GetWiki
2001 in literature
ARTICLE SUBJECTS
being →
database →
ethics →
fiction →
history →
internet →
language →
linux →
logic →
method →
news →
policy →
purpose →
religion →
science →
software →
truth →
unix →
wiki →
ARTICLE TYPES
essay →
feed →
help →
system →
wiki →
ARTICLE ORIGINS
critical →
forked →
imported →
original →
2001 in literature
please note:
- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
- it has been imported raw for GetWiki
{{short description|Overview of the events of 2001 in literature}}{{Year nav topic5|2001|literature|poetry}}This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001.
- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
- it has been imported raw for GetWiki
â Opening sentence, Ian McEwan, Atonement
Events
- February 15 â The author Michael Crichton signs a new deal with HarperCollins Publishers that reportedly earns him $40 million for two books.
- April 1 â The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched.
- April 13 â 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 â The English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, having been found guilty of perjury in a libel trial, is sentenced to imprisonment.BOOK, Andrew George, A View from the Bottom Left-hand Corner: Impressions of a Raw Recruit Through Selected Parliamentary Sketches and Essays 1997-2002,weblink 2002, Patten Press, 978-1-872229-45-4, 91,
- September 19 â 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 â 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 â 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.WEB,weblink McSweeneys, Young People Are Reading More Than You, 2012-12-14, Hannah, Withers, Lauren, Ross,
New books
Fiction
- Niccolò Ammaniti â Io non ho paura
- Hiromu Arakawa â Fullmetal Alchemist (é¼ã®é¬éè¡å¸«, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, manga series, begins publication)
- Tahar Ben Jelloun â Cette aveuglante absence de lumière (This Blinding Absence of Light)
- Raymond Benson â Never Dream of Dying
- Dennis Bock â The Ash Garden
- Ben Bova â The Precipice
- Geraldine Brooks â Year of Wonders
- Lois McMaster Bujold â The Curse of Chalion
- Javier Cercas â Soldiers of Salamis (Soldados de Salamina)
- Joseph Connolly â S.O.S.
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland â All Families Are Psychotic
- Achmat Dangor â Bitter Fruit
- Helen Dunmore â The Siege
- Umberto Eco â Baudolino
- James Ellroy â The Cold Six Thousand
- Leif Enger â Peace Like a River
- Sebastian Faulks â On Green Dolphin Street
- Ken Follett â Jackdaws
- Leon Forrest â Meteor in the Madhouse
- Jonathan Franzen â The CorrectionsBOOK, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections: A Novel,weblink 15 September 2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-1-4299-2861-8,
- Rodrigo Fresán â Mantra
- Diana Gabaldon â The Fiery Cross
- Neil Gaiman â American Gods
- Kate Grenville â The Idea of Perfection
- John Grisham
- Abdulrazak Gurnah â By the Sea
- Margaret Peterson Haddix â Among the Impostors
- Joanne Harris â Five Quarters of the Orange
- Vigdis Hjorth â Om bare (If only)
- Nick Hornby â How to Be Good
- Silas House â Clay's Quilt
- Nancy Huston â Dolce Agonia
- John Irving â The Fourth Hand
- Fleur Jaeggy â Proleterka
- P. D. James â Death in Holy Orders
- Greg Keyes
- (Edge of Victory: Conquest)
- (Edge of Victory: Rebirth)
- Stephen King
- Christian Kracht â 1979
- Hanif Kureishi â Gabriel's Gift
- Joe R. Lansdale â Captains Outrageous
- John le Carré â The Constant Gardener
- Ursula K. Le Guin â The Birthday of the World, and Other Stories
- Pedro Lemebel â Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador)
- Mario Vargas Llosa â The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
- David Lodge â Thinks ...
