2001 in literature

none 2001 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001. Events February 15 – The author Michael Crichton signs a new deal with HarperCollins Publishers that reportedly earns him $40 million for two books. April 1 – The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched. April 13 – The film version of Helen Fielding's 1996 novel Bridget Jones's Diary has uncredited cameo roles as themselves for Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer, at a literary party. July 19 – The English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, having been found guilty of perjury in a libel trial, is sentenced to imprisonment.Andrew George A View from the Bottom Left-hand Corner: Impressions of a Raw Recruit Through Selected Parliamentary Sketches and Essays 1997-2002 https://books.google.com/books?id=QW8nAQAAMAAJ 2002 Patten Press 978-1-872229-45-4 91 September 19 – Amiri Baraka reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey, eight days after the September 11 attacks. November 4 – Film premiere of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first in the commercially successful Harry Potter film series based on the novels of J. K. Rowling. December 10 – The live-action film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson, opens in London. Its appearance has a strong impact on readership of the trilogy.http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/young-people-are-reading-more-than-you McSweeneys Young People Are Reading More Than You 2012-12-14 Hannah Withers Lauren Ross New books Fiction Niccolò Ammaniti – Io non ho paura Hiromu Arakawa – Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, manga series, begins publication) Tahar Ben Jelloun – Cette aveuglante absence de lumière (This Blinding Absence of Light) Raymond Benson – Never Dream of Dying Dennis Bock – The Ash Garden Ben Bova – The Precipice Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders Lois McMaster Bujold – The Curse of Chalion Javier Cercas – Soldiers of Salamis (Soldados de Salamina) Joseph Connolly – S.O.S. Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Trafalgar Gallows Thief Douglas Coupland – All Families Are Psychotic Achmat Dangor – Bitter Fruit Helen Dunmore – The Siege Umberto Eco – Baudolino James Ellroy – The Cold Six Thousand Leif Enger – Peace Like a River Sebastian Faulks – On Green Dolphin Street Ken Follett – Jackdaws Leon Forrest – Meteor in the Madhouse Jonathan Franzen – The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen The Corrections: A Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=FodGfz5li5wC 15 September 2001 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 978-1-4299-2861-8 Rodrigo Fresán – Mantra Diana Gabaldon – The Fiery Cross Neil Gaiman – American Gods Kate Grenville – The Idea of Perfection John Grisham A Painted House Skipping Christmas Abdulrazak Gurnah – By the Sea Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Impostors Joanne Harris – Five Quarters of the Orange Vigdis Hjorth – Om bare (If only) Nick Hornby – How to Be Good Silas House – Clay's Quilt Nancy Huston – Dolce Agonia John Irving – The Fourth Hand Fleur Jaeggy – Proleterka P. D. James – Death in Holy Orders Greg Keyes Edge of Victory: Conquest Edge of Victory: Rebirth Stephen King Black House Dreamcatcher Christian Kracht – 1979 Hanif Kureishi – Gabriel's Gift Joe R. Lansdale – Captains Outrageous John le Carré – The Constant Gardener Ursula K. Le Guin – The Birthday of the World, and Other Stories Pedro Lemebel – Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador) Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo) David Lodge – Thinks ... James Luceno – Cloak of Deception Ian McEwan – Atonement Andreï Makine – Music of a Life (La Musique d'une vie) Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy Yann Martel – Life of Pi Alice Munro – Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short stories) V S Naipaul – Half a Life R. K. Narayan – Under the Banyan Tree Joyce Carol Oates – Middle Age: A Romance Chuck Palahniuk – Choke Noni Power – Crawling at Night Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents Thief of Time The Last Hero Sven Regener – Herr Lehmann Kathy Reichs – Fatal Voyage Alain Robbe-Grillet – La Reprise Jean-Christophe Rufin – Rouge Brésil Salman Rushdie – Fury Richard Russo – Empire Falls W. G. Sebald – Austerlitz Nava Semel – And the Rat Laughed (ואת צחוק של עכברוש) Olga Slavnikova – Bessmertniy (The Immortal) Danielle Steel – Leap of Faith Antonio Tabucchi – It's Getting Later All the Time Amy Tan – The Bonesetter's Daughter Timothy Taylor – Stanley Park Anne Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers Andrew Vachss – Pain Management Tim Winton – Dirt Music Carlos Ruiz Zafón – La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind; first in El cementerio de los libros olvidados (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books) series) Juli Zeh – Eagles and Angels Children and young people David Almond – Secret Heart Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses (first in the Noughts and Crosses series of five books) Ann Brashare – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (first in the eponymous series of eight books) Eva Ibbotson – Journey to the River Sea Brian Jacques – Castaways of the Flying Dutchman David Klass – You Don't Know