This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.
Major publications
Literary fiction
John Clarke – The Tournament J. M. Coetzee – Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II Bryce Courtenay – Matthew Flinders' Cat Andrea Goldsmith – The Prosperous Thief Sonya Hartnett – Of a Boy Sarah Hay – Skins Chloe Hooper – A Child's Book of True Crime Kate Jennings – Moral Hazard Gail Jones – Black Mirror Thomas Keneally – An Angel in Australia Colleen McCullough – The October Horse Alex Miller – Journey to the Stone Country Dorothy Porter – Wild Surmise Eva Sallis – The City of Sealions
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 Natalie Jane Prior – Fireworks and Darkness 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 Marianne Curley – The Named Cecilia Dart-Thornton The Battle of Evernight The Lady of the Sorrows Sara Douglass The Crippled Angel Hades' Daughter Greg Egan Schild's Ladder "Singleton" Ian Irvine – Tetrarch Fiona McIntosh Destiny Revenge 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 Author Christopher Brennan Award Dimitris Tsaloumas Patrick White Award Tom Hungerford
Literary Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year Award Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House ALS Gold Medal Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Picador Colin Roderick Award Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House Nita Kibble Literary Award Marion Halligan The Fog Garden Allen & Unwin
Fiction
International
Award Category Author Title PublisherCommonwealth Writers' Prize Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Picador Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region Meaghan Delahunt In the Blue House Bloomsbury Overall winner Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Picador
National
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press The Age Book of the Year Award Joan London Gilgamesh Grove Press The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Danielle Wood The Alphabet of Light and Dark Allen & Unwin Miles Franklin Award Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Venero Armanno The Volcano Knopf Victorian Premier's Literary Award Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish Picador Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Gail Jones Black Mirror Picador
Children and Young Adult
National
Award Category Author Title PublisherChildren's Book of the Year Award Older Readers Sonya Hartnett Forest Viking Books Younger Readers John Heffernan, illus. Andrew McLean My Dog Margaret Hamilton Books Picture Book Libby Gleeson, illus. Armin Greder An Ordinary Day Scholastic Press Early Childhood Bob Graham Let's Get a Pup! Walker BooksNew South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Shaun Tan The Red Tree Lothian Books Young People's Anthony Hill Soldier Boy: The True Story of Jim Martin, the Youngest Anzac Penguin BooksQueensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Michael Stephens Blat Magic HarperCollins Young Adult Markus Zusak When Dogs Cry Pan Macmillan Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor Njunjul the Sun Allen & UnwinWestern Australian Premier's Book Awards Writing for Young Adults Pat Lowe Feeling the Heat Penguin Books Children's Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac The Legend of Moondyne Joe Cygnet
Crime and Mystery
National
Award Category Author Title PublisherDavitt AwardNovel Carolyn Morwood A Simple Death Women's Press Kerry Greenwood The Three-Pronged Dagger Lothian Readers' Choice Lindy Cameron Bleeding Hearts HarperCollinsNed Kelly Award Novel Gabrielle Lord Death Delights Hodder Headline AustraliaFirst novel Bunty Avieson Apartment 255 Pan Macmillan Emma Darcy Who Killed Angelique? Pan MacmillanTrue crime Larry Writer Razor Pan Macmillan Mike Richards The Hanged Man Scribe Publications Teenage/YA Ken Catran Blue Murder Lothian Readers' vote Bunty Avieson Apartment 255 Pan Macmillan Lifetime achievement Patrick Gallagher
Science fiction
Award Category Author Title PublisherAurealis 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 HeadlineDitmar Award Novel Garth Nix Lirael Allen and UnwinShort 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
Poetry
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Cath Kenneally Around Here Wakefield Press The Age Book of the Year Robert Gray Afterimages Duffy and Snellgrove Anne Elder Award Bronwyn Lea Flight Animals University of Queensland Press Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Kate Lilley Versary Salt Publishing Mary Gilmore Prize Geraldine McKenzie Duty Paper Bark Press New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Alan Wearne The Lovemakers Penguin Books Victorian Premier's Literary Award Robert Gray Afterimages Duffy and Snellgrove Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Barbara Temperton Going Feral Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Drama
Award Author Title PublisherPatrick White Playwrights' Award Reg Cribb Last Cab to Darwin Last Cab Productions Ian Wilding Even Amongst Dogs
Non-Fiction
Award Category Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Non-Fiction John Birmingham Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney Random House Australia The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House Australia National Biography Award Biography Jacqueline Kent A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life Viking Books New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-FictionGail Bell The Poison Principle Pan MacmillanNew 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 PublishingQueensland 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
Deaths
27 May – Ray Mathew, poet and novelist (born 1929) 6 June – Peter Cowan, short story writer and literary editor (born 1914) 25 August – Dorothy Hewett, poet (born 1923) 16 September – J. E. Macdonnell, novelist (born 1917) 2 October – R. A. Simpson, poet (born 1929) 8 December – Gary Catalano, poet and critic (born 1947)
Unknown date Olive Pell, librarian and poet (born 1903)
See also 2002 in Australia 2002 in literature 2002 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.