2004 IN LITERATURE

The year '2004 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

January-February

March-August

September-December

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

See also

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

★ Germano Almeida - ''O mar na Lajinha''

★ R. Scott Bakker - ''The Darkness That Comes Before''

★ Steven Barnes - ''The Cestus Deception''

★ Alistair Beaton - ''A Planet for the President''

★ T. C. Boyle - ''The Inner Circle''

★ Gennifer Choldenko - ''Al Capone Does My Shirts''

★ Stephen Clarke - ''A Year in the Merde''

★ Susanna Clarke - ''Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell''

★ Wendy Coakley-Thompson - ''Back to Life''

★ Suzanne Collins - ''Gregor the Overlander''

★ J. J. Connelly - ''Layer Cake''

★ Afua Cooper - ''The Hanging of Angelique''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''Eleanor Rigby''

★ Stevie Davies - ''Kith & Kin''

★ L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - ''Sagas of Conan''

★ Cory Doctorow - ''Eastern Standard Tribe''

★ Ben Elton - ''Past Mortem''

★ Giorgio Faletti - ''Niente di vero tranne gli occhi''

★ Karen Joy Fowler - ''The Jane Austen Book Club''

★ 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''

★ Peg Kehret - ''Escaping the Giant Wave''

★ Stephen King

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★ ''The Dark Tower''

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★ ''Song of Susannah''

★ Aimen Klimmeron - ''

★ David Leavitt - ''The Body of Jonah Boyd''

★ David Lodge -''Author, Author''

★ David Michaels - ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell''

★ David Mitchell -''Cloud Atlas''

★ Alice Munro - ''Runaway''

★ Garth Nix - ''Grim Tuesday''

★ Linda Sue Park - ''When My Name Was Keoke''

★ Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

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★ ''

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★ ''

★ Philip Roth - ''The Plot Against America''

★ Nick Sagan - ''Edenborn''

★ David Sherman & Dan Cragg - ''Jedi Trial

★ Kyle Smith - ''Love Monkey''

★ Lemony Snicket - ''The Grim Grotto''

★ David Southwell - ''Conspiracy Files''

★ Olen Steinhauer - ''The Confession''

★ Neal Stephenson

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★ ''The Confusion'' (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)

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★ ''The System of the World'' (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)

★ Sean Stewart - ''

★ Thomas Sullivan - ''Dust of Eden''

★ Karen Traviss - ''

★ Jonathan Trigell - ''Boy A''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Down Here''

★ Vivian Vande Velde - ''Heir Apparent''

★ A. N. Wilson - ''My Name Is Legion''

★ Michael Winter - ''The Big Why''

New drama

★ Alan Bennett - ''The History Boys''

★ Neil Brand - ''Stan'' (radio)

★ Bryony Lavery - ''Frozen''

★ John Patrick Shanley - ''Doubt''

Non-fiction

★ Thomas P. M. Barnett - ''The Pentagon's New Map''

★ T. Mike Childs - ''The Rocklopedia Fakebandica''

★ Richard A. Clarke - ''Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror''

★ Flora Fraser - ''Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III''

★ Leonie Frieda - ''Catherine de' Medici''

★ Sheila Hancock - ''

★ Lawrence Lessig - ''Free Culture''

★ Roger Lowenstein - ''Origins of the Crash''

★ Farah Pahlavi - ''

★ Chuck Palahniuk - ''

★ Michael Palin - ''Himalaya''

★ Miranda Seymour - ''

★ Owen Sheers - ''The Dust Diaries''

★ 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 - ''

★ Milt Thomas - ''Cave of a Thousand Tales''

★ J. Maarten Troost - ''The Sex Lives of Cannibals''

Deaths

January-February

★ January 4
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★ John Toland, author and historian
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★ Joan Aiken, author of ''The Wolves of Willoughby Chase''
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★ 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
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★ Olivia Goldsmith, author
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★ 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

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★ Dr Michael King OBE New Zealand historian, author and biographer

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★ 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

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Elfriede Jelinek

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

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, ''El camino de los ingleses''

See also

★ list of years in literature

★ Literature

★ Poetry

★ List of literary awards

★ List of poetry awards