Me Hilary McKay – Saffy's Angel Patricia McKissack – Goin' Someplace Special Michael Morpurgo More Muck and Magic Out of the Ashes Toro! Toro! Lesléa Newman – Cats, Cats, Cats! Linda Sue Park – A Single Shard Philip Reeve – Mortal Engines (November 16) J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Lemony Snicket The Ersatz ElevatorOlson Danel 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7728-3 523 https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 en The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital Jacqueline Wilson – Sleepovers Drama Richard Alfieri – Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Behsharam (Shameless) Abdelkader Benali – Yasser Jon Fosse – Dødsvariasjonar (Death Variations) Neil LaBute – The Shape of Things Lynn Manning – Weights Peter Morris – The Age of Consent Zlatko Topčić – Time Out Poetry 2001 in poetry Anne Carson – The Beauty of the Husband Non-fiction David Allen – Getting Things Done Tom Allen – Rolling HomeFaculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164156/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11311 2014-06-06 , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen. Retrieved 2012-11-26. Jan Bondeson – Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear Dionne Brand – A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging Edwin Bryant – The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture Joan Didion – Political Fictions Eamon Duffy – The Voices of Morebath. Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village Barbara Ehrenreich – Nickel and Dimed Koenraad Elst – The Saffron Swastika Mem Fox – Reading Magic Antonia Fraser – Marie Antoinette: The Journey Dorothy Gallagher – How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories Stephen Hawking – The Universe in a Nutshell Laura Hillenbrand – Seabiscuit: An American Legend Christopher Hitchens – The Trial of Henry Kissinger Gary Lachman – Turn Off Your Mind Lawrence Lessig – The Future of Ideas Normand Lester – Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais (The Black Book of English Canada) Steven Levy – Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Margaret MacMillan – Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War Michael Moore – Stupid White Men Mumtaz Mufti – Ali Pur Ka Aeeli Pavel Polian – Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR E. Hoffmann Price – Book of the Dead Eric Schlosser – Fast Food Nation Miranda Seymour – Mary Shelley Andrew Solomon – The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression Ben Thompson - Ways of Hearing Türkmenbaşy – Ruhnama (The Book of the Soul, first part) Ivan Vladislavic – The Restless Supermarket Frans de Waal – The Ape and the Sushi Master Benjamin Woolley – The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee Deaths January 5 – G. E. M. Anscombe, English analytic philosopher (died 2001) January 8 – Catherine Storr, English children's writer (born 1913) January 11 – Lorna Sage, English scholar (born 1943) January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-born American science fiction writer (born 1923)The New York Times Gordon R. Dickson -- Science Fiction Writer, 77 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/16/arts/gordon-r-dickson-science-fiction-writer-77.html February 16, 2001 April 1, 2010 February 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (born 1906) February 14 Alan Ross, Indian-born English poet and editor (born 1922) Richard Laymon, American horror fiction writer (born 1947) March 1 – Mahmud Arif, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1909)رحيل محمود عارف Al-Faisal March 2001 295 125 ar March 12 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (born 1927) May 11 – Douglas Adams, English writer, humorist and dramatist (born 1952)http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish. – page 1 Lewis Judith Shulman Dave LA Weekly 24 May 2001 20 August 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20111010233102/http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ 10 October 2011 live May 13 Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (born 1939)Henn, Jennifer Jason Miller dies http://www.scrantontimestribune.com/zwire/jasonmiller/story1.htm Scranton Times Tribune May 24, 2001 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090114031645/http://www.scrantontimestribune.com/zwire/jasonmiller/story1.htm January 14, 2009 R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist writing in English (born 1906)http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/15spec.htm I'm giving you a lot of trouble N. Ram 15 May 2001 Rediff.com 8 September 2009 live https://web.archive.org/web/20091004034951/http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/15spec.htm 4 October 2009 June 1 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (born 1920) June 27 – Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author writing in Swedish (born 1914)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin – review Prideaux Sue 2014-01-15 The Guardian 18 November 2014 July 3 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist (born 1931)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/05/guardianobituaries.books Michael McNay Mordecai Richler The Guardian July 5, 2001 July 18 – James Hatfield, American author (born 1958) July 31 – Poul