This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1968.
For an overview of world literature see 1968 in literature.
See also: 1967 in Australian literature, 1968 in Australia, 1969 in Australian literature.
Thea Astley – A Boat Load of Home Folk
A. Bertram Chandler – Spartan Planet (aka False Fatherland)
Kenneth Cook – The Wine of God's Anger
Frank Dalby Davison – The White Thorntree
Geoffrey Dutton – Andy
David Ireland – The Chantic Bird
Thomas Keneally – Three Cheers for the Paraclete
Norman Lindsay – Rooms and Houses
John O'Grady – Gone Troppo
Morris West – The Tower of Babel
John Baxter – The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction (edited)
Louise E. Rorabacher – Aliens in Their Land : The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story (edited)
Patrick White – "Five-Twenty"
Michael Wilding – "Joe's Absence"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Margaret Balderson – When Jays Fly to Barbmo
Nan Chauncy – Lizzie Lights
Mavis Thorpe Clark – Spark of Opal
Elyne Mitchell – Moon Filly
Ruth Park – The Sixpenny Island
Ivan Southall – Let the Balloon Go
Joan Woodberry
Ash Tuesday
Come Back Peter
Patricia Wrightson – I Own the Racecourse!
David Campbell
"The Australian Dream"
Selected Poems 1942-1968
Bruce Dawe
An Eye for a Tooth : Poems
"Homecoming"
Gwen Harwood – Poems : Volume 2
Dorothy Hewett – Windmill Country
James McAuley – "Because"
Randolph Stow – "The Singing Bones"
T. Inglis Moore – Rolf Boldrewood
Colin Thiele – Heysen of Hahndorf
Gavin Souter – A Peculiar People : The Australians in Paraguay
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
Unknown date
Sonya Hartnett, novelist
Anita Heiss, academic and critic
Sofie Laguna, novelist
Chris Womersley, novelist
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1968 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
14 January – Dorothea Mackellar, poet (born 1885)
Unknown date
Bernard Cronin, novelist (born 1884)
