This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1962.
For an overview of world literature see 1962 in literature.
See also: 1961 in Australian literature, 1962 in Australia, 1963 in Australian literature.
James Aldridge – A Captive in the Land
Thea Astley – The Well Dressed Explorer
Martin Boyd – When Blackbirds Sing
Jon Cleary – The Country of Marriage
Dymphna Cusack – Picnic Races
Catherine Gaskin – I Know My Love
George Johnston – The Far Road
Elizabeth Kata – Someone Will Conquer Them
John Naish – The Cruel Field
John O'Grady – Gone Fishin'
Nancy Phelan – The River and the Brook
George Turner – The Cupboard Under the Stairs
Arthur Upfield – The Will of the Tribe
Thea Astley – "The Scenery Never Changes"
Peter Cowan – "The Island"
John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories
Hal Porter
A Bachelor's Children : Short Stories
"A Double Because It's Snowing"
"First Love"
"Francis Silver"
Patrick White
"Be Kind to Titina"
"The Letters"
"Willy-Wagtails by Moonlight"
Amy Witting – "The Weight of a Man"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – Half a World Away
John Gunn – City in Danger
Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat
The Road Under the Sea
Joan Phipson
The Boundary Riders
The Family Conspiracy
Ivan Southall – Hills End
P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins from A to Z
Joan Woodberry – Rafferty Makes a Landfall
Judith Wright – Range the Mountains High
Patricia Wrightson – The Feather Star
David Campbell – Poems
Bruce Dawe – No Fixed Address : Poems
Geoffrey Dutton – Flowers and Fury : Poems
R. D. Fitzgerald – Southmost Twelve
Rodney Hall – Penniless Till Doomsday
Gwen Harwood – "The Wine is Drunk"
Oodgeroo Noonuccal – "Colour Bar"
Roland Robsinson – Deep Well
Douglas Stewart – Rutherford and Other Poems
Randolph Stow – Outrider : Poems, 1956-1962
Francis Webb
"Harry"
"Pneumo-Encephalograph"
Judith Wright – Birds : Poems
Miles Franklin – Childhood at Brindabella : My First Ten Years
Joan Lindsay – Time Without Clocks
Douglas Lockwood – I, the Aboriginal
Alan Marshall – This is the Grass
Manning Clark – The History of Australia (to 1987)
Morris West – Daughter of Silence
Patrick White – The Season at Sarsaparilla
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
Unknown date
Matthew Condon, novelist
Alison Croggon, novelist
Luke Davies, novelist
Joanna Murray-Smith, playwright
Craig Sherborne, poet and playwright
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1962 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
3 December – Mary Gilmore, poet (born 1865)
