• Source: 2002 in Australian literature

      • This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2002.


      Major publications




      = Literary fiction

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      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
      Greg Egan
      Schild's Ladder
      "Singleton"
      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

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      = Literary

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      = Fiction

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      = Children and Young Adult

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      = Crime and Mystery

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      = Science fiction

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      = Poetry

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      = Drama

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      = Non-Fiction

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      Deaths


      27 May – Ray Mathew, poet and novelist (born 1929)
      6 June – Peter Cowan, short story writer and literary editor (born 1914)
      25 August – Dorothy Hewett, poet (born 1923)
      16 September – J. E. Macdonnell, novelist (born 1917)
      2 October – R. A. Simpson, poet (born 1929)
      8 December – Gary Catalano, poet and critic (born 1947)
      Unknown date

      Olive Pell, librarian and poet (born 1903)


      See also


      2002 in Australia
      2002 in literature
      2002 in poetry
      List of years in literature
      List of years in Australian literature


      References



      Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.

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