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
Literary fiction
- Diane Armstrong – Winter Journey[5]
- Anne Bartlett – Knitting[6]
- Geraldine Brooks – March
- Brian Castro – The Garden Book
- J. M. Coetzee – Slow Man
- Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels
- Robert Drewe – Grace[7]
- Arabella Edge – The God of Spring[8]
- Delia Falconer – The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers[9]
- Kate Grenville – The Secret River
- Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
- Wendy James – Out of the Silence
- Nicholas Jose – Original Face[10]
- Stephen Lacey – Sandstone[11]
- Steven Lang – An Accidental Terrorist[12]
- Carolyn Leach-Paholski – The Grasshopper Shoe[13]
- Andrew McCann – Subtopia[14]
- Roger McDonald – The Ballad of Desmond Kale
- Alex Miller – Prochownik's Dream
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Sunnyside[15]
- Eva Sallis – The Marsh Birds[16]
- Elizabeth Stead – The Book of Tides[17]
- Carrie Tiffany – Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
- Ian Townsend – Affection[18]
- Christos Tsiolkas – Dead Europe[19]
- 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?
- J. C. Burke – The Story of Tom Brennan
- Isobelle Carmody – Alyzon Whitestarr
- Kate Constable – The Tenth Power[20]
- Gary Crew – The Lace Maker's Daughter[21]
- Mem Fox – Hunwick's Egg
- Morris Gleitzman – Once
- Kerry Greenwood – The Rat and the Raven[22]
- Sonya Hartnett – Surrender
- Barry Jonsberg – It's Not All About You, Calma![23]
- Justine Larbalestier – Magic or Madness
- Victor Kelleher – Dogboy[24]
- Mardi McConnochie – Fivestar[25]
- Garth Nix – Drowned Wednesday
- Penni Russon – Breathe[26]
- Scott Westerfeld
- Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Crime
- Robert G. Barrett – Crime Scene Cessnock[27]
- John Birmingham – Designated Targets: World War 2.2
- Peter Corris – Saving Billie[28]
- Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth
- Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
- Garry Disher – Snapshot[29]
- Greg Flynn – The Berlin Cross[30]
- Robert Gott – A Thing of Blood[31]
- Kerry Greenwood
- Death by Water[32]
- Heavenly Pleasures
- Gabrielle Lord – Dirty Weekend[33]
- P. D. Martin – Body Count[34]
- 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[35]
- Peter Temple – The Broken Shore
Romance
- Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor[36]
- Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident[37]
Science fiction and fantasy
- K. A. Bedford – Eclipse[38]
- Damien Broderick – Godplayers[39]
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Well of Tears[40]
- Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe
- Sara Douglass – Darkwitch Rising[41]
- Greg Egan – "Riding the Crocodile"
- Kate Forsyth – The Shining City[42]
- Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius[43]
- Juliet Marillier – Blade of Fortriu[44]
- Sean Williams
Drama
- Chris Aronsten – Human Resources[48]
- Jane Brodie – A Single Act[49]
- Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum[50]
- Louis Nowra – The Marvellous Boy
Poetry
- Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003[51]
- John Kinsella – The New Arcadia[52]
- Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
- Jaya Savige – Latecomers[53]
Non-fiction
- R.J.B. Bosworth – Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945[54]
- Richard Broome – Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800[55]
- Helen Ennis – Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography[56]
- Pamela Freeman – The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years[57]
- Tom Keneally – A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
- Maria Nugent – Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet[58]
Biographies
- John Baxter – We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light[59]
- Richie Benaud – My Spin on Cricket[60]
- Eric Campbell – Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places[61]
- Maryanne Convoy – Morris West: Literary Maverick[62]
- Peter C. Doherty – The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science[63]
- Graham Freudenberg – A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir[64]
- Gavin Fry – Albert Tucker[65]
- Aneurin Hughes – Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party[66]
- Sandy McCutcheon – The Magician's Son[67]
- William McInnes – A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad[68]
- Brenda Niall – Judy Cassab: A Portrait[69]
- Barry Pearce – Jeffrey Smart[70]
- Jacob G. Rosenberg – East of Time[71]
- Mandy Sayer – Velocity[72]
- Craig Sherborne – Hoi Polloi[73]
- Steve Waugh – Out of My Comfort Zone[74]
- Elisabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market[75]
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[76] | Fay Zwicky |
| Patrick White Award[77] | Fay Zwicky |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year[78] | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern |
| ALS Gold Medal[79] | Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill Press |
| Colin Roderick Award[80] | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[81] | Gay Bilson | Plenty | Lantern |
