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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.
February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.^[3]
February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.^[4]^[5]
May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public.^[6]
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.^[7]^[8]
October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature.^[9]
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

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)^[19]
January 4
- Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)^[20]
- Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)^[21]
- Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (born 1938)^[22]
- John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)^[23]
January 10
- Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)^[24]
- (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)^[25]
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)^[26]
January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (born 1933)^[27]
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)^[28]
February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)
February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)^[29]
February 17 – Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)^[30]
February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (born 1910)^[31]
February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (born 1914)^[32]
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)^[33]
March 30
- Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)^[34]
- Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)^[35]
April 19
- Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)^[36]
- John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)^[37]
April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author (born 1928)
May 2 – Paul Guimard, French writer (born 1921)
May 12
- Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (born 1912)
- Alexander Skutch, American scientific writer and naturalist (born 1904)^[38]
May 31 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (born 1928)^[39]
July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)^[40]
August 8 – Farida Diouri, Moroccan novelist (born 1953)
August 12 – Humayun Azad, Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (born 1947)
August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born 1911)^[41]
August 30 – Mario Levrero, Uruguayan novelist (born 1940)^[42]
September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)
September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)^[43]
September 28 – Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English (born 1905)
October – Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (born 1908)
October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (born 1930)^[44]
October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)^[45]
October 16
- Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)^[46]
- Harold Perkin, English social historian (born 1926)
October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)^[47]
November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born 1954)^[48]
November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)^[49]
December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)^[50]
December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (born 1922)^[51]
December 12 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (born 1970)^[52]
December 13 – Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (born 1930)^[53]
December 18 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)^[54]
December 28 – Susan Sontag, American novelist (born 1933)^[55]

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^[57]

Sweden edit

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Lygia Bojunga Nunes^[58]

United Kingdom edit

Caine Prize for African Writing: Brian Chikwava, "Seventh Street Alchemy"
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions^[59]
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

Notes edit

Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford companion to children's literature (Second ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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2004 in literature

Contents

Events edit

New books edit

Fiction edit

Children and young people edit

Drama edit

Poetry edit

Non-fiction edit

Films edit

Deaths edit

Awards edit

Australia edit

Canada edit

Sweden edit

United Kingdom edit

United States edit

Elsewhere edit

See also edit

Notes edit

References edit