2004 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004.
Events
[edit]- January
- The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea.[1][2]
 - The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television.[3]
 
 - February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.[4]
 - February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.[5][6]
 - May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public.[7]
 - June 1 – Controversy surrounds Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (高見広春), when an 11-year-old fan of the story in Sasebo, Nagasaki, murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story.[8][9]
 - October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature.[10]
 - October 31 – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's Suite française, consisting of two novellas, Tempête en juin and Dolce, written and set in 1940–1941, from a sequence left unfinished on the author's death in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
 - December 18 – The première of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti (Dishonour) at England's Birmingham Repertory Theatre is cancelled after violent protests by members of the Sikh community.
 - unknown dates
- Kansas City Public Library's Community Bookshelf is built.
 - The typeface Calibri, designed by Luc(as) de Groot, is introduced.
 
 
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Cecelia Ahern – PS, I Love You[11]
 - Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer[12]
 - Iain M. Banks – The Algebraist[13]
 - Steven Barnes – The Cestus Deception
 - Alistair Beaton – A Planet for the President
 - Thomas Berger – Adventures of the Artificial Woman[14]
 - Roberto Bolaño (posthumous) – 2666[15]
 - T. C. Boyle – The Inner Circle
 - Gennifer Choldenko – Al Capone Does My Shirts
 - Kate Christensen – The Epicure's Lament: A Novel
 - Stephen Clarke – A Year in the Merde
 - Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell[16]
 - Wendy Coakley-Thompson – Back to Life
 - Suzanne Collins – Gregor the Overlander
 - J. J. Connolly – Layer Cake
 - Afua Cooper – The Hanging of Angelique
 - Bernard Cornwell
 - Douglas Coupland – Eleanor Rigby
 - Stevie Davies – Kith & Kin
 - L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg – Sagas of Conan
 - Michel Déon – Your Father's Room
 - Cory Doctorow – Eastern Standard Tribe
 - Saken Omur – Joyful Road
 - Ben Elton – Past Mortem
 - Gustav Ernst – Grado. Süße Nacht
 - Giorgio Faletti – Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
 - Jon Fosse – Det er Ales (Aliss at the Fire)
 - Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club
 - Ge Fei (格非) – 人面桃花 (Renmian Taohua, Peach Blossom Beauty)
 - Robert Goddard – Play to the End
 - Adrien Goetz – La Dormeuse de Naples
 - Helon Habila – Waiting for an Angel
 - Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Brave
 - Elisabeth Harvor, All Times Have Been Modern (Canada)
 - Michael Helm – In the Place of Last Things
 - Carl Hiaasen – Skinny Dip
 - Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
 - Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem
 - Cynthia Kadohata – Kira-Kira
 - Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代) – Woman on the Other Shore
 - Peg Kehret – Escaping the Giant Wave
 - Thomas Keneally – The Tyrant's Novel
 - Stephen King
 - John Kiriamiti – My Life in Prison
 - Karl Ove Knausgård – A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven (En tid for alt)
 - László Krasznahorkai – Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens (Rombolás és bánat az Ég alatt)
 - Thor Kunkel – Endstufe
 - David Leavitt – The Body of Jonah Boyd
 - Tanith Lee – Piratica
 - David Lodge – Author, Author
 - Andreï Makine – The Woman Who Waited (La femme qui attendait)
 - Henning Mankell – Depths (Djup)[17]
 - David Michaels – Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
 - David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas[18]
 - Aka Morchiladze – Santa Esperanza
 - Bharati Mukherjee – The Tree Bride
 - Alice Munro – Runaway
 - V. S. Naipaul – Magic Seeds[19]
 - Garth Nix – Grim Tuesday
 - Cees Nooteboom – Lost Paradise (Paradijs verloren)
 - Linda Sue Park – When My Name Was Keoko
 - Jodi Picoult – My Sister's Keeper
 - Terry Pratchett
 - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry – MedStar I: Battle Surgeons and MedStar II: Jedi Healer
 - Marilynne Robinson – Gilead[20]
 - Philip Roth – The Plot Against America
 - Edward Rutherfurd – Dublin: Foundation
 - Nick Sagan – Edenborn[21]
 - Andrzej Sapkowski – Warriors of God
 - David Sherman and Dan Cragg – Jedi Trial
 - Kyle Smith – Love Monkey[22]
 - David Southwell – Conspiracy Files
 - Muriel Spark – The Finishing School
 - Olen Steinhauer – The Confession
 - Neal Stephenson
- The Confusion (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)
 - The System of the World (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
 
