2004 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.
• 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.
• Kenneth Dutton, Nick Enright, Morag Fraser, David Myers, and Brenda Niall are recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours list.
• 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.
• Sydney Morning Herald Literary Editor, Malcolm Knox exposes Norma Khouri and her 'factual' account of honour killings in Jordan as a fabrication.
• 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.
• Inaugural Chief Minister's Northern Territory Book History Awards held

Major publications

Literary fiction

• 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
• Robert Engwerda – Backwaters
• 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
• Denise Young – The Last Ride
• 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
• Robert Corbert – Shelf Life
• Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding – A Home for Bilby
• Anthony Eaton – Fireshadow
• Jon Flanagan – The Ruins of Gorlan
• Sonya Hartnett – The Silver Donkey
• Steven Herrick – By the River
• Joanne Horniman – Secret Scribbled Notebooks
• Prue Mason – Camel Rider
• James Moloney – The Book of Lies
• Garth Nix – Grim Tuesday
• Emily Rodda
  • Dragon's Nest
  • Isle of the Dead
  • Shadowgate
  • The Sister of the South
• 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
• Leigh Redhead – Peepshow
• 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 Birmingham – Weapons of Choice
• John Brosnan – Mothership
• 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
• John Harwood – The Ghost Writer
• Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts
• Nathan Hobby – The Fur
• Liam Hearn – Brilliance of the Moon
• Ian Irvine – The Life Lottery
• Margo Lanagan – Black Juice
• Glenda Larke – The Tainted
• Maxine McArthur – Less than Human
• Fiona McIntosh
  • Blood and Memory
  • Bridge of Souls
• Sophie Masson – Snow, Fire, Sword
• Josephine Pennicott – A Fire in the Shell
• Matthew Reilly – Hover Car Racer
• Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann – The Wanderer
• Kim Wilkins – Giants of the Frost
• Sean Williams – The Crooked Letter

Drama

• Bob Ellis and Robin McLachlan – A Local Man
• Martin Flanagan – The Call
• Michael Gurr – Julia 3
• Debra Oswald – Mr Bailey's Minder
• Abe Pogos – Toby
• Alana Valentine – Run Rabbit Run!
• David Williamson – Amigos

Poetry

• M. T. C. Cronin –
• 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

Literary

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 3 January –
  • Len Fox, journalist, historian, social activist and painter (born 1905)
  • 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 in Fulham, England)

