2002 in literature

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The year 2002 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events [edit]

March 16 - Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
March 31 - American Writers: A Journey Through History resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.^[1]
November - Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, a novelization of the film Die Another Day, bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based upon Ian Fleming's character that started in 1981.

New prose fiction [edit]

Aaron Allston - Enemy Lines: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand
Jean M. Auel - The Shelters of Stone
Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions
Iain Banks - Dead Air
Greg Bear - Vitals
Raymond Benson - Die Another Day and The Man with the Red Tattoo
Nelson Bond - The Far Side of Nowhere
William Boyd - Any Human Heart
Mircea Cărtărescu -- The Encyclopedia of Dragons
Stephen L. Carter - The Emperor of Ocean Park
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Prey, Sharpe's Skirmish and Vagabond
Michael Crichton - Prey
Elaine Cunningham - Dark Journey
L. Sprague de Camp - Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories
Thomas R. DeGregori - The Bountiful Harvest
Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity
Janet Evanovich - Hard Eight
Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
Giorgio Faletti - Io uccido
Mick Farren - Underland
Nancy Farmer- The House of The Scorpion
Alan Dean Foster - The Approaching Storm
Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp - None But Lucifer
Jean-Christophe Grangé - Le Concile de pierre
Niall Griffiths - Sheepshagger
John Grisham - The Summons
Joanne Harris - Coastliners
John D. Harvey - The Cleansing
Aleksandar Hemon - Nowhere Man
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
Stephen King - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales and From a Buick 8
Rachel Klein - The Moth Diaries
Dean R. Koontz - By the Light of the Moon and One Door Away from Heaven
Robert Ludlum - The Sigma Protocol
Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Last Legion
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Orhan Pamuk - Snow
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
James Patterson - Beach House
Terry Pratchett - Night Watch
Libby Purves - Mother Country
Pascal Quignard - Les Ombres errantes
Kathy Reichs - Grave Secrets
Nora Roberts - Face the Fire
Joel C. Rosenberg - The Last Jihad
R. A. Salvatore - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Carol Shields - Unless
Vladimir Sorokin - Ice
Thomas Sullivan - Born Burning
Danielle Steel - The Cottage
Matthew Stover - Traitor
Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault
Andrew Vachss - Only Child
Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Last Crossing
Barbara Vine - The Blood Doctor
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Darren Williams - Angel Rock
Walter Jon Williams - Destiny's Way
Roger Zelazny - The Last Defender of Camelot

New drama [edit]

Nilo Cruz - Anna in the Tropics
Peter Verhelst - Blush

Poetry [edit]

Main article: 2002 in poetry

Jim Dodge - Rain on the River
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren
Grazyna Miller - Alibi of a butterfly

Non-fiction [edit]

Peter Ackroyd - Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Bija Bennett - Emotional Yoga
Stuart Christie - Granny Made me an Anarchist
Gerina Dunwich - A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural
Pim Fortuyn - De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars
Michael J. Fox - Lucky Man: A Memoir
Stephen J. Gould - I Have Landed
Peter Jennings - In Search of America
Judith Levine - Harmful to Minors
Gabriel García Márquez - Vivir para contarla (autobiography)
Jeremy Paxman - The Political Animal
Neil Peart - Ghost Rider
Rachel Simon - Riding the Bus with My Sister
David Southwell - Dirty Cash
James B. Stewart - Heart of a Soldier
Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
Rick Warren - The Purpose Driven Life
Alison Watt - The Last Island^[2]
Edited by John Brockman - The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

Deaths [edit]

January 12 - Lady Violet Powell, literary critic, 89
January 28 - Astrid Lindgren, children's author, 94
February 8 - Joachim Hoffmann, 71
February 21 - A. L. Barker, novelist, 83
February 27 - Spike Milligan, comedian, screenwriter and poet, 83
March 21 - Thomas Flanagan, novelist, 78
April 6 - Martin Sperr, German dramatist, 57
May 6 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch political columnist and writer, 54
May 17 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine, 81
May 20 - Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and writer
June 2 - Flora Lewis, journalist, 84
June 13 - R. W. B. Lewis, critic, 84
June 20
- Timothy Findley, Canadian author, 71
- Kenneth Kantzer, theologian, 84
July 23 - Chaim Potok, novelist, 73
August 25 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet and playwright, 79
October 13 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian and biographer, 66
October 21 - Harbhajan Singh (poet), poet and critic, 82
October 28 - Sugathapala de Silva, Sri Lankan dramatis, novelist and translator, 80
November 8 - Jon Elia, poet and philosopher, 64
November 19 - Max Reinhardt, publisher, 86

Awards [edit]

Nobel Prize for Literature: Imre Kertész

Australia [edit]

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Danielle Wood, The Alphabet of Light and Dark
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Afterimages
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Wearne, The Lovemakers
Mary Gilmore Prize: Geraldine McKenzie, Duty
Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Dirt Music

Canada [edit]

Giller Prize: Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Griffin Poetry Prize: Christian Bök, Eunoia and Alice Notley, Disobedience
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Tom Allen, Rolling Home^[3]

France [edit]

Prix Décembre: Pierre Michon, Abbés and Corps du Roi
Prix Femina: Chantal Thomas, Les adieux à la reine
Prix Femina (non-fiction): Michael Barry, Massoud
Prix Goncourt: Pascal Quignard, Les Ombres errantes
Prix Médicis French: Daniel Desmarquet, Kafka et les jeunes filles
Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Anne F. Garréta, Pas un jour
Prix Médicis International: Philip Roth, The Human Stain

References [edit]

^ "C-SPAN Restarts 'American Writers' - 2002-03-25 00:00:00 | Multichannel News". Multichannel.com. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
^ Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ Faculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen, Retrieved 11/26/2012

[1] "C-SPAN Restarts 'American Writers' - 2002-03-25 00:00:00 | Multichannel News". Multichannel.com. Retrieved 2012-01-29.

[2] Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[3] Faculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen, Retrieved 11/26/2012

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Events [edit]

New prose fiction [edit]

New drama [edit]

Poetry [edit]

Non-fiction [edit]

Deaths [edit]

Awards [edit]

Australia [edit]

Canada [edit]

France [edit]

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United States [edit]

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