This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.
Major publications[]
Literary fiction[]
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[]
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
Other[]
- Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Lives: The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers
- Emily Chantiri – The Money Club
Awards and honours[]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[]
| Award
|
Author
|
| Patrick White Award
|
Geoff Page
|
Fiction[]
International[]
National[]
Children and Young Adult[]
National[]
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[]
Drama[]
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
- Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)
See also[]
References[]
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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