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2001 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.

Contents

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jacquline 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

    • Awards and honours

    Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

    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)

    • References

    2001 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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