2004 in literature
Overview of the events of 2004 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004 .
Events
January
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.
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New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Films
Deaths
January 3 – Lillian Beckwith , English novelist (born 1916 )[ 33]
January 4
January 10
January 13 – Zeno Vendler , American philosopher and linguist (born 1921 )
January 14 – Jack Cady , American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932 )
January 15
January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif , Arab writer (born 1933 )[ 41]
January 29
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
April 19
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
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
Australia
Canada
Sweden
United Kingdom
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
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
See also
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford companion to children's literature (Second ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2 . {{cite book }}
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