2004 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2004.
Events
[edit]- John Hay, Peter Porter, Elizabeth Webby, W. H. Wilde, and Barbara Ker Wilson are all recognised in the 2004 Australia Day Honours.[1]
- Peter Craven is sacked as editor of Quarterly Essay and the annual The Best Australian... anthologies after a dispute with Black Inc. publisher Morry Schwartz.[1]
- Kenneth Dutton, Nick Enright, Morag Fraser, David Myers, and Brenda Niall are recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours list.[2]
- Independent book publishers Text (Australia) and Canongate (UK) form a joint venture. The Text Media Group, purchased by John Fairfax earlier this year, sells Text Publishing to the joint venture partners.[2]
- Sydney Morning Herald Literary Editor, Malcolm Knox exposes Norma Khouri and her 'factual' account of honour killings in Jordan as a fabrication.[3]
- Mark Rubbo, David Marr and Kerryn Goldsworthy resign as Miles Franklin Award judges in protest at changes to the charter governing the award's administration.[4]
- Inaugural Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards held[5]
Major publications
[edit]Literary fiction
[edit]- Sarah Armstrong – Salt Rain
- Larissa Behrendt – Home
- Carmel Bird – Cape Grimm
- Steven Carroll – The Gift of Speed
- John Charalambous – Furies
- Jon Cleary – Miss Ambar Regrets
- Bryce Courtenay – Brother Fish
- Sophie Cunningham – Geography
- Jack Dann – The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean
- Nick Earls – The Thompson Gunner
- Susan Johnson – The Broken Book
- Gail Jones – Sixty Lights
- Stefan Laszczuk – The Goddamn Bus of Happiness
- Amanda Lohrey – The Philosopher's Doll
- Colleen McCullough – Angel Puss
- Andrew McGahan – The White Earth
- Monica McInerney – The Alphabet Sisters
- Emily Maguire – Taming the Beast
- Steven Orr – Hill of Grace
- Eva Sallis – Fire Fire
- Nicholas Shakespeare – Snowleg
- Celestine Hitiura Vaite – Frangipani
- Gerard Windsor – I Have Kissed Your Lips
- Charlotte Wood – The Submerged Cathedral
- Arnold Zable – Scraps of Heaven
Children's and Young Adult fiction
[edit]- Joanna Baker – Devastation Road[6]
- Michael Gerard Bauer – The Running Man
- Sherryl Clark – Farm Kid[7]
- Robert Corbert – Shelf Life
- Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding – A Home for Bilby[8]
- Anthony Eaton – Fireshadow
- Jon Flanagan – The Ruins of Gorlan
- Sonya Hartnett – The Silver Donkey
- Steven Herrick – By the River[9]
- Joanne Horniman – Secret Scribbled Notebooks[10]
- Prue Mason – Camel Rider[11]
- James Moloney – The Book of Lies
- Garth Nix – Grim Tuesday
- Emily Rodda
- Scott Westerfeld – So Yesterday
Crime
[edit]- Peter Corris – The Coast Road[12]
- Colin Cotterill – The Coroner's Lunch[13]
- Kathryn Fox – Malicious Intent
- Jane Goodall – The Walker[14]
- Kerry Greenwood
- Malcolm Knox – A Private Man
- Barry Maitland – No Trace[17]
- Tara Moss – Covet [18]
- Tony Park – Far Horizon[19]
- Steve J. Spears – Murder by Manuscript[20]
Romance
[edit]- Christine Balint – Ophelia's Fan
- Catherine Jinks – Spinning Around
- Stephanie Laurens – The Ideal Bride
- Rachael Treasure – The Stockmen
- Lynne Wilding – Outback Sunset
Science Fiction and Fantasy
[edit]- John Birmingham – Weapons of Choice
- John Brosnan – Mothership[21]
- Alison Croggon – The Riddle
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Iron Tree
- Marianne de Pierres – Nylon Angel
- Jennifer Fallon – Wolfblade
- Rob Gerrand — The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing : A Fifty Year Collection (edited)
- Richard Harland – The Black Crusade
- Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts[22]
- Nathan Hobby – The Fur
- Liam Hearn – Brilliance of the Moon
- Ian Irvine – The Life Lottery
- Margo Lanagan – Black Juice
- Glenda Larke – The Tainted[23]
- Maxine McArthur – Less than Human
- Fiona McIntosh
- Sophie Masson – Snow, Fire, Sword[24]
- Josephine Pennicott – A Fire in the Shell[25]
- Matthew Reilly – Hover Car Racer
- Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann – The Wanderer[26]
- Kim Wilkins – Giants of the Frost
- Sean Williams – The Crooked Letter
Drama
[edit]- Martin Flanagan – The Call
- Michael Gurr – Julia Three
- Debra Oswald – Mr Bailey's Minder
- Abe Pogos – Toby
- Alana Valentine – Run Rabbit Run!
