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 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 John A. Scott – The Architect Tim Winton – Dirt Music Arnold Zable – Cafe Scheherazade
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Graeme Base – The Waterhole Gary Crew – Gothic Hospital Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate Andy Griffiths – The Day My Bum Went Psycho Sonya Hartnett – Forest Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green! Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack Garth Nix Above the Veil Lirael Emily Rodda – City of Rats Shaun Tan – The Red Tree Margaret Wild – Jinx Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry
Crime and mystery
Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255 Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools Lindy Cameron – Bleeding Hearts 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 Carolyn Morwood – A Simple Death Matthew Reilly – Area 7 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 Kim Wilkins – Angel of Ruin 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 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
Non-Fiction
Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers Jill Jolliffe – Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
Award Author Christopher Brennan Award Dorothy Porter Patrick White Award Geoff Page
Literary Award Author Title Publisher The Age Book of the Year Award Rosemary Dobson Untold Lives and Later Poems Brandl and Schlesinger ALS Gold Medal Rodney Hall The Day We Had Hitler Home Picador Colin Roderick Award Peter Rose Rose Boys Allen & Unwin Nita Kibble Literary Award Inga Clendinnen Tiger's Eye: A Memoir Text Publishing
Fiction
International
Award Category Author Title PublisherCommonwealth Writers' Prize 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 Prize Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber
National
Award Author Title Publisher Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 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 Sarah Hay Skins Allen & Unwin Catherine Padmore Sibyl's Cave Allen & Unwin Miles Franklin Award Frank Moorhouse Dark Palace Knopf New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Alex Miller Conditions of Faith Allen & Unwin Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press Victorian Premier's Literary Award Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 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 Novel Caroline Shaw Eye to Eye Random House AustraliaNed Kelly AwardNovel 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 Not awarded Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Geoff Page Darker and Lighter Five Islands Press Mary Gilmore Award 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 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 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) 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918) 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924) 10 October – Helen Asher, novelist, left bequest for Asher Award (born 1927 in Germany)
Unknown date Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)
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.