1967 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1967.

Major publications

Books

• A. Bertram Chandler – Nebula Alert
• Jon Cleary – The Long Pursuit
• Kenneth Cook – Tuna ^[1]
• Dymphna Cusack – The Sun is Not Enough
• Catherine Gaskin – Edge of Glass ^[2]
• Thomas Keneally – Bring Larks and Heroes
• Eric Lambert – Hiroshima Reef ^[3]
• Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Tony Morphett – Dynasty ^[4]
• Barry Oakley – A Wild Ass of a Man ^[5]
• Katharine Susannah Prichard – Subtle Flame ^[6]
• Kylie Tennant – Tell Morning This ^[7]
• George Turner – The Lame Dog Man

Short stories

• Beatrice Davis – Short Stories of Australia - The Moderns (edited) ^[8]
• Frank Hardy – Billy Borker Yarns Again ^[9]
• Elizabeth Harrower — "The Cost of Things" ^[10]
• Shirley Hazzard – People in Glass Houses ^[11]
• Douglas Stewart – Short Stories of Australia - The Lawson Tradition (edited) ^[12]
• Kylie Tennant – Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals ^[13]
• Jack Wodhams – "There is a Crooked Man" ^[14]

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Hesba Brinsmead – A Sapphire for September
• Nan Chauncy – Mathinna's People
• Mavis Thorpe Clark – Blue Above the Trees
• Eleanor Spence – The Sitherby Pilgrims
• Ivan Southall
  • The Fox Hole
  • To the Wild Sky
• Randolph Stow – Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy

Poetry

Main article: 1967 in poetry

• Bruce Dawe – "Life-Cycle"
• Geoffrey Dutton – Poems Soft and Loud
• Rodney Hall – Eyewitness : Poems
• Gwen Harwood – "In Brisbane"
• Dorothy Hewett – The Hidden Journey
• Les Murray – "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow"
• David Rowbotham – Bungalow and Hurricane : new poems
• Thomas Shapcott – A Taste of Salt Water : Poems
• Douglas Stewart – Collected Poems 1936-1967
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe – The Rebel General

Plays

• Dorothy Hewett - This Old Man Comes Rolling Home

Biography

• Donald Horne – The Education of Young Donald
• Lionel Lindsay – Comedy of Life : An Autobiography
• Robert Menzies – Afternoon Light : Some Memories of Men and Events
• Bill Scott – Focus on Judith Wright

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal [15]	No award
Colin Roderick Award [16]	Douglas Stewart	Collected Poems 1936-1967	Angus and Robertson
Miles Franklin Award [17]	Thomas Keneally	Bring Larks and Heroes	Cassell

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers [18]	Mavis Thorpe Clark	The Min-Min	Lansdowne Press
Picture Book [18]	No award

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [19]	Douglas Stewart	Collected Poems 1936-1967	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 1967 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 15 May – James Bradley, novelist ^[20]
• 23 May – Sean Williams, novelist ^[21]

Unknown date

• Melissa Lucashenko, novelist ^[22]

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1967 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 21 January – Cecil Mann, journalist, poet and novelist (born 1896) ^[23]
• 7 February – David Unaipon, writer (born 1872) ^[24]
• 29 March – D'Arcy Niland, novelist (born 1917) ^[25]
• 10 September – Vera Dwyer, novelist (born 1889) ^[26]
• 25 November – Hal Gye, artist and writer (born 1887) ^[27]
• 31 December – Arthur Mailey, cricketer and journalist (born 1886) ^[28]

Unknown date

• Llywelyn Lucas, poet (born 1898) ^[29]

See also

• 1967 in Australia
• 1967 in literature
• 1967 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References

1. "Tuna by Kenneth Cook". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
2. "Edge of Glass by Catherine Gaskin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
3. "Hiroshima Reef by Eric Lambert". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
4. "Dynasty by Tony Morphett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
5. "A Wild Ass of a Man by Barry Oakley". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
6. "Subtle Flame by Katharine Susannah Prichard". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
7. "Tell Morning This by Kylie Tennant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
8. "Austlit — Short Stories of Australia - The Moderns edited by Beatrice Davis". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
9. "Austlit — Billy Borker Yarns Again by Frank Hardy". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
10. "Austlit — "The Cost of Things" by Elizabeth Harrower". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
11. "Austlit — People in Glass Houses by Shirley Hazzard". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
12. "Austlit — Short Stories of Australia - The Lawson Tradition edited by Douglas Stewart". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
13. "Austlit — Ma Jones and the Little White Cannibals by Kylie Tennant". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
14. "Austlit — "There is a Crooked Man" by Jack Wodhams". Austlit. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
15. "ALS Gold Medal - Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
16. "Colin Roderick Award - Previous Winners", James Cook University
17. "Novel Award", The Canberra Times, 3 April 1968, p3
18. "Children's Book Week 1967", The Canberra Times, 8 July 1967, p13
19. Austlit - Collected Poems 1936-1967 by Douglas Stewart
20. "James Bradley". Austlit. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
21. "Sean Williams". Austlit. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
22. "Melissa Lucashenko". Austlit. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
23. "Cecil Mann". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
24. "Unaipon, David (1872–1967) by Philip Jones". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
25. "Niland, D'Arcy Francis (1917–1967) by Bruce Moore". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
26. "Vera Dwyer (1889-1967)". Austlit. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
27. "Gye, Harold Frederick Neville (Hal) (1887–1967) by Ian F. McLaren". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
28. "Mailey, Alfred Arthur (1886–1967) by G. P. Walsh". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
29. "Llywelyn Lucas (1898-1967)". Austlit. Retrieved 3 July 2023.