2001 in Australian literature

none October 2017 October 2017 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 Marshall Browne – The Trumpeting Angel The Trumpeting Angel by Marshall Browne National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/712015 15 July 2024 Steven Carroll – The Art of the Engine Driver Bryce Courtenay – Four Fires Robert Dessaix – Corfu: A Novel Corfu by Robert Dessaix National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1011949 11 July 2024 Garry Disher – Past the Headlands Past the Headlands by Garry Disher National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/999470 11 July 2024 Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish Stephen Gray – The Artist is a Thief The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1154474 11 July 2024 Marion Halligan – The Fog Garden The Fog Garden by Marion Halligan National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/808570 11 July 2024 Elizabeth Jolley – An Innocent Gentleman An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2514404 11 July 2024 Kathy Lette – Nip 'n' Tuck Nip 'n' Tuck by Kathy Lette National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2599465 11 July 2024 Joan London – Gilgamesh John A. Scott – The Architect Tim Winton – Dirt Music Arnold Zable – Cafe Scheherazade Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2238805 11 July 2024 Children's and Young Adult fiction Graeme Base – The Waterhole The Waterhole by Graeme Base National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2609510 5 July 2024 Gary Crew – Gothic Hospital Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate Moondyne Kate by Garry Disher National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2688245 5 July 2024 Andy Griffiths – The Day My Bum Went Psycho Sonya Hartnett – Forest Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green! Have Courage, Hazel Green! by Odo Hirsch National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1184712 5 July 2024 Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet Horrible Harriet by Leigh Hobbs National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2638225 5 July 2024 Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack Flash Jack by Maureen McCarthy National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/897991 5 July 2024 Garth Nix Above the Veil Lirael Emily Rodda – City of Rats Shaun Tan – The Red Tree Margaret Wild – Jinx Jinx by Margaret Wild National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2637764 5 July 2024 Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry Crime and mystery Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255 Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools by Marshall Browne National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1113430 11 July 2024 Lindy Cameron – Bleeding Hearts Jon Cleary – Yesterday's Shadow Peter Corris – Lugarno Lugarno by Peter Corris National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2563210 11 July 2024 Emma Darcy – Who Killed Angelique? Who Killed Angelique? by Emma Darcy National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1062931 11 July 2024 Peter Doyle – The Devil's Jump The Devil's Jump by Peter Doyle National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/587173 11 July 2024 Kerry Greenwood – Away with the Fairies Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/808632 11 July 2024 Gabrielle Lord – Death Delights Carolyn Morwood – A Simple Death Matthew Reilly – Area 7 Patricia Shaw – The Dream Seekers The Dream Seekers by Patricia Shaw Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C625768 11 July 2024 Romance Lilian Darcy – The Paramedic's Secret The Paramedic's Secret by Lilian Darcy Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C633622 11 July 2024 Barbara Hannay The Pregnancy Discovery The Pregnancy Discovery by Barbara Hannay National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3102297 11 July 2024 The Wedding Dare The Wedding Dare by Barbara Hannay National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3102483 11 July 2024 Science Fiction and Fantasy Trudi Canavan – The Magicians' Guild Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Ill-Made Mute The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?21440 16 June 2024 Sara Douglass – The Wounded Hawk Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder Jennifer Fallon Harshini Treason Keep Kate Forsyth – The Skull of the World The Skull of the World by Kate Forsyth ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?22726 16 June 2024 Ian Irvine – Geomancer Fiona McIntosh – Betrayal Betrayal by Fiona McIntosh ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?274761 16 June 2024 Sean McMullen – Eyes of the Calculor Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy Kim Wilkins – Angel of Ruin Sean Williams The Dark Imbalance with Shane Dix The Stone Mage and the Sea The Stone Mage and the Sea by Sean Williams ISFDB https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?22028 16 June 2024 Drama Andrew Bovell – Holy Day Holy Day by Andrew Bovell National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2660196 8 October 2024 David Brown – Keep Everything You Love Keep Everything You Love by David Brown National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2403488 8 October 2024 Nick Enright – Spurboard Spurboard by Nick Enright National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/902040 8 October 2024 Dorothy Hewett – Nowhere Nowhere by Dorothy Hewett National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2887949 8 October 2024 Peta Murray – Salt : A Play in Five Helpings Salt : A Play in Five Helpings by Peta Murray National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/934979 8 October 2024 Joanna Murray-Smith – Bombshells Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C430382 8 October 2024 John Romeril – Miss Tanaka Miss Tanaka by John Romeril National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2354979 8 October 2024 David Williamson Charitable Intent A Conversation Up for Grabs Poetry M. T. C. Cronin – Bestseller Bestseller by M. T. C. Cronin National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2539519 19 September 2024 John Forbes – Collected Poems : 1970–1998 Collected Poems : 1970–1998 by John Forbes National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2571999 19 September 2024 Peter Goldsworthy – New Selected Poems New Selected Poems by Peter Goldsworthy National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/915529 19 September 2024 Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain Halfway Up the Mountain by Dorothy Hewett National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/741846 19 September 2024 John Kinsella – The Hierarchy of Sheep The Hierarchy of Sheep by John Kinsella National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/790988 19 September 2024 Peter Porter – Max is Missing Max is Missing by Peter Porter National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1503685 19 September 2024 Chris Wallace-Crabbe – By and Large By and Large by Chris Wallace-Crabbe National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2637514 19 September 2024 Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers The Lovemakers by Alan Wearne National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/742828 19 September 2024 Biographies Peter Carey – 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account Dawn Fraser – Dawn: One Hell of a Life Dawn: One Hell of a Life by Dawn Fraser National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/951383 8 October 2024 Jacqueline Kent – A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life by Jacqueline Kent National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1652885 8 October 2024 John Kinsella – Auto Auto by John Kinsella National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/106731 8 October 2024 Roger McDonald – The Tree in Changing Light The Tree in Changing Light by Roger McDonald National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1164842 8 October 2024 Hilary McPhee – Other People's Words Other People's Words by Hilary McPhee National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record//865089 8 October 2024 Peter Rose – Rose Boys Rose Boys by Peter Rose National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2687130 8 October 2024 Nadia Wheatley – The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift by Nadia Wheatley National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/936249 8 October 2024 Non-Fiction Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers by Diane Armstrong National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1121473 18 September 2024 Jill Jolliffe – Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five by Jill Jolliffe National Library of Australia https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1193601 18 September 2024 Awards and honours Note: these awards were presented in the year in question. Lifetime achievement Award Author Christopher Brennan AwardAustlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v539?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=6&count=3 11 September 2023 Dorothy Porter Patrick White Award Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v617?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents 10 September 2023 22 August 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230822040912/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v617?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents dead Geoff Page Literary Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year Award"Poet wins Book of the Year award" The Age, 25 August 2001, p12 https://www.proquest.com/docview/363533531 17 June 2024 363533531 Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems Brandl and Schlesinger ALS Gold Medal ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://www.asal.org.au/awards/als-gold-medal/ 13 January 2024 Rodney Hall The Day We Had Hitler Home Picador Colin Roderick Award Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners James Cook University https://www.jcu.edu.au/foundation-for-australian-literary-studies/roderick-award/previous-winners2 16 January 2024 Peter Rose Rose Boys Allen & Unwin Nita Kibble Literary AwardKibble Literary Award Australian National University https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb/kibble-literary-award 26 February 2024 Inga Clendinnen Tiger's Eye: A Memoir Text Publishing Fiction International Award Category Author Title PublisherCommonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007 Commonwealth Foundation http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf 18 January 2024 23 October 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf dead 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 PrizePeter Carey The Booker Prizes https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/peter-carey 18 January 2024 thebookerprizes.com en Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber National Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for LiteratureState Library of South Australia https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners 18 April 2024 9 March 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260309180911/https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/past-literary-award-winners dead Not awarded The Age Book of the Year Award Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland PressThe Australian/Vogel Literary Award "Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2000-2002" Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v385?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=18&count=3 19 February 2024 15 February 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240215222631/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v385?