1969 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969. Major publications Books Mena Calthorpe – The Defectors Jon Cleary – Remember Jack Hoxie Dymphna Cusack – The Half-Burnt Tree Sumner Locke Elliott – Edens Lost George Johnston – Clean Straw for Nothing Thomas Keneally – The Survivor D'Arcy Niland – Dead Men Running Short stories Manning Clark – Disquiet and Other Stories Lyndall Hadow – Full Cycle and Other Stories T. A. G. Hungerford – "Wong Chu and the Queen's Letterbox" Frank Moorhouse – Futility and Other Animals Dal Stivens – Selected Stories 1936-1968 Children's and young adult fiction Hesba Brinsmead – Isle of the Sea Horse Joan Phipson – Peter and Butch Ivan Southall – Finn's Folly Eleanor Spence – Jamberoo Road Colin Thiele – Blue Fin Poetry Bruce Beaver – Letters to Live Poets Gwen Harwood "Barn Owl" "Father and Child" A. D. Hope – New Poems 1956-1969 James McAuley – Surprises of the Sun David Malouf – "The Year of the Foxes" Les Murray – The Weatherboard Cathedral Thomas Shapcott – Inwards to the Sun : Poems Randolph Stow – A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems Plays Dorothy Hewett - Mrs