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{{short description|Overview of the events of 2004 in literature}}{{Year nav topic5|2004|literature|poetry}}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.NEWS, North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir, Daniel, Kalder, The Guardian, London, 2013-05-01,weblink 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
  • The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television.
• February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.WEB,weblink Vanderhaeghe wins Canada Reads, February 21, 2004, Rebecca Caldwell, The Globe and Mail, July 13, 2021,
• February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.WEB,weblink The Scots Makar, Scottish Government, 16 February 2004, www.scotland.gov.uk, 21 August 2013, 4 February 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120204042020weblink">weblink dead, ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926023920weblink |date=September 26, 2008}}
• May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public.WEB,weblink Central Library History, Seattle Public Library, July 13, 2021,
• 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.weblink {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416092000weblink|date=April 16, 2005}}weblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050420231437weblink|date=April 20, 2005}}
• October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature."Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", The Guardian, 14 October 2004. Accessed 16 November 2014.
• 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

• Cecelia Ahern – PS, I Love YouWEB, Don't Hit on a Dead Dude's Wife, No Matter What 'P.S. I Love You' Tells You,weblink www.vice.com, 24 March 2020, 11 February 2022, en,
• C. C. Allentini – Dead of Winter
• Germano Almeida – O mar na Lajinha
• John Ames – Wake Up Sir!
• R. Scott Bakker – The Darkness That Comes Before
• Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer
• Iain M. Banks – The Algebraist
• Steven Barnes – The Cestus Deception
• Alistair Beaton – A Planet for the President
• Thomas Berger – Adventures of the Artificial WomanBOOK, Review of Contemporary Fiction,weblink 2004, John O'Brien, 978-1-56478-364-6, 133,
• Louis de Bernières – Birds Without Wings
• Roberto Bolaño (posthumous) – 2666
• Xurxo Borrazás – Ser ou non
• T. C. Boyle – The Inner Circle
• Anthony Cartwright – The Afterglow
• Gennifer Choldenko – Al Capone Does My Shirts
• Kate Christensen – (The Epicure's Lament: A Novel)
• Stephen Clarke – A Year in the Merde
• Susanna Clarke – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
• Wendy Coakley-Thompson – Back to Life
• Allison Hedge Coke – Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
• Suzanne Collins – Gregor the Overlander
• J. J. Connolly – Layer Cake
• Afua Cooper – The Hanging of Angelique
• Bernard Cornwell
  • Sharpe's Escape
  • The Last Kingdom
• Douglas Coupland – Eleanor Rigby
• Stevie Davies – Kith & Kin
• L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg – Sagas of Conan
• Michel Déon – Your Father's Room
• Cory Doctorow – Eastern Standard Tribe
• Ben Elton – Past Mortem
• Gustav Ernst – Grado. Süße Nacht
• Giorgio Faletti – Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
• Jon Fosse – Det er Ales (Aliss at the Fire)
• Karen Joy Fowler – The Jane Austen Book Club
• Ge Fei (格非) – 人面桃花 (Renmian Taohua, Peach Blossom Beauty)
• Robert Goddard – Play to the End
• Adrien Goetz – La Dormeuse de Naples
• Helon Habila – Waiting for an Angel
• Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Brave
• Elisabeth Harvor, All Times Have Been Modern (Canada)
• Michael Helm – In the Place of Last Things
• Carl Hiaasen – Skinny Dip
• Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
• Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem
• Cynthia Kadohata – Kira-Kira
• Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田 光代) – Woman on the Other Shore
• Peg Kehret – Escaping the Giant Wave
• Thomas Keneally – The Tyrant's Novel
• Stephen King
  • (The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah)
  • (The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower)
• John Kiriamiti – My Life in Prison
• Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd – A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven (En tid for alt)
• László Krasznahorkai – Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens (Rombolás és bánat az Ég alatt)
• Thor Kunkel – Endstufe
• David Leavitt – The Body of Jonah Boyd
• Tanith Lee – Piratica
• David Lodge – Author, Author
• Andreï Makine – The Woman Who Waited (La femme qui attendait)
• Henning Mankell – Depths
• David Michaels – Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• David Mitchell – Cloud Atlas
• Aka Morchiladze – Santa Esperanza
• Bharati Mukherjee – The Tree Bride
• Alice Munro – Runaway
• V. S. Naipaul – Magic Seeds
• NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong'o – MÅ©rogi wa Kagogo (Wizard of the Crow)
• Garth Nix – Grim Tuesday
• Cees Nooteboom – Lost Paradise (Paradijs verloren)
• Daniel Olivas – Devil Talk: Stories
• Linda Sue Park – When My Name Was Keoko
• Jodi Picoult – My Sister's Keeper
• Terry Pratchett
  • A Hat Full of Sky
  • Going Postal
• Michael Reaves and Steve Perry – (MedStar I: Battle Surgeons) and (MedStar II: Jedi Healer)
• Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
• Philip Roth – The Plot Against America
• Edward Rutherfurd – (Dublin: Foundation)
• Nick Sagan – Edenborn
• Andrzej Sapkowski – Warriors of God
• David Sherman and Dan Cragg – Jedi Trial
• Kyle Smith – Love Monkey
• David Southwell – Conspiracy Files
• Muriel Spark – The Finishing School
• Olen Steinhauer – The Confession
• Neal Stephenson
  • The Confusion (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)
  • 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
• Colm Tóibín – The Master
• Zlatko Topčić – Bare Skin
• 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
• Florian Zeller – La Fascination du pire (The Fascination of Evil)

