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.
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)
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
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"
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
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
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)
