This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1965.
Major publications Books
Thea Astley – The Slow Natives Clive Barry – Crumb Borne Nancy Cato – North West by South Don Charlwood – All the Green Year Catherine Gaskin – The File on Devlin Donald Horne – The Permit Thomas Keneally – The Fear Christopher Koch – Across the Sea Wall Eric Lambert – The Long White Night D'Arcy Niland – The Apprentices Randolph Stow – The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea George Turner – A Waste of Shame
Morris West – The Ambassador
Short stories
Mena Kasmiri Abdullah and Ray Mathew – The Time of the Peacock: Stories Damien Broderick – A Man Returned Peter Cowan – The Empty Street: Stories John K. Ewers – Modern Australian Short Stories (edited) Thelma Forshaw – "The Mateship Syndrome" Frank Hardy – The Yarns of Billy Borker Hal Porter – The Cats of Venice
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy Panic at the Garage The Skewbald Pony Ruth Park The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops Ring for the Sorcerer Joan Phipson – Birkin Ivan Southall – Ash Road Eleanor Spence – The Year of the Currawong Kylie Tennant – Trail Blazers of the Air Colin Thiele – February Dragon Patricia Wrightson – Down to Earth
Poetry
Vincent Buckley – "Stroke" Bruce Dawe – A Need of Similar Name Rosemary Dobson – Cock Crow : Poems Robert D. Fitzgerald – Forty Years' Poems A. D. Hope – "Ode on the Death of Pius the Twelfth" Geoffrey Lehmann & Les Murray – The Ilex Tree Les Murray "Driving Through Sawmill Towns" "Noonday Axeman" Vivian Smith – "At an Exhibition of Historical Paintings, Hobart"
Biography
Martin Boyd – Day of My Delight Norman Lindsay – Bohemians of the Bulletin
Drama
John McKellar – A Cup of Tea, a Bex and a Good Lie Down
Awards and honours
Literary
Award Author Title Publisher ALS Gold Medal Patrick White The Burnt Ones Penguin Books Australia Miles Franklin Award Thea Astley The Slow Natives Angus and Robertson
Children and Young Adult
Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award Older Readers"Children's Book Awards", The Canberra Times, 3 July 1965, p14 H. F. Brinsmead Pastures of the Blue Crane Oxford University Press Picture Book Elisabeth MacIntyre Hugh's Zoo Constable Young Books
Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher Grace Leven Prize for PoetryAustlit – The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray Geoffrey Lehmann & Les Murray The Ilex Tree Australian National University Press
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1965 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
25 March – Melina Marchetta, novelist 11 September — Cat Sparks, science fiction writer 29 December – Gideon Haigh, journalist and author
Unknown date
Michael Farrell, poet Fiona Kelly McGregor, novelist Carrie Tiffany, novelist Christos Tsiolkas, novelist Charlotte Wood, 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 1965 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
28 January – Gertrude Hart, novelist (born 1873) 29 January – T. Harri Jones, Welsh poet who emigrated to Australia (born 1921) 17 May – Duke Tritton, poet and folksinger (born 1886) 28 May – P. R. Stephensen, writer, publisher and political activist (born 1901) 3 September – Brian Fitzpatrick, author, historian and journalist (born 1905) 2 November – Lex Banning, poet (born 1921 with cerebral palsy and unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen) H.V. Evatt, judge, parliamentarian and writer (born 1894)
See also 1965 in Australia 1965 in literature 1965 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature
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