1957 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1957.
Books
- James Aldridge – I Wish He Would Not Die
- Martin Boyd – Outbreak of Love
- Jon Cleary – The Green Helmet
- Nino Culotta – They're a Weird Mob
- Elizabeth Harrower – Down in the City
- D'Arcy Niland – Call Me When the Cross Turns Over
- Vance Palmer – Seedtime
- Ruth Park – One-a-Pecker, Two-a-Pecker
- Nevil Shute – On the Beach
- Randolph Stow – The Bystander
- F. J. Thwaites – White Moonlight
- Arthur Upfield – The Bushman Who Came Back
- Judah Waten – Shares in Murder
- Morris West – The Big Story
- Patrick White – ''Voss''
Short stories
- A. Bertram Chandler – "The Cage"
- John Morrison – "A Man's World"
- Vance Palmer – The Rainbow Bird and Other Stories
- Steele Rudd – Sandy's Selection and Back At Our Selection
- Dal Stivens – The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales
- Judah Waten – "The Knife"
- Patrick White – "On the Balcony"
- Amy Witting – "A Bottle of Tears"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Nan Chauncy – Tiger in the Bush
- Enid Moodie Heddle – The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales illustrated by Nancy Parker
- Joan Phipson – It Happened One Summer
- Patricia Wrightson – ''The Bunyip Hole''
Poetry
- David Campbell – "On Frosty Days"
- Max Harris
- * "At the Circus"
- * "The Death of Bert Sassenowsky"
- William Hart-Smith – "Boomerang"
- Gwen Harwood – "Panther and Peacock"
- Nancy Keesing & Douglas Stewart – Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times
- Henry Kendall & T. Inglis Moore – Selected Poems of Henry Kendall
- Jack Lindsay – Three Elegies
- James McAuley – "Aubade"
- Leonard Mann – Elegiac and Other Poems
- Ian Mudie – "I Wouldn't be Lord Mayor"
- Kenneth Slessor – Poems
- Douglas Stewart – "The Silkworms"
- Randolph Stow – Act One : Poems
- Colin Thiele – "Bert Schultz"
- Judith Wright – ''New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse''
Plays
Non-fiction
Awards and honours
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
| ALS Gold Medal | Martin Boyd | A Difficult Young Man | Cresset Press |
| Miles Franklin Award | Patrick White | Voss | Eyre & Spottiswoode |
Children's and Young Adult
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Enid Moodie Heddle, illustrated by Nancy Parker | The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales | Longmans Green |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | Leonard Mann | Elegiac and Other Poems | Cheshire |
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth of births in 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.- 18 February – Kim Scott, novelist
- 31 March – Hannie Rayson, playwright
- 2 July – Sara Douglass, novelist
- 29 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic
- 11 November – Michelle de Kretser, novelist
- Tony Birch, novelist and critic
- Anthony Lawrence, poet
- Lucy Sussex, novelist and critic
- Brenda Walker, novelist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death of deaths in 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.- 29 June — Dorothy Cottrell, children's author, journalist, novelist
- 13 October – Will Lawson, poet and novelist
- 10 February – Bertha Southey Brammall, poet and novelist