This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969.
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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ALS Gold Medal [20] | No award | ||
Colin Roderick Award [21] | Francis Webb | Collected Poems | Angus and Robertson |
Miles Franklin Award [22] | George Johnston | Clean Straw for Nothing | Collins |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers [23] | Margaret Balderson | When Jays Fly to Barbmo | Oxford University Press |
Picture Book [23] | Ivan Southall, illustrated by Ted Greenwood | Sly Old Wardrobe | Cheshire | |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Australian SF Achievement Award [24] | Best Australian Science Fiction | A. Bertram Chandler | False Fatherland | Horwitz |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [25] | Randolph Stow | A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems | Angus and Robertson |
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.
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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.
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