This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.
Major publications[]
Literary fiction[]
Children's and Young Adult fiction[]
- J. C. Burke – White Lies
- Isobelle Carmody – Darksong
- Alison Croggon – The Gift
- Mem Fox – The Magic Hat
- Marieke Hardy – Short Cuts
- Richard Harland – Ferren and the White Doctor
- Lian Hearn – Across the Nightingale Floor
- Maureen McCarthy – When You Wake and Find Me Gone
- Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor – Njunjul the Sun
- David Metzenthen – Wildlight: A Journey
- Kirsty Murray – Walking Home with Marie-Claire
- Gillian Rubinstein – The Whale's Child
- Markus Zusak – The Messenger
Crime[]
- Carmel Bird – Open for Inspection
- Kirsty Brooks – Lady Luck
- Jon Cleary – The Easy Sin
- Jane Clifton – Half Past Dead
- Peter Corris – Salt and Blood
- Kerry Greenwood – Murder in Montparnasse
- Gabrielle Lord – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
- Barry Maitland – Babel
- Shane Maloney – Something Fishy
- Tara Moss – Split
- Alex Palmer – Blood Redemption
- Peter Temple – In The Evil Day
Romance[]
- Lilian Darcy – For the Taking
- Barbara Hannay
- A Bride at Birralee
- Their Doorstep Baby
- Di Morrissey – Kimberley Sun
- Valerie Parv
- The Baron and the Bodyguard
- The Marquis and the Mother-To-Be
Science Fiction and Fantasy[]
- Damien Broderick – Transcension
- Trudi Canavan – The Novice
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
- The Battle of Evernight
- The Lady of the Sorrows
- Sara Douglass
- The Crippled Angel
- Hades' Daughter
- Ian Irvine – Tetrarch
- Fiona McIntosh
- Sean McMullen – Voyage of the Shadowmoon
- Juliet Marillier – Wolfskin
- Sean Williams
- Echoes of Earth with Shane Dix
- The Sky Warden and the Sun
- The Storm Weaver and the Sand
Drama[]
- David Brown – Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed
- Nick Enright
- Country Music
- A Man with Five Children
- Michael Gow – The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
- Michael Gurr – The Simple Truth
- Daniel Keene – Half and Half
- Jenny Kemp – Still Angela
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Rapture
- David Williamson – Soulmates
Poetry[]
- M. T. C. Cronin – My Lover's Back : 79 Love Poems
- Robert Gray – Afterimages
- Jill Jones – Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems
- Emma Lew – Anything the Landlord Touches
- Kate Lilley – Versary
- Les Murray
- Collected Poems : 1961–2002
- Poems the Size of Photographs
Non-fiction[]
- Bruce Bennett, Australian Short Fiction: A History
- Anna Funder – Stasiland
- Mark McKenna – Looking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place
- Ashley Mallett – The Black Lords of Summer : The Story of the 1868 Aboriginal Tour of England and Beyond
- John Marsden – The Boy You Brought Home : A Single Mother's Guide to Raising Boys
Biographies[]
- Nick Bleszynski – Shoot Straight, You Bastards! : The Truth Behind the Killing of 'Breaker' Morant
- Barry Dickins – Black and Whiteley : Barry Dickins in Search of Brett
- Ann Galbally – Charles Conder : The Last Bohemian
- Barry Hill – Broken Song : T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession
- Thomas Keneally – American Scoundrel : The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- Ross McMullin – Pompey Elliott
- Brenda Niall – The Boyds : A Family Biography
- Don Watson – Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
Awards and honours[]
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement[]
| Award
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Author
|
| Patrick White Award
|
Tom Hungerford
|
Fiction[]
International[]
National[]
Children and Young Adult[]
National[]
Crime and Mystery[]
National[]
| Award
|
Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
| Davitt Award
|
Novel
|
Carolyn Morwood
|
A Simple Death
|
Women's Press
|
| Ned Kelly Award
|
Novel
|
Gabrielle Lord
|
Death Delights
|
Hodder Headline Australia
|
| First novel
|
Bunty Avieson
|
Apartment 255
|
Pan Macmillan
|
| Emma Darcy
|
Who Killed Angelique?
|
Pan Macmillan
|
Science Fiction[]
| Award
|
Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
| Aurealis Award
|
Sf Novel
|
Damien Broderick
|
Transcension
|
Tor Books
|
| Sf Short Story
|
Sean McMullen
|
"Walk to the Full Moon"
|
F&SF
|
| Fantasy Novel
|
Sean Williams
|
The Storm Weaver and the Sand
|
Voyager Books
|
| Fantasy Short Story
|
No award presented
|
|
|
| Horror Novel
|
A. L. McCann
|
The White Body of Evening
|
Flamingo
|
| Horror Short Story
|
Kim Westwood
|
"Oracle"
|
Redsine
|
| Young Adult Novel
|
Sophie Masson
|
The Hand of Glory
|
Hodder Headline
|
| Ditmar Award
|
Novel
|
Garth Nix
|
Lirael
|
Allen and Unwin
|
| Short Fiction
|
Jack Dann
|
"The Diamond Pit"
|
Jubilee
|
| Lucy Sussex
|
"Absolute Uncertainty"
|
F&SF
|
| Collected Work
|
Damien Broderick ed.
|
Earth is But a Star
|
UWA Press
|
Non-Fiction[]
| Award
|
Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
| The Age Book of the Year
|
Non-Fiction
|
Don Watson
|
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
|
Random House Australia
|
| Colin Roderick Award
|
|
Don Watson
|
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
|
Random House Australia
|
| National Biography Award
|
|
Jacqueline Kent
|
A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life
|
Viking Books
|
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
|
Non-Fiction
|
Gail Bell
|
The Poison Principle
|
Pan Macmillan
|
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards
|
Australian History
|
Nadia Wheatley
|
The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
|
HarperCollins
|
| Community and Regional History
|
John Bailey
|
The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment
|
Pan Macmillan
|
| General History
|
David Garrioch
|
The Making of Revolutionary Paris
|
University of California Press
|
| Young People's
|
Papunya School
|
Papunya School Book of Country and History
|
Allen and Unwin
|
| Nita Kibble Literary Award
|
|
Inga Clendinnen
|
Tiger's Eye: A Memoir
|
Text Publishing
|
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
|
Non-fiction
|
Brenda Niall
|
The Boyds: A Family Biography
|
Melbourne University Press
|
| History
|
Les Carlyon
|
Gallipoli
|
Pan Macmillan
|
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award
|
Non-fiction
|
Brenda Niall
|
The Boyds: A Family Biography
|
Melbourne University Press
|
Poetry[]
Drama[]
Deaths[]
- 21 May – Dorothy Hewett, poet (born 1923)
- 27 May – Ray Mathew, poet and novelist (born 1929)
- 6 June – Peter Cowan, short story writer and literary editor (born 1914)
- 13 September – J. E. Macdonnell, novelist (born 1917)
- 2 October – R. A. Simpson, poet (born 1929)
- 8 December – Gary Catalano, poet and critic (born 1947)
See also[]
References[]
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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