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1965 in Australian literature - Wikipedia

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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^[1]
Don Charlwood – All the Green Year^[2]
Catherine Gaskin – The File on Devlin^[3]
Donald Horne – The Permit^[4]
Thomas Keneally – The Fear
Christopher Koch – Across the Sea Wall^[5]
Eric Lambert – The Long White Night^[6]
D'Arcy Niland – The Apprentices^[7]
Randolph Stow – The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
George Turner – A Waste of Shame^[8]

Morris West – The Ambassador

Short stories

Mena Kasmiri Abdullah and Ray Mathew – The Time of the Peacock: Stories^[9]
Damien Broderick – A Man Returned^[10]
Peter Cowan – The Empty Street: Stories^[11]
John K. Ewers – Modern Australian Short Stories (edited)^[12]
Thelma Forshaw – "The Mateship Syndrome"^[13]
Frank Hardy – The Yarns of Billy Borker^[14]
Hal Porter – The Cats of Venice^[15]

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Nan Chauncy
- Panic at the Garage^[16]
- The Skewbald Pony^[17]
Ruth Park
- The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops^[18]
- Ring for the Sorcerer^[19]
Joan Phipson – Birkin^[20]
Ivan Southall – Ash Road
Eleanor Spence – The Year of the Currawong^[21]
Kylie Tennant – Trail Blazers of the Air^[22]
Colin Thiele – February Dragon^[23]
Patricia Wrightson – Down to Earth^[24]

Poetry

Bruce Dawe – A Need of Similar Name^[25]
Rosemary Dobson – Cock Crow : Poems^[26]
Robert D. Fitzgerald – Forty Years' Poems^[27]
A. D. Hope – "Ode on the Death of Pius the Twelfth"^[28]
Geoffrey Lehmann & Les Murray – The Ilex Tree^[29]
Les Murray – "Noonday Axeman"^[30]
Vivian Smith – "At an Exhibition of Historical Paintings, Hobart"^[31]

Biography

Martin Boyd – Day of My Delight^[32]
Norman Lindsay – Bohemians of the Bulletin^[33]

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal^[34]	Patrick White	The Burnt Ones	Penguin Books Australia
Miles Franklin Award^[35]	Thea Astley	The Slow Natives	Angus and Robertson

Children and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award	Older Readers^[36]	H. F. Brinsmead	Pastures of the Blue Crane	Oxford University Press
Children's Book of the Year Award	Picture Book^[36]	Elisabeth MacIntyre	Hugh's Zoo	Constable Young Books

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry^[37]	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^[38]
11 September — Cat Sparks, science fiction writer^[39]
29 December – Gideon Haigh, journalist and author^[40]

Unknown date

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)^[46]
29 January – T. Harri Jones, Welsh poet who emigrated to Australia (born 1921)^[47]
17 May – Duke Tritton, poet and folksinger (born 1886)^[48]
28 May – P. R. Stephensen, writer, publisher and political activist (born 1901)^[49]
3 September – Brian Fitzpatrick, author, historian and journalist (born 1905)^[50]
2 November –
- Lex Banning, poet (born 1921 with cerebral palsy and unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen)^[51]
- H.V. Evatt, judge, parliamentarian and writer (born 1894)^[52]

References

^ "North West by South by Nancy Cato". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "All the Green Year by Don Charlwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "The File on Devlin by Catherine Gaskin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "The Permit by Donald Horne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "Across the Sea Wall by Christopher Koch". Austlit. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "The Long White Night by Eric Lambert". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "The Apprentices by D'Arcy Niland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "A Waste of Shame by George Turner". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
^ "The Time of the Peacock: Stories by Mena Kasmiri Abdullah and Ray Mathew". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "A Man Returned by Damien Broderick". ISFDB. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "The Empty Street: Stories by Peter Cowan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Modern Australian Short Stories edited by John K. Ewers". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ ""The Mateship Syndrome" by Thelma Forshaw". Austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "The Yarns of Billy Borker by Frank Hardy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "The Cats of Venice by Hal Porter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Panic at the Garage by Nan Chauncy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "The Skewbald Pony by Nan Chauncy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops by Ruth Park". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "Ring for the Sorcerer by Ruth Park". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "Birkin by Joan Phipson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "The Year of the Currawong by Eleanor Spence". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "Trail Blazers of the Air by Kylie Tennant". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "February Dragon by Colin Thiele". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "Down to Earth by Patricia Wrightson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
^ "A Need of Similar Name by Bruce Dawe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Cock Crow : Poems by Rosemary Dobson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Forty Years' Poems by R.D. Fitzgerald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ ""Ode on the Death of Pius the Twelfth" by A. D. Hope". Austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann & Les Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ ""Noonday Axeman" by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ ""At an Exhibition of Historical Paintings, Hobart" by Vivian Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Day of My Delight by Martin Boyd". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "Bohemians of the Bulletin by Norman Lindsay". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ ""Miles Franklin 1965 : Award to Slow Natives"". The Canberra Times, 22 April 1966, p22. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Children's Book Awards", The Canberra Times, 3 July 1965, p14
^ Austlit – The Ilex Tree by Geoffrey Lehmann and Les Murray
^ "Melina Marchetta". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Cat Sparks". Austlit. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
^ "Gideon Haigh". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Michael Farrell". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Fiona McGregor". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Carrie Tiffany". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Christos Tsiolkas". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Charlotte Wood". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Austlit — Gertrude Hart (1873-1965)". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Jones, Thomas Henry (1921–1965) by Julian Croft". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Tritton, Harold Percy Croydon (1886–1965) by John Meredith". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Austlit — P. R. Stephensen (1901-1965)". Austlit. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Fitzpatrick, Brian Charles (1905–1965) by Geoffrey Serle". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Banning, Arthur Alexander (Lex) (1921–1965) by Gavin Souter". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
^ "Evatt, Herbert Vere (Bert) (1894–1965) by G. C. Bolton". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 12 July 2023.

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