This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1964.

Major publications

Books

• Russell Braddon – The Year of the Angry Rabbit
• A. Bertram Chandler – The Deep Reaches of Space
• Jon Cleary
  • The Fall of an Eagle
  • A Flight of Chariots
• Charmian Clift – Honour's Mimic
• Dymphna Cusack – Black Lightning
• George Johnston – My Brother Jack
• Thomas Keneally – The Place at Whitton
• David Rowbotham – The Man in the Jungle
• Judah Waten – Distant Land

Short stories

• Nancy Cato – The Sea Ants and Other Stories
• A. Bertram Chandler – Into the Alternate Universe : The Coils of Time
• Peter Cowan – "The Tractor"
• Damien Broderick – "All My Yesterdays"
• Frank Dalby Davison – The Road to Yesterday : Collected Short Stories
• Patrick White – The Burnt Ones

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Hesba Brinsmead – Pastures of the Blue Crane
• Nan Chauncy – High and Haunted Island
• Ruth Park
  • Airlift for Grandee
  • The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Holiday

Poetry

• Bruce Dawe – "How to Go On Not Looking"
• A. D. Hope – "An Epistle : Edward Sackville to Venetia Digby"
• T. Inglis Moore – From the Ballads to Brennan
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal – We Are Going : Poems
• Peter Porter – "Sydney Cove, 1788"
• David Rowbotham – All the Room
• Thomas Shapcott – The Mankind Thing
• Vivian Smith – "Late April : Hobart"
• Douglas Stewart – Modern Australian Verse
• Randolph Stow – "Ishmael"
• Francis Webb – The Ghost of the Cock : Poems

Non-fiction

• Donald Horne – The Lucky Country
• Douglas Lockwood – Up the Track

Drama

• Frank Hardy – The Ringbolter
• David Ireland – Image in the Clay
• Patrick White – Night on Bald Mountain

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 1964 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 7 May – Elliot Perlman, novelist^[5]
• 21 July – Gillian Mears, novelist (died 2016)^[6]
• 7 August – John Birmingham, novelist and journalist^[7]
• 10 August – Heather Rose, novelist^[8]
• 28 August – Traci Harding, science fiction and fantasy novelist^[9]

Unknown date

• Jonathan Strahan, editor and anthologist^[10]

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1964 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 22 January – Zora Cross, poet (born 1890)^[11]
• 12 February – Arthur Upfield, novelist (born 1890)^[12]
• 1 May – Ethel Nhill Victoria Stonehouse, novelist and poet (born 1883)^[13]
• 19 October – Nettie Palmer, critic and journalist (born 1885)^[14]