- James Luceno â Cloak of Deception
- Ian McEwan â Atonement
- Andreï Makine â Music of a Life (La Musique d'une vie)
- Juliet Marillier â Child of the Prophecy
- Yann Martel â Life of Pi
- Alice Munro â Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short stories)
- V S Naipaul â Half a Life
- R. K. Narayan â Under the Banyan Tree
- Joyce Carol Oates â (Middle Age: A Romance)
- Chuck Palahniuk â Choke
- Noni Power – Crawling at Night
- Terry Pratchett
- Sven Regener â Herr Lehmann
- Kathy Reichs â Fatal Voyage
- Alain Robbe-Grillet â La Reprise
- Jean-Christophe Rufin â Rouge Brésil
- Salman Rushdie â Fury
- Richard Russo â Empire Falls
- W. G. Sebald â Austerlitz
- Nava Semel â And the Rat Laughed (××ת צ××ק ×©× ×¢××ר×ש)
- Michael Slade â Death's Door
- Olga Slavnikova â Bessmertniy (The Immortal)
- Danielle Steel â Leap of Faith
- Antonio Tabucchi â It's Getting Later All the Time
- Amy Tan â The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Timothy Taylor â Stanley Park
- Anne Tyler â Back When We Were Grownups
- Jane Urquhart â The Stone Carvers
- Andrew Vachss â Pain Management
- Tim Winton â Dirt Music
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón â 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 â Eagles and Angels
Children and young people
- David Almond â Secret Heart
- Malorie Blackman â Noughts and Crosses (first in the Noughts and Crosses series of five books)
- Ann Brashare â The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Eoin Colfer â Artemis Fowl (first in the eponymous series of eight books)
- Eva Ibbotson â Journey to the River Sea
- Brian Jacques â Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
- David Klass â You Don't Know Me
- Hilary McKay â Saffy's Angel
- Patricia McKissack – Goin' Someplace Special
- Michael Morpurgo
- More Muck and Magic
- Out of the Ashes
- Toro! Toro!
- Lesléa Newman â Cats, Cats, Cats!
- Linda Sue Park â A Single Shard
- Philip Reeve â Mortal Engines (November 16)
- J. K. Rowling â Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Lemony Snicket
- The Ersatz ElevatorBOOK, Olson, Danel, 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000, 2011, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-7728-3, 523,weblink en,
- The Vile Village
- The Hostile Hospital
- Jacqueline Wilson â Sleepovers
Drama
- Richard Alfieri â Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
- Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti â Behsharam (Shameless)
- Abdelkader Benali â Yasser
- Jon Fosse â Dødsvariasjonar (Death Variations)
- Neil LaBute â The Shape of Things
- Lynn Manning â Weights
- Peter Morris â The Age of Consent
- Zlatko TopÄiÄ â Time Out
Poetry
- Anne Carson â (The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos|The Beauty of the Husband)
Non-fiction
- Tom Allen â (Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir|Rolling Home)Faculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164156weblink |date=2014-06-06 }}, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- Jan Bondeson â Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
- Dionne Brand â A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
- Edwin Bryant â The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture
- Eamon Duffy â The Voices of Morebath. Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
- Barbara Ehrenreich â Nickel and Dimed
- Koenraad Elst â The Saffron Swastika
- Mem Fox â Reading Magic
- Antonia Fraser â (Marie Antoinette: The Journey)
- Dorothy Gallagher â How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories
- Stephen Hawking â The Universe in a Nutshell
- Laura Hillenbrand â (Seabiscuit: An American Legend)
- Christopher Hitchens â The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- Gary Lachman â Turn Off Your Mind
- Lawrence Lessig â The Future of Ideas
- Normand Lester â Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais (The Black Book of English Canada)
- Steven Levy â (Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the GovernmentâSaving Privacy in the Digital Age)
- Margaret MacMillan â (Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War)
- Michael Moore â Stupid White Men
- Mumtaz Mufti â Ali Pur Ka Aeeli
- Pavel Polian â Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR
- E. Hoffmann Price â Book of the Dead
- Eric Schlosser â Fast Food Nation
- Miranda Seymour â Mary Shelley
- Andrew Solomon â (The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression)
- Ben Thompson - Ways of Hearing
- TürkmenbaÅy â Ruhnama (The Book of the Soul, first part)
- Ivan Vladislavic â The Restless Supermarket
- Frans de Waal â The Ape and the Sushi Master
- Benjamin Woolley â The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee
Deaths
- January 5 â G. E. M. Anscombe, English analytic philosopher (died 2001)
- January 8 â Catherine Storr, English children's writer (born 1913)
- January 11 â Lorna Sage, English scholar (born 1943)
