• Source: 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

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      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?
      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
      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


      = 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

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      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
      Elisabeth Wynhausen – Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market


      Awards and honours




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      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.

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