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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 * 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 Thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morag Fraser
Morag Fraser is an Australian journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ... and literary critic. Fraser edited the magazine Eureka Street from 1991 till 2003. Fraser was an adjudicator of the Miles Franklin Award from 2005 to 2011. She is currently the chairperson of the Australian Book Review. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fraser, Morag Living people Members of the Order of Australia Australian literary critics Australian women literary critics Australian journalists Australian women journalists Date of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer, born in Sydney in 1966, is an Australian novelist who became famous for her bestselling novel, The Service of Clouds. She has been nominated for multiple literary awards in recognition for her work. Biography Falconer is an only child of two graphic designer parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of the novels ''The Service of Clouds'' and ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' (which was republished in Australian paperback as ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories''). She also wrote ''Sydney'', a personal history of her hometown for the ''Australian Cities'' series. A nonfiction work, ''Signs and Wonders'', was published in 2021. She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals. Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in ''The Macquarie Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Sallis
Eva Sallis (also Eva HornungDog’s Eye View: Sophie Cunningham talks to Eva Hornung , '''', 2009.) (born 1964) is an Australian novelist, poet, writer and a visiting research fellow at University of Adelaide. She has won several awards, including and the Nita May Dobbie Literary Award for her ''Hiam''. Life ...
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Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is a Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist. Life and career Murray-Smith was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria; her father was the literary editor and academic Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988). Her uncle was the actor John Bluthal. She attended Toorak College and graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. On a Rotary International Scholarship in 1995, Murray-Smith attended the writing program at Columbia University, New York. In 2003, she took a sabbatical in Italy. She is married to Raymond Gill and has two sons and one daughter. In 2000 she was awarded a Commonwealth Medal for Services to Playwriting and in 2012 she was made a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Notable productions Many of Murray-Smith's plays have been performed around the world. ''Honour'' has been produced in more than three dozen countries, including productions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prochownik's Dream
''Prochownik's Dream'' is a 2005 novel by the Australian author Alex Miller. In this new novel the double Miles Franklin Award winner dramatises the dichotomy within an artist as he negotiates the creative life.' - Jane Sullivan, 'The Age' Notes *Dedication: "For Stephanie. For the memory of Max Blatt. " *Epigraph: "'We cannot arbitrarily invent projects for ourselves: they have to be written in our past as requirements" (Simone de Beauvoir) Awards * 2006 Longlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ... * 2005, FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award, highly commended Interviews * Jane Sullivan, 'The Miller's Tale, "The Age", 5 November 200*"Books and Writing Reviews *"The Age*"AussieReviews Novels by Alex Miller 2005 Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Miller (writer)
Alexander McPhee Miller (born 27 December 1936) is an Australian novelist.Dixon, R, (Ed), 2012, 'The Novels of Alex Miller, An Introduction', Allen & Unwin, Sydney. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, in 1993 for ''The Ancestor Game'' and in 2003 for '' Journey to the Stone Country''. He won the overall award for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for ''The Ancestor Game'' in 1993. He is twice winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for '' Conditions of Faith'' in 2001 and for ''Lovesong'' in 2011. In recognition of his impressive body of work and in particular for his novel ''Autumn Laing'' he was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2012. Life Alex Miller was born in London to a Scottish father and Irish mother. After working as a farm labourer in Somerset he migrated alone to Australia at the age of 16. He worked as a ringer in Queensland and as a horse breaker in New Zealand before studying at night school to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Desmond Kale
''The Ballad of Desmond Kale'' is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Roger McDonald Hugh Roger McDonald (born 23 June 1941 in Young, New South Wales) is an Australian award-winning author of several novels and a number of non-fiction works. He is also an accomplished poet and TV scriptwriter. Life and career The middle son of .... Dedication For Lorna McDonald with love and thanks for gifts of conversation, friendship, and example over a lifetime External links ;Reviews"The Age" 2005 Australian novels Miles Franklin Award-winning works {{2000s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger McDonald
