2005 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2005.

For an overview of world literature see 2005 in literature.

See also: 2004 in Australian literature, 2005 in Australia, 2006 in Australian literature.

Events

• Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of 3 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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

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
• Elizabeth Wynhausen — Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Deaths

• 11 April — John Brosnan, sf and cinema writer (born 1947)
• 10 May — Percy Trezise, children's writer (born 1923)
• 30 May — Michael Thwaites, poet (born 1915)
• 29 August — Margaret Scott, poet and novelist (born 1934)
• 8 September — Donald Horne, social and political commentator (born 1921)
• 14 October — Barney Roberts, poet and short story writer (born 1920)
• 1 November — Jenny Boult, poet (born 1951)
• 24 December — Bill Scott, poet and children's writer (born 1922)

See also

• Literature
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References

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