2004 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2004.

Contents

Events

Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Romance

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Biographies

Awards and honours

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

AwardAuthor
Christopher Brennan Award [79] Kris Hemensley
Patrick White Award [80] Nancy Phelan

Literary

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
The Age Book of the Year Award [81] Luke Davies Totem Allen & Unwin
ALS Gold Medal [82] Laurie Duggan Mangroves University of Queensland Press
Colin Roderick Award [83] Alan Wearne The Lovemakers ABC Books
Tim Winton The Turning Picador
Nita Kibble Literary Award [84] Fiona CappThat Oceanic Feeling Allen & Unwin

Fiction

International

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Commonwealth Writers' Prize [85] Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region Michelle de Kretser The Hamilton Case Knopf
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific regionNada Awar JarrarSomewhere, Home Heineman

National

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [86] Kate Jennings Moral Hazard Picador
The Age Book of the Year Award [81] Andrew McGahan The White Earth Allen & Unwin
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award [87] Julienne van Loon Road Story Allen & Unwin
Miles Franklin Award [88] Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire Farrar Straus and Giroux
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards [89] Brian Castro Shanghai Dancing Giramondo Publishing
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello Secker & Warburg
Victorian Premier's Literary Award [90] Annamarie Jagose Slow Water Vintage Books
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Brett D'ArcyThe Mindless Ferocity of Sharks Vintage Books

Children and Young Adult

National

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
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 CurtisCat and FishLothian
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'sMark GreenwoodThe Legend of Lasseter's ReefCygnet

Crime and Mystery

National

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Davitt Award [91] Novel Janette Turner Hospital Due Preparations for the Plague HarperCollins
Readers' ChoiceLindy CameronThicker Than Water HarperCollins
Young Adult NovelRuth StarkeMuck-Up DayLothian
Ned Kelly Award [92] Novel Jon Cleary Degrees of Connection HarperCollins
First novel Jane R. Goodall The Walker Hodder Headline
Wayne GroganJunkie PilgrimBrandl and Schlesinger
True crimePeter ReesKilling Juanita Allen & Unwin
Lifetime achievement Bob Bottom

Science fiction

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Aurealis Award Novel K. A. Bedford EclipseEdge 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 NovelNo 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 TalesAgog! Press
Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch eds.Forever Shores Wakefield Press

Poetry

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [86] Dorothy Porter Wild Surmise Picador
The Age Book of the Year [81] Luke Davies Totem Allen & Unwin
Anne Elder Award [93] Lidija Cvetkovic War is Not the Season for Figs University of Queensland Press
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry [94] Luke Davies Totem Allen & Unwin
Mary Gilmore Prize [95] Michael Brennan The Imageless WorldSalt Publishing
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Pam Brown Dear Deliria: New & Selected PoemsSalt 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

AwardAuthorTitlePublisher
Patrick White Playwrights' Award Stephen CarletonConstance Drinkwater and the Final Days of SomersetPlaylab

Non-Fiction

AwardCategoryAuthorTitlePublisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature [86] Non-Fiction Rebe Taylor Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island Wakefield Press
The Age Book of the Year [81] Non-Fiction Peter Robb A Death in BrazilDuffy and Snellgrove
National Biography Award [96] 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 ClarkThe History Wars Melbourne University Press
Community and Regional HistoryPatricia Crawford and Ian CrawfordContested 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'sDavid HollinsworthThey Took the ChildrenWorking Title Press
Nita Kibble Literary Award Fiona CappThat Oceanic Feeling Allen and Unwin
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Peter Robb A Death in BrazilDuffy and Snellgrove
History Inga Clendinnen Dancing with Strangers Text Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fictionGraeme DavisonCar Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities Allen and Unwin

Deaths

See also

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