2004 in literature
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| Years: | 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 |
Contents |
Events
- Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.
- June 1 - Sasebo, Nagasaki - Controversy briefly surrounded Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story (known on the internet as Nevada-tan) murdered her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimicked a scene from the story. [1] [2]
New books
- Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror - Richard A. Clarke
- Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
- Author, Author - David Lodge
- Back to Life (novel) - Wendy Coakley-Thompson
- The Big Why - Michael Winter
- The Body of Jonah Boyd - David Leavitt
- The Cestus Deception - Steven Barnes
- Conspiracy Files - David Southwell
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Confession - Olen Steinhauer
- The Confusion - Neal Stephenson (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)
- The Dark Tower - Stephen King
- The Dust Diaries - Owen Sheers
- Dust of Eden - Thomas Sullivan
- Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
- Edenborn - Nick Sagan
- Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
- Eragon - Christopher Paolini
- Escaping the Giant Wave - Peg Kehret
- Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- Gregor the Overlander - Suzanne Collins
- The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
- The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper
- Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde
- How to Ruin Your Financial Life - Ben Stein
- In the Place of Last Things - Michael Helm
- Jedi Trial - David Sherman & Dan Cragg
- Layer Cake - J.J. Connelly
- The Inner Circle - T. C. Boyle
- The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
- Love Monkey - Kyle Smith
- MedStar I: Battle Surgeons - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
- MedStar II: Jedi Healer - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
- My Name Is Legion - A. N. Wilson
- Origins of the Crash - Roger Lowenstein
- Past Mortem - Ben Elton
- The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas P.M. Barnett
- A Planet for the President - Alistair Beaton
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- The Rocklopedia Fakebandica - T. Mike Childs
- Runaway - Alice Munro
- Sahara Special - Esmé Raji Codell
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
- Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
- Song of Susannah - Stephen King
- Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact - Karen Traviss
- Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories - Chuck Palahniuk
- The System of the World - Neal Stephenson (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
- Ten Men - Alexandra Gray
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - David Michaels
- When My Name Was Keoke - Linda Sue Park
- A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
- Yoda: Dark Rendezvous - Sean Stewart
New drama
Non-fiction
- Flora Fraser - Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
- Leonie Frieda - Catherine de' Medici
- Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
- Ben Stein - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, The Truth, and What to Do About It
- Jon Stewart and writers of The Daily Show - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Deaths
January-February
- John Toland, author and historian
- Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture
- January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett
- January 10 (or 11?), Spalding Gray, actor and author
- January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist
- January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author
- January 15
- Olivia Goldsmith, author
- Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer
- January 22, George Woodbridge, illustrator
- January 29, M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions
- 29 January, Janet Frame, New Zealand author
- February 2, Alan Bullock, historian
- February 4, Hilda Hilst, Brazilian novelist
- February 5, Frances Partridge, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
- February 7, Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
- February 8, Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor
- February 16, Bill Oakley, comic book letterer
- February 19, Hermann Krings, German philosopher
- February 27, Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
- February 28, Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
- February 29, Jerome Lawrence, playwright
March-August
- March 9, Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
- March 29 - Peter Ustinov, actor, dramatist and memoirist (b. 1921)
- March 30
- Dr Michael King OBE New Zealand historian, author and biographer
- Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist and broadcaster (b. 1908)
- May 2, Paul Guimard, French writer
- April 26, Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
- July 1, Peter Barnes, playwright
- July 8, Paula Danziger, young adult novelist
September-December
- September 18 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- September 24 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
- October 16, Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist
- October 20, Anthony Hecht, American poet
- November 24, Arthur Hailey, Canadian author
- December 2 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- December 8, Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- December 12, Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (b. 1970)
- December 18 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
- December 28, Susan Sontag, American novelist (b. 1933)
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Julienne van Loon, Road Story
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, Wolf Notes
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Pam Brown, Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems
- Mary Gilmore Prize: David McCooey, Blister Pack; Michael Brennan, Imageless World
- Miles Franklin Award: Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
Canada
- Giller Prize: Alice Munro, Runaway
- Governor General's Awards: See 2004 Governor General's Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Simpson, Loop and August Kleinzahler, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
- Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
- Man Booker Prize: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Hugo Williams
United States
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Henry Taylor
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Aaron Smith for Blue on Blue Ground
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Jeremy Glazier, "Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, B.H. Fairchild for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, John Brehm, Sea of Faith
- Compton Crook Award: E. E. Knight, Way of the Wolf
- Frost Medal: Richard Howard
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls
- Wallace Stevens Award: Mark Strand
See also
Categories
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