This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1966.
Major publications
Books
James Aldridge
My Brother Tom
The Statesman's Games
Jon Cleary
The High Commissioner
The Pulse of Danger
Peter Cowan – Seed
Elizabeth Harrower – The Watch Tower
Shirley Hazzard – The Evening of the Holiday
Morris Lurie – Rappaport
Peter Mathers – Trap
Christina Stead – Dark Places of the Heart
Arthur Upfield – The Lake Frome Monster
Judah Waten – Season of Youth
Patrick White – The Solid Mandala
Short stories
James Hackston – Father Clears Out
Elizabeth Harrower – "The Beautiful Climate" D'Arcy Niland – Pairs and Loners Patrick White – "The Full Belly" Judith Wright – The Nature of Love
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Mavis Thorpe Clark – The Min-Min
Max Fatchen – The River Kings
Elyne Mitchell – Silver Brumby Kingdom
Ruth Park
The Muddle-Headed Wombat at School
The Muddle-Headed Wombat in the Snow
Joan Phipson – The Crew of the Merlin
Judith Wright – The River and the Road
Poetry
Vincent Buckley – Arcady and Other Places : Poems
Bruce Dawe – "The Not-So-Good Earth" William Hart-Smith – The Talking Clothes: Poems Dorothy Hewett – "Legend of the Green Country" A. D. Hope – Collected Poems 1930 - 1965 Les Murray – "Evening Alone at Bunyah" Oodgeroo Noonuccal – "No More Boomerang" Judith Wright – The Other Half : Poems
Biography
Hal Porter – The Paper Chase
Clement Semmler – Kenneth Slessor
Non-Fiction
Geoffrey Blainey – The Tyranny of Distance
Awards and honours
Literary
Children and Young Adult
Poetry
Births
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1966 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
3 June – Kate Forsyth, novelist
10 October – Andrew McGahan, novelist (died 2019)
Unknown date
Delia Falconer, novelist
Anna Funder, novelist
Malcolm Knox, 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 1966 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
16 April – Eric Lambert, novelist (born 1918) 28 May – Edward Harrington, bush balladist and short story writer (born 1896) 18 August – Myra Morris, author and poet (born 1893)