2000 IN LITERATURE

The year '2001 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

Fiction

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Other

Events

★ February 13 - Final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip is published

★ September 24 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, ''One of the Guys'', in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts

New books

Fiction

★ Isabel Allende - ''Daughter of Fortune''

★ Reed Arvin - ''The Will''

★ Margaret Atwood - ''The Blind Assassin''

★ Louis Auchincloss - ''Her Infinite Variety''

★ Eleanor Ayer - ''Parallel Journeys''

★ Trezza Azzopardi - ''The Hiding Place''

★ Iain M. Banks - ''Look to Windward''

★ Matt Beaumont - ''e''

★ Raymond Benson - ''Doubleshot''

★ T. C. Boyle - ''A Friend of the Earth''

★ Peter Carey - ''True History of the Kelly Gang''

★ Michael Chabon - ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel''

★ Tom Clancy - ''The Bear And The Dragon''

★ Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark - ''Deck The Halls''

★ Miriam Cooke - ''Hayati, My Life''

★ Patricia Cornwell - ''The Last Precinct''

★ August Derleth - ''The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition''

★ Ken Follett - ''Code to Zero''

★ Myla Goldberg - ''Bee Season''

★ Linda Grant - ''When I Lived in Modern Times''

★ John Grisham - ''The Brethren''

★ Mohsin Hamid - ''Moth Smoke''

★ Joanne Harris - ''Blackberry Wine''

★ David Holland - ''

★ Robert Jordan - ''Winter's Heart''

★ Barbara Kingsolver - ''Prodigal Summer''

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Prometheus Deception''

★ Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

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★ ''The Indwelling''

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★ ''The Mark''

★ Barry N. Malzberg - ''In the Stone House''

★ Colleen McCullough - ''Morgan's Run''

★ Alistair MacLeod - ''Island''

★ Joyce Carol Oates - ''Blonde''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Hugger Mugger''

★ James Patterson - ''Roses Are Red''

★ Rosamunde Pilcher - ''Winter Solstice''

★ Giuseppe Pontiggia - ''Nati due volte''

★ Terry Pratchett - ''The Truth''

★ Philip Pullman - ''The Amber Spyglass''

★ Mario Puzo - ''Omertà''

★ Kathy Reichs - ''Deadly Decisions''

★ Philip Roth - ''The Human Stain''

★ J. K. Rowling - ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

★ Peter Ruber editor - ''Arkham's Masters of Horror''

★ Jean-Jacques Schuhl - ''Ingrid Caven''

★ Christina Schwarz - ''Drowning Ruth''

★ Michael Slade - ''Hangman''

★ Gillian Slovo - ''Red Dust''

★ Zadie Smith - ''White Teeth''

★ Michael Stackpole

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★ ''

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★ ''

★ Domenico Starnone - ''Via Gemito''

★ Danielle Steel

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★ ''The House On Hope Street''

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★ ''Journey''

★ Kathy Tyers - ''Balance Point''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Dead and Gone''

Drama

★ David Auburn - ''Proof''

★ Timothy Findley - ''Elizabeth Rex''

★ Dusty Hughes - ''Helpless''

Poetry

★ Anne Carson - ''Men in the Off Hours''

★ Paul Celan - '' (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)

★ Fanny Howe - ''

★ Pierre Labrie - ''À tout hasard''

★ Grazyna Miller - ''Sull'onda del respiro'' (''On the Wave of Breath'')

★ Owen Sheers - ''The Blue Book''

Non-fiction

★ ''The Beatles Anthology''

★ Peter Ackroyd - ''London: A Biography''

★ Gerina Dunwich - ''

★ Dave Eggers - ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''

★ Charles Foster - ''

★ Lawrence Lessig - ''Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace''

★ Roger Lowenstein - ''

★ Sidney Poitier - ''

★ Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - ''

★ Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp - ''

Births

Deaths

★ January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author

★ January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer

★ February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip

★ March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist

★ April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'')

★ August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of ''Donald Duck''

★ September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British novelist and critic (''The History Man'')

★ October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author

★ November 2 - Robert Cormier, 75, young adult fiction writer

★ November 8 - L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Stephen Gray, ''The Artist is a Thief''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, ''Iceman''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, ''Mines''

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, ''Memory Shell''

★ Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, ''Drylands''; Kim Scott, ''Benang''

Canada

★ Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, ''Anil's Ghost'' - tied with: David Adams Richards, ''Mercy Among the Children''

★ See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, ''Dans ces bras-là''

★ Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, ''Ingrid Caven''

★ Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, ''Camille''

★ Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, ''Le zoo des philosophes''

★ Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, ''Diabolus in musica''

★ Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, ''Anil's Ghost''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, ''The Blind Assassin''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti

★ Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard

★ Orange Prize for Fiction: Linda Grant, ''When I Lived in Modern Times''

★ Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, ''Berlioz: Volume 2''

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Matthew Kneale, ''English Passengers''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for ''Asylum''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"

★ Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for ''Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations''

★ Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Greg Rappleye, ''A Path Between Houses''

★ Business Week Best Book of the Year: Roger Lowenstein, ''When Genius Failed''

★ Compton Crook Award: Stephen L. Burns, ''Flesh and Silver''

★ Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht

★ Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, ''A Deepness in the Sky''

★ Nebula Award: Greg Bear, ''Darwin's Radio''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, ''Bud, Not Buddy''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald Margulies, ''Dinner With Friends''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, ''Interpreter of Maladies''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, ''Repair''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart

Other

★ Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo ''Not Before Sunset'' (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)

★ IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, ''Wide Open''

★ Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, ''El alquimista impaciente''

★ Viareggio Prize: Giorgio Van Straten, ''Il mio nome a memoria'' and Sandro Veronesi, ''La forza del passato''