2001 in Australian literature

Major publications

Literary fiction

• Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
• Marshall Browne – The Trumpeting Angel
• 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
• John A. Scott – The Architect
• Tim Winton – Dirt Music
• Arnold Zable – ''Cafe Scheherazade''

Children's and Young Adult fiction

• Graeme Base – The Waterhole
• Gary Crew – Gothic Hospital
• Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate
• Andy Griffiths – The Day My Bum Went Psycho
• Sonya Hartnett – Forest
• Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green!
• Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet
• Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack
• Garth Nix
• * Above the Veil
• * Lirael
• Emily Rodda – City of Rats
• Shaun Tan – The Red Tree
• Margaret Wild – Jinx
• Markus Zusak – ''When Dogs Cry''

Crime and mystery

• Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255
• Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
• Lindy Cameron – Bleeding Hearts
• 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
• Carolyn Morwood – A Simple Death
• Matthew Reilly – Area 7
• 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
• Kim Wilkins – Angel of Ruin
• 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
• Jacqueline 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''

Non-Fiction

• Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers
• Emily Chantiri – The Money Club
• Jill Jolliffe – ''Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five''

Awards and honours

Lifetime achievement

Fiction

International

National

Children and Young Adult

National

Crime and Mystery

National

Science fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-Fiction

Deaths

• 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author
• 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist
• 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer
• 10 October – Helen Asher, novelist, left bequest for Asher Award

• Peter Bladen, poet