Anderson, American fantasy and sci-fi author (born 1926) https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/books/poul-anderson-science-fiction-novelist-dies-at-74.html Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74 3 August 2001 24 October 2018 Douglas Martin The New York Times August 6 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (born 1912)https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/arts/jorge-amado-dies-at-88-brazil-s-leading-novelist.html Jorge Amado dies at 88; Brazil's leading novelist 7 August 2001 New York Times 5 April 2021 August 20 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (born 1915) November 10 – Ken Kesey, American author (born 1935)All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66 Baker Jeff November 11, 2001 The Oregonian A1 November 25 – David Gascoyne, English surrealist poet (born 1916)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/27/guardianobituaries.books David Gascoyne 27 November 2001 Valentine Cunningham The Guardian 5 April 2021 December 21 – Dick Schaap, American journalist and author (born 1934)Penner Mike 22 December 2001 Dick Schaap, 67; Sports Journalist (obituary) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-22-me-17249-story.html Los Angeles Times live https://web.archive.org/web/20200807031812/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-22-me-17249-story.html 7 August 2020 31 May 2025 December 14 – W. G. Sebald, German novelist and academic (born 1944)Eric Homberger https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/17/guardianobituaries.books1 WG Sebald The Guardian 17 December 2001 9 October 2010 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: V.S. Naipaul Australia Miles Franklin Award: Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace Canada Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright – Clara Callan See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Taras Grescoe – Sacré BluesFaculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 2014-06-06 , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-26. France Prix Décembre: Chloé Delaume, fr Le Cri du sablier Prix Femina: Marie Ndiaye, fr Rosie Carpe Prix Goncourt: Jean-Christophe Rufin, fr Rouge Brésil Prix Médicis French: Edwy Plenel, fr Secrets de jeunesse Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: fr Le Loup mongol Prix Médicis International: Antonio Skarmeta, fr La noce du poète United Kingdom Booker Prize: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Sid Smith, Something Like a House James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 – Fighting for Britain 1937–1946 Caine Prize for African Writing: Helon Habila, "Love Poems" Cholmondeley Award: Ian Duhig, Paul Durcan, Kathleen Jamie, Grace Nichols Eric Gregory Award: Leontia Flynn, Thomas Warner, Tishani Doshi, Patrick Mackie, Kathryn Gray, Sally Read Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours and Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan Hugo Award: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Samuel Johnson Prize: Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Michael Longley Orange Prize for Fiction: Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection Whitbread Best Book Award: Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Gabriel Gudding for A Defense of Poetry Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Frederick Morgan Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Circus Fire, 1944” Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Louise Glück Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Robin Behn, Horizon Note Compton Crook Award: Syne Mitchell, Murphy's Gambit Frost Medal: Sonia Sanchez Hugo Award: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Newbery Medal for children's literature: Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder National Book Award for Fiction: to The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen National Book Critics Circle Award: to Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Philip Roth for The Human Stain Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Auburn, Proof Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours Wallace Stevens Award: John Ashbery Whiting Awards: Fiction: Emily Carter, Matthew Klam, Akhil Sharma, Samrat Upadhyay, John Wray Nonfiction: Judy Blunt, Kathleen Finneran Plays: Brighde Mullins Poetry: Joel Brouwer, Jason Sommer Other Camões Prize: Eugénio de Andrade Europe Theatre Prize: Lev Dodin, Michel Piccoli Finlandia Prize: Hannu Raittila, Canal Grande Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Jürgen Habermas International Dublin Literary Award: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief Premio Nadal: Fernando Marías, El Niño de los Coroneles Premio Strega: Domenico Starnone, Via Gemito Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja (first award): Javier Reverte, La Noche Detenida Premio Antón Losada Diéguez (category Creación literaria): Xurxo Borrazás, Na maleta SAARC Literary Award: Ganesh Narayandas Devy, Shamsur Rahman Viareggio Prize: Niccolò Ammaniti, Io non ho paura, Michele Ranchetti, Verbale, and Giorgio Pestelli, Canti del destino References 30em External links Popular Books of 2001 at Goodreads Published 2001 Books at Goodreads 2001 Books at Goodreads Category:2001-related lists cy:Llenyddiaeth yn 2000