1960 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1960.
Events
- The first Adelaide Writers' Week was held as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Major publications
Books
- Thea Astley – A Descant for Gossips
- Russell Braddon – The Proud American Boy
- Nancy Cato – Green Grows the Vine
- Jon Cleary – North from Thursday
- Charmian Clift – Walk to the Paradise Gardens
- Nino Culotta – Cop this Lot
- Catherine Gaskin – Corporation Wife
- Elizabeth Harrower – The Catherine Wheel
- George Johnston – Closer to the Sun
- Elizabeth O'Conner – The Irishman
- Nevil Shute – Trustee from the Toolroom
- Arthur Upfield – ''Valley of Smugglers''
Short stories
- James Aldridge – Gold and Sand : Stories
- Ion Idriess – The Wild North
- Hal Porter – "Party 42 and Mrs Brewer"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Nan Chauncy – Tangara
- John Gunn
- * The Humpy in the Hills
- * Peter Kent's Command
- Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby's Daughter
- Eleanor Spence – Lillipilly Hill
- Judith Wright – The Day the Mountains Played
- Patricia Wrightson – ''The Rocks of Honey''
Poetry
- Christopher Brennan – The Verse of Christopher Brennan, edited by A. R. Chisholm and John Joseph Quinn
- David Campbell
- * "Town Planning"
- * "Under the Wattles"
- * "Windy Nights"
- Rosemary Dobson – "Ghost Town : New England"
- Geoffrey Dutton – Night Fishing
- R. D. Fitzgerald – "Bog and Candle"
- Gwen Harwood
- * "The Glass Jar"
- * "Group from Tartarus"
- A. D. Hope
- * "The Coasts of Cerigo"
- * Poems
- Colin Thiele – Man in a Landscape
- Roland Robinson – "Mapooram"
- Judith Wright – ''Australian Bird Poems''
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth of births in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.- 25 February – Narelle Oliver, award-winning children's author-illustrator, artist and print maker
- 4 August – Tim Winton, novelist
- 9 November – Michael Robotham, novelist
- Pamela Freeman, novelist
- Margo Lanagan, novelist and short story writer
- Fiona McIntosh, novelist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death of deaths in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.- 12 January – Nevil Shute, novelist
- 14 June – E. V. Timms, novelist
- 6 November — John Lavington Bonython, newspaper editor and journalist