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.
date unknown Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.

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)
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.
↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Archived April 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Archived October 4, 2007, 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

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2004 in literature

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