Kisch has appeared as a character in novels by Australian authors. Without naming him, his visit to Australia, the leap from the ship and the court case challenging the validity of the language test are mentioned in Kylie Tennant's "Ride on Stranger" (1943). He is a minor character in Frank Hardy's "Power Without Glory" (1950), which was filmed for television in (1976), and plays a central, if fictionalised, role in Nicholas Hasluck's "Our Man K" (1999). He appears in Sulari Gentill's detective novel "Paving the New Road" (2012) along with other real persons such as Nancy Wake and Unity Mitford.