2002 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.

Major publications

Literary fiction

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Crime

Romance

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Drama

Poetry

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[1] Dimitris Tsaloumas
Patrick White Award[2] Tom Hungerford

Literary

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award[3]
 Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House
ALS Gold Medal[4] Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Picador
Colin Roderick Award[5] Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House
Nita Kibble Literary Award[6]
 Marion Halligan The Fog Garden Allen & Unwin

Fiction

International

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Commonwealth Writers' Prize[7]
 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
The Age Book of the Year Award[8]
 Joan London Gilgamesh Grove Press
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[9] Danielle Wood The Alphabet of Light and Dark Allen & Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[10] Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
 		Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang University of Queensland Press
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Gail Jones Black Mirror Picador

Children and Young Adult

National

Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children'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 Books
New 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 Books
Queensland 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 & Unwin
Western 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 Publisher
Davitt Award[11] Novel Carolyn Morwood A Simple Death Women's Press
Kerry Greenwood The Three-Pronged Dagger Lothian
Readers' Choice Lindy Cameron Bleeding Hearts HarperCollins
Ned Kelly Award[12]
 Novel Gabrielle Lord Death Delights
Hodder Headline
Australia
First novel Bunty Avieson Apartment 255
Pan Macmillan
Emma Darcy Who Killed Angelique?
Pan Macmillan
True 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 Publisher
Aurealis 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 Headline
Ditmar Award Novel Garth Nix Lirael
Allen and Unwin
Short 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

Non-Fiction

Award Category Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year
 		Non-Fiction Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House Australia
Colin Roderick Award Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House Australia
National Biography Award Jacqueline Kent A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life
Viking Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Gail Bell The Poison Principle
Pan Macmillan
New 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 Publishing
Queensland 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

Poetry

Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year
 		Robert Gray Afterimages Duffy and Snellgrove
Anne Elder Award[13] Bronwyn Lea Flight Animals University of Queensland Press
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[14] Kate Lilley Versary Salt Publishing
Mary Gilmore Prize[15]
 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 Publisher
Patrick White Playwrights' Award Reg Cribb Last Cab to Darwin Last Cab Productions
Ian Wilding Even Amongst Dogs

Deaths

Unknown date

See also

References

  1. ^ "A poet of two cultures : An Interview with Dimitris Tsaloumas". Anagnostis e-Magazine. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Austlit — The Age Book of the Year Award — 2002". Austlit. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  4. ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Austlit — Age Book of the Year — Imaginative Writing Prize 2001-2003". Austlit. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  9. ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2000-2002"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  11. ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2002"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  12. ^ "2002 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  13. ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  14. ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  15. ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  16. ^ "Ray Mathew". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  17. ^ "Peter Cowan". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  18. ^ "Dorothy Hewett". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  19. ^ "J. E. Macdonnell". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  20. ^ "R. A. Simpson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  21. ^ "Gary Catalano". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  22. ^ "Olive Pell". Austlit. Retrieved 30 June 2023.

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

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