This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[1] | Dorothy Porter |
Patrick White Award[2] | Geoff Page |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award[3] | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
ALS Gold Medal[4] | Rodney Hall | The Day We Had Hitler Home | Picador |
Colin Roderick Award[5] | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[6] | Inga Clendinnen | Tiger's Eye: A Memoir | Text Publishing |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize[7] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Arabella Edge | The Company | Picador | |
Overall winner | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press | |
Man Booker Prize[8] | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | Faber & Faber |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Judith Clarke | Wolf on the Fold | Allen & Unwin |
Younger Readers | Diana Kidd | Two Hands Together | Penguin Books | |
Picture Book | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin | |
Early Childhood | Catherine Jinks, illus. Andrew McLean | You'll Wake the Baby! | Penguin Books | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin |
Young People's | Jaclyn Moriarty | Feeling Sorry for Celia | Pan Macmillan Australia | |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Margaret Wild, illus. Ron Brooks | Fox | Allen & Unwin |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | James Moloney | Touch Me | University of Queensland Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults | Julia Lawrinson | Obsession | Fremantle Arts Centre |
Children's | Deborah Lisson | The Yankee Whaler | Scholastic |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[13] | Novel | Caroline Shaw | Eye to Eye | Random House Australia |
Ned Kelly Award[14] | Novel | Peter Temple | Dead Point | Bantam Books |
Andrew Masterson | The Second Coming | Flamingo | ||
First novel | Andrew McGahan | Last Drinks | Allen and Unwin | |
True crime | Estelle Blackburn | Broken Lives | Stellar Publishing | |
Readers' vote | Lindsay Cameron | Bleeding Hearts | HarperCollins | |
Lifetime achievement | Professor Stephen Knight |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | The Dark Imbalance | Voyager Books |
Sf Short Story | Adam Browne | "The Weatherboard Spaceship" | Aurealis | |
Fantasy Novel | Sara Douglass | The Wounded Hawk | Voyager Books | |
Fantasy Short Story | Sue Isle | "The Woman of Endor" | Orb | |
Horror Novel | Kim Wilkins | Angel of Ruin | Voyager Books | |
Horror Short Story | Simon Haynes | "Sleight of Hand" | Potato Monkey | |
Young Adult Novel | Louise Katz | The Other Face of Janus | Angus & Robertson | |
Ditmar Award | Novel | Sean Williams & Shane Dix | Evergence 2: The Dying Light | Ace Books |
Short Fiction | Stephen Dedman | "The Devotee" | Eidolon 29/30 | |
Terry Dowling | "The Saltimbanques" | Blackwater Days |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
Colin Roderick Award | Peter Rose | Rose Boys | Allen & Unwin | |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Kim Mahood | Craft for a Dry Lake | Random House Australia |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Tim Bonyhady | The Colonial Earth | Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing |
Community and Regional History | Carolyn Wadley Dowley | Through Silent Country | Fremantle Arts Centre Press | |
General History | Rowena Lennox | Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes | Pluto Press Australia | |
Young People's | No award | |||
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Brian Matthews | A Fine and Private Place | Picador |
History | Tim Bonyhady | The Colonial Earth | Miegunyah Press | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Anna Haebich | Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000 | Fremantle Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year[3] | Rosemary Dobson | Untold Lives and Later Poems | Brandl and Schlesinger |
Anne Elder Award[15] | Not awarded | ||
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[16] | Geoff Page | Darker and Lighter | Five Islands Press |
Mary Gilmore Award[17] | Not awarded | ||
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Ken Taylor | Africa | Five Islands Press |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award | John Mateer | Barefoot Speech | Fremantle Press |
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Dorothy Hewett | Halfway up the Mountain | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Brendan Cowell | Bed | |
Toby Schmitz | Lucky | ||
Jackie Smith | The Aliens |
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