2001 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.

For an overview of world literature see 2001 in literature.

See also: 2000 in literature, 2001 in Australia, 2002 in Australian literature.

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
  • Harshini
  • Treason Keep
• 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
  • Charitable Intent
  • A Conversation
  • Up for Grabs

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
• Jacquline 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

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science Fiction

Non-Fiction

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

• Literature
• List of years in Australian literature
• List of Australian literary awards

References

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