References

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

References

1. [http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsMarchApril2004 The Austlit Gateway News March/April 2004]
2. [http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsJulyAugust2004 The Austlit Gateway News July/August 2004]
3. [http://www.austlit.edu.au/news/newsSeptemberOctober2004 The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2004]
4. (23 December 2004). "Book prize controversy". The Age.
5. "Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award {{!}} Northern Territory Library".
6. "''Home'' by Larissa Behrendt". National Library of Australia.
7. "''Cape Grimm'' by Carmel Bird". National Library of Australia.
8. "''Furies'' by John Charalambous". National Library of Australia.
9. "''Geography'' by Sophie Cunningham". National Library of Australia.
10. "''The Rebel: An Imagined Life of James Dean'' by Jack Dann". National Library of Australia.
11. "''The Thompson Gunner'' by Nick Earls". National Library of Australia.
12. "''Backwaters'' by Robert Engwerda". National Library of Australia.
13. "''The Broken Book'' by Susan Johnson". National Library of Australia.
14. "''The Goddamn Bus of Happiness'' by Stefan Laszczuk". National Library of Australia.
15. "''The Philosopher's Doll'' by Amanda Lohrey". National Library of Australia.
16. "''Angel Puss'' by Colleen McCullough". National Library of Australia.
17. "''The Alphabet Sisters'' by Monica McInerney". National Library of Australia.
18. "''Taming the Beast'' by Emily Maguire". National Library of Australia.
19. "''Hill of Grace'' by Steven Orr". National Library of Australia.
20. "''Fire Fire'' by Eva Sallis". National Library of Australia.
21. "''Snowleg'' by Nicholas Shakespeare". Austlit.
22. "''Frangipani'' by Celestine Hitiura Vaite". National Library of Australia.
23. "''I Have Kissed Your Lips'' by Gerard Windsor". National Library of Australia.
24. "''The Last Ride'' by Denise Young". National Library of Australia.
25. "''Scraps of Heaven'' by Arnold Zable". National Library of Australia.
26. "''Devastation Road'' by Joanna Baker". National Library of Australia.
27. "''Farm Kid'' by Sherryl Clark". National Library of Australia.
28. "''A Home for Bilby'' by Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding". National Library of Australia.
29. "''By the River'' by Steven Herrick". National Library of Australia.
30. "''Secret Scribbled Notebooks'' by Joanne Horniman". National Library of Australia.
31. "''Camel Rider'' by Prue Mason". National Library of Australia.
32. "''The Coast Road'' by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia.
33. "''The Coroner's Lunch'' by Colin Cotterill". National Library of Australia.
34. "''The Walker'' by Jane Goodall". National Library of Australia.
35. "''Earthly Delights'' by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia.
36. "''Heavenly Pleasures'' by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia.
37. "''No Trace'' by Barry Maitland". National Library of Australia.
38. "''Covet'' by Tara Moss". National Library of Australia.
39. "''Far Horizon'' by Tony Park". National Library of Australia.
40. "''Murder by Manuscript'' by Steven J. Spears". National Library of Australia.
41. "''Ophelia's Fan'' by Christine Balint". National Library of Australia.
42. "''Spinning Around'' by Catherine Jinks". National Library of Australia.
43. "''The Ideal Bride'' by Stephanie Laurens". National Library of Australia.
44. "''The Stockmen'' by Rachael Treasure". National Library of Australia.
45. "''Outback Sunset'' by Lynne Wilding". National Library of Australia.
46. "''Mothership'' by John Brosnan". ISFDB.
47. "''The Ghost Writer'' by John Harwood". National Library of Australia.
48. "''Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts'' by Simon Haynes". Austlit.
49. "''The Tainted'' by Glenda Larke". ISFDB.
50. "''Snow, Fire, Sword'' by Sophie Masson". ISFDB.
51. "''A Fire in the Shell'' by Josephine Pennicott". ISFDB.
52. "''The Wanderer'' by Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann". ISFDB.
53. "''The Call'' by Martin Flanagan". National Library of Australia.
54. "''Julia 3'' by Michael Gurr". National Library of Australia.
55. "''Mr Bailey's Minder'' by Debra Oswald". Austlit.
56. "''Toby'' by Abe Pogos". National Library of Australia.
57. "''Run Rabbit Run!'' by Alana Valentine". National Library of Australia.
58. "'' 1–100'' by M. T. C. Cronin". National Library of Australia.
59. "''The Ship'' by Sarah Day". National Library of Australia.
60. "''Next to Nothing'' by Noel Rowe". National Library of Australia.
61. "''The Colosseum''' by Dipti Saravanamuttu". Austlit.
62. "''Smoke Encrypted Whispers'' by Samuel Wagan Watson". National Library of Australia.
63. "''Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son'' by Peter Carey". Austlit.
64. "''Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities'' by Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland". National Library of Australia.
65. "''In the Shadow of Swords: on the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia'' by Sally Neighbour". National Library of Australia.
66. "''Henry Handel Richardson: A Life'' by Michael Ackland". National Library of Australia.
67. "''Adam's Ark'' by Phillip Adams". National Library of Australia.
68. "''Plenty: Digressions on Food'' by Gay Bilson". National Library of Australia.
69. "''Charmian and George: The Marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift'' by Max Brown". National Library of Australia.
70. "''Keep the Bastards Honest'' by Don Chipp". National Library of Australia.
71. "''Latham and Abbott'' by Michael Duffy". National Library of Australia.
72. "''The Girl from Botany Bay: The True Story of Mary Broad and Her Extraordinary Escape'' by Carolly Erickson". National Library of Australia.
73. "''Steve Waugh'' by Peter FitzSimons". National Library of Australia.
74. "''Country'' by Tim Flannery". National Library of Australia.
75. "''The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays'' by John Hughes". National Library of Australia.
76. "''I Am What I Am: My Life and Curious Times'' by John Marsden". National Library of Australia.
77. "''A Life by Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst'' by Siobhan O'Brien". National Library of Australia.
78. "''Hazel's Journey: A Personal Experience of Alzheimer's'' by Sue Pieters-Hawke and Hazel Flynn". National Library of Australia.
79. "''Sometimes I Forgot to Laugh'' by Peter Roebuck". National Library of Australia.
80. "''Bud: A Life'' by Charles Tingwell". National Library of Australia.
81. "''Hard Road: The Life and Times of Stevie Wright'' by Stevie Wright and Glenn Goldsmith". National Library of Australia.
82. "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit.
83. "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit.
84. (2004-08-21). "Totem wins The Age Book of the Year".
85. "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
86. "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University.
87. "Kibble Literary Award".
88. "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007". Commonwealth Foundation.
89. "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners".
90. ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit.
91. "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit.
92. ""Shanghai surprise"". Sydney Morning Herald, 18 May 2004.
93. ""Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Previous Winners"". Queensland Government.
94. "Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction - 2004 Winner".
95. ""Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's"". University Libraries, University of Washington.
96. ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2004"". LibraryThing.
97. "2004 Ned Kelly Award Winners".
98. (1 September 2007). "2004 National Literary Awards".
99. "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit.
100. "Mary Gilmore Award".
101. ""Patrick White Playwrights' Award – Past Winners"". Sydney Theatre Company.
102. ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW.
103. "Len Fox (1905-2004)". The University of Queensland.
104. "Barbara Jefferis (1917-2004)". The University of Queensland.
105. "Austlit — Norman Talbot (1936-2004)". Austlit.
106. "Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)". The University of Queensland.
107. "Wilbur G. Howcroft (1917-2004)". The University of Queensland.
108. "Elisabeth MacIntyre (1916-2004)". The University of Queensland.
109. "Thea Astley (1925-2004)". The University of Queensland.
110. "Peter Mathers (1931-2004)". The University of Queensland.