This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969.
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 F. J. Thwaites – No Love to Give
Short stories Manning Clark – Disquiet and Other Stories Lyndall Hadow – Full Cycle and Other Stories Lee Harding – "Dancing Gerontius" 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 Annette Macarthur-Onslow – Uhu Joan Phipson – Peter and Butch Ivan Southall – Finn's Folly Eleanor Spence – Jamberoo Road Colin Thiele – Blue Fin
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 "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" The Weatherboard Cathedral Thomas Shapcott – Inwards to the Sun : Poems Randolph Stow – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems
Drama
Dorothy Hewett – Mrs Porter and the Angel Morris West – The Heretic
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 PublisherChildren'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
Science fiction and fantasy Award Category Author Title Publisher Australian SF Achievement Award Best Australian Science Fiction A. Bertram Chandler False Fatherland Horwitz
Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher Grace Leven Prize for PoetryAustlit - A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems by Randolph Stow 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.
2 February — William Hatfield, novelist (born 1892) 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 Australia 1969 in literature 1969 in poetry List of years in Australian literature List of years in literature
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