- David Williamson – Amigos
Poetry
[edit]- M. T. C. Cronin – <More or Less Than> 1–100[27]
- Luke Davies – Totem
- Sarah Day – The Ship[28]
- Noel Rowe – Next to Nothing[29]
- Dipti Saravanamuttu – The Colosseum[30]
- Samuel Wagan Watson – Smoke Encrypted Whispers[31]
Non-fiction
[edit]- Peter Carey – Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
- Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland – Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities
- Sally Neighbour – In the Shadow of Swords: on the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia
Biographies
[edit]- Michael Ackland – Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
- Phillip Adams – Adam's Ark
- Gay Bilson – Plenty: Digressions on Food
- Max Brown – Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift
- Don Chipp – Keep the Bastards Honest
- Michael Duffy – Latham and Abbott
- Carolly Erikson – The Girl from Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Broad and Her Extraordinary Escape
- Peter FitzSimons – Steve Waugh
- Tim Flannery – Country
- John Hughes – The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays
- John Marsden – I Am What I Am: My Life and Curious Times
- Siobhan O'Brien – A Life by Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst
- Sue Pieters-Hawke and Hazel Flynn – Hazel's Journey: A Personal Experience of Alzheimer's
- Peter Roebuck – Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh
- Charles Tingwell – Bud: A Life
- Stevie Wright and Glenn Goldsmith – Hard Road: The Life and Times of Stevie Wright
Awards and honours
[edit]Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
[edit]| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[32] | Kris Hemensley |
| Patrick White Award[33] | Nancy Phelan |
Literary
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year Award[34] | Luke Davies | Totem | Allen & Unwin |
| ALS Gold Medal[35] | Laurie Duggan | Mangroves | University of Queensland Press |
| Colin Roderick Award[36] | Alan Wearne | The Lovemakers | ABC Books |
| Tim Winton | The Turning | Picador | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[37] | Fiona Capp | That Oceanic Feeling | Allen & Unwin |
Fiction
[edit]International
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[38] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Michelle de Kretser | The Hamilton Case | Knopf |
| Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Nada Awar Jarrar | Somewhere, Home | Heineman |
National
[edit]Children and Young Adult
[edit]National
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Melina Marchetta | Saving Francesca | Viking Books |
| Younger Readers | Carole Wilkinson | Dragon Keeper | Black Dog Books | |
| Picture Book | Joan Grant, illus. Neil Curtis | Cat and Fish | Lothian | |
| Early Childhood | Pamela Allen | Grandpa and Thomas | Viking Books | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Kierin Meehan | Night Singing | Puffin Books |
| Young People's | David Metzenthen | Boys of Blood and Bone | Penguin Books | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Carole Wilkinson | Dragonkeeper | Black Dog Books |
| Young Adult | Martine Murray | How to Make a Bird | Allen & Unwin | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Margo Lanagan | Black Juice | Allen & Unwin |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults | Colin Bowles | Nights in the Sun | Penguin Books |
| Children's | Mark Greenwood | The Legend of Lasseter's Reef | Cygnet |
Crime and Mystery
[edit]National
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[42] | Novel | Janette Turner Hospital | Due Preparations for the Plague | HarperCollins |
| Readers' Choice | Lindy Cameron | Thicker Than Water | HarperCollins | |
| Young Adult Novel | Ruth Starke | Muck-Up Day | Lothian | |
| Ned Kelly Award[43] | Novel | Jon Cleary | Degrees of Connection | HarperCollins |
| First novel | Jane R. Goodall | The Walker | Hodder Headline | |
| Wayne Grogan | Junkie Pilgrim | Brandl and Schlesinger | ||
| True crime | Peter Rees | Killing Juanita | Allen & Unwin | |
| Lifetime achievement | Bob Bottom |
Science fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | Novel | K. A. Bedford | Eclipse | Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Short Story | Trent Jamieson | "Slow and Ache" | Aurealis | |
| Fantasy Novel | Juliet Marillier | Blade of Fortriu | Pan Macmillan | |
| Fantasy Short Story | Richard Harland | "The Greater Death of Saito Saku" | Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | |
| Rosaleen Love | "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" | Aqueduct Press (The Traveling Tide); Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | ||
| Horror Novel | No award. | |||
| Horror Short Story | Lee Battersby | "Pater Familias" | Shadowed Realms | |
| Young Adult Novel | Isobelle Carmody | Alyzon Whitestarr | Penguin Books | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | K. J. Bishop | The Etched City | Prime Books |
| Novella/Novelette | Lucy Sussex | "La Sentinelle" | Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural | |
| Short Story | Trudi Canavan | "Room for Improvement" | Forever Shores | |
| Collected Work | Cat Sparks ed. | Agog! Terrific Tales | Agog! Press | |
| Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch eds. | Forever Shores | Wakefield Press |
Poetry
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[39] | Dorothy Porter | Wild Surmise | Picador |
| The Age Book of the Year[34] | Luke Davies | Totem | Allen & Unwin |
| Anne Elder Award[44] | Lidija Cvetkovic | War is Not the Season for Figs | University of Queensland Press |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[45] | Luke Davies | Totem | Allen & Unwin |
