This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1964.
For an overview of world literature see 1964 in literature.
See also: 1963 in Australian literature, 1964 in Australia, 1965 in Australian literature.
Russell Braddon – The Year of the Angry Rabbit
A. Bertram Chandler – The Deep Reaches of Space
Jon Cleary
The Fall of an Eagle
A Flight of Chariots
Charmian Clift – Honour's Mimic
Dymphna Cusack – Black Lightning
George Johnston – My Brother Jack
Thomas Keneally – The Place at Whitton
David Rowbotham – The Man in the Jungle
Judah Waten – Distant Land
Nancy Cato – The Sea Ants and Other Stories
A. Bertram Chandler – Into the Alternate Universe : The Coils of Time
Peter Cowan – "The Tractor"
Damien Broderick – "All My Yesterdays"
Frank Dalby Davison – The Road to Yesterday : Collected Short Stories
Patrick White – The Burnt Ones
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Hesba Brinsmead – Pastures of the Blue Crane
Nan Chauncy – High and Haunted Island
Ruth Park
Airlift for Grandee
The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday
Bruce Dawe – "How to Go On Not Looking"
A. D. Hope – "An Epistle : Edward Sackville to Venetia Digby"
T. Inglis Moore – From the Ballads to Brennan
Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We Are Going : Poems
Peter Porter – "Sydney Cove, 1788"
David Rowbotham – All the Room
Thomas Shapcott – The Mankind Thing
Vivian Smith – "Late April : Hobart"
Douglas Stewart – Modern Australian Verse
Randolph Stow – "Ishmael"
Francis Webb – The Ghost of the Cock : Poems
Donald Horne – The Lucky Country
Douglas Lockwood – Up the Track
Frank Hardy – The Ringbolter
David Ireland – Image in the Clay
Patrick White – Night on Bald Mountain
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1964 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
7 May – Elliot Perlman, novelist
21 July – Gillian Mears, novelist (died 2016)
7 August – John Birmingham, novelist and journalist
Unknown date
Mandy Sayer, novelist
Jonathan Strahan, editor and anthologist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1964 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
22 January – Zora Cross, poet (born 1890)
12 February – Arthur Upfield, novelist (born 1890)
19 October – Nettie Palmer, critic and journalist (born 1885)