 - Sean Stewart – Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
 - Michel Thaler – Le Train de Nulle Part[23]
 - Colm Tóibín – The Master
 - Zlatko Topčić – Bare Skin
 - Karen Traviss – Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 - Jonathan Trigell – Boy A[24]
 - Andrew Vachss – Down Here
 - Vivian Vande Velde – Heir Apparent
 - Bob Weltlich – Crooked Zebra
 - A. N. Wilson – My Name Is Legion
 - Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
 - Juli Zeh – Gaming Instinct
 - Florian Zeller – La Fascination du pire (The Fascination of Evil)
 
Children and young people
[edit]- David Almond – Kate, the Cat and the Moon
 - Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson - Peter and the Starcatchers[25]
 - Mary Bartek – Funerals and Fly Fishing
 - John Fardell – The Seven Professors of the Far North
 - Mem Fox – Where Is the Green Sheep?[26]
 - Cornelia Funke – When Santa Fell to Earth
 - Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) – Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale
 - E. L. Konigsburg - The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
 - J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – The Stolen Smile
 - Robert Muchamore – The Recruit[27] (first in the CHERUB series)
 - Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa
 - Liz Pichon – My Big Brother, Boris
 - Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez – The Eyes of My Princess
 - Lemony Snicket – The Grim Grotto[28]
 - Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris
 
Drama
[edit]- Alan Bennett – The History Boys
 - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Behzti
 - Neil Brand – Stan (radio)
 - Bryony Lavery – Frozen
 - Brent Hartinger – Geography Club
 - Louis Nowra – The Woman with Dog's Eyes
 - John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
 - Florian Zeller – L'Autre (The Other)
 
Poetry
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- Steve Almond – Candyfreak
 - Thomas P.M. Barnett – The Pentagon's New Map
 - Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman and Maria von Rosen – Tre dagböcker (Three diaries)
 - T. Mike Childs – The Rocklopedia Fakebandica
 - Richard A. Clarke – Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
 - Jonathan Coe – Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
 - Allison Hedge Coke – Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
 - Anne Coleman – I'll Tell You a Secret[30]
 - Flora Fraser – Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
 - Leonie Frieda – Catherine de' Medici
 - Sheila Hancock – The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
 - Gareth Stedman Jones – An End to Poverty?[31]
 - Pedro Lemebel – Adiós mariquita linda
 - Doris Lessing – Time Bites: Views and Reviews
 - Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture
 - Mario Vargas Llosa – The Temptation of the Impossible
 - Roger Lowenstein – Origins of the Crash
 - Hugh Masekela – Still Grazing (autobiography)
 - Predrag Miletić – Biciklom do Hilandara
 - Farah Pahlavi – An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
 - Chuck Palahniuk – Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
 - Michael Palin – Himalaya
 - Sethy Regenvanu – Laef blong mi (From village to nation: an autobiography)
 - Anita Roddick – Take it Personally: How globalization affects you and powerful ways to challenge it
 - Miranda Seymour – The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
 - Owen Sheers – The Dust Diaries
 - Rebecca Solnit – Hope in the Dark
 - 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
 - Milt Thomas – Cave of a Thousand Tales
 - J. Maarten Troost – The Sex Lives of Cannibals
 - United Kingdom Government – Delivering Security in a Changing World
 - Francis Wheen – How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (also Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions)
 - Alford A. Young Jr. – The Minds of Marginalized Black Men[32]
 