| Mary Gilmore Prize[46] | Michael Brennan | The Imageless World | Salt Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Pam Brown | Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems | Salt Publishing |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Judith Beveridge | Wolf Notes | Giramondo Publishing |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Judith Beveridge | Wolf Notes | Giramondo Publishing |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | John Kinsella | Peripheral Light | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
Drama
[edit]| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Stephen Carleton | Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset | Playlab |
Non-Fiction
[edit]| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[39] | Non-Fiction | Rebe Taylor | Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island | Wakefield Press |
| The Age Book of the Year[34] | Non-Fiction | Peter Robb | A Death in Brazil | Duffy and Snellgrove |
| National Biography Award[47] | Biography | Barry Hill | Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession | Knopf |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Inga Clendinnen | Dancing with Strangers | Text Publishing |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark | The History Wars | Melbourne University Press |
| Community and Regional History | Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford | Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area | University of Western Australia Press | |
| General History | Edward Duyker | Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834) | Melbourne University Press | |
| Young People's | David Hollinsworth | They Took the Children | Working Title Press | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | Fiona Capp | That Oceanic Feeling | Allen and Unwin | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Peter Robb | A Death in Brazil | Duffy and Snellgrove |
| History | Inga Clendinnen | Dancing with Strangers | Text Publishing | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Graeme Davison | Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities | Allen and Unwin |
Deaths
[edit]- 3 January –
- 8 January – Norman Talbot, poet (born 1936)[50]
- 17 February – Bruce Beaver, poet (born 1928)[51]
- 11 April – Wilbur G. Howcroft, writer for children (born 1917)[52]
- 7 July – Elisabeth MacIntyre, writer for children (born 1916)[53]
- 17 August – Thea Astley, novelist (born 1925)[54]
- 8 November – Peter Mathers, novelist and short story writer (born 1931 in Fulham, England)[55]
See also
[edit]- 2004 in Australia
- 2004 in literature
- 2004 in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of years in Australian literature
References
[edit]- ^ a b The Austlit Gateway News March/April 2004
- ^ a b The Austlit Gateway News July/August 2004
- ^ The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2004
- ^ "Book prize controversy". The Age. Melbourne. 23 December 2004. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
- ^ "Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award | Northern Territory Library". ntl.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Devastation Road by Joanna Baker". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Farm Kid by Sherryl Clark". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "A Home for Bilby by Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "By the River by Steven Herrick". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Camel Rider by Prue Mason". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "The Coast Road by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "The Walker by Jane Goodall". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "No Trace by Barry Maitland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Covet by Tara Moss". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Far Horizon by Tony Park". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Murder by Manuscript by Steven J. Spears". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Mothership by John Brosnan". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts by Simon Haynes". Austlit. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "The Tainted by Glenda Larke". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Snow, Fire, Sword by Sophie Masson". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "A Fire in the Shell by Josephine Pennicott". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "The Wanderer by Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "<More or Less Than> 1–100 by M. T. C. Cronin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "The Ship by Sarah Day". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- '^ "The Colosseum by Dipti Saravanamuttu". Austlit. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Totem wins The Age Book of the Year". The Age. 21 August 2004. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2004"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ "2004 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ 2004 National Literary Awards at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 September 2007)
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "Len Fox (1905-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
- ^ "Barbara Jefferis (1917-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Norman Talbot (1936-2004)". Austlit. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ "Wilbur G. Howcroft (1917-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Elisabeth MacIntyre (1916-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Thea Astley (1925-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Peter Mathers (1931-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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