- Source: 1972 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1972.
Events
Thomas Keneally becomes the first Australian to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.
Major publications
= Books
=Thea Astley – The Acolyte
Russell Braddon – End Play
Jon Cleary – Man's Estate
Sumner Locke Elliott – The Man Who Got Away
Catherine Gaskin – A Falcon for a Queen
David Ireland – The Flesheaters
Thomas Keneally – The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Peter Mathers – The Wort Papers
= Short stories
=Peter Carey
"Crabs"
"Peeling"
Frank Hardy – It's Moments Like These
Elizabeth Jolley – "Dingle the Fool"
Frank Moorhouse – The Americans, Baby
Kath Walker – Stradbroke Dreaming
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Hesba Brinsmead – Echo in the Wilderness
Alan Marshall – Fight for Life
Mary Elwyn Patchett – Rebel Brumby
Ivan Southall – Head in the Clouds
Eleanor Spence – The Nothing Place
Patricia Wrightson – An Older Kind of Magic
= Science fiction and fantasy
=A. Bertram Chandler – The Hard Way Up
= Poetry
=Michael Dransfield
Drug Poems
The Inspector of Tides
Harry Payne Heseltine – The Penguin Book of Australian Verse (edited)
Les Murray – Poems Against Economics
Peter Porter
After Martial
Preaching to the Converted
Thomas Shapcott – Begin With Walking
Peter Skrzynecki – Head-Waters
= Drama
=David Williamson – Juggler's Three
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 1972 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
Unknown date
Louis Armand, poet and critic
Steve Toltz, novelist
Samuel Wagan Watson, poet
Helen Dale (born Helen Darville), 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 1972 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
3 June – Martin Boyd, novelist (born 1893)
16 August – Dulcie Deamer, poet (born 1890)
16 October – Eunice Hanger, playwright and educator (born 1911)
See also
1972 in Australia
1972 in literature
1972 in poetry
List of years in Australian literature
List of years in literature
References
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