1968 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1968.
Major publications
Books
- Thea Astley – A Boat Load of Home Folk
- Kenneth Cook – The Wine of God's Anger
- Frank Dalby Davison – The White Thorntree
- Geoffrey Dutton – Andy
- David Ireland – The Chantic Bird
- Thomas Keneally – Three Cheers for the Paraclete
- Norman Lindsay – Rooms and Houses
- John O'Grady – Gone Troppo
- F. J. Thwaites – Sky Full of Thunder
- Morris West – ''The Tower of Babel''
Short stories
- Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher – Aliens in Their Land : The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story
- Patrick White – "Five-Twenty"
- Michael Wilding – "Joe's Absence"
Science fiction and fantasy
- John Baxter – The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction
- A. Bertram Chandler – ''Spartan Planet''
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Margaret Balderson – When Jays Fly to Barbmo
- Nan Chauncy – Lizzie Lights
- Mavis Thorpe Clark – Spark of Opal
- Elyne Mitchell – Moon Filly
- Ruth Park – The Sixpenny Island
- Ivan Southall – Let the Balloon Go
- Joan Woodberry
- * Ash Tuesday
- * Come Back Peter
- Patricia Wrightson – ''I Own the Racecourse!''
Poetry
- David Campbell
- * "The Australian Dream"
- * Selected Poems 1942–1968
- Bruce Dawe
- *An Eye for a Tooth : Poems
- * "Homecoming"
- Gwen Harwood – Poems : Volume 2
- Dorothy Hewett
- * Windmill Country
- * "The Witnesses"
- James McAuley – "Because"
- Randolph Stow – "The Singing Bones"
Drama
Biography
- T. Inglis Moore – Rolf Boldrewood
- Colin Thiele – ''Heysen of Hahndorf''
Non-fiction
- Gavin Souter – A Peculiar People : The Australians in Paraguay
- Margaret Fulton – ''The Margaret Fulton Cookbook''
Awards and honours
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | David Campbell | Selected Poems 1942–1968 | Angus and Robertson |
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth of births in 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.- 23 February — Sonya Hartnett, novelist
- 2 April — Sofie Laguna, novelist
- Azhar Abidi, novelist
- Anita Heiss, academic and critic
- James Roy, writer of young adult and children's fiction
- Chris Womersley, novelist
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death of deaths in 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.- 14 January – Dorothea Mackellar, poet
- 8 March — Henrietta Drake-Brockman, journalist and novelist
- 9 June – Bernard Cronin, novelist