This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.
Major publications
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
- Mem Fox – The Magic Hat
- 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
- Bruce Bennett, Australian Short Fiction: A History
- 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.
Lifetime achievement
| Award | Author |
|---|---|
| Christopher Brennan Award[1] | Dimitris Tsaloumas |
| Patrick White Award[2] | Tom Hungerford |
Literary
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALS Gold Medal[3] | Richard Flanagan | Gould's Book of Fish | Picador |
| Colin Roderick Award[4] | Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House |
Fiction
International
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize[5] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Richard Flanagan | Gould's Book of Fish | Picador |
| Best First Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Meaghan Delahunt | In the Blue House | Bloomsbury | |
| Overall winner | Richard Flanagan | Gould's Book of Fish | Picador | |
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Fiction | Joan London | Gilgamesh | Grove Press |
| The Australian/Vogel Literary Award | Danielle Wood | The Alphabet of Light and Dark | Allen & Unwin | |
| Miles Franklin Award[6] | Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Tim Winton | Dirt Music | Picador |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Fiction | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | University of Queensland Press |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Fiction | Gail Jones | Black Mirror | Picador |
Children and Young Adult
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Book of the Year Award | Older Readers | Sonya Hartnett | Forest | Viking Books |
| Younger Readers | John Heffernan, illus. Andrew McLean | My Dog | Margaret Hamilton Books | |
| Picture Book | Libby Gleeson, illus. Armin Greder | An Ordinary Day | Scholastic Press | |
| Early Childhood | Bob Graham | Let's Get a Pup! | Walker Books | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Shaun Tan | The Red Tree | Lothian Books |
| Young People's | Anthony Hill | Soldier Boy: The True Story of Jim Martin, the Youngest Anzac | Penguin Books | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Children's | Michael Stephens | Blat Magic | HarperCollins |
| Young Adult | Markus Zusak | When Dogs Cry | Pan Macmillan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Young Adult Fiction | Meme McDonald and Boori Monty Pryor | Njunjul the Sun | Allen & Unwin |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Writing for Young Adults | Pat Lowe | Feeling the Heat | Penguin Books |
| Children's | Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac | The Legend of Moondyne Joe | Cygnet | |
Crime and Mystery
National
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davitt Award[7] | Novel | Carolyn Morwood | A Simple Death | Women's Press |
| Kerry Greenwood | The Three-Pronged Dagger | Lothian | ||
| Readers' Choice | Lindy Cameron | Bleeding Hearts | HarperCollins | |
| Ned Kelly Award[8] | Novel | Gabrielle Lord | Death Delights | Hodder Headline Australia |
| First novel | Bunty Avieson | Apartment 255 | Pan Macmillan | |
| Emma Darcy | Who Killed Angelique? | Pan Macmillan | ||
| Lifetime achievement | Patrick Gallagher | |||
Science fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurealis Award | Sf Novel | Damien Broderick | Transcension | Tor Books |
| Sf Short Story | Sean McMullen | "Walk to the Full Moon" | F&SF | |
| Fantasy Novel | Sean Williams | The Storm Weaver and the Sand | Voyager Books | |
| Fantasy Short Story | No award presented | |||
| Horror Novel | A. L. McCann | The White Body of Evening | Flamingo | |
| Horror Short Story | Kim Westwood | "Oracle" | Redsine | |
| Young Adult Novel | Sophie Masson | The Hand of Glory | Hodder Headline | |
| Ditmar Award | Novel | Garth Nix | Lirael | Allen and Unwin |
| Short Fiction | Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | Jubilee | |
| Lucy Sussex | "Absolute Uncertainty" | F&SF | ||
| Collected Work | Damien Broderick ed. | Earth is But a Star | UWA Press | |
Non-Fiction
| Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House Australia |
| Colin Roderick Award | Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House Australia | |
| National Biography Award | Jacqueline Kent | A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life | Viking Books | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Non-Fiction | Gail Bell | The Poison Principle | Pan Macmillan |
| New South Wales Premier's History Awards | Australian History | Nadia Wheatley | The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift | HarperCollins |
| Community and Regional History | John Bailey | The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment | Pan Macmillan | |
| General History | David Garrioch | The Making of Revolutionary Paris | University of California Press | |
| Young People's | Papunya School | Papunya School Book of Country and History | Allen and Unwin | |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | Inga Clendinnen | Tiger's Eye: A Memoir | Text Publishing | |
| Queensland Premier's Literary Awards | Non-fiction | Brenda Niall | The Boyds: A Family Biography | Melbourne University Press |
| History | Les Carlyon | Gallipoli | Pan Macmillan | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Non-fiction | Brenda Niall | The Boyds: A Family Biography | Melbourne University Press |
Poetry
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age Book of the Year | Robert Gray | Afterimages | Duffy and Snellgrove |
| Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | Kate Lilley | Versary | Salt Publishing |
| Mary Gilmore Prize | Geraldine McKenzie | Duty | Paper Bark Press |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Alan Wearne | The Lovemakers | Penguin Books |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Award | Robert Gray | Afterimages | Duffy and Snellgrove |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Barbara Temperton | Going Feral | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
Drama
| Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Reg Cribb | Last Cab to Darwin | Last Cab Productions |
| Ian Wilding | Even Amongst Dogs | ||
Deaths
- 27 May – Ray Mathew, poet and novelist (born 1929)[9]
- 6 June – Peter Cowan, short story writer and literary editor (born 1914)[10]
- 25 August – Dorothy Hewett, poet (born 1923)[11]
- 16 September – J. E. Macdonnell, novelist (born 1917)[12]
- 2 October – R. A. Simpson, poet (born 1929)[13]
- 8 December – Gary Catalano, poet and critic (born 1947)[14]
Unknown date
- Olive Pell, librarian and poet (born 1903)[15]
See also
References
- ↑ "A poet of two cultures : An Interview with Dimitris Tsaloumas". Anagnostis e-Magazine. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ↑ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ↑ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ↑ "Colin Roderick Award - Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ↑ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ↑ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2002"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ↑ "2002 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
- ↑ "Ray Mathew". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ↑ "Peter Cowan". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ↑ "Dorothy Hewett". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ↑ "J. E. Macdonnell". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ↑ "R. A. Simpson". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ↑ "Gary Catalano". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ↑ "Olive Pell". Austlit. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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