Children and young people

• David Almond – Kate, the Cat and the Moon
• Mary Bartek – Funerals and Fly Fishing
• John Fardell – The Seven Professors of the Far North
• Mem Fox – Where Is the Green Sheep?Hahn 2015, p. 211
• Cornelia Funke – When Santa Fell to Earth
• Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) – (Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny|Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale)
• J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – The Stolen Smile
• Robert Muchamore – The RecruitHahn 2015, p. 404 (first in the CHERUB series)
• Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa
• Liz Pichon – My Big Brother, Boris
• Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez – The Eyes of My Princess
• Lemony Snicket – The Grim GrottoBOOK, Olson, Danel, 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000, 2011, Scarecrow Press, 978-0-8108-7728-3, 523,weblink en,
• Dugald Steer (with Nghiem Ta, etc.) – (Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris)

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

• Seamus Heaney – Beacons at BealtaineBOOK, Baldi, Roberta, Intersections of Language and Culture 2, 15 May 2014, EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica, 978-88-6780-260-9, 57,weblink en,

Non-fiction

• Steve Almond – Candyfreak
• Thomas P.M. Barnett – The Pentagon's New Map
• Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman and Maria von Rosen – Tre dagböcker (Three diaries)
• T. Mike Childs – The Rocklopedia Fakebandica
• Richard A. Clarke – (Against All Enemies|Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror)
• Jonathan Coe – Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
• Allison Hedge Coke – Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
• Anne Coleman – I'll Tell You a SecretThiessen, Cherie, Telling Tales Out of School, January Magazine, Retrieved 11/272012
• 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)
• Gareth Stedman Jones – An End to Poverty?Queen Mary University of London School of History Retrieved 11 July 2017.
• Pedro Lemebel – (:es:Adiós mariquita linda|Adiós mariquita linda)
• Doris Lessing – (Time Bites: Views and Reviews)
• Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture
• Mario Vargas Llosa – The Temptation of the Impossible
• Roger Lowenstein – Origins of the Crash
• Hugh Masekela – Still Grazing (autobiography)
• Predrag Miletić – Biciklom do Hilandara
• Farah Pahlavi – (An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah)
• Chuck Palahniuk – (Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories)
• Michael Palin – Himalaya
• Sethy Regenvanu – Laef blong mi (From village to nation: an autobiography)
• 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
• Rebecca Solnit – Hope in the Dark
• 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
• United Kingdom Government – Delivering Security in a Changing World
• Francis Wheen – How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (also Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions)
• Alford A. Young Jr. – The Minds of Marginalized Black MenBOOK, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, Philip Smith, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology,weblink 1 January 2010, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-970344-9, 354–,

