2004 in Australian literature
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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2004.
For an overview of world literature see 2004 in literature.
See also: 2003 in Australian literature, 2004 in Australia, 2005 in Australian literature.
Events
- 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]
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Sarah Armstrong — Salt Rain
- Larissa Behrendt — Home
- Carmel Bird — Cape Grimm
- Steven Carroll — The Gift of Speed
- John Charalambous — Furies
- 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
- Joanna Baker — Devastation Road
- Michael Gerard Bauer — The Running Man
- Sherryl Clark — Farm Kid
- Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding — A Home for Bilby
- Anthony Eaton — Fireshadow
- Sonya Hartnett — The Silver Donkey
- Steven Herrick — By the River
- Joanne Horniman — Secret Scribbled Notebooks
- Prue Mason — Camel Rider
- Garth Nix — Grim Tuesday
- Scott Westerfeld — So Yesterday
Crime
- Peter Corris — The Coast Road
- Colin Cotterill — The Coroner's Lunch
- Kathryn Fox — Malicious Intent
- Jane Goodall — The Walker
- Kerry Greenwood
- Earthly Delights
- Heavenly Pleasures
- Malcolm Knox — A Private Man
- Barry Maitland — No Trace
- Tara Moss — Covet
- Tony Park — Far Horizon
- Steve J. Spears — Murder by Manuscript
Romance
- 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
- John Brosnan — Mothership
- Jack Dann — The Rebel
- Marianne de Pierres — Nylon Angel
- Richard Harland — The Black Crusade
- Simon Haynes — Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts
- Liam Hearn — Brilliance of the Moon
- Margo Lanagan — Black Juice
- Glenda Larke — The Tainted
- Maxine McArthur — Less than Human
- Sophie Masson — Snow, Fire, Sword
- Josephine Pennicott — A Fire in the Shell
- Cherry Wilder — The Wanderer
- Kim Wilkins — Brilliance of the Moon
- Sean Williams — The Crooked Letter
Drama
- 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
- M. T. C. Cronin — <More or Less Than> 1-100
- Luke Davies — Totem
- Sarah Day — The Ship
- Noel Rowe — Next to Nothing
- Dipti Saravanamuttu — The Colosseum
- Samuel Wagan Watson — Smoke Encrypted Whispers
Non-fiction
- 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
- 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
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award | Kris Hemensley |
| Patrick White Award | Nancy Phelan |
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize | 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
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Fiction | Andrew McGahan | The White Earth | Allen & Unwin |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Julienne van Loon | Road Story | Allen & Unwin | |
| Colin Roderick Award | Alan Wearne | The Lovemakers | ABC Books | |
| Tim Winton | The Turning | Picador | ||
| Miles Franklin Award | Shirley Hazzard | The Great Fire | Farrar Straus and Giroux | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Brian Castro | Shanghai Dancing | Giramondo Publishing |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | J. M. Coetzee | Elizabeth Costello | Secker & Warburg |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Fiction | Annamarie Jagose | Slow Water | Vintage Books |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Fiction | Brett D'Arcy | The Mindless Ferocity of Sharks | Vintage Books |
Children and Young Adult
National
| 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
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award | Novel | Janette Turner Hospital | Due Preparations for the Plague | HarperCollins |
| Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Jon Cleary | Degrees of Connection | HarperCollins |
| First novel | Jane R. Goodall | The Walker | Hodder Headline | |
| Wayne Grogan | Junkie Pilgrim | Brandl and Schlesinger |
Science Fiction
| 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 |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Peter Robb | A Death in Brazil | Duffy and Snellgrove |
| National Biography Award | 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 |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Dipti Saravanamuttu | The Colosseum | Five Islands Press |
| ALS Gold Medal | Laurie Duggan | Mangroves | University of Queensland Press |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | Luke Davies | Totem | Allen & Unwin |
| Mary Gilmore Prize | 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
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Stephen Carleton | Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset | Playlab |
Deaths
- 3 January — Barbara Jefferis, novelist and dramatist (born 1917)
- 8 January — Norman Talbot, poet (born 1936)
- 17 February — Bruce Beaver, poet (born 1928)
- 11 April — Wilbur G. Howcroft, writer for children (born 1917)
- 7 July — Elisabeth MacIntyre, writer for children (born 1916)
- 17 August — Thea Astley, novelist (born 1925)
- 8 November — Peter Mathers, novelist and short story writer (born 1931)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Austlit Gateway News March/April 2004
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Austlit Gateway News July/August 2004
- ↑ The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2004
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Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
