2005 in Australian literature

Events

• Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of three judges in late 2004
• 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
• The Victorian town of Shepparton unveils a statue of Joseph Furphy, author of Such is Life
• Collins Booksellers, Australia's third largest national bookseller, goes into voluntary administration

Major publications

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 – Sunnyside
• 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?
• J. C. Burke – The Story of Tom Brennan
• 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
  • Pretties
  • Touching Darkness
  • Uglies
• 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
  • Heavenly Pleasures
• 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
• Greg Egan – "Riding the Crocodile"
• Kate Forsyth – The Shining City
• Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius
• Juliet Marillier – Blade of Fortriu
• Sean Williams
  • Ascent (with Shane Dix)
  • The Blood Debt
  • The Hanging Mountains

Drama

• Chris Aronsten – Human Resources
• Jane Brodie – A Single Act
• Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum
• Louis Nowra – The Marvellous Boy

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

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)
• 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)
• 13 May – Shelton Lea, poet (born 1946)
• 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born in Bristol, England, 1934)
• 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)
• 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)
• 18 October – Philip Martin, poet (born 1931)
• 1 November –
  • Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)
  • Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)
• 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)

References

Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.

References

1. "Fraser a Miles Franklin judge".
2. "Taking a leaf from another book".
3. "New generation finds Joseph Furphy".
4. "Collins calls in the doctor".
5. "''Winter Journey'' by Diane Armstrong". National Library of Australia.
6. "''Knitting'' by Anne Bartlett". National Library of Australia.
7. "''Grace'' by Robert Drewe". National Library of Australia.
8. "''The God of Spring'' by Arabella Edge". National Library of Australia.
9. "''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' by Delia Falconer". National Library of Australia.
10. "''Original Face'' by Nicholas Jose". National Library of Australia.
11. "''Sandstone'' by Stephen Lacey". National Library of Australia.
12. "''An Accidental Terrorist'' by Steven Lang". National Library of Australia.
13. "''The Grasshopper Shoe'' by Carolyn Leach-Paholski". National Library of Australia.
14. "''Subtopia'' by A. L. McCann". National Library of Australia.
15. "''Sunnyside'' by Joanna Murray-Smith". National Library of Australia.
16. "''The Marsh Birds'' by Eva Sallis". National Library of Australia.
17. "''The Book of Tides'' by Elizabeth Stead". National Library of Australia.
18. "''Affection'' by Ian Townsend". National Library of Australia.
19. "''Dead Europe'' by Christos Tsiolkas". National Library of Australia.
20. "''The Tenth Power'' by Kate Constable". National Library of Australia.
21. "''The Lace Maker's Daughter'' by Gary Crew". National Library of Australia.
22. "''The Rat and the Raven'' by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia.
23. "''It's Not All About You, Calma!'' by Barry Jonsberg". National Library of Australia.
24. "''Dogboy'' by Victor Kelleher". National Library of Australia.
25. "''Fivestar'' by Mardi McConnochie". National Library of Australia.
26. "''Breathe'' by Penni Russon". National Library of Australia.
27. "''Crime Scene Cessnock'' by Robert G. Barrett". National Library of Australia.
28. "''Saving Billie'' by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia.
29. "''Snapshot'' by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia.
30. "''The Berlin Cross'' by Greg Flynn". National Library of Australia.
31. "''A Thing of Blood'' by Robert Gott". National Library of Australia.
32. "''Death by Water'' by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia.
33. "''Dirty Weekend'' by Gabrielle Lord". National Library of Australia.
34. "''Body Count'' by P. D. Martin". National Library of Australia.
35. "''Innocent Murder'' by Steve J. Spears". National Library of Australia.
36. "''The Father Factor'' by Lilian Darcy". National Library of Australia.
37. "''Bride by Accident'' by Marion Lennox". National Library of Australia.
38. "''Eclipse'' by K. A. Bedford". ISFDB.
39. "''Godplayers'' by Damien Broderick". ISFDB.
40. "''The Well of Tears'' by Cecilia Dart-Thornton". ISFDB.
41. "''Darkwitch Rising'' by Sara Douglass". ISFDB.
42. "''The Shining City'' by Kate Forsyth". ISFDB.
43. "''Evil Genius'' by Catherine Jinks". ISFDB.
