This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1963.
For an overview of world literature see 1963 in literature.
See also: 1962 in Australian literature, 1963 in Australia, 1964 in Australian literature.
Jessica Anderson – An Ordinary Lunacy
Jon Cleary – Forests of the Night
Sumner Locke Elliott – Careful, He Might Hear You
Catherine Gaskin – The Tilsit Inheritance
Brian James – Hopeton High
Barbara Jefferis – Wild Grapes
Mungo MacCallum – Son of Mars
Randolph Stow – Tourmaline
Arthur Upfield – The Body at Madman's Bend
Morris West – The Shoes of the Fisherman
A. Bertram Chandler – Beyond the Galactic Rim
Jon Cleary – Pillar of Salt and Other Stories
Peter Cowan – "The Voice"
Frank Hardy – Legends from Benson's Valley
Shirley Hazzard
Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories
"The Picnic"
Xavier Herbert – Larger Than Life : Twenty Short Stories
Hal Porter
"Gretel"
"Young Woman in a Wimple"
Colin Thiele – Favourite Australian Stories (edited)
Patrick White
"Clay"
"Down at the Dump"
"Miss Slattery and Her Demon Lover"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy – The Roaring 40
L. H. Evers – Danny's Wonderful Uncle
John Gunn – The Goodbye Island
Eric Lambert – Dolphin
Joan Phipson – Threat to the Barkers
Eleanor Spence – The Green Laurel
Colin Thiele – Storm Boy
Bruce Dawe – "And a Good Friday Was Had By All"
Gwen Harwood – "Suburban Sonnet"
Dorothy Hewett – "Country Idyll"
A. D. Hope
"Crossing the Frontier"
"A Letter from Rome"
James McAuley – "Pieta"
Ian Mudie – The North-Bound Rider
Peter Porter – "Your Attention Please"
Chris Wallace-Crabbe – In Light and Darkness
Henry Kendall – Henry Kendall (edited by T. Inglis Moore)
John Shaw Neilson – Shaw Neilson (edited by Judith Wright)
Judith Wright – Five Senses : Selected Poems
Xavier Herbert – Disturbing Element
Alan Marshall – In Mine Own Heart
Hal Porter – The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony
Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush That Never Ended : A History of Australian Mining
Alan Hopgood – And the Big Men Fly
Hal Porter – The Tower
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1963 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
19 July – Garth Nix, novelist
8 October – Nick Earls, novelist
Unknown date
Catherine Jinks, novelist
John Kinsella, poet
Mandy Sayer, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1963 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
30 January – Will H. Ogilvie, poet (1869)
24 July – Ruth Bedford, poet (born 1882)
