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
• 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 – '
• 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)

See also

• 2005 in Australia
• 2005 in literature
• 2005 in poetry
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of years in literature

References

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