44. "''Blade of Fortriu'' by Juliet Marillier". ISFDB.
45. "''Ascent'' by Sean Williams & Shane Dix". ISFDB.
46. "''The Blood Debt'' by Sean Williams". ISFDB.
47. "''The Hanging Mountains'' by Sean Williams". ISFDB.
48. "''Human Resources'' by Chris Aronsten". Austlit.
49. "''A Single Act'' by Jane Brodie". Austlit.
50. "''Asylum'' by Catherine Lazaroo". Austlit.
51. "''The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003'' by Alan Gould". National Library of Australia.
52. "''The New Arcadia'' by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia.
53. "''Latecomers'' by Jaya Savige". National Library of Australia.
54. "''Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945'' by R.J.B. Bosworth". National Library of Australia.
55. "''Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800'' by Richard Broome". National Library of Australia.
56. "''Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography'' by Helen Ennis". National Library of Australia.
57. "''The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years'' by Pamela Freeman". Austlit.
58. "''Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet'' by Maria Nugent". National Library of Australia.
59. "''We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light'' by John Baxter". National Library of Australia.
60. "''My Spin on Cricket'' by Richie Benaud". National Library of Australia.
61. "''Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places'' by Eric Campbell". National Library of Australia.
62. "''Morris West: Literary Maverick'' by Maryanne Convoy". National Library of Australia.
63. "''The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science'' by Peter C. Doherty". National Library of Australia.
64. "''A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir'' by Graham Freudenberg". National Library of Australia.
65. "''Albert Tucker'' by Gavin Fry". National Library of Australia.
66. "''Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party'' by Aneurin Hughes". National Library of Australia.
67. "''The Magician's Son'' by Sandy McCutcheon". National Library of Australia.
68. "''A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad'' by William McInnes". National Library of Australia.
69. "''Judy Cassab: A Portrait'' by Brenda Niall". National Library of Australia.
70. "''Jeffrey Smart'' by Barry Pearce". National Library of Australia.
71. "''East of Time'' by Jacob G. Rosenberg". National Library of Australia.
72. "''Velocity'' by Mandy Sayer". National Library of Australia.
73. "''Hoi Polloi'' by Craig Sherborne". National Library of Australia.
74. "''Out of My Comfort Zone'' by Steve Waugh". National Library of Australia.
75. "''Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market'' by Elisabeth Wynhausen". National Library of Australia.
76. "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit.
77. "Writers' solitary life interrupted by award". Theage.com.au.
78. ""More than restaurants"". The Age, 20 August 2005.
79. "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
80. "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University.
81. "Kibble Literary Award".
82. "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007". Commonwealth Foundation.
83. "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners".
84. ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit.
85. "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit.
86. ""Ten-year walk down memory lane brings home the bacon"". Sydney Morning Herald, 24 May 2005.
87. ""Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Previous Winners"". Queensland Government.
88. "Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2005 Winner".
89. ""Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's"". University Libraries, University of Washington.
90. ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2005"". LibraryThing.
91. "2005 Ned Kelly Award Winners".
92. [http://carrera.turboservers.com.au/~fawvic/uploads/file/pdf/FAWResults2005.PDF 2005 National Literary Awards Results] {{webarchive. link. (1 September 2007 p. 2.)
93. "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007". Austlit.
94. "Mary Gilmore Award".
95. ""Patrick White Playwrights' Award – Past Winners"". Sydney Theatre Company.
96. ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW.
97. "John Brosnan (1947-2005)". Austlit.
98. "Percy Trezise (1923-2005)". The University of Queensland.
99. "Shelton Lea (1946-2005)". The University of Queensland.
100. "Margaret Scott (1934-2005)". The University of Queensland.
101. "Donald Horne (1921-2005)". Austlit.
102. "Barney Roberts (1920-2005)". Austlit.
103. "Philip Martin (1931-2005)". The University of Queensland.
104. "Jenny Boult (1951-2005)". Austlit.
105. "Michael Thwaites (1915-2005)". The University of Queensland.
106. "Bill Scott (1923-2005)". The University of Queensland.