- January 31 â Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-born American science fiction writer (born 1923)NEWS, The New York Times, Gordon R. Dickson -- Science Fiction Writer, 77,weblink February 16, 2001, April 1, 2010,
- February 7 â 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 â Mahmud Arif, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1909)JOURNAL, رØÙÙ Ù ØÙ Ùد عارÙ, Al-Faisal, March 2001, 295, 125, ar,
- March 12 â Robert Ludlum, American novelist (born 1927)
- May 11 â Douglas Adams, English writer, humorist and dramatist (born 1952)NEWS,weblink Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish. â page 1, Lewis, Judith, Shulman, Dave, LA Weekly, 24 May 2001, 20 August 2009,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111010233102weblink">weblink 10 October 2011, live,
- May 13
- Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (born 1939)NEWS, Henn, Jennifer, Jason Miller dies,weblink Scranton Times Tribune, May 24, 2001, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090114031645weblink">weblink January 14, 2009,
- R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist writing in English (born 1906)NEWS,weblink I'm giving you a lot of trouble, N. Ram, 15 May 2001, Rediff.com, 8 September 2009, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091004034951weblink">weblink 4 October 2009,
- June 1 â Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (born 1920)
- June 27 â Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author writing in Swedish (born 1914)NEWS,weblink Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin â review, Prideaux, Sue, 2014-01-15, The Guardian, 18 November 2014,
- July 3 â Mordecai Richler, Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist (born 1931)WEB,weblink Michael McNay, Mordecai Richler, The Guardian, July 5, 2001,
- July 18 â James Hatfield, American author (born 1958)
- July 31 â Poul Anderson, American fantasy and sci-fi author (born 1926)WEB,weblink Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74, 3 August 2001, 24 October 2018, Douglas Martin, The New York Times,
- August 6 â Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (born 1912)WEB,weblink Jorge Amado dies at 88; Brazil's leading novelist, 7 August 2001, New York Times, 5 April 2021,
- August 20 â Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (born 1915)
- November 10 â Ken Kesey, American author (born 1935)NEWS, All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66, Baker, Jeff, November 11, 2001, The Oregonian, A1,
- November 25 â David Gascoyne, English surrealist poet (born 1916)WEB,weblink David Gascoyne, 27 November 2001, Valentine Cunningham, The Guardian, 5 April 2021,
- December 21 â Dick Schaap, American journalist and author (born 1934)BOOK, Harris M. Lentz III, Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture,weblink 16 April 2002, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 978-0-7864-1278-5, 259,
- December 14 â W. G. Sebald, German novelist and academic (born 1944)WEB, Eric Homberger,weblink WG Sebald, The Guardian, 17 December 2001, 9 October 2010,
Awards
Australia
Canada
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright â 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 â Sacré BluesFaculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201weblink |date=2014-06-06 }}, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
France
- Prix Décembre: Chloé Delaume,
- Prix Femina: Marie Ndiaye,
- Prix Goncourt: Jean-Christophe Rufin,
- Prix Médicis French: Edwy Plenel,
- Prix Médicis Non-Fiction:
- Prix Médicis International: Antonio Skarmeta,
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 â Fighting for Britain 1937â1946
- 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, âCircus Fire, 1944â
- 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
- International Dublin Literary Award: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
- Premio Nadal: Fernando MarÃas, El Niño de los Coroneles
- Premio Strega: Domenico Starnone, Via Gemito
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja (first award): (:es:Javier Reverte|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
{{reflist|30em}}{{Year in literature article categories}}- content above as imported from Wikipedia
- "2001 in literature" does not exist on GetWiki (yet)
- time: 7:22am EDT - Sat, May 18 2024
- "2001 in literature" does not exist on GetWiki (yet)
- time: 7:22am EDT - Sat, May 18 2024
[ this remote article is provided by Wikipedia ]
LATEST EDITS [ see all ]
GETWIKI 23 MAY 2022
The Illusion of Choice
Culture
Culture
GETWIKI 09 JUL 2019
Eastern Philosophy
History of Philosophy
History of Philosophy
GETWIKI 09 MAY 2016
GetMeta:About
GetWiki
GetWiki
GETWIKI 18 OCT 2015
M.R.M. Parrott
Biographies
Biographies
GETWIKI 20 AUG 2014
GetMeta:News
GetWiki
GetWiki
© 2024 M.R.M. PARROTT | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED