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

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Deaths
6 Awards
7 See also

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 books

Germano Almeida - O mar na Lajinha
R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before
Steven Barnes - The Cestus Deception
Alistair Beaton - A Planet for the President
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
Giorgio Faletti - Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
Robert Goddard - Play to the End
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
Stephen King - The Dark Tower and Song of Susannah
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
Alice Munro - Runaway
Garth Nix - Grim Tuesday
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
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
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

New drama

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
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 4

John Toland, author and historian
Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture

January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett
January 10 (or 11?), Spalding Gray, actor and author
January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist
January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author
January 15

Olivia Goldsmith, author
Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer

January 22, George Woodbridge, illustrator
January 29, M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions
January 29, Janet Frame, New Zealand author
February 2, Alan Bullock, historian
February 4, Hilda Hilst, Brazilian novelist
February 5, Frances Partridge, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
February 7, Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
February 8, Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor
February 16, Bill Oakley, comic book letterer
February 19, Hermann Krings, German philosopher
February 27, Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
February 28, Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
February 29, Jerome Lawrence, playwright

March-August

March 9, Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
March 29 - Peter Ustinov, actor, dramatist and memoirist (b. 1921)
March 30
- Dr Michael King OBE New Zealand historian, author and biographer
- Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist and broadcaster (b. 1908)
May 2, Paul Guimard, French writer
April 26, Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
July 1, Peter Barnes, playwright
July 8, Paula Danziger, young adult novelist

September-December

September 18 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
September 24 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
October 16, Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist
October 20, Anthony Hecht, American poet
November 24, Arthur Hailey, Canadian author
December 2 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
December 8, Jackson Mac Low, American poet
December 12, Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (b. 1970)
December 18 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
December 28, Susan Sontag, American novelist (b. 1933)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Elfriede Jelinek

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, El camino de los ingleses

2004 in literature.html

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Deaths

January-February

March-August

September-December

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

See also