2004 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004.

Events[]

  • January – The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea.[1][2]
  • 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.
  • unknown dates
    • Kansas City Public Library's Community Bookshelf is built.
    • The typeface Calibri, designed by Luc(as) de Groot, is introduced.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Alan Bennett – The History Boys
  • Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Behzti
  • Neil Brand – Stan (radio)
  • Bryony Lavery – Frozen
  • Brent Hartinger – Geography Club
  • Louis Nowra – The Woman with Dog's Eyes
  • John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
  • Florian Zeller – L'Autre (The Other)

Poetry[]

Main article: 2004 in poetry
  • Seamus Heaney – Beacons of Bealtaine

Non-fiction[]

Deaths[]

  • January 3 – Lillian Beckwith, English novelist (born 1916)[14]
  • January 4
    • Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)[15]
    • Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)
    • John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)
  • January 10
    • Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)[16]
    • (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)[17]
  • January 13 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher and linguist (born 1921)
  • January 14 – Jack Cady, American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932)
  • January 15
    • Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer (born 1922)
    • Olivia Goldsmith, American novelist (complications from cosmetic surgery, born 1949)[18]
  • January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (born 1933)[19]
  • January 29
    • Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
    • M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist (born 1908)
  • February 2 – Alan Bullock, English historian (born 1914)
  • February 4 – Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1930)[20]
  • February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)
  • February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)[21]
  • 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)[22]
  • 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)[23]
  • March 30
    • Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)[24]
    • Dr Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)
  • April 19
    • Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)[25]
    • John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
  • April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)[26]
  • 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)
    • Alexander Skutch, American scientific writer and naturalist (born 1904)
  • May 31 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (born 1928)
  • July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
  • July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)[27]
  • 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
  • August 30 – Mario Levrero, Uruguayan novelist (born 1940)[28]
  • September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)
  • September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)[29]
  • 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)[30]
  • October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)[31]
  • 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)[32]
  • November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)[33]
  • December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)[34]
  • 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)[35]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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[]

See also[]

References[]

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  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. ^ Rebecca Caldwell (February 21, 2004). "Vanderhaeghe wins Canada Reads". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  4. ^ ceu@scotland.gsi.gov.uk, Scottish Government, St Andrew's House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG Tel:0131 556 8400 (16 February 2004). "The Scots Makar". www.scotland.gov.uk.
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  6. ^ "Central Library History". Seattle Public Library. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
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  10. ^ Review of Contemporary Fiction. John O'Brien. 2004. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-56478-364-6.
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  20. ^ Tom Murphy (February 4, 2004). "Brazilian Writer Hilda Hilst Dies at 73". AP news. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
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