Overview of the events of 2004 in literature
Overview of the events of 2004 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004 .
January
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.
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New books [ edit ]
Fiction [ edit ]
Children and young people [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
January 3 – Lillian Beckwith , English novelist (born 1916 )[19]
January 4
January 10
January 13 – Zeno Vendler , American philosopher and linguist (born 1921 )
January 14 – Jack Cady , American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932 )
January 15
January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif , Arab writer (born 1933 )[27]
January 29
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
April 19
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
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
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]
Australia [ edit ]
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 ]
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 ]
See also [ edit ]
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford companion to children's literature (Second ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2 . {{cite book }}
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