2004 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2004.

Events

January – Poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea.^[1]^[2]
February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first ever official national poet, The Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.^[3]^[4]
May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.
June 1 – Sasebo slashing: Controversy briefly surrounds Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story, in Sasebo, Nagasaki.^[5]^[6]
October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature.^[7]
October 31 – Publication in Paris by Denoël of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française, two novellas (Tempête en juin and Dolce) written and set in 1940–41 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 the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (England) is cancelled as a result of violent protests by members of the local Sikh community.
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- Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.
- The typeface Calibri, designed by Luc(as) de Groot, is introduced.

New books

Births

Deaths

January 3 – Lillian Beckwith, English novelist (born 1916)
January 4
- John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)
- Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)
- Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)
January 10
- Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)
- (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)
January 13 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher and linguist (born 1921)
January 14 – Jack Cady, American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932)
January 15
- Olivia Goldsmith, American novelist (complications from cosmetic surgery, born 1949)
- Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer (born 1922)
January 29
- M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist (born 1908)
- Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
February 2 – Alan Bullock, English historian (born 1914)
February 4 – Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1930)
February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)
February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)
February 17 – Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)
February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (born 1910)
February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (born 1914)
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)
March 30
- Dr Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)
- Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)
April 19
- Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)
- John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)
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)
July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)
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
September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)
September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)
September 28 – Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English (born 1905)
October – Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (born 1908)
October 8 – Jacques Derida, Algerian-born French literary critic (born 1930)
October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)
October 16
- Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)
- Harold Perkin, English social historian (born 1926)
October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)
November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born 1954)
November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)
December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)
December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (born 1922)
December 12 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (born 1970)
December 18 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)
December 28 – Susan Sontag, American novelist (born 1933)

Awards

Australia

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

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^[9]

United Kingdom

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions
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

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 Alarcon, 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

Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, El camino de los ingleses

References

^ Kalder, Daniel (2013-05-01). "North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
^ "Book Review: 'North Korea: State of Paranoia' by Paul French and 'Dear Leader' by Jang Jin-Sung", Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2014
^ Edwin Morgan announced as the first Scots Makar, 2004.
^ ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland. Archived September 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Archived April 16, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
^ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Archived April 20, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", The Guardian, 14 Oct 2004. Accessed 16 November 2014
^ Thiessen, Cherie, Telling Tales Out of School, January Magazine, Retrieved 11/272012
^ Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[1] Kalder, Daniel (2013-05-01). "North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2014-05-09.

[2] "Book Review: 'North Korea: State of Paranoia' by Paul French and 'Dear Leader' by Jang Jin-Sung", Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2014

[3] Edwin Morgan announced as the first Scots Makar, 2004.

[4] ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland. Archived September 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[5] ttp://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Archived April 16, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

[6] ttp://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Archived April 20, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

[7] "Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", The Guardian, 14 Oct 2004. Accessed 16 November 2014

[8] Thiessen, Cherie, Telling Tales Out of School, January Magazine, Retrieved 11/272012

[9] Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

See also

References