Films

• 2046 - inspired by Liu Yichang's "The Drunkard"
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• The Phantom of the Opera

Deaths

• January 3 – Lillian Beckwith, English novelist (born 1916)WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140323150958weblink">weblink dead, 2014-03-23, Island author dies, Isle of Man Today, 9 January 2004, 24 March 2021,
• January 4
  • Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)NEWS,weblink The Telegraph, Joan Aiken, 7 January 2004, 24 March 2021,
  • Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)WEB, Michael Horovitz,weblink Jeff Nuttall – Author of 1968's Bomb Culture, The Guardian, 12 January 2004, January 28, 2022,
  • Dorota Terakowska, Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (born 1938)WEB, Dorota TERAKOWSKA,weblink 2023-05-08, Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przeÅ‚omu XX i XXI wieku,
  • John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)NEWS, Barnes, Bart, January 6, 2004,weblink Historian John Toland Dies; Won Pulitzer for 'Rising Sun, The Washington Post, B05, January 28, 2022,
• January 10
  • Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)NEWS, Gilpin, Kenneth N., Alexandra Ripley, 'Scarlett' Author, Dies at 70,weblink The New York Times, 27 January 2004,
  • (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)NEWS,weblink Spalding Gray's Body Is Found 2 Months After Disappearance, Associated Press, The New York Times, March 8, 2004, March 2, 2017,
• 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)NEWS, Associated Press, Author Olivia Goldsmith Dies at 54, January 16, 2004,weblink 2019-02-03, Fox News,
• January 24 – Abdul Rahman Munif, Arab writer (born 1933)WEB,weblink Abdul Rahman Munif, 71, Political Novelist, New York Times, February 2, 2004, August 9, 2020,
• 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)WEB,weblink Brazilian Writer Hilda Hilst Dies at 73, February 4, 2004, Tom Murphy, AP news, July 13, 2021,
• February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)
• February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)"Norman Thelwell" (obituary), The Telegraph, 9 February 2004.
• February 17 – Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)WEB,weblink Celebrating life, death, writing itself, February 20, 2004, Sydney Morgning Herald (archive), John Tranter, January 28, 2022,
• February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (born 1910)Louis Uchitelle, "Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies," New York Times, March 2, 2004.
• February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (born 1914)Wilson, Linda D. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. "Boorstin, Daniel J. (1914–2004)." {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105080846weblink |date=January 5, 2009 }}
• 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)WEB,weblink Sir Peter Ustinov, President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991–2004, Dies at Age 82, wfm.org, World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy, Wayback Machine,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20051215200529weblink">weblink 15 December 2005, dead, 16 April 2017,
• March 30
  • Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)NEWS,weblink BBC News, Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen', 22 December 2005, 23 April 2010,
  • Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)WEB,weblink Historian's death puzzles coroner, Boyes, Nicola, 25 February 2005, New Zealand Herald, 8 June 2008,
• April 19
  • Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)NEWS,weblink Record Breakers' McWhirter dies, 20 April 2004, BBC, 16 December 2008,
  • John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
• April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)BOOK, Stefania Michelucci, The Poetry of Thom Gunn: A Critical Study,weblink 10 December 2008, McFarland, 978-0-7864-3687-3, 196,
• 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)NEWS, Pearce, Jeremy, June 17, 2004, Alexander Skutch, 99, Expert on Central American Birds, New York Times,weblink
• May 31 – Lionel Abrahams, South African novelist, poet and essayist (born 1928)NEWS, Lionel Abrahams: Mischievous guru of South African letters, Pogrund, Anne, 9 June 2004, The Independent,weblinkweblink 2022-05-01, subscription, live, 4 July 2008, {{cbignore}}
