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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1956.

For an overview of world literature see 1956 in literature.

See also: 1955 in Australian literature, 1956 in Australia, 1957 in Australian literature.

Books

• Miles Franklin — Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang : A Tale of the Jumbuck Pads on the Summer Runs
• Nevil Shute — Beyond the Black Stump
• Randolph Stow — A Haunted Land
• Kylie Tennant — The Honey Flow
• E. V. Timms — Shining Harvest
• Arthur Upfield — Man of Two Tribes
• F. B. Vickers — First Place to a Stranger
• Morris West
  • Gallows on the Sand
  • Kundu

Short stories

• Ethel Anderson — At Parramatta
• Leon Gellert — Year After Year
• Alan Marshall — How's Andy Going?
• Katharine Susannah Prichard — "N'Goola"
• David Rowbotham — Town and City : tales and sketches
• Judith Wright — "The Vineyard Woman"

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Mavis Thorpe Clark — The Brown Land Was Green

Poetry

• Bruce Beaver — "Cow Dance"
• David Campbell — The Miracle of Mullion Hill : Poems
• Rosemary Dobson — "Cock Crow"
• R. D. Fitzgerald — "This Night's Orbit"
• Mary Gilmore — "The Waradgery Tribe"
• Gwen Harwood — "The Old Wife's Tale"
• James McAuley
  • "Merry-Go-Round"
  • "Vespers"
  • A Vision of Ceremony : Poems
• Ronald McCuaig — "Betty by the Sea"
• J. S. Manifold — "Fife Tune"
• Vivian Smith
  • "For My Daughter"
  • The Other Meaning
• Douglas Stewart — "A Country Song"
• Judith Wright
  • A Book of Australian Verse (edited)
  • "The Forest"

Biography

• Charmian Clift — Mermaid Singing
• Ion Idriess — The Silver City
• Jack Lang — I Remember
• Ruth Park & D'Arcy Niland — The Drums Go Bang!

Awards and honours

Literary

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
ALS Gold Medal	Not awarded

Children's and Young Adult

Award	Category	Author	Title	Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award[1]	Older Readers	Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by Margaret Horder	The Crooked Snake	Angus and Robertson

Poetry

Award	Author	Title	Publisher
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry	Not awarded

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1956 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 28 January — Tim Flannery, scientist and science writer
• 5 November — Gig Ryan, poet

Unknown date

• Judith Beveridge, poet and editor
• Susan Johnson — novelist

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1956 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 25 August — Lilian Turner, writer for children (born 1867)

See also

• 1956 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References

1. Austlit - The Crooked Snake by Patricia Wrightson