2005 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005.
Events
- Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of three judges in late 2004[1]
- Murray Bail is accused of plagiarism over several passages in his novel Eucalyptus. Bail later accepts the breach and intends adding an acknowledgment in future editions[2]
- The Victorian town of Shepparton unveils a statue of Joseph Furphy, author of Such is Life[3]
- Collins Booksellers, Australia's third largest national bookseller, goes into voluntary administration[4]
Major publications
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Literary fiction
- Diane Armstrong – Winter Journey
- Anne Bartlett – Knitting
- Geraldine Brooks – March
- Brian Castro – The Garden Book
- J.M. Coetzee – Slow Man
- Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels
- Robert Drewe – Grace
- Arabella Edge – The God of Spring
- Delia Falconer – The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
- Kate Grenville – The Secret River
- Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
- Wendy James – Out of the Silence
- Nicholas Jose – Original Face
- Stephen Lacey – Sandstone
- Steven Lang – An Accidental Terrorist
- Carolyn Leach-Paholski – The Grasshopper Shoe
- Andrew McCann – Subtopia
- Roger McDonald – The Ballad of Desmond Kale
- Alex Miller – Prochownik's Dream
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Sunshine
- Eva Sallis – The Marsh Birds
- Elizabeth Stead – The Book of Tides
- Carrie Tiffany – Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
- Ian Townsend – Affection
- Christos Tsiolkas – Dead Europe
- Brenda Walker – The Wing of Night
- Tim Winton – The Turning
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Randa Abdel-Fattah – Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Isobelle Carmody – Alyzon Whitestarr
- Kate Constable – The Tenth Power
- Gary Crew – The Lace Maker's Daughter
- Mem Fox – Hunwick's Egg
- Morris Gleitzman – Once
- Kerry Greenwood – The Rat and the Raven
- Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
- Barry Jonsberg – It's Not All About You, Calma!
- Justine Larbalestier – Magic or Madness
- Victor Kelleher – Dogboy
- Mardi McConnochie – Fivestar
- Garth Nix – Drowned Wednesday
- Penni Russon – Breathe
- Scott Westerfeld
- Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Crime
- Robert G. Barrett – Crime Scene Cessnock
- John Birmingham – Designated Targets: World War 2.2
- Peter Corris – Saving Billie
- Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth
- Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
- Garry Disher – Snapshot
- Greg Flynn – The Berlin Cross
- Robert Gott – A Thing of Blood
- Kerry Greenwood – Death by Water
- Gabrielle Lord – Dirty Weekend
- P. D. Martin – Body Count
- Chris Nyst – Crook as Rookwood
- Leigh Redhead – Rubdown
- Matthew Reilly – Seven Ancient Wonders
- Michael Robotham – Lost
- Heather Rose – The Butterfly Man
- Steve J. Spears – Innocent Murder
- Peter Temple – The Broken Shore
Romance
- Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor
- Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident
Science fiction and fantasy
- K. A. Bedford – Eclipse
- Damien Broderick – Godplayers
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Well of Tears
- Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe
- Sara Douglass – Darkwitch Rising
- Kate Forsyth – The Shining City
- Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius
- Juliet Marillier – The Blade of Fortriu
- Sean Williams
- Ascent
- The Blood Debt
- The Hanging Mountains
Drama
- Chris Aronsten – Human Resources
- Jane Brodie – A Single Act
- Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum
Poetry
- Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003
- John Kinsella – The New Arcadia
- Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
- Jaya Savige – Latecomers
Non-fiction
- R.J.B. Bosworth – Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945
- Richard Broome – Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800
- Helen Ennis – Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography
- Pamela Freeman – The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years
- Tom Keneally – A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
- Maria Nugent – Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
Biographies
- John Baxter – We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light
- Richie Benaud – My Spin on Cricket
- Eric Campbell – Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places
- Maryanne Convoy – Morris West: Literary Maverick
- Peter C. Doherty – The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science
- Graham Freudenberg – A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir
- Gavin Fry – Albert Tucker
- Aneurin Hughes – Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party
- Sandy McCutcheon – The Magician's Son
- William McInnes – A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad
- Brenda Niall – Judy Cassab: A Portrait
- Barry Pearce – Jeffrey Smart
- Jacob G. Rosenberg – East of Time
- Mandy Sayer – Velocity
- Craig Sherborne – Hoi Polloi
- Steve Waugh – Out of My Comfort Zone
- Elisabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[5] | Fay Zwicky |
| Patrick White Award[6] | Fay Zwicky |
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize | Best Novel | Andrew McGahan | The White Earth | Allen and Unwin |
| Best First Novel | Larissa Behrendt | Home | University of Queensland Press |
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award | Novel | Kathryn Fox | Malicious Intent | Macmillan |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Michael Robotham | Lost | Time Warner Book Group |
| First novel | Malcolm Knox | A Private Man | Vintage Books |
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Damien Broderick | K-Machines | Thunder's Mouth Press |
| Sf Short Story | Sean Williams | The Seventh Letter | "Bulletin" Magazine, Summer Reading Edition | |
| Fantasy Novel | Juliet Marillier | Wildwood Dancing | Pan Macmillan | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Margo Lanagan | "A Fine Magic" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | |
| Horror Novel | Will Elliott | The Pilo Family Circus | ABC Books | |
| Edwina Grey | Prismatic | Lothian Books | ||
| Horror Short Story | Stephen Dedman | "Dead of Winter" | Weird Tales | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams | The Crooked Letter | Voyager |
| Novella/Novelette | Paul Haines | "The Last Days of Kali Yuga" | NFG Magazine | |
| Short Story | Margo Lanagan | "Singing My Sister Down" | Black Juice | |
| Collected Work | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Allen & Unwin | |
| Australian Shadows Award | Lee Battersby | "Father Muerte and the Flesh" | Aurealis |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Non-fiction | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern |
| National Biography Award | Robert Hillman | The Boy in the Green Suit | Scribe Publications | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | John Hughes | The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays | Giramondo Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller | Degenerates and Perverts: the 1939 Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art | Melbourne University Publishing |
| Community and Regional History | Joe Hajdu | Samurai in the Surf: the Arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s |
Pandanus Books | |
| General History | Sally Neighbour | In the Shadow of Swords: on the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia | HarperCollins | |
| Young People's | Allan Baillie | My Story: Riding with Thunderbolt, the Diary of Ben Cross | Scholastic Press | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon | Papunya – A Place Made After the Story | Miegunyah Press |
| History | Shane White and Graham White | The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech |
Beacon Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Robert Dessaix | Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev | Picador |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | Noel Rowe | Next to Nothing | Vagabond Press |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Samuel Wagan Watson | Smoke Encrypted Whispers | University of Queensland Press |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Sarah Day | The Ship | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | M. T. C. Cronin | <More Or Less Than> 1-100 | Shearsman Books |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Miriam Wei Wei Lo | Against Certain Capture | Five Islands Press |
Drama
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Wesley Enoch | The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table | Currency Press |
Deaths
- 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)
- 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)[8]
- 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born 1934)
- 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)
- 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)
- 1 November –
- Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)
- Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)[9]
- 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)[10]
See also
- 2005 in Australia
- 2005 in literature
- 2005 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
References
- ^ Fraser a Miles Franklin judge
- ^ Taking a leaf from another book
- ^ New generation finds Joseph Furphy
- ^ Collins calls in the doctor
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Writers' solitary life interrupted by award". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ "Percy Trezise". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Michael Thwaites". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Bill Scott". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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