This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.
Major publications
editLiterary fiction
edit- Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
- Marshall Browne – The Trumpeting Angel[1]
- Steven Carroll – The Art of the Engine Driver
- Bryce Courtenay – Four Fires
- Robert Dessaix – Corfu: A Novel[2]
- Garry Disher – Past the Headlands[3]
- Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
- Stephen Gray – The Artist is a Thief[4]
- Marion Halligan – The Fog Garden[5]
- Elizabeth Jolley – An Innocent Gentleman[6]
- Kathy Lette – Nip 'n' Tuck[7]
- Joan London – Gilgamesh
- John A. Scott – The Architect
- Tim Winton – Dirt Music
- Arnold Zable – Cafe Scheherazade[8]
Children's and Young Adult fiction
edit- Graeme Base – The Waterhole[9]
- Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate[10]
- Andy Griffiths – The Day My Bum Went Psycho
- Sonya Hartnett – Forest
- Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green![11]
- Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet[12]
- Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack[13]
- Garth Nix
- Emily Rodda – City of Rats
- Shaun Tan – The Red Tree
- Margaret Wild – Jinx[14]
- Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry
Crime and mystery
edit- Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255
- Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools[15]
- Jon Cleary – Yesterday's Shadow
- Peter Corris – Lugarno[16]
- Emma Darcy – Who Killed Angelique?[17]
- Peter Doyle – The Devil's Jump[18]
- Kerry Greenwood – Away with the Fairies[19]
- Gabrielle Lord – Death Delights
- Matthew Reilly – Area 7
- Patricia Shaw – The Dream Seekers[20]
Romance
edit- Lilian Darcy – The Paramedic's Secret[21]
- Barbara Hannay
Science Fiction and Fantasy
edit- Trudi Canavan – The Magicians' Guild
- Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Ill-Made Mute[24]
- Sara Douglass – The Wounded Hawk
- Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
- Jennifer Fallon
- Kate Forsyth – The Skull of the World[25]
- Ian Irvine – Geomancer
- Fiona McIntosh – Betrayal[26]
- 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[27]
Drama
edit- Andrew Bovell – Holy Day[28]
- David Brown – Keep Everything You Love[29]
- Nick Enright – Spurboard[30]
- Dorothy Hewett – Nowhere[31]
- Peta Murray – Salt : A Play in Five Helpings[32]
- Joanna Murray-Smith – Bombshells[33]
- John Romeril – Miss Tanaka[34]
- David Williamson
Poetry
edit- M. T. C. Cronin – Bestseller[35]
- John Forbes – Collected Poems : 1970–1998[36]
- Peter Goldsworthy – New Selected Poems[37]
- Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain[38]
- John Kinsella – The Hierarchy of Sheep[39]
- Peter Porter – Max is Missing[40]
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe – By and Large[41]
- Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers[42]
Biographies
edit- Peter Carey – 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account
- Dawn Fraser – Dawn: One Hell of a Life[43]
- Jacqueline Kent – A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life[44]
- John Kinsella – Auto[45]
- Roger McDonald – The Tree in Changing Light[46]
- Hilary McPhee – Other People's Words[47]
- Peter Rose – Rose Boys[48]
- Nadia Wheatley – The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift[49]
Non-Fiction
edit- Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers[50]
- Emily Chantiri – The Money Club[51]
- Jill Jolliffe – Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five[52]
Awards and honours
editNote: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Lifetime achievement
edit| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[53] | Dorothy Porter |
| Patrick White Award[54] | Geoff Page |
Literary
edit| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year Award[55] | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| ALS Gold Medal[56] | Rodney Hall | The Day We Had Hitler Home | Picador |
| Colin Roderick Award[57] | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award[58] | Inga Clendinnen | Tiger's Eye: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
Fiction
editInternational
edit| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[59] | 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[60] | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber |
National
editChildren and Young Adult
editNational
edit| 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[64] | 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
editNational
edit| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[65] | Novel | Caroline Shaw | Eye to Eye | Random House Australia |
| Ned Kelly Award[66] | 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
edit| 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 |
Poetry
edit| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[55] | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
| Anne Elder Award[67] | Not awarded | ||
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[68] | Geoff Page | Darker and Lighter | Five Islands Press |
| Mary Gilmore Award[69] | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[64] | 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
edit| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Brendan Cowell | Bed | |
| Toby Schmitz | Lucky | ||
| Jackie Smith | The Aliens |
Non-Fiction
edit| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[61] | Non-Fiction | Not awarded | ||
| The Age Book of the Year[55] | Non-Fiction | Nadia Wheatley | The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift | HarperCollins |
| National Biography Award[70] | Biography | Not awarded | ||
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards[64] | 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 |
Deaths
edit- 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)[71]
- 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)[72]
- 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)[73]
Unknown date
- Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)[74]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Trumpeting Angel by Marshall Browne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
- ^ "Corfu by Robert Dessaix". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Past the Headlands by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Artist is a Thief by Stephen Gray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Fog Garden by Marion Halligan". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "An Innocent Gentleman by Elizabeth Jolley". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Nip 'n' Tuck by Kathy Lette". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Waterhole by Graeme Base". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Moondyne Kate by Garry Disher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Have Courage, Hazel Green! by Odo Hirsch". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Horrible Harriet by Leigh Hobbs". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Flash Jack by Maureen McCarthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Jinx by Margaret Wild". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools by Marshall Browne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Lugarno by Peter Corris". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Who Killed Angelique? by Emma Darcy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Devil's Jump by Peter Doyle". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Dream Seekers by Patricia Shaw". Austlit. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Paramedic's Secret by Lilian Darcy". Austlit. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Pregnancy Discovery by Barbara Hannay". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Wedding Dare by Barbara Hannay". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton". ISFDB. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "The Skull of the World by Kate Forsyth". ISFDB. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Betrayal by Fiona McIntosh". ISFDB. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "The Stone Mage and the Sea by Sean Williams". ISFDB. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Holy Day by Andrew Bovell". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Keep Everything You Love by David Brown". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Spurboard by Nick Enright". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Nowhere by Dorothy Hewett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Salt : A Play in Five Helpings by Peta Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Bombshells by Joanna Murray-Smith". Austlit. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Miss Tanaka by John Romeril". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Bestseller by M. T. C. Cronin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "Collected Poems : 1970–1998 by John Forbes". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "New Selected Poems by Peter Goldsworthy". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "Halfway Up the Mountain by Dorothy Hewett". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "The Hierarchy of Sheep by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "Max is Missing by Peter Porter". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "By and Large by Chris Wallace-Crabbe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "The Lovemakers by Alan Wearne". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
- ^ "Dawn: One Hell of a Life by Dawn Fraser". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life by Jacqueline Kent". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Auto by John Kinsella". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "The Tree in Changing Light by Roger McDonald". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Other People's Words by Hilary McPhee". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "Rose Boys by Peter Rose". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift by Nadia Wheatley". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers by Diane Armstrong". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "The Money Club by Emily Chantiri". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five by Jill Jolliffe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d ""Poet wins Book of the Year award"". The Age, 25 August 2001, p12. ProQuest 363533531. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2000-2002"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d ""A boundary writer climbs the mountain"". Sydney Morning Herald, 15 May 2001, p6. ProQuest 363769884. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ ""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.
- ^ ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 August 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.