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

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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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

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)

See also

• 2004 in Australia
• 2004 in literature
• 2004 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References

1. ^ The Austlit Gateway News March/April 2004
2. ^ The Austlit Gateway News July/August 2004
3. The Austlit Gateway News September/October 2004
4. "Book prize controversy". The Age. Melbourne. 23 December 2004. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
5. "Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award | Northern Territory Library". ntl.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
6. "Devastation Road by Joanna Baker". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
7. "Farm Kid by Sherryl Clark". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
8. "A Home for Bilby by Joanne Crawford and Grace Fielding". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
9. "By the River by Steven Herrick". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
10. "Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
11. "Camel Rider by Prue Mason". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
12. "The Coast Road by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
13. "The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
14. "The Walker by Jane Goodall". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
15. "Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
16. "Heavenly Pleasures by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
17. "No Trace by Barry Maitland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
18. "Covet by Tara Moss". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
19. "Far Horizon by Tony Park". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
20. "Murder by Manuscript by Steven J. Spears". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
21. "Mothership by John Brosnan". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
22. "Hal Spacejock: Just Desserts by Simon Haynes". Austlit. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
23. "The Tainted by Glenda Larke". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
24. "Snow, Fire, Sword by Sophie Masson". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
25. "A Fire in the Shell by Josephine Pennicott". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
26. "The Wanderer by Cherry Wilder and Katya Reimann". ISFDB. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
27. "<More or Less Than> 1–100 by M. T. C. Cronin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
28. "The Ship by Sarah Day". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
29. "Next to Nothing by Noel Rowe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
30. ' "The Colosseum by Dipti Saravanamuttu". Austlit. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
31. "Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
32. "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
33. "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
34. ^ "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.
35. "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
36. "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
37. "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
38. "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
39. ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
40. ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
41. "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
42. ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2004"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
43. "2004 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
44. 2004 National Literary Awards at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 September 2007)
45. "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
46. "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
47. ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
48. "Len Fox (1905-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
49. "Barbara Jefferis (1917-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
50. "Austlit — Norman Talbot (1936-2004)". Austlit. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
51. "Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
52. "Wilbur G. Howcroft (1917-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
53. "Elisabeth MacIntyre (1916-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
54. "Thea Astley (1925-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
55. "Peter Mathers (1931-2004)". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 February 2024.

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

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