Films
[edit]- 2046 - inspired by Liu Yichang's "The Drunkard"
 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 - The Phantom of the Opera
 
Deaths
[edit]- January 3 – Lillian Beckwith, English novelist (born 1916)[33]
 - January 4
- Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)[34]
 - Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)[35]
 - Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (born 1938)[36]
 - John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)[37]
 
 - January 10
- Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)[38]
 - (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)[39]
 
 - January 13 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher and linguist (born 1921)
 - January 14 – Jack Cady, American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932)
 - January 15
- Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer (born 1922)
 - Olivia Goldsmith, American novelist (complications from cosmetic surgery, born 1949)[40]
 
 - January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (born 1933)[41]
 - January 29
- Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
 - M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist (born 1908)
 
 - February 2 – Alan Bullock, English historian (born 1914)
 - February 4 – Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1930)[42]
 - February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)[43]
 - February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)[44]
 - February 17 – Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)[45]
 - February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (born 1910)[46]
 - February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (born 1914)[47]
 - February 29 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (born 1915)
 - March 9 – Albert Mol, Dutch author, actor and dancer (born 1917)
 - March 27 – Robert Merle, French novelist (born 1908)
 - March 29 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, dramatist and memoirist (born 1921)[48]
 - March 30
- Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)[49]
 - Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)[50]
 
 - April 19
- Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)[51]
 - John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
 
 - April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)[52]
 - April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author (born 1928)[53]
 - May 2 – Paul Guimard, French writer (born 1921)[54]
 - May 12
 - May 31 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (born 1928)[57]
 - July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
 - July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)[58]
 - August 8 – Farida Diouri, Moroccan novelist (born 1953)[citation needed]
 - August 12 – Humayun Azad, Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (born 1947)[59]
 - August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born 1911)[60]
 - August 30 – Mario Levrero, Uruguayan novelist (born 1940)[61]
 - September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)[62]
 - September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)[63]
 - September 28 – Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English (born 1905)[64]
 - October – Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (born 1908)
 - October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (born 1930)[65]
 - October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)[66]
 - October 16
- Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)[67]
 - Harold Perkin, English social historian (born 1926)
 
 - October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)[68]
 - November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born 1954)[69]
 - November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)[70]
 - December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)[71]
 - December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (born 1922)[72]
 - December 12 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (born 1970)[73]
 - December 13 – Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (born 1930)[74]
 - December 18 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)[75]
 - December 28 – Susan Sontag, American novelist (born 1933)[76]
 
Awards
[edit]Australia
[edit]- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Julienne van Loon, Road Story
 - Victorian Premier's Literary Award 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
 - Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Annamarie Jagose, Slow Water
 
Canada
[edit]- 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
 - Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue[78]
 
Sweden
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- Caine Prize for African Writing: Brian Chikwava, "Seventh Street Alchemy"
 - Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions[80]
 - Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
 - Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
 - James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography
 - James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: David Peace, GB84
 - 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
 - Whitbread Best Book Award: Andrea Levy, Small Island
 
United States
[edit]- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Henry Taylor
 - Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Aaron Smith, 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, 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
 - Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2004 Lambda Literary Awards.
 - National Book Award for Fiction: to The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
 - National Book Critics Circle Award: to Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
 - PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Early Stories: 1953–1975 by John Updike
 - Wallace Stevens Award: Mark Strand
 - Whiting Awards:
 
- Fiction: Daniel Alarcón, Kirsten Bakis, Victor LaValle
 - Nonfiction: Allison Glock, John Jeremiah Sullivan
 - Plays: Elana Greenfield, Tracey Scott Wilson
 - Poetry: Catherine Barnett, Dan Chiasson, A. Van Jordan
 
Elsewhere
[edit]- Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, El camino de los ingleses
 
See also
[edit]- List of years in literature
 - Literature
 - Poetry
 - List of literary awards
 - List of poetry awards
 - The Best American Short Stories 2004
 - 2004 in Australian literature
 
Notes
[edit]- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford companion to children's literature (Second ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
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