1958 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1958.

For an overview of world literature see 1958 in literature.

See also: 1957 in Australian literature, 1958 in Australia, 1959 in Australian literature.

Books

• Thea Astley – Girl with a Monkey
• Nancy Cato – All the Rivers Run
• Catherine Gaskin – Blake's Reach
• Frank Hardy – The Four-Legged Lottery
• Elizabeth Harrower – The Long Prospect
• Christopher Koch – The Boys in the Island
• Eric Lambert – The Dark Backward
• Hal Porter – A Handful of Pennies
• Olaf Ruhen – Naked Under Capricorn
• Nevil Shute – The Rainbow and the Rose
• Dal Stivens – The Wide Arch
• Randolph Stow – To the Islands
• E. V. Timms – Robina
• Morris West – The Backlash (aka The Second Victory)

Short stories

• A. Bertram Chandler – "Planet of Ill Repute"
• Peter Cowan – The Unploughed Land : Stories
• Frank Hardy – "The Crookest Raffle Ever Run in Australia"
• Roland Robertson – Black-Feller, White-Feller
• Judith Wright
  • "The Colour of Death"
  • "The Lame Duck"

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Nan Chauncy – Devil's Hill
• John Gunn – Sea Menace
• Elyne Mitchell – The Silver Brumby
• Mary Elwyn Patchett
  • The Brumby
  • The Mysterious Pool
• Eleanor Spence – Patterson's Track
• Judith Wright – Kings of the Dingoes

Poetry

• Bruce Beaver – "White Cat and Brown Girl"
• David Campbell
  • "Hear the Bird of Day"
  • "On the Birth of a Son"
  • "Prayer for Rain"
• Geoffrey Dutton – Antipodes in Shoes
• R. D. Fitzgerald – "The Wind at Your Door"
• Max Harris – "A Window at Night"
• James McAuley – "In a Late Hour"
• David Martin – Poems of David Martin, 1938-1958
• Ian Mudie – "The North-Bound Rider"
• David Rowbotham – Inland : Poems
• Randolph Stow
  • "The Embarkation"
  • "In Praise of Hillbillies"
• Francis Webb
  • "Five Days Old"
  • "The Sea"

Biography

• Russell Braddon – End of a Hate
• Ion Idriess – Back o' Cairns
• Elizabeth O'Conner – Steak for Breakfast
• Arthur Mailey – 10 for 66 and All That

Awards and honours

Literary

Children's 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 1958 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 6 April – Graeme Base, artist and writer for children
• 16 June – Isobelle Carmody, novelist
• 11 November – Kathy Lette, novelist
• 17 December – Christopher Kelen, novelist and poet

Unknown date

• Debra Adelaide, novelist
• Sarah Day, poet
• Lionel Fogarty, poet
• Steven Herrick, poet
• Paul Hetherington, poet
• Kathleen Stewart, novelist and poet

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1958 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 17 February – Hugh McCrae, poet (born 1876)
• 8 April – Mary Grant Bruce, novelist (born 1878)
• 12 July – Ethel Turner, novelist (born 1870)
• 26 September – Arthur Bayldon, poet (born 1865)

See also

• 1958 in poetry
• 1958 in literature
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References