This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1951.
For an overview of world literature see 1951 in literature.
See also:
1950 in Australian literature, 1951 in Australia, 1952 in Australian literature.
Dymphna Cusack – Say No to Death
Dymphna Cusack and Florence James – Come in Spinner
Eric Lambert – The Twenty Thousand Thieves
Kenneth Mackenzie – Dead Men Rising
Ruth Park – The Witch's Thorn
Nevil Shute – Round the Bend
Dal Stivens – Jimmy Brockett
E. V. Timms – The Valleys Beyond
Arthur Upfield – The New Shoe
Henrietta Drake-Brockman & Walter Murdoch – Australian Short Stories (edited)
Frank Hardy – The Man from Clinkapella and Other Prize-Winning Stories
T. A. G. Hungerford – "The Only One Who Forgot"
David Rowbotham – "A Schoolie and a Ghost"
Judah Waten – "Read Politics, Son"
Judith Wright – "The Ant-Lion"
John Blight – "The Oyster-Eaters"
David Campbell – "Windy Gap"
Rosemary Dobson – "Detail from an Annunciation by Crivelli"
W. E. Harney – "West of Alice"
A. D. Hope – "The Brides"
Rex Ingamells – The Great South Land : An Epic Poem
Nancy Keesing – Imminent Summer
Christopher Koch – "Half-Heard"
Eve Langley – "Australia"
Kenneth Mackenzie – "Caesura"
Ray Mathew
With Cypress Pine
"Young Man's Fancy"
Hal Porter – "Sheep"
Elizabeth Riddell – "Forebears : The Map"
Roland Robinson
"I Had No Human Speech"
"Rock-Lily"
"The Tank"
Douglas Stewart
"Mahony's Mountain"
"The Sunflowers"
Judith Wright – "Inheritor"
Paul Brickhill
The Dam Busters
The Great Escape
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1951 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
18 January – Sally Morgan, author and dramatist
22 January – Steve J. Spears, playwright (died 2007)
24 July – Robert Hood, novelist
12 October – Peter Goldsworthy, novelist
16 November – Hazel Rowley, biographer (died 2011)
25 November – Van Ikin, academic and editor
Unknown date
Peter Boyle, poet
Peter Craven, literary critic
Stephen Edgar, poet and editor
Jill Jones, poet
Pi O, poet
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1951 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
18 April – Daisy Bates, journalist (born 1859)
25 June – Arthur Gask, novelist (born 1869)
3 July – Sydney Jephcott, poet (born 1864)
