1962 in Australian literature

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Nan Chauncy – Half a World Away
• John Gunn – City in Danger
• Ruth Park
• The Muddle-Headed Wombat
• The Road Under the Sea
• Joan Phipson
• The Boundary Riders
• The Family Conspiracy
• Ivan Southall – Hills End
• P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins from A to Z
• Joan Woodberry – Rafferty Makes a Landfall
• Judith Wright – Range the Mountains High
• Patricia Wrightson – The Feather Star

Poetry

• David Campbell – Poems
• Bruce Dawe
• "Enter Without So Much as Knocking"
• No Fixed Address : Poems
• Geoffrey Dutton – Flowers and Fury : Poems
• R. D. Fitzgerald – Southmost Twelve
• Rodney Hall – Penniless Till Doomsday
• Gwen Harwood – "The Wine is Drunk"
• Dorothy Hewett & Merv Lilley – What About the People!
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal – "Colour Bar"
• Roland Robsinson – Deep Well
• Douglas Stewart – Rutherford and Other Poems
• Randolph Stow – Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962
• Francis Webb
• "Harry"
• "Pneumo-Encephalograph"
• Judith Wright – Birds : Poems

Biography

• Joan Lindsay – Time Without Clocks
• Douglas Lockwood – I, the Aboriginal
• Alan Marshall – This is the Grass

Non-fiction

• Manning Clark – The History of Australia (Vol. 1)
• F. J. Thwaites – Destination Spain (travel book)

Drama

• Morris West – Daughter of Silence
• Patrick White – The Season at Sarsaparilla

Awards and honours

Literary

Children and Young Adult

Poetry

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 17 April — Joanna Murray-Smith, playwright

• Matthew Condon, novelist
• Alison Croggon, novelist
• Luke Davies, novelist
• Charmaine Papertalk Green, poet and artist (died 2025)
• Craig Sherborne, poet and playwright

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 4 February — Nita Kibble, librarian (born 1879)
• 8 March – Jean Devanny, novelist (born 1894)
• 9 September – H. M. Green, poet and critic (born 1881)
• 3 December – Mary Gilmore, poet (born 1865)

• Margaret Fane, novelist and poet (born 1887)

See also

• 1962 in Australia
• 1962 in literature
• 1962 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References