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2001 in Australian literature
Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 2001 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
- 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
- Graeme Base – The Waterhole[9]
- Gary Crew – Gothic Hospital
- 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
- 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
- Lilian Darcy – The Paramedic's Secret[21]
- Barbara Hannay
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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]
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Awards and honours
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Lifetime achievement
Literary
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International
National
Children and Young Adult
National
Crime and Mystery
National
Science fiction
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction
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Deaths
- 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)[74]
- 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)[75]
- 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)[76]
- 10 October – Helen Asher, novelist, left bequest for Asher Award (born 1927 in Germany)[77]
Unknown date
- Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)[78]
See also
References
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