2005 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005.
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
Literary fiction[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor
- Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident
Science fiction and fantasy[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Chris Aronsten – Human Resources
- Jane Brodie – A Single Act
- Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum
Poetry[edit]
- Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003
- John Kinsella – The New Arcadia
- Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
- Jaya Savige – Latecomers
Non-fiction[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Lifetime achievement[edit]
Award | Author |
---|---|
Christopher Brennan Award[5] | Fay Zwicky |
Patrick White Award[6] | Fay Zwicky |
Literary[edit]
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year[7] | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern |
ALS Gold Medal[8] | Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill Press |
Colin Roderick Award[9] | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[10] | Gay Bilson | Plenty | Lantern |
Fiction[edit]
International[edit]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Commonwealth Writers' Prize[11] | 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[edit]
Children and Young Adult[edit]
National[edit]
Crime and Mystery[edit]
National[edit]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award[15] | Novel | Kathryn Fox | Malicious Intent | Macmillan |
Readers' Choice | Leigh Redhead | Peepshow | Allen & Unwin | |
Young Adult Novel | Joanna Baker | Devastation Road | Lothian | |
Ned Kelly Award[16] | 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[edit]
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[edit]
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[12] | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year[7] | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press |
Anne Elder Award[17] | Max Ryan | Rainswayed Night | Dangerously Poetic Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[18] | Noel Rowe | Next to Nothing | Vagabond Press |
Mary Gilmore Prize[19] | Not awarded | ||
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[edit]
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Wesley Enoch | The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table | Currency Press |
Non-Fiction[edit]
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[12] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
The Age Book of the Year[7] | 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 |
Deaths[edit]
- 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)[20]
- 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)[21]
- 13 May – Shelton Lea, poet (born 1946)[22]
- 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born in Bristol, England, 1934)[23]
- 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)[24]
- 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)[25]
- 18 October – Philip Martin, poet (born 1931)[26]
- 1 November –
- Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)[27]
- Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)[28]
- 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)[29]
See also[edit]
- 2005 in Australia
- 2005 in literature
- 2005 in poetry
- List of years in Australian literature
- List of years in literature
References[edit]
- ^ "Fraser a Miles Franklin judge". Archived from the original on 11 February 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ "Taking a leaf from another book". Archived from the original on 1 October 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ "New generation finds Joseph Furphy". Archived from the original on 13 June 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ "Collins calls in the doctor". Archived from the original on 20 December 2005. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Writers' solitary life interrupted by award". Theage.com.au. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d ""More than restaurants"". The Age, 20 August 2005. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Archived from the original on 30 November 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Archived from the original on 15 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2005"". LibraryThing. Archived from the original on 10 January 2024. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "2005 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ 2005 National Literary Awards Results Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine p. 2.
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007". Austlit. Archived from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "John Brosnan (1947-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
- ^ "Percy Trezise (1923-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ^ "Shelton Lea (1946-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Margaret Scott (1934-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "Donald Horne (1921-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
- ^ "Barney Roberts (1920-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
- ^ "Philip Martin (1931-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ "Jenny Boult (1951-2005)". Austlit. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
- ^ "Michael Thwaites (1915-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Bill Scott (1923-2005)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.