2001 in Australian literature
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
- 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
- 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
- The Wounded Hawk
- Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
- Jennifer Fallon
- Kate Forsyth – The Skull of the World
- 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
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
- 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 Lives: The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers
- Emily Chantiri – The Money Club
- 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[1] | Dorothy Porter |
| Patrick White Award[2] | Geoff Page |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year Award[3]
|
Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| ALS Gold Medal[4] | Rodney Hall | The Day We Had Hitler Home | Picador |
| Colin Roderick Award[5] | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[6]
|
Inga Clendinnen | Tiger's Eye: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Commonwealth Writers' Prize[7]
|
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[8]
|
Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber |
National
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year Award[9]
|
Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[10] | Sarah Hay | Skins | Allen & Unwin |
| Catherine Padmore | Sibyl's Cave | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[11] | 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 | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Judith 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 Books | |
| New 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 Press |
| Western 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[12] | Novel | Caroline Shaw | Eye to Eye | Random House Australia |
Ned Kelly Award[13]
|
Novel | 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 | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis 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 & Robertson | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | Evergence 2: The Dying Light | Ace Books |
| Short Fiction | Stephen Dedman | "The Devotee" | Eidolon 29/30 | |
| Terry Dowling | "The Saltimbanques" | Blackwater Days |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year
|
Non-Fiction | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| Colin Roderick Award | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Kim Mahood | Craft for a Dry Lake | Random House Australia |
| New 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 |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
The Age Book of the Year[3]
|
Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| Anne Elder Award[14] | Not awarded | ||
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[15] | Geoff Page | Darker and Lighter | Five Islands Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[16] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Ken Taylor | Africa | 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 | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Brendan Cowell | Bed | |
| Toby Schmitz | Lucky | ||
| Jackie Smith | The Aliens |
Deaths
- 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)[17]
- 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)[18]
- 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)[19]
Unknown date
- Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)[20]
See also
- 2001 in Australia
- 2001 in literature
- 2001 in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of years in Australian literature
References
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ a b "The Age" 25 August 2001, p12
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "Peter Carey | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Age Book of the Year — Imaginative Writing Prize 2001-2003". Austlit. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2000-2002"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2001"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "2001 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 1998-2000". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 1994-2001". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Bradman, Sir Donald George (Don) (1908–2001) by John Howard". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Amy Witting". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patsy Adam-Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Peter Bladen". Austlit. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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