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
- Sara Douglass – The Wounded Hawk
- Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
- Jennifer Fallon
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Literary
Fiction
International
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
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)
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.
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