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Overview of the events of 2004 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
2004
.
Events
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- 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?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
? Denoel in Paris publishes
Irene Nemirovsky
's
Suite francaise
, consisting of two
novellas
,
Tempete 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 premiere 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
New books
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Fiction
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Children and young people
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Drama
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Poetry
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Non-fiction
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Films
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Deaths
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- 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
?
Francoise 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
?
Jon fra Palmholti
(Jon 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
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Australia
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Canada
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Sweden
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United Kingdom
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- 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
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- 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
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See also
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Notes
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- Hahn, Daniel (2015).
The Oxford companion to children's literature
(Second ed.). Oxford.
ISBN
978-0-19-871554-2
.
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