This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1960.
For an overview of world literature see 1960 in literature.
See also: 1959 in Australian literature, 1960 in Australia, 1961 in Australian literature.
The first Adelaide Writers' Week was held as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
Thea Astley – A Descant for Gossips
Russell Braddon – The Proud American Boy
Nancy Cato – Green Grows the Vine
Jon Cleary – North from Thursday
Charmian Clift – Walk to the Paradise Gardens
Nino Culotta – Cop this Lot
Catherine Gaskin – Corporation Wife
Elizabeth Harrower – The Catherine Wheel
George Johnston – Closer to the Sun
Elizabeth O'Conner – The Irishman
Nevil Shute – Trustee from the Toolroom
Arthur Upfield – Valley of Smugglers
James Aldridge – Gold and Sand : Stories
Ion Idriess – The Wild North
John Morrison – "Dog-Box"
Hal Porter – "Party 42 and Mrs Brewer"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
James Aldridge – The Shark Cage
Nan Chauncy – Tangara
John Gunn
The Humpy in the Hills
Peter Kent's Command
Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby's Daughter
Eleanor Spence – Lillipilly Hill
Judith Wright – The Day the Mountains Played
Patricia Wrightson – The Rocks of Honey
Christopher Brennan – The Verse of Christopher Brennan, edited by A. R. Chisholm and John Joseph Quinn
David Campbell
"Town Planning"
"Under the Wattles"
"Windy Nights"
Rosemary Dobson – "Ghost Town : New England"
Geoffrey Dutton – Night Fishing
R. D. Fitzgerald – "Bog and Candle"
Gwen Harwood
"The Glass-Jar"
"Group from Tartarus
A. D. Hope
"The Coasts of Cerrigo"
Poems
Colin Thiele – Man in a Landscape
Judith Wright – Australian Bird Poems
Alan Seymour – The One Day of the Year
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
4 August – Tim Winton, novelist
Unknown date
Pamela Freeman, novelist
Margo Lanagan, novelist and short story writer
Fiona McIntosh, novelist
Michael Robotham, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1960 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
12 January – Nevil Shute, novelist (born 1899)
14 June – E. V. Timms, novelist (born 1895)
