This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award[49] | Dimitris Tsaloumas |
Patrick White Award[50] | Tom Hungerford |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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The Age Book of the Year Award[51] | Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House |
ALS Gold Medal[52] | Richard Flanagan | Gould's Book of Fish | Picador |
Colin Roderick Award[53] | Don Watson | Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM | Random House |
Nita Kibble Literary Award[54] | Marion Halligan | The Fog Garden | Allen & Unwin |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize[55] | 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 |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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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 |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Davitt Award[60] | 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[61] | Novel | Gabrielle Lord | Death Delights | Hodder Headline Australia |
First novel | Bunty Avieson | Apartment 255 | Pan Macmillan | |
Emma Darcy | Who Killed Angelique? | Pan Macmillan | ||
True crime | Larry Writer | Razor | Pan Macmillan | |
Mike Richards | The Hanged Man | Scribe Publications | ||
Teenage/YA | Ken Catran | Blue Murder | Lothian | |
Readers' vote | Bunty Avieson | Apartment 255 | Pan Macmillan | |
Lifetime achievement | Patrick Gallagher |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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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 |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[56] | Cath Kenneally | Around Here | Wakefield Press |
The Age Book of the Year | Robert Gray | Afterimages | Duffy and Snellgrove |
Anne Elder Award[62] | Bronwyn Lea | Flight Animals | University of Queensland Press |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[63] | Kate Lilley | Versary | Salt Publishing |
Mary Gilmore Prize[64] | 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 |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | Reg Cribb | Last Cab to Darwin | Last Cab Productions |
Ian Wilding | Even Amongst Dogs |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[56] | Non-Fiction | John Birmingham | Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney | Random House Australia |
The Age Book of the Year | Non-Fiction | 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 |
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Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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