Hugh Roger McDonald (born 23 June 1941 in Young, New South Wales) is an Australian award-winning author of several novels and a number of non-fiction works. He is also an accomplished poet and TV scriptwriter. Life and career The middle son of a Presbyterian minister, Hugh Fraser McDonald, 1909–81, and the Central Queensland historian, Dr Lorna McDonald, 1916–2017, his childhood was spent in the NSW country towns of Bribbaree, Temora, and Bourke, before the family moved to Sydney. He attended The Scots College and the University of Sydney. He was briefly a teacher, ABC producer, and publisher's editor in NSW, Tasmania, and Queensland, before moving to Canberra and taking up writing full-time in 1976, in order to complete his first novel, ''1915''. McDonald has since 1980 lived near Braidwood, NSW, apart from periods in Sydney and New Zealand. His novels are ''1915'', ''Slipstream'', ''Rough Wallaby'', ''Water Man'', ''The Slap'', ''Mr Darwin's Shooter'', ''The Ballad of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Jose
Nicholas Jose (born 9 November 1952) is an Australian novelist. Biography Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National University and Oxford University. He has traveled extensively, particularly in China, where he worked from 1986 to 1990. He was President of Sydney PEN from 2002 to 2005, Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University from 2009 to 2010, and is currently Professor of English and Creative Writing both at the University of Adelaide and Bath Spa University, England. He has written widely on contemporary art and literature from Asia and the Pacific. In 2016 Jose presented "Gifts from China" for the Eric Rolls Memorial Lecture. Since early 2017 Nicholas Jose has been involved in a research project'Other Worlds: Forms of "World Literature'" for which he is leading a theme on 'Antipodean China' exploring the relationship between Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Silence (James Novel)
''Out of the Silence'' (2005) is a novel by Australian author Wendy James. It won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. Plot summary The novel is based on the true-life story of Maggie Heffernan, who, in early 1900, was convicted in Melbourne of the drowning murder of her infant son. The novel follows her grim journey from the country to the city, vainly seeking her ex-fiance, finding herself destitute and finally accused of a dreadful crime. Vida Goldstein is an educated single woman running a local private school, campaigning for votes for women and contemplating running for parliament. Elizabeth Hamilton lives in Vida's aunt's house in suburban Melbourne - an upper middle-class life that provides a sharp contrast with poor Maggie's circumstances. Elizabeth and Vida take up Maggie's cause after her arrest and while their efforts don't meet with total success, all characters are changed by the events within the book. Notes * Sub-titled: A Story of Love, Betray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy James (author)
Wendy James (born in Sydney, 1966) is an Australian author of crime and literary fiction. James received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney an MA (writing) from University of Technology, Sydney and a PhD from the University of New England, Armidale. James is the eldest sister of Young Adult author Rebecca James. She lives in Newcastle, New South Wales. Awards *Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best first crime novel, 2006: ''Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder'' * Dobbie Encouragement Award, 2006: shortlisted for ''Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder'' *Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2017: shortlisted for ''The Golden Child'' Bibliography Novels * '' Out of the Silence : A Story of Love, Betrayal, Politics and Murder'' (2005) * ''The Steele Diaries'' (Vintage, 2008; Momentum, 2013) *''Where Have You Been?'' ( UWAP, 2010) *''The Mistake'' (Penguin, 2012) * ''The Lost Girls'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrender (novel)
''Surrender'' is a novel written by the award-winning Australian novelist, Sonya Hartnett. It was first published in 2005 in Australia by Walker Books Walker Books is a British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker, Amelia Edwards, and Wendy Boase. In 1991, the success of Walker Books' ''Where's Wally?'' series enabled the company to expand into the American ma .... It is narrated by twenty-year-old Gabriel, who is dying, and twenty-year-old Finnigan, a homeless boy who is Gabriel's only friend. Plot Seven-year-old Anwell lives in a prestigious but coldly distant family with a mother who is always sick and a father who punishes him with physical abuse. Anwell has no friends and is on a very tight leash. He is sitting in the back yard one day when he meets wild boy his age named Finnigan, his alter-ego or second personality. Anwell now named Gabriel is never ready to be angry and never to fight. Finnigan always ready be angry and to fight. If Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |