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[28]
 - Peter Corris – Saving Billie[29]
 - Colin Cotterill – Thirty-Three Teeth[30]
 - Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
 - Garry Disher – Snapshot[31]
 - Greg Flynn – The Berlin Cross[32]
 - Robert Gott – A Thing of Blood[33]
 - Kerry Greenwood – Death by Water[34]
 - Gabrielle Lord – Dirty Weekend[35]
 - P. D. Martin – Body Count[36]
 - Chris Nyst – Crook as Rookwood
 - Leigh Redhead – Rubdown[37]
 - Matthew Reilly – Seven Ancient Wonders[38]
 - Michael Robotham – Lost
 - Heather Rose – The Butterfly Man[39]
 - Steve J. Spears – Innocent Murder[40]
 - Peter Temple – The Broken Shore
 
Romance
- Lilian Darcy – The Father Factor[41]
 - Marion Lennox – Bride by Accident[42]
 
Science fiction and fantasy
- K. A. Bedford – Eclipse[43]
 - Damien Broderick – Godplayers[44]
 - Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Well of Tears[45]
 - Marianne de Pierres – Crash Deluxe
 - Sara Douglass – Darkwitch Rising[46]
 - Greg Egan – "Riding the Crocodile"
 - Kate Forsyth – The Shining City[47]
 - Catherine Jinks – Evil Genius[48]
 - Juliet Marillier – Blade of Fortriu[49]
 - Sean Williams
 
Drama
- Chris Aronsten – Human Resources[53]
 - Jane Brodie – A Single Act[54]
 - Catherine Lazaroo – Asylum[55]
 - Louis Nowra – The Marvellous Boy
 
Poetry
- Alan Gould – The Past Completes Me: Selected Poems 1973-2003[56]
 - John Kinsella – The New Arcadia[57]
 - Jennifer Maiden – Friendly Fire
 - Jaya Savige – Latecomers[58]
 
Non-fiction
- R.J.B. Bosworth – Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945[59]
 - Richard Broome – Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800[60]
 - Helen Ennis – Margaret Michaelis: Love, Loss and Photography[61]
 - Pamela Freeman – The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years[62]
 - Tom Keneally – A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
 - Maria Nugent – Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet[63]
 
Biographies
- John Baxter – We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light[64]
 - Richie Benaud – My Spin on Cricket[65]
 - Eric Campbell – Absurdistan: A Bumpy Ride Through Some of the World's Scariest, Weirdest Places[66]
 - Maryanne Convoy – Morris West: Literary Maverick[67]
 - Peter C. Doherty – The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: A Life in Science[68]
 - Graham Freudenberg – A Figure of Speech: A Political Memoir[69]
 - Gavin Fry – Albert Tucker[70]
 - Aneurin Hughes – Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party[71]
 - Sandy McCutcheon – The Magician's Son[72]
 - William McInnes – A Man's Got to Have a Hobby: Long Summers with My Dad[73]
 - Brenda Niall – Judy Cassab: A Portrait[74]
 - Barry Pearce – Jeffrey Smart[75]
 - Jacob G. Rosenberg – East of Time[76]
 - Mandy Sayer – Velocity[77]
 - Craig Sherborne – Hoi Polloi[78]
 - Steve Waugh – Out of My Comfort Zone[79]
 - Elisabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market[80]
 
Awards and honours
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author | 
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[81] | Fay Zwicky | 
| Patrick White Award[82] | Fay Zwicky | 
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year[83] | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern | 
| ALS Gold Medal[84] | Gail Jones | Sixty Lights | Harvill Press | 
| Colin Roderick Award[85] | Peter Temple | The Broken Shore | Text Publishing | 
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[86] | Gay Bilson | Plenty | Lantern | 
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[87] | 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
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[95] | Novel | Kathryn Fox | Malicious Intent | Macmillan | 
| Readers' Choice | Leigh Redhead | Peepshow | Allen & Unwin | |
| Young Adult Novel | Joanna Baker | Devastation Road | Lothian | |
| Ned Kelly Award[96] | 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[88] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[83] | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press | 
| Anne Elder Award[97] | Max Ryan | Rainswayed Night | Dangerously Poetic Press | 
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[98] | Noel Rowe | Next to Nothing | Vagabond Press | 
| Mary Gilmore Prize[99] | 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[93] | M. T. C. Cronin | <More Or Less Than> 1-100 | Shearsman Books | 
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[94] | Rod Moran | The Paradoxes of Water: Selected and New Poems, 1970-2005 | Salt Publishing | 
Drama
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | 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[88] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[83] | Non-fiction | Gay Bilson | Plenty: Digressions on Food | Lantern | 
| National Biography Award[100] | 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 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[93] | Non-fiction | Robert Dessaix | Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev | Picador | 
Deaths
- 11 April – John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)[101]
 - 10 May – Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)[102]
 - 13 May – Shelton Lea, poet (born 1946)[103]
 - 29 August – Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born in Bristol, England, 1934)[104]
 - 8 September – Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)[105]
 - 14 October – Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)[106]
 - 18 October – Philip Martin, poet (born 1931)[107]
 - 1 November –
- Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)[108]
 - Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)[109]
 
 - 22 December – Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1923)[110]
 
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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Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.