• July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
• July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)NEWS, Lipson, Eden Ross, Paula Danziger, 59, Author Of 'The Cat Ate My Gymsuit',weblink 19 Feb 2018, The New York Times, 10 July 2004,
• August 8 – Farida Diouri, Moroccan novelist (born 1953)
• August 12 – Humayun Azad, Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (born 1947)
• August 14 – CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born 1911)NEWS,weblink Appreciation: The legacies of Poland's poet, Dupont, Joan, 2004-09-09, The New York Times, 2019-04-10, en-US, 0362-4331,
• August 30 – Mario Levrero, Uruguayan novelist (born 1940)WEB,weblink Mario Levrero, Agencia Literaria CBQ, 24 March 2021,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150423055653weblink">weblink 23 April 2015, es,
• September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)
• September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)"French literary icon Sagan dies", BBC, 25 September 2004
• 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)"Obituary: Jacques Derrida", by Derek Attridge and Thomas Baldwin, The Guardian, October 11, 2004. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
• October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)ODNB, 94398, Rubens, Bernice (1923-2004), Cunningham, Valentine, 2008,
• October 16
  • Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)WEB,weblink Vincent Brome, Sarah Jardine-Willoughby, 23 November 2004, The Guardian, 25 April 2022,
  • Harold Perkin, English social historian (born 1926)
• October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)NEWS, Anthony Hecht, a Formalist Poet, Dies at 81, Shapiro, Harvey, October 22, 2004,weblink The New York Times,
• November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born 1954)WEB,weblink Donaldson James, Susan, Stieg Larsson's Girlfriend Rages in Memoir, ABC News, 21 February 2011, 6 January 2017,
• November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)NEWS, Jankiewicz, Adam, 26 November 2004, Arthur Hailey, 84, novelist who wrote 'Airport,' 'Hotel',weblink The Boston Globe, 14 February 2017,
• December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)BOOK, Marquis Who's Who, Who Was Who In America 2004-2005: With World Notables,weblink 2005, Marquis Who's who, 978-0-8379-0251-7, 268,
• December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (born 1922)WEB,weblink Obituary: Jackson MacLow, TheGuardian.com, 20 December 2004,
• December 12 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (born 1970)WEB,weblink Phaswane Mpe, 22 December 2004, Liz McGregor, The Guardian, 28 January 2022,
• December 13 – Jón frá Pálmholti (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (born 1930)NEWS, 20 December 2004,weblink Minningar: Jón frá Pálmholti, Morgunblaðið, is, 24, 4 October 2021,
• December 18 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)NEWS,weblink John, Thompson, Anthony Sampson (obituary), The Guardian, 21 December 2004, 2019-04-26,
• December 28 – Susan Sontag, American novelist (born 1933)NEWS, Wasserman, Steve, Author Susan Sontag Dies,weblink LA Times, October 20, 2020,

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Elfriede JelinekBOOK, Stuart Taberner, The Novel in German since 1990,weblink 1 September 2011, Cambridge University Press, 978-1-139-49988-0, 163,
• Camões Prize: Agustina Bessa-Luís

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 BlueGoodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

Sweden

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Lygia Bojunga NunesHahn 2015, p. 653

United Kingdom

• Caine Prize for African Writing: Brian Chikwava, "Seventh Street Alchemy"
• Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Frank Cottrell Boyce, MillionsHahn 2015, p. 661
• 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:

Elsewhere

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

See also

• List of years in literature
• Literature
• Poetry
• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• The Best American Short Stories 2004
• 2004 in Australian literature

Notes

• BOOK, Hahn, Daniel, The Oxford companion to children's literature, 2015, Oxford, 978-0-19-871554-2, Second,

References

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