Major publications
= Books
=Thea Astley – A Boat Load of Home Folk
Kenneth Cook – The Wine of God's Anger
Frank Dalby Davison – The White Thorntree
Geoffrey Dutton – Andy
David Ireland – The Chantic Bird
Thomas Keneally – Three Cheers for the Paraclete
Norman Lindsay – Rooms and Houses
John O'Grady – Gone Troppo
F. J. Thwaites – Sky Full of Thunder
Morris West – The Tower of Babel
= Short stories
=Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher – Aliens in Their Land : The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story (edited)
Patrick White – "Five-Twenty"
Michael Wilding – "Joe's Absence"
= Science fiction and fantasy
=John Baxter – The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction (edited)
A. Bertram Chandler – Spartan Planet (aka False Fatherland)
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Margaret Balderson – When Jays Fly to Barbmo
Nan Chauncy – Lizzie Lights
Mavis Thorpe Clark – Spark of Opal
Elyne Mitchell – Moon Filly
Ruth Park – The Sixpenny Island
Ivan Southall – Let the Balloon Go
Joan Woodberry
Ash Tuesday
Come Back Peter
Patricia Wrightson – I Own the Racecourse!
= Poetry
=David Campbell
"The Australian Dream"
Selected Poems 1942-1968
Bruce Dawe
An Eye for a Tooth : Poems
"Homecoming"
Gwen Harwood – Poems : Volume 2
Dorothy Hewett – Windmill Country
James McAuley – "Because"
Randolph Stow – "The Singing Bones"
= Biography
=T. Inglis Moore – Rolf Boldrewood
Colin Thiele – Heysen of Hahndorf
= Non-fiction
=Gavin Souter – A Peculiar People : The Australians in Paraguay
Margaret Fulton – The Margaret Fulton Cookbook
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 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
23 February — Sonya Hartnett, novelist
2 April — Sofie Laguna, novelist
Unknown date
Azhar Abidi, novelist (born in Wah, Pakistan)
Anita Heiss, academic and critic
James Roy, writer of young adult and children's fiction
Chris Womersley, 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 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
14 January – Dorothea Mackellar, poet (born 1885)
8 March — Henrietta Drake-Brockman, journalist and novelist (born 1901)
9 June – Bernard Cronin, novelist (born 1884)
See also
1968 in Australia
1968 in literature
1968 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
References
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