2001 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.
Major publications
Literary fiction
- Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
- Steven Carroll – The Art of the Engine Driver
- Bryce Courtenay – Four Fires
- Robert Dessaix – Corfu: A Novel
- Garry Disher – Past the Headlands
- Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
- Stephen Gray – The Artist is a Thief
- Marion Halligan – The Fog Garden
- Elizabeth Jolley – An Innocent Gentleman
- Kathy Lette – Nip 'n' Tuck
- Joan London – Gilgamesh
- Tim Winton – Dirt Music
- Arnold Zable – Cafe Scheherazade
Children's and Young Adult fiction
- Graeme Base – The Waterhole
- Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate
- Sonya Hartnett – Forest
- Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green!
- Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet
- Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack
- Garth Nix – Lirael
- Shaun Tan – The Red Tree
- Margaret Wild – Jinx
- Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry
Crime
- Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255
- Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
- Jon Cleary – Yesterday's Shadow
- Peter Corris – Lugarno
- Emma Darcy – Who Killed Angelique?
- Peter Doyle – The Devil's Jump
- Kerry Greenwood – Away with the Fairies
- Gabrielle Lord – Death Delights
- Patricia Shaw – The Dream Seekers
Romance
- Lilian Darcy – The Paramedic's Secret
- Barbara Hannay
- The Pregnancy Discovery
- The Wedding Dare
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Trudi Canavan – The Magicians' Guild
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Ill-Made Mute
- Sara Douglass – The Wounded Hawk
- Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
- Jennifer Fallon
- Kate Forsyth – The Skull of the World
- Ian Irvine – Geomancer
- Fiona McIntosh – Betrayal
- Sean McMullen – Eyes of the Calculor
- Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy
- Garth Nix – Lirael
- Sean Williams
- The Dark Imbalance with Shane Dix
- The Stone Mage and the Sea
Drama
- Andrew Bovell – Holy Day
- David Brown – Keep Everything You Love
- Nick Enright – Spurboard
- Dorothy Hewett – Nowhere
- Peta Murray – Salt : A Play in Five Helpings
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Bombshells
- John Romeril – Miss Tanaka
- David Williamson
Poetry
- M. T. C. Cronin – Bestseller
- John Forbes – Collected Poems : 1970–1998
- Peter Goldsworthy – New Selected Poems
- Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain
- John Kinsella – The Hierarchy of Sheep
- Peter Porter – Max is Missing
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – By and Large
- Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers
Biographies
- Peter Carey – 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account
- Dawn Fraser – Dawn: One Hell of a Life
- Clive James – Always Unreliable : The Memoirs
- Jacqueline Kent – A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life
- John Kinsella – Auto
- Roger McDonald – The Tree in Changing Light
- Hilary McPhee – Other People's Words
- Peter Rose – Rose Boys
- Nadia Wheatley – The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award | Author |
---|---|
Patrick White Award | Geoff Page |
Fiction
International
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Commonwealth Writers' Prize | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Arabella Edge | The Company | Picador | |
Overall winner | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press | |
Man Booker Prize | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber | |
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year | Fiction | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Sarah Hay | Skins | Allen & Unwin | |
Catherine Padmore | Sibyl's Cave | Allen & Unwin | ||
Miles Franklin Award | Frank Moorhouse | Dark Palace | Knopf | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Alex Miller | Conditions of Faith | Allen & Unwin |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Fiction | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Fiction | Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
Children and Young Adult
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Judith Clarke | Wolf on the Fold | Allen & Unwin |
Younger Readers | Diana Kidd | Two Hands Together | Penguin Books | |
Picture Book | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin | |
Early Childhood | Catherine Jinks, illus. Andrew McLean | You'll Wake the Baby! | Penguin Books | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Jaclyn Moriarty | Feeling Sorry for Celia | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | James Moloney | Touch Me | University of Queensland Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults | Julia Lawrinson | Obsession | Fremantle Arts Centre |
Children's | Deborah Lisson | The Yankee Whaler | Scholastic | |
Crime and Mystery
National
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Davitt Award | Novel | Caroline Shaw | Eye to Eye | Random House Australia |
Ned Kelly Award | Novel | Peter Temple | Dead Point | Bantam Books |
Andrew Masterson | The Second Coming | Flamingo | ||
First novel | Andrew McGahan | Last Drinks | Allen and Unwin | |
Science Fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | The Dark Imbalance | Voyager Books |
Sf Short Story | Adam Browne | "The Weatherboard Spaceship" | Aurealis | |
Fantasy Novel | Sara Douglass | The Wounded Hawk | Voyager Books | |
Fantasy Short Story | Sue Isle | "The Woman of Endor" | Orb | |
Horror Novel | Kim Wilkins | Angel of Ruin | Voyager Books | |
Horror Short Story | Simon Haynes | "Sleight of Hand" | Potato Monkey | |
Young Adult Novel | Louise Katz | The Other Face of Janus | Angus & Robertson | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | Evergence 2: The Dying Light | Ace Books |
Short Fiction | Stephen Dedman | "The Devotee" | Eidolon 29/30 | |
Terry Dowling | "The Saltimbanques" | Blackwater Days | ||
Non-Fiction
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
Colin Roderick Award | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Kim Mahood | Craft for a Dry Lake | Random House Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Tim Bonyhady | The Colonial Earth | Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Carolyn Wadley Dowley | Through Silent Country | Fremantle Arts Centre Press | |
General History | Rowena Lennox | Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes | Pluto Press Australia | |
Young People's | No award | |||
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Brian Matthews | A Fine and Private Place | Picador |
History | Tim Bonyhady | The Colonial Earth | Miegunyah Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Anna Haebich | Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000 | Fremantle Press |
Poetry
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | Geoff Page | Darker and Lighter | Five Islands Press |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Ken Taylor | Africa | Five Islands Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | John Mateer | Barefoot Speech | Fremantle Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Dorothy Hewett | Halfway up the Mountain | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
Drama
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|
Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Brendan Cowell | Bed | |
Toby Schmitz | Lucky | ||
Jackie Smith | The Aliens | ||
Deaths
- 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)
- 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)
- 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)
Unknown date
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See also
References
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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