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2002 in Australian literature

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

Contents

Literary fiction

  • J. M. Coetzee – Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
  • Bryce Courtenay – Matthew Flinders' Cat
  • Andrea Goldsmith – The Prosperous Thief
  • Sonya Hartnett – Of a Boy
  • Sarah Hay – Skins
  • Chloe Hooper – A Child's Book of True Crime
  • Kate Jennings – Moral Hazard
  • Gail Jones – Black Mirror
  • Thomas Keneally – An Angel in Australia
  • Colleen McCullough – The October Horse
  • Alex Miller – Journey to the Stone Country
  • Dorothy Porter – Wild Surmise
  • Eva Sallis – The City of Sealions

    • Children's and Young Adult fiction

  • J. C. Burke – White Lies
  • Isobelle Carmody – Darksong
  • Alison Croggon – The Gift
  • Marieke Hardy – Short Cuts
  • Richard Harland – Ferren and the White Doctor
  • Lian Hearn – Across the Nightingale Floor
  • Maureen McCarthy – When You Wake and Find Me Gone
  • Meme McDonald and Boori Pryor – Njunjul the Sun
  • David Metzenthen – Wildlight: A Journey
  • Kirsty Murray – Walking Home with Marie-Claire
  • Gillian Rubinstein – The Whale's Child
  • Markus Zusak – The Messenger

    • Crime

  • Carmel Bird – Open for Inspection
  • Kirsty Brooks – Lady Luck
  • Jon Cleary – The Easy Sin
  • Jane Clifton – Half Past Dead
  • Peter Corris – Salt and Blood
  • Kerry Greenwood – Murder in Montparnasse
  • Gabrielle Lord – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
  • Barry Maitland – Babel
  • Shane Maloney – Something Fishy
  • Tara Moss – Split
  • Alex Palmer – Blood Redemption
  • Peter Temple – In The Evil Day

    • Romance

  • Lilian Darcy – For the Taking
  • Barbara Hannay
  • A Bride at Birralee
  • Their Doorstep Baby
  • Di Morrissey – Kimberley Sun
  • Valerie Parv
  • The Baron and the Bodyguard
  • The Marquis and the Mother-To-Be

    • Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Damien Broderick – Transcension
  • Trudi Canavan – The Novice
  • Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • The Battle of Evernight
  • The Lady of the Sorrows
  • Sara Douglass
  • The Crippled Angel
  • Hades' Daughter
  • Ian Irvine – Tetrarch
  • Fiona McIntosh
  • Destiny
  • Revenge
  • Sean McMullen – Voyage of the Shadowmoon
  • Juliet Marillier – Wolfskin
  • Sean Williams
  • Echoes of Earth with Shane Dix
  • The Sky Warden and the Sun
  • The Storm Weaver and the Sand

    • Drama

  • David Brown – Eating Ice Cream With Your Eyes Closed
  • Nick Enright
  • Country Music
  • A Man with Five Children
  • Michael Gow – The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
  • Michael Gurr – The Simple Truth
  • Daniel Keene – Half and Half
  • Jenny Kemp – Still Angela
  • Joanna Murray-Smith – Rapture
  • David Williamson – Soulmates

    • Poetry

  • M. T. C. Cronin – My Lover's Back : 79 Love Poems
  • Robert Gray – Afterimages
  • Jill Jones – Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems
  • Emma Lew – Anything the Landlord Touches
  • Kate Lilley – Versary
  • Les Murray
  • Collected Poems : 1961-2002
  • Poems the Size of Photographs

    • Non-fiction

  • 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.

    Deaths

  • 21 May – Dorothy Hewett, poet (born 1923)
  • 27 May – Ray Mathew, poet and novelist (born 1929)
  • 13 September – J. E. Macdonnell, novelist (born 1917)
  • 2 October – R. A. Simpson, poet (born 1929)
  • 8 December – Gary Catalano, poet and critic (born 1947)

    • References

    2002 in Australian literature Wikipedia
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