2001 IN LITERATURE

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

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Other

Events

★ The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, '', hits movie theaters. The film is directed by Peter Jackson

★ February 15 - Author Michael Crichton signed a new two book deal with HarperCollins Publishers reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.

★ July 20 - London: After being found guilty of two counts of perjury and two of perverting the course of justice, a shackled Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare is taken to Belmarsh jail in a van, seated next to a convicted knife murderer.

New books

★ Niccolò Ammaniti - ''Io non ho paura''

★ Raymond Benson - ''Never Dream of Dying''

★ Dennis Bock - ''The Ash Garden''

★ Geraldine Brooks - ''Year of Wonders''

★ Lois McMaster Bujold - ''The Curse of Chalion''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''All Families Are Psychotic''

★ Umberto Eco - ''Baudolino''

★ Barbara Ehrenreich - ''Nickel and Dimed''

★ James Ellroy - ''The Cold Six Thousand''

★ Jonathan Franzen - ''The Corrections''

★ Diana Gabaldon - ''The Fiery Cross''

★ Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff - ''Past Imperfect''

★ John Grisham

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★ ''A Painted House''

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★ ''Skipping Christmas''

★ Joanne Harris - ''Five Quarters of the Orange''

★ Nancy Huston - ''Dolce Agonia''

★ ''The Fourth Hand'' - John Irving

★ P. D. James - ''Death in Holy Orders''

★ Greg Keyes

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★ ''

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★ ''

★ Stephen King

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★ ''Black House''

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★ ''Dreamcatcher''

★ Robert N. Kucey - ''Giving Something Back''

★ Hanif Kureishi - ''Gabriel's Gift''

★ John le Carré - ''The Constant Gardener''

★ David Lodge -''Thinks ...''

★ James Luceno - ''Cloak of Deception''

★ Yann Martel - ''Life of Pi''

★ R. K. Narayan - ''Under the Banyan Tree''

★ Chuck Palahniuk - ''Choke''

★ Orhan Pamuk - ''The White Castle''

★ Kate Grenville Picador - ''The Idea of Perfection''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents''

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★ ''Thief of Time''

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★ ''The Last Hero''

★ Sven Regener - ''Herr Lehmann''

★ Kathy Reichs - ''Fatal Voyage''

★ Alain Robbe-Grillet - ''La reprise''

★ Jean-Christophe Rufin - ''Rouge Brésil''

★ Salman Rushdie - ''Fury''

★ Richard Russo - ''Empire Falls''

★ Eric Schlosser - ''Fast Food Nation''

★ W. G. Sebald - ''Austerlitz''

★ Michael Slade - ''Death's Door''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Leap Of Faith''

★ Amy Tan - ''The Bonesetter's Daughter''

★ Timothy Taylor - ''Stanley Park''

★ Anne Tyler - ''Back When We Were Grownups''

★ Jane Urquhart - ''The Stone Carvers''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Pain Management''

★ Joyce Carol Oates - ''

New drama

★ Neil LaBute - ''The Shape of Things''

★ Lynn Manning - ''Weights''

Non-fiction

★ Gale E. Christianson - ''

★ Antonia Fraser - ''

★ Stephen Hawking - ''The Universe in a Nutshell''

★ Laura Hillenbrand -''Seabiscuit: An American Legend''

★ Christopher Hitchens - ''The Trial of Henry Kissinger''

★ Peter Kurth - ''

★ Lawrence Lessig - ''The Future of Ideas''

★ Normand Lester - ''Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais (The Black Book of English Canada)''

★ Steven Levy - ''

★ Herbert R. Lottman - ''Man Ray's Montparnasse''

★ Michael Moore - ''Stupid White Men''

★ Mumtaz Mufti - ''Ali Pur Ka Aeeli''

★ ''T. Subba Row Collected Writings''

★ Pavel Polyan - ''Not by Their Own Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR''

★ E. Hoffman Price - ''Book of the Dead''

★ Miranda Seymour - ''Mary Shelley''

★ Frans de Waal - ''The Ape and the Sushi Master''

Births

Deaths

★ January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer

★ February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator

★ February 14 - Alan Ross,78, poet and editor

★ March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author

★ May 11 - Douglas Adams, author (heart attack) (b. 1952)

★ May 13 - R.K. Narayan, 94, Indian novelist

★ June 1 - Hank Ketcham, 81, cartoonist, creator of ''Dennis the Menace''

★ June 27 - Tove Jansson, children's author

★ July 3 - Mordecai Richler

★ August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author

★ August 6 - Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer

★ August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer

★ November 10 - Ken Kesey, 66, author.

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: V.S. Naipaul

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Sarah Hay, ''Skins''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Mateer, ''Barefoot Speech''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Ken Taylor, ''Africa''

★ Miles Franklin Award: Frank Moorhouse, ''Dark Palace''

Canada

★ Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright - ''Clara Callan''

★ See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Décembre: Chloé Delaume, ''Le Cri du sablier''

★ Prix Femina: Marie Ndiaye, ''Rosie Carpe''

★ Prix Goncourt: Jean-Christophe Rufin, ''Rouge Brésil''

★ Prix Médicis French: Edwy Plenel, ''Secrets de jeunesse''

★ Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: ''Le Loup mongol''

★ Prix Médicis International: Antonio Skarmeta, ''La noce du poète''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Peter Carey, ''True History of the Kelly Gang''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols

★ Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read

★ Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson, ''Men in the Off Hours'' and Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of ''Glottal Stop: 101 Poems'' by Paul Celan

★ Hugo Award: J. K. Rowling, ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

★ Samuel Johnson Prize: Michael Burleigh, ''The Third Reich''

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for ''A Defense of Poetry''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Circus Fire, 1944”

★ Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück

★ Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, ''Horizon Note''

★ Compton Crook Award: Syne Mitchell, ''Murphy's Gambit''

★ Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Richard Peck, ''A Year Down Yonder''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Auburn, ''Proof''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Chabon, ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, ''Different Hours''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery

Other

★ Finlandia Prize: Hannu Raittila ''Canal Grande''

★ IMPAC Award: Alistair MacLeod, ''No Great Mischief''

★ Orange Prize for Fiction: Kate Grenville Picador, ''The Idea of Perfection''

★ Premio Nadal: Fernando Marías, ''El Niño de los Coroneles''

★ Premio Strega: Domenico Starnone, ''Via Gemito''

★ Viareggio Prize: Niccolò Ammaniti, ''Io non ho paura'', Michele Ranchetti, ''Verbale'', and Giorgio Pestelli, ''Canti del destino''