1975 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1975.

Events

 * Radical poet Dorothy Hewett publishes her collection Rapunzel in Suburbia, triggering a successful libel action by her lawyer ex-husband Lloyd Davies.

Books

 * James Aldridge – The Untouchable Juli
 * Jessica Anderson – The Commandant
 * Jon Cleary – The Safe House
 * Frank Hardy – But the Dead Are Many
 * Xavier Herbert – Poor Fellow My Country
 * Thomas Keneally
 * Gossip from the Forest
 * Moses the Lawgiver
 * David Malouf – Johnno
 * William Nagle – The Odd Angry Shot

Short stories

 * Murray Bail
 * "A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z"
 * Contemporary Portraits and Other Stories
 * "The Drover's Wife"
 * Peter Carey – "Do You Love Me?"

Science Fiction and Fantasy

 * A. Bertram Chandler
 * The Big Black Mark
 * The Broken Cycle
 * Sumner Locke Elliott – Going
 * Cordwainer Smith
 * The Best of Cordwainer Smith
 * Norstrilia

Children's and Young Adult fiction

 * Elyne Mitchell – The Colt at Taparoo

Poetry

 * Gwen Harwood – Selected Poems
 * Dorothy Hewett – Rapunzel in Suburbia
 * A. D. Hope – A Late Picking : Poems 1965-1974
 * Kate Jennings – Mother I'm Rooted : An Anthology of Australian Women Poets (edited)
 * Les Murray – "The Powerline Incarnation"
 * Peter Porter
 * "An Exequy"
 * Living in a Calm Country
 * Thomas Shapcott – Shabbytown Calendar

Drama

 * Robert J. Merritt – The Cake Man
 * Steve J. Spears – The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin

Biography

 * Charles Perkins – A Bastard Like Me

Non-fiction

 * Geoffrey Blainey – Triumph of the Nomads : A History of Ancient Australia
 * Anne Summers – Damned Whores and God's Police

Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1975 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.


 * 23 June — Markus Zusak, novelist

Unknown date


 * Nardi Simpson, novelist and musician

Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1975 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.


 * 11 January — Paul Grano, poet and journalist (born 1894)
 * 25 May — Clive Turnbull, writer and journalist (born 1906)

Unknown date
 * Winifred Birkett, novelist (born 1897)