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=18&count=3 dead Sarah Hay Skins Allen & Unwin Catherine Padmore Sibyl's Cave Allen & Unwin Miles Franklin Award Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-) Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v254 21 September 2023 7 November 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231107080036/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v254 dead Frank Moorhouse Dark Palace Knopf New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards"A boundary writer climbs the mountain" Sydney Morning Herald, 15 May 2001, p6 https://www.proquest.com/docview/363769884 5 July 2024 363769884 Alex Miller Conditions of Faith Allen & Unwin Queensland Premier's Literary Awards"Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Previous Winners" Queensland Government http://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/literary-awards/past-winners/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120717073830/http://www.qld.gov.au/about/events-awards-honours/awards/literary-awards/past-winners/ dead 2012-07-17 13 May 2025 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press Victorian Premier's Literary Award"Joining the circles" The Age, 20 October 2001, p7 https://www.proquest.com/docview/363451702 7 February 2025 363451702 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press Western Australian Premier's Book Awards"Australian Literary Awards: Western Australian Premier's" University Libraries, University of Washington https://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=341672&p=2299464 23 May 2025 Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador Children and Young Adult National Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award Older ReadersJudith 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 BooksNew 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 PressWestern 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"LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2001" LibraryThing https://www.librarything.com/award/2525.0.0.2004/Davitt-Award-2001 10 January 2024 Novel Caroline Shaw Eye to Eye Random House AustraliaNed Kelly Award2001 Ned Kelly Award Winners http://www.austcrimewriters.com/ned-kelly-award-winners/1 https://web.archive.org/web/20160327181222/http://www.austcrimewriters.com/ned-kelly-award-winners/7 2016-03-27 17 January 2024 Australian Crime WritersNovel Peter Temple Dead Point Bantam Books Andrew Masterson The Second Coming Flamingo First novel Andrew McGahan Last Drinks Allen and Unwin True crime Estelle Blackburn Broken Lives Stellar Publishing Readers' vote Lindsay Cameron Bleeding Hearts HarperCollins Lifetime achievement Professor Stephen Knight Science fiction Award Category Author Title PublisherAurealis 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 & RobertsonDitmar Award Novel Sean Williams & Shane Dix Evergence 2: The Dying Light Ace BooksShort Fiction Stephen Dedman "The Devotee" Eidolon 29/30 Terry Dowling "The Saltimbanques" Blackwater Days Poetry Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Not awarded The Age Book of the Year Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems Brandl and Schlesinger Anne Elder Award Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1998-2000 Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/v148?mainTabTemplate=awardWorksAndAgents&from=21&count=3 13 February 2024 Not awarded Grace Leven Prize for PoetryCouple pay $2.12m for Mugga Way house The Canberra Times, 17 February 2002 https://www.proquest.com/docview/1016218447 15 August 2026 1016218447 Geoff Page Darker and Lighter Five Islands Press Mary Gilmore AwardMary Gilmore Award Association for the Study of Australian Literature https://www.asal.org.au/awards/mary-gilmore-award/ 10 February 2024 Not awarded New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ken Taylor Africa Five Islands Press Queensland Premier's Literary AwardsBeattie, Peter (2001), "Ministerial Statement (18 October 2001)", Legislative Assembly Hansard, Queensland. Brook Emery and dug my fingers in the sand 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 PublisherPatrick White Playwrights' Award"Patrick White Playwrights' Award – Past Winners" Sydney Theatre Company https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/about/information-for-artists/patrick-white-playwrights-award-and-fellowship/past-winners 25 December 2025 Brendan Cowell Bed Toby Schmitz Lucky Jackie Smith The Aliens Non-Fiction Award Category Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Non-Fiction Not awarded The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Nadia Wheatley The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift HarperCollinsNational Biography Award"National Biography Award – Past Winners" State Library of NSW https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/national-biography-award?page=2 1 August 2024 Biography Not awarded New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Kim Mahood Craft for a Dry Lake Random House AustraliaNew 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 Deaths 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908) Bradman, Sir Donald George (Don) (1908–2001) by John Howard Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bradman-sir-donald-george-don-32376 10 August 2023 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918) Austlit — Amy Witting Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21035 10 August 2023 21 June 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230621065321/https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21035 dead 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924) Austlit — Patsy Adam-Smith Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A35192 10 August 2023 10 October – Helen Asher, novelist, left bequest for Asher Award (born 1927 in Germany)Cemetery record https://www.centennialpark.org/memorial-search/?surname=Asher&firstname=Helen 28 January 2025 Centennial Park Unknown date Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922) Austlit — Peter Bladen Austlit https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12286 10 August 2023 See also 2001 in Australia 2001 in literature 2001 in poetry List of years in literature List of years in Australian literature References Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page. 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