1969 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969.

For an overview of world literature see 1969 in Australian literature.

See also: 1968 in Australian literature, 1969 in Australia, 1970 in Australian literature.

Major publications

Books

• Mena Calthorpe – The Defectors
• Jon Cleary – Remember Jack Hoxie
• Dymphna Cusack – The Half-Burnt Tree
• Sumner Locke Elliott – Edens Lost
• George Johnston – Clean Straw for Nothing
• Thomas Keneally – The Survivor
• D'Arcy Niland – Dead Men Running

Short stories

• Manning Clark – Disquiet and Other Stories
• T. A. G. Hungerford – "Wong Chu and the Queen's Letterbox"
• Frank Moorhouse – Futility and Other Animals
• Dal Stivens – Selected Stories 1936-1968

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Hesba Brinsmead – Isle of the Sea Horse
• Joan Phipson – Peter and Butch
• Ivan Southall – Finn's Folly
• Eleanor Spence – Jamberoo Road
• Colin Thiele – Blue Fin

Poetry

Main article: 1969 in poetry

• Bruce Beaver – Letters to Live Poets
• Gwen Harwood
  • "Barn Owl"
  • "Father and Child"
• A. D. Hope – New Poems 1956-1969
• James McAuley – Surprises of the Sun
• David Malouf – "The Year of the Foxes"
• Les Murray – The Weatherboard Cathedral
• Thomas Shapcott – Inwards to the Sun : Poems
• Randolph Stow – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal	No award
Colin Roderick Award	Francis Webb	Collected Poems	Angus and Robertson
Miles Franklin Award	George Johnston	Clean Straw for Nothing	Collins

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers	Margaret Balderson	When Jays Fly to Barbmo	Oxford University Press
	Picture Book	Ivan Southall, illustrated by Ted Greenwood	Sly Old Wardrobe	Cheshire

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry	Randolph Stow	A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems	Angus and Robertson

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1969 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 1 April – Larissa Behrendt, novelist and academic
• 23 October – Trudi Canavan, novelist

Unknown date

• Tegan Bennett Daylight, 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 1969 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 8 July – Charmian Clift, novelist (born 1923)
• 12 July — Henry George Lamond, novelist (born 1885)
• 4 September – Emily Bulcock, poet and journalist (born 1877)
• 2 October – Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (born 1883)
• 11 October – Marie Bjelke Petersen, novelist (born 1874)
• 21 November – Norman Lindsay, novelist and artist (born 1879)
• 27 November – May Gibbs, writer for children (born 1877)

Unknown date

• Kathleen Dalziel, poet (born 1881)

See also

• 1969 in literature
• 1969 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature