2001 in Australian literature

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2001.

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
 * Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate
 * Sonya Hartnett – Forest
 * Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green!
 * Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet
 * Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack
 * Garth Nix – Lirael
 * Shaun Tan – The Red Tree
 * Margaret Wild – Jinx
 * Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry

Crime

 * Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255
 * Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
 * 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
 * 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
 * Garth Nix – Lirael
 * 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
 * Clive James – Always Unreliable : The Memoirs
 * 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 Lives: 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
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Deaths

 * 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)
 * 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)
 * 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)

Unknown date
 * Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)