This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1965.
For an overview of world literature see 1965 in literature.
See also: 1964 in Australian literature, 1965 in Australia, 1966 in Australian literature.
Thea Astley – The Slow Natives
Nancy Cato – North West by South
Don Charlwood – All the Green Year
Catherine Gaskin – The File on Devlin
Donald Horne – The Permit
Thomas Keneally – The Fear
Christopher Koch – Across the Sea Wall
Eric Lambert – The Long White Night
D'Arcy Niland – The Apprentices
Randolph Stow – The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
George Turner – A Waste of Shame
Morris West – The Ambassador
Damien Broderick – A Man Returned
Peter Cowan – The Empty Street : Stories
John K. Ewers – Modern Australian Short Stories (edited)
Thelma Forshaw – "The Mateship Syndrome"
Frank Hardy – The Yarns of Billy Borker
Hal Porter – The Cats of Venice
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Nan Chauncy
Panic at the Garage
The Skewbald Pony
Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Treetops
Ring for the Sorcerer
Joan Phipson – Birkin
Ivan Southall – Ash Road
Eleanor Spence – The Year of the Currawong
Kylie Tennant – Trail Blazers of the Air
Colin Thiele – February Dragon
Patricia Wrightson – Down to Earth
Bruce Dawe – A Need of Similar Name
Rosemary Dobson – Cock Crow : Poems
Robert D. Fitzgerald – Forty Years' Poems
A. D. Hope – "Ode on the Death of Pius the Twelfth"
Geoffrey Lehmann & Les Murray – The Ilex Tree
Les Murray – "Noonday Axeman"
Vivian Smith – "At an Exhibition of Historical Paintings, Hobart"
Martin Boyd – Day of My Delight
Norman Lindsay – Bohemians of the Bulletin
Patrick White – A Cheery Soul
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1965 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
25 March – Melina Marchetta, novelist
29 December – Gideon Haigh, journalist and author
Unknown date
Michael Farrell, poet
Fiona McGregor, novelist
Carrie Tiffany, novelist
Christos Tsiolkas, novelist
Charlotte Wood, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1965 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
