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2005 in Australian literature

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

Contents

Events

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

    • 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

    • 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)

    • References

    2005 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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