This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1954.
For an overview of world literature see 1954 in literature.
See also: 1953 in Australian literature, 1954 in Australia, 1955 in Australian literature.
James Aldridge – Heroes of the Empty View
Jon Cleary – The Climate of Courage
Miles Franklin – Cockatoos : A Story of Youth and Exodists
Catherine Gaskin – Sara Dane
T. A. G. Hungerford – Sowers of the Wind : A Novel of the Occupation of Japan
Eric Lambert
The Five Bright Stars
The Veterans
Eve Langley – White Topee
Kenneth Mackenzie – The Refuge
Alan Moorehead – A Summer Night
E. V. Timms – The Fury
Arthur Upfield
Death of a Lake
Sinister Stones
Judah Waten – The Unbending
A. Bertram Chandler – "Shadow Before"
David Martin – "Where a Man Belongs"
John Morrison – "The Incense-Burner"
Dal Stivens – "In the Depths"
Judah Waten – "Well, What Do You Say to My Boy?"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – A Fortune for the Brave
Joan Phipson – Six and Silver
Norman B. Tindale & Harold Arthur Lindsay – The First Walkabout, illustrated by Madeleine Boyce
Thea Astley – "Droving Man"
Dorothy Auchterlonie – "The Tree"
John Blight
"The Anchor"
"Death of a Whale"
"Nor'-Easter"
"Rope"
The Two Suns Met : Poems
Dorothea Dowling – Twenty-One Poems
R. D. Fitzgerald
"Beginnings"
"Edge"
Mary Gilmore – Fourteen Men : Verses
A. D. Hope – "The Return of Persephone"
Christopher Koch – "The Boy Who Dreamed the Country Night"
James McAuley
"An Art of Poetry"
"New Guinea"
"To the Holy Spirit"
Kenneth Mackenzie – "An Old Inmate"
David Rowbotham – "Mullabinda"
Douglas Stewart – "Spider-Gums"
Colin Thiele – "The Mushroomer"
John Thompson – Thirty Poems
Judith Wright
"At Cooloolah"
"Flying Fox on Barbed Wire"
Nevil Shute – Slide Rule : The Autobiography of an Engineer
David Unaipon – My Life Story
Vance Palmer – The Legend of the Nineties
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1954 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
12 January
Brian Caswell, writer for children
Lee Tulloch, novelist
26 March – Dorothy Porter, poet (died 2008)
21 May – Paul Collins, author and editor
17 June – Kerry Greenwood, novelist
5 July – Kevin Hart, poet
Unknown date
Russell Blackford, novelist and critic
Rory Harris, poet
Andrew Lansdown, poet
Shane McCauley, poet
James Moloney, writer for children
Rosemary Sorensen, journalist, editor and critic
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1954 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
19 September – Miles Franklin, novelist (born 1879)
2 November – Malcolm Afford, playwright and novelist (born 1906)