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[82] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Andrew McGahan | The White Earth | Allen and Unwin |
| Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Larissa Behrendt | Home | University of Queensland Press |
National
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Michael Gerard Bauer | The Running Man | Omnibus Books |
| Younger Readers | Sonya Hartnett | The Silver Donkey | Viking Books | |
| Picture Book | Alison Lester | Are We There Yet? A Journey Around Australia | Viking Books | |
| Early Childhood | Mem Fox, illus. Judy Horacek | Where is the Green Sheep? | Viking Books | |
| Davitt Award | Young Adult | Joanna Baker | Devastation Road | Lothian |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Sherryl Clark | Farm Kid | Puffin Books |
| Young People's | Steven Herrick | By the River | Allen and Unwin | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Prue Mason | Camel Rider | Puffin Books |
| Young Adult | Joanne Horniman | Secret Scribbled Notebooks | Allen and Unwin | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[88] | Young Adult Fiction | Scott Westerfeld | So Yesterday | Penguin Books |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults | Anthony Eaton | Fireshadow | University of Queensland Press |
| Children's | Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding | A Home for Bilby | Magabala Books |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[90] | Novel | Kathryn Fox | Malicious Intent | Macmillan |
| Readers' Choice | Leigh Redhead | Peepshow | Allen & Unwin | |
| Young Adult Novel | Joanna Baker | Devastation Road | Lothian | |
| Ned Kelly Award[91] | Novel | Michael Robotham | Lost | Time Warner Book Group |
| First novel | Malcolm Knox | A Private Man | Vintage Books | |
| True crime | Helen Garner | Joe Cinque's Consolation | Picador | |
| Tony Reeves | Mr Big | Allen & Unwin | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | Stuart Coupe |
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 |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[83] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[78] | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press |
| Anne Elder Award[92] | Max Ryan | Rainswayed Night | Dangerously Poetic Press |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[93] | Noel Rowe | Next to Nothing | Vagabond Press |
| Mary Gilmore Prize[94] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[86] | Samuel Wagan Watson | Smoke Encrypted Whispers | University of Queensland Press |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards[87] | Sarah Day | The Ship | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[88] | M. T. C. Cronin | <More Or Less Than> 1-100 | Shearsman Books |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[89] | Rod Moran | The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 | Salt Publishing |
Drama
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award[95] | Wesley Enoch | The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table | Currency Press |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[83] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[78] | Non-fiction | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern |
| National Biography Award[96] | Biography | 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 theGold 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 AfricanHistory Through Songs, Sermons and Speech | Beacon Press | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award[88] | Non-fiction | Robert Dessaix | Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev | Picador |
Deaths
- 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)[97]
- 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)[98]
- 13 May – Shelton Lea, poet (born 1946)[99]
- 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born in Bristol, England, 1934)[100]
- 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)[101]
- 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)[102]
- 18 October – Philip Martin, poet (born 1931)[103]
- 1 November –
- Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)[104]
- Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)[105]
- 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)[106]
See also
- 2005 in Australia
- 2005 in literature
- 2005 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
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- ^"Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography by Helen Ennis". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^"The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years by Pamela Freeman". Austlit. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^"Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet by Maria Nugent". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^"We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light by John Baxter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
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Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
