This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1957.
For an overview of world literature see 1957 in literature.
See also: 1956 in Australian literature, 1957 in Australia, 1958 in Australian literature.
James Aldridge – I Wish He Would Not Die
Martin Boyd – Outbreak of Love
Jon Cleary – The Green Helmet
Nino Culotta – They're a Weird Mob
Elizabeth Harrower – Down in the City
D'Arcy Niland – Call Me When the Cross Turns Over
Vance Palmer – Seedtime
Ruth Park – One-a-Pecker, Two-a-Pecker
Nevil Shute – On the Beach
Randolph Stow – The Bystander
Arthur Upfield – The Bushman Who Came Back
Judah Waten – Shares in Murder
Morris West – The Big Story
Patrick White – Voss
John Morrison – "A Man's World"
Vance Palmer – The Rainbow Bird and Other Stories
Steele Rudd – Sandy's Selection and Back At Our Selection
Dal Stivens – The Scholarly Mouse and Other Tales
Judah Waten – "The Knife"
Patrick White – "On the Balcony"
Amy Witting – "A Bottle of Tears"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – Tiger in the Bush
Enid Moodie Heddle – The Boomerang Book of Legendary Tales (edited) illustrated by Nancy Parker
Joan Phipson – It Happened One Summer
Patricia Wrightson – The Bunyip Hole
David Campbell – "On Frosty Days"
Mary Gilmore – Poems
Max Harris
"At the Circus"
"The Death of Bert Sassenowsky"
William Hart-Smith – "Boomerang"
Gwen Harwood – "Panther and Peacock"
Nancy Keesing & Douglas Stewart – Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times (edited)
Henry Kendall & T. Inglis Moore – Selected Poems of Henry Kendall
Jack Lindsay – Three Elegies
James McAuley – "Aubade"
Leonard Mann – Elegaic and Other Poems
Ian Mudie – "I Wouldn't be Lord Mayor"
Kenneth Slessor – Poems
Douglas Stewart – "The Silkworms"
Randolph Stow – Act One : Poems
Colin Thiele – "Bert Schulz"
Judith Wright – New Land, New Language : An Anthology of Australian Verse (edited)
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
18 February – Kim Scott, novelist
2 June – Sara Douglass, novelist (died 2011)
29 July – Liam Davison, novelist and critic (died 2014)
11 November – Michelle de Kretser, novelist
Unknown date
Tony Birch, novelist and critic
Anthony Lawrence, poet
Hannie Rayson, playwright
Lucy Sussex, novelist and critic
Brenda Walker, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1957 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
12 October – Will Lawson, poet and novelist (born 1876)
