2005 in Australian literature

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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

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Romance

Science fiction and fantasy

Drama

  • Chris Aronsten – Human Resources
  • Jane Brodie – A Single Act
  • Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum

Poetry

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
  • 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

Literary

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

International

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

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award[7]
 Gail Jones Sixty Lights
Harvill Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[12] Andrew O'Connor Tuvalu
Allen and Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[13] Andrew McGahan The White Earth
Allen and Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Tim Winton
The Turning
 		Picador
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Tim Winton
The Turning
 		Picador
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
 		Sonya Hartnett Surrender Walker Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Gail Jones Sixty Lights
Harvill Press

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
 		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[14] Novel Kathryn Fox Malicious Intent Macmillan
Readers' Choice Leigh Redhead Peepshow Allen & Unwin
Young Adult Novel Joanna Baker Devastation Road Lothian
Ned Kelly Award[15]
 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

Non-Fiction

Award Category Author Title Publisher
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

Poetry

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year[7]
 Dipti Saravanamuttu The Colosseum Five Islands Press
Anne Elder Award[16] Max Ryan Rainswayed Night Dangerously Poetic Press
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[17] Noel Rowe Next to Nothing Vagabond Press
Mary Gilmore Prize[18]
 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

Award Author Title Publisher
Patrick White Playwrights' Award Wesley Enoch The Story of the Miracles at Cookie's Table Currency Press

Deaths

See also

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. ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Writers' solitary life interrupted by award". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  7. ^ a b c d ""More than restaurants"". The Age, 20 August 2005. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  8. ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  12. ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  14. ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2005"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  15. ^ "2005 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  16. ^ 2005 National Literary Awards Results Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine p. 2.
  17. ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2005-2007". Austlit. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  18. ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  19. ^ "Percy Trezise". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  20. ^ "Shelton Lea". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  21. ^ "Margaret Scott". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  22. ^ "Philip Martin". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  23. ^ "Michael Thwaites". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  24. ^ "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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