This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1955.
For an overview of world literature see 1955 in literature.
See also: 1954 in Australian literature, 1955 in Australia, 1956 in Australian literature.
Martin Boyd – A Difficult Young Man
Jon Cleary – Justin Bayard
Charmian Clift & George Johnston – The Sponge Divers
Alfred E. Couchman – Fair Field, No Favor
Dymphna Cusack – The Sun in Exile
Mary Durack – Keep Him My Country
Barbara Jefferis – Beloved Lady
D'Arcy Niland – The Shiralee
Ruth Park – Pink Flannel
Colin Roderick – The Lady and the Lawyer
Nevil Shute – Requiem for a Wren, (aka The Breaking Wave)
E. V. Timms – They Came from the Sea
Arthur Upfield – The Battling Prophet
F. B. Vickers – The Mirage
Patrick White – The Tree of Man
A. Bertram Chandler – "Late"
John Morrison – Black Cargo and Other Stories
Vance Palmer – Let the Birds Fly
Dal Stivens – Ironbark Bill
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Patricia Wrightson – The Crooked Snake, illustrated by Margaret Horder
Lex Banning – "Apocalypse in Springtime"
David Campbell – "Here, Under Pear-Trees"
Rosemary Dobson – Child with a Cockatoo, and Other Poems
Max Harris – The Coorong and Other Poems
A. D. Hope – The Wandering Islands
Nancy Keesing & Douglas Stewart – Australian Bush Ballads (edited)
Nancy Keesing – Three Men and Sydney
James McAuley – Australian Poetry 1955
Roland Robinson
"Altjeringa"
"Passage of the Swans"
Vivian Smith – "Portuguese Laurel Flowering"
Douglas Stewart – The Birdsville Track and Other Poems
Randolph Stow – "Sea Children"
Chris Wallace-Crabbe – No Glass Houses
Judith Wright – The Two Fires
Dymphna Cusack – The Golden Girls : A Play in Three Acts
Ray Lawler – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Leonie Kramer – Henry Kingsley : Some Novels of Australian Life
Alan Marshall – I Can Jump Puddles
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1955 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
27 March – Linda Jaivin, novelist
28 March – Tony Shillitoe, novelist
15 June – Les Wicks, poet and editor
5 August – Christine Harris, writer for children
14 September – Geraldine Brooks, novelist
Unknown date
Candida Baker, novelist and anthologist
Adrian Caesar, poet
Martin Flanagan, journalist
Michael Gow, playwright
Jennifer Harrison, poet
Gail Jones, novelist
Steven Paulsen, sf writer
Peter Rose, poet and editor
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1955 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
19 January – Kenneth Mackenzie, poet and novelist (born 1913)
10 March – Brian Vrepont, poet (born 1882)
30 December – Rex Ingamells, poet (born 1913)
