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2004 in literature

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The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

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  • Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.
  • June 1 - Sasebo, Nagasaki - Controversy briefly surrounded Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story murdered her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai (Sasebo slashing), in a way that mimicked a scene from the story.[1][2]

New prose fiction[]

  • Germano Almeida - O mar na Lajinha
  • R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before
  • Blue Balliett - Chasing Vermeer
  • Steven Barnes - The Cestus Deception
  • Alistair Beaton - A Planet for the President
  • Thomas Berger - Adventures of the Artificial Woman
  • Louis de Bernières - Birds Without Wings
  • T. C. Boyle - The Inner Circle
  • Gennifer Choldenko - Al Capone Does My Shirts
  • Stephen Clarke - A Year in the Merde
  • Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson - Back to Life
  • Suzanne Collins - Gregor the Overlander
  • J. J. Connelly - Layer Cake
  • Afua Cooper - The Hanging of Angelique
  • Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Escape and The Last Kingdom
  • Douglas Coupland - Eleanor Rigby
  • Stevie Davies - Kith & Kin
  • L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - Sagas of Conan
  • Cory Doctorow - Eastern Standard Tribe
  • Ben Elton - Past Mortem
  • Gustav Ernst - Grado. Süße Nacht
  • Giorgio Faletti - Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
  • Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
  • Robert Goddard - Play to the End
  • Adrien Goetz - La Dormeuse de Naples
  • Helon Habila - Waiting for an Angel
  • Elisabeth Harvor, All Times Have Been Modern (Canada)
  • Michael Helm - In the Place of Last Things
  • Carl Hiaasen - Skinny Dip
  • Allison Hedge Coke - Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
  • Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
  • Jiang Rong - Wolf Totem
  • Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
  • Peg Kehret - Escaping the Giant Wave
  • Thomas Keneally - The Tyrant's Novel
  • Stephen King - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower and The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
  • Karl Ove Knausgård - A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven
  • David Leavitt - The Body of Jonah Boyd
  • Tanith Lee - Piratica
  • David Lodge - Author, Author
  • Henning Mankell - Depths
  • David Michaels - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
  • David Mitchell -Cloud Atlas
  • Aka Morchiladze - Santa Esperanza
  • Robert Muchamore - The Recruit (novel) and Class A (novel)
  • Bharati Mukherjee - The Tree Bride
  • Alice Munro - Runaway
  • Garth Nix - Grim Tuesday
  • Cees Nooteboom - Lost Paradise
  • Linda Sue Park - When My Name Was Keoke
  • Michael Reaves and Steve Perry - MedStar I: Battle Surgeons and MedStar II: Jedi Healer
  • Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
  • Roberto Bolaño - 2666
  • Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
  • Nick Sagan - Edenborn
  • David Sherman & Dan Cragg - Jedi Trial
  • Kyle Smith - Love Monkey
  • Lemony Snicket - The Grim Grotto
  • David Southwell - Conspiracy Files
  • Muriel Spark - The Finishing School
  • Olen Steinhauer - The Confession
  • Neal Stephenson - The Confusion (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle) and The System of the World (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
  • Sean Stewart - Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
  • Thomas Sullivan - Dust of Eden
  • Michel Thaler - Le Train de Nulle Part
  • Karen Traviss - Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact
  • Jonathan Trigell - Boy A
  • Andrew Vachss - Down Here
  • Vivian Vande Velde - Heir Apparent
  • Bob Weltlich - Crooked Zebra
  • A. N. Wilson - My Name Is Legion
  • Michael Winter - The Big Why
  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
  • Juli Zeh - Gaming Instinct

New drama[]

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

Poetry[]

Non-fiction[]

  • Thomas P. M. Barnett - The Pentagon's New Map
  • T. Mike Childs - The Rocklopedia Fakebandica
  • Richard A. Clarke - Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
  • Flora Fraser - Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
  • Leonie Frieda - Catherine de' Medici
  • Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
  • Allison Hedge Coke - Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
  • Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture
  • Roger Lowenstein - Origins of the Crash
  • Farah Pahlavi - An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
  • Chuck Palahniuk - Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
  • Michael Palin - Himalaya
  • Anita Roddick - Take it personally: How globalization affects you and powerful ways to challenge it
  • Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
  • Owen Sheers - The Dust Diaries
  • Ben Stein - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, The Truth, and What to Do About It
  • Jon Stewart and writers of The Daily Show - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
  • Milt Thomas - Cave of a Thousand Tales
  • J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Deaths[]

January–February[]

  • January 3 - Lillian Beckwith, writer of semi-autobiographical Hebridean novels (born 1916)
  • January 4
    • John Toland, author and historian (born 1912)
    • Joan Aiken, adults' and children's novelist (born 1924)
    • Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator (born 1933)
  • January 10
    • Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett (born 1934)
    • (or January 11) Spalding Gray, actor and author (born 1942)
  • January 13 - Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist (born 1921)
  • January 14 - Jack Cady, fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932)
  • January 15
    • Olivia Goldsmith, novelist (born 1949) (complications from cosmetic surgery)
    • Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer (born 1922)
  • January 22 - George Woodbridge, illustrator (born 1930)
  • January 29 -
    • M. M. Kaye, novelist (The Far Pavilions) (born 1908)
    • Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
  • February 2 - Alan Bullock, historian (born 1914)
  • February 4 - Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1930)
  • February 5 - Frances Partridge, diarist and last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group (born 1900)
  • February 7 - Norman Thelwell, cartoonist (born 1923)
  • February 8 - Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor (born 1915)
  • February 17 - Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)
  • February 27 - Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review (born 1910)
  • February 28 - Daniel J. Boorstin, historian (born 1914)
  • February 29 - Jerome Lawrence, playwright (born 1915)

Mar-August[]

  • March 9 - Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer (born 1917)
  • March 28 - Robert Merle, French novelist (born 1908)
  • March 29 - Peter Ustinov, actor, dramatist and memoirist (born 1921)
  • March 30
    • Dr Michael King OBE New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)
    • Alistair Cooke - English-born journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)
  • April 19
    • Norris McWhirter, records compiler (born 1925)
    • John Maynard Smith, evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
  • April 25 - Thom Gunn, poet (born 1929)
  • April 26 - Hubert Selby, Jr., American author (born 1928)
  • May 2 - Paul Guimard, French writer (born 1921)
  • July 1 - Peter Barnes, playwright (born 1931)
  • July 8 - Paula Danziger, young adult novelist (born 1945)
  • August 8 - Farida Diouri, Moroccan novelist (born 1953)

September–December[]

  • 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 language (born 1905)
  • October - Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (born 1908)
  • October 13 - Bernice Rubens, Booker-winning novelist (born 1928)
  • October 16 - Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)
  • October 20 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)
  • November 9 - Steig Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (born 1954) (heart attack)
  • 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[]

Canada[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, El camino de los ingleses

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Template:Wayback
  2. ↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Template:Wayback
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