2001 in Australian literature

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)