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Overview of the events of 2001 in literature
Overview of the events of 2001 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001 .
The play – for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss breakfast and lunch.
– Opening sentence,
Ian McEwan ,
Atonement
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
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 )
[6]
February 7 –
Anne Morrow Lindbergh , American author and aviator (born
1906 )
February 14
March 1 –
Mahmud Arif , Saudi Arabian poet (born
1909 )
[7]
March 12 –
Robert Ludlum , American novelist (born
1927 )
May 11 –
Douglas Adams , English writer, humorist and dramatist (born
1952 )
[8]
May 13
June 1 –
Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (born
1920 )
June 27 –
Tove Jansson , Finnish children's author writing in Swedish (born
1914 )
[11]
July 3 –
Mordecai Richler , Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist (born
1931 )
[12]
July 18 –
James Hatfield , American author (born
1958 )
July 31 –
Poul Anderson , American fantasy and sci-fi author (born
1926 )
[13]
August 6 –
Jorge Amado , Brazilian writer (born
1912 )
[14]
August 20 –
Fred Hoyle , English astronomer and science fiction writer (born
1915 )
November 10 –
Ken Kesey , American author (born
1935 )
[15]
November 25 –
David Gascoyne , English surrealist poet (born
1916 )
[16]
December 21 –
Dick Schaap , American journalist and author (born
1934 )
[17]
December 14 –
W. G. Sebald , German novelist and academic (born
1944 )
[18]
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
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
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
^ Andrew George (2002).
A View from the Bottom Left-hand Corner: Impressions of a Raw Recruit Through Selected Parliamentary Sketches and Essays 1997-2002 . Patten Press. p. 91.
ISBN
978-1-872229-45-4 .
^ Withers, Hannah; Ross, Lauren.
"Young People Are Reading More Than You" . McSweeneys . Retrieved 2012-12-14 .
^ Jonathan Franzen (15 September 2001).
The Corrections: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN
978-1-4299-2861-8 .
^
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c Olson, Danel (2011).
21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 . Scarecrow Press. p. 523.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7728-3 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2002,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
^
"Gordon R. Dickson -- Science Fiction Writer, 77" . The New York Times . February 16, 2001. Retrieved April 1, 2010 .
^ "رحيل محمود عارف". Al-Faisal (in Arabic) (295): 125. March 2001.
^ Lewis, Judith; Shulman, Dave (24 May 2001).
"Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish. – page 1" . LA Weekly .
Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2009 .
^ Henn, Jennifer (May 24, 2001).
"Jason Miller dies" . Scranton Times Tribune . Archived from
the original on January 14, 2009.
^
N. Ram (15 May 2001).
"I'm giving you a lot of trouble" .
Rediff.com .
Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009 .
^ Prideaux, Sue (2014-01-15).
"Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin – review" . The Guardian . Retrieved 18 November 2014 .
^ Michael McNay (July 5, 2001).
"Mordecai Richler" . The Guardian .
^ Douglas Martin (3 August 2001).
"Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74" . The New York Times . Retrieved 24 October 2018 .
^
"Jorge Amado dies at 88; Brazil's leading novelist" . New York Times . 7 August 2001. Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^ Baker, Jeff (November 11, 2001). "All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66". The Oregonian . p. A1.
^ Valentine Cunningham (27 November 2001).
"David Gascoyne" . The Guardian . Retrieved 5 April 2021 .
^ Harris M. Lentz III (16 April 2002).
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 259.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1278-5 .
^ Eric Homberger (17 December 2001).
"WG Sebald" . The Guardian . Retrieved 9 October 2010 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2001,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-26.