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

• Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
• Marshall Browne – The Trumpeting Angel^[1]
• Steven Carroll – The Art of the Engine Driver
• Bryce Courtenay – Four Fires
• Robert Dessaix – Corfu: A Novel^[2]
• Garry Disher – Past the Headlands^[3]
• Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
• Stephen Gray – The Artist is a Thief^[4]
• Marion Halligan – The Fog Garden^[5]
• Elizabeth Jolley – An Innocent Gentleman^[6]
• Kathy Lette – Nip 'n' Tuck^[7]
• Joan London – Gilgamesh
• John A. Scott – The Architect
• Tim Winton – Dirt Music
• Arnold Zable – Cafe Scheherazade^[8]

• Graeme Base – The Waterhole^[9]
• Garry Disher – Moondyne Kate^[10]
• Andy Griffiths – The Day My Bum Went Psycho
• Sonya Hartnett – Forest
• Odo Hirsch – Have Courage, Hazel Green!^[11]
• Leigh Hobbs – Horrible Harriet^[12]
• Maureen McCarthy – Flash Jack^[13]
• Garth Nix
  • Above the Veil
  • Lirael
• Emily Rodda – City of Rats
• Shaun Tan – The Red Tree
• Margaret Wild – Jinx^[14]
• Markus Zusak – When Dogs Cry

• Bunty Avieson – Apartment 255
• Marshall Browne – Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools^[15]
• Jon Cleary – Yesterday's Shadow
• Peter Corris – Lugarno^[16]
• Emma Darcy – Who Killed Angelique?^[17]
• Peter Doyle – The Devil's Jump^[18]
• Kerry Greenwood – Away with the Fairies^[19]
• Gabrielle Lord – Death Delights
• Matthew Reilly – Area 7
• Patricia Shaw – The Dream Seekers^[20]

• Lilian Darcy – The Paramedic's Secret^[21]
• Barbara Hannay
  • The Pregnancy Discovery^[22]
  • The Wedding Dare^[23]

• Trudi Canavan – The Magicians' Guild
• Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Ill-Made Mute^[24]
• Sara Douglass – The Wounded Hawk
• Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
• Jennifer Fallon
  • Harshini
  • Treason Keep
• Kate Forsyth – The Skull of the World^[25]
• Ian Irvine – Geomancer
• Fiona McIntosh – Betrayal^[26]
• 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^[27]

• Andrew Bovell – Holy Day^[28]
• David Brown – Keep Everything You Love^[29]
• Nick Enright – Spurboard^[30]
• Dorothy Hewett – Nowhere^[31]
• Peta Murray – Salt : A Play in Five Helpings^[32]
• Joanna Murray-Smith – Bombshells^[33]
• John Romeril – Miss Tanaka^[34]
• David Williamson
  • Charitable Intent
  • A Conversation
  • Up for Grabs

• M. T. C. Cronin – Bestseller^[35]
• John Forbes – Collected Poems : 1970–1998^[36]
• Peter Goldsworthy – New Selected Poems^[37]
• Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain^[38]
• John Kinsella – The Hierarchy of Sheep^[39]
• Peter Porter – Max is Missing^[40]
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe – By and Large^[41]
• Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers^[42]

• Peter Carey – 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account
• Dawn Fraser – Dawn: One Hell of a Life^[43]
• Jacqueline Kent – A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a Literary Life^[44]
• John Kinsella – Auto^[45]
• Roger McDonald – The Tree in Changing Light^[46]
• Hilary McPhee – Other People's Words^[47]
• Peter Rose – Rose Boys^[48]
• Nadia Wheatley – The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift^[49]

• Diane Armstrong – The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and its Passengers^[50]
• Emily Chantiri – The Money Club^[51]
• Jill Jolliffe – Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo Five^[52]

Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

• 25 February – Don Bradman, cricketer and author (born 1908)^[71]
• 18 September – Amy Witting, novelist (born 1918)^[72]
• 20 September – Patsy Adam-Smith, writer (born 1924)^[73]

Unknown date

• Peter Bladen, poet (born 1922)^[74]

• 2001 in Australia
• 2001 in literature
• 2001 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

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