Editing 2001 in literature

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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 [[Bridget Jones's Diary (film)|film version]] of [[Helen Fielding]]'s 1996 novel ''[[Bridget Jones's Diary (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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew George|title=A View from the Bottom Left-hand Corner: Impressions of a Raw Recruit Through Selected Parliamentary Sketches and Essays 1997-2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QW8nAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Patten Press|isbn=978-1-872229-45-4|page=91}}</ref>
*[[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 (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', first in the commercially successful [[Harry Potter (film series)|''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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/young-people-are-reading-more-than-you|work=McSweeneys |title=Young People Are Reading More Than You |access-date=2012-12-14 |first1=Hannah |last1=Withers |first2=Lauren |last2=Ross}}</ref>

==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 (Bova novel)|The Precipice]]''
*[[Geraldine Brooks (writer)|Geraldine Brooks]] – ''[[Year of Wonders]]''
*[[Lois McMaster Bujold]] – ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]''
*[[Javier Cercas]] – ''[[Soldiers of Salamis]] (Soldados de Salamina)''
*[[Joseph Connolly (author)|Joseph Connolly]] – ''[[S.O.S. (novel)|S.O.S.]]''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]]
**''[[Sharpe's Trafalgar]]''
**''[[Gallows Thief]]''
*[[Douglas Coupland]] – ''[[All Families Are Psychotic]]''
*[[Achmat Dangor]] – ''[[Bitter Fruit]]''
*[[Helen Dunmore]] – ''[[The Siege (Dunmore novel)|The Siege]]''
*[[Umberto Eco]] – ''[[Baudolino]]''
*[[James Ellroy]] – ''[[The Cold Six Thousand]]''
*[[Leif Enger]] – ''[[Peace Like a River]]''
*[[Sebastian Faulks]] – ''[[On Green Dolphin Street (novel)|On Green Dolphin Street]]''
*[[Ken Follett]] – ''[[Jackdaws (novel)|Jackdaws]]''
*[[Leon Forrest]] – ''Meteor in the Madhouse''
*[[Jonathan Franzen]] – ''[[The Corrections]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Franzen|title=The Corrections: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FodGfz5li5wC|date=15 September 2001|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-2861-8}}</ref>
*[[Rodrigo Fresán]] – ''Mantra''
*[[Diana Gabaldon]] – ''[[The Fiery Cross (novel)|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 (novel)|Black House]]''
**''[[Dreamcatcher (novel)|Dreamcatcher]]''
*[[Christian Kracht]] – ''[[1979 (novel)|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|The Birthday of the World, and Other Stories]]''
*[[Pedro Lemebel]] – ''[[My Tender Matador|Tengo miedo torero]]'' (''My Tender Matador'')
*[[Mario Vargas Llosa]] – ''[[The Feast of the Goat]] (La fiesta del chivo)''
*[[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]] – ''[[Thinks ...]]''
*[[James Luceno]] – ''[[Cloak of Deception]]''
*[[Ian McEwan]] – ''[[Atonement (novel)|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 (novel)|Half a Life]]''
*[[R. K. Narayan]] – ''[[Under the Banyan Tree]]''
*[[Joyce Carol Oates]] – ''[[Middle Age: A Romance]]''
*[[Chuck Palahniuk]] – ''[[Choke (novel)|Choke]]''
*[[Noni Power]] &ndash; ''[[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 (novel)|La Reprise]]''
*[[Jean-Christophe Rufin]] – ''[[Rouge Brésil]]''
*[[Salman Rushdie]] – ''[[Fury (Rushdie novel)|Fury]]''
*[[Richard Russo]] – ''[[Empire Falls]]''
*[[W. G. Sebald]] – ''[[Austerlitz (novel)|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 (writer)|Timothy Taylor]] – ''[[Stanley Park (novel)|Stanley Park]]''
*[[Anne Tyler]] – ''[[Back When We Were Grownups]]''
*[[Jane Urquhart]] – ''[[The Stone Carvers]]''
*[[Andrew Vachss]] – ''[[Andrew Vachss#The Burke series|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 (Almond book)|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 (novel)|Artemis Fowl]]'' (first in the [[Artemis Fowl (series)|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 (novel)|You Don't Know Me]]''
*[[Hilary McKay]] – ''[[Saffy's Angel]]''
*[[Patricia McKissack]] &ndash; ''[[Goin' Someplace Special]]''
*[[Michael Morpurgo]]
**''More Muck and Magic''
**''Out of the Ashes''
**''Toro! Toro!''
*[[Lesléa Newman]] – ''[[Cats, Cats, Cats! (Newman book)|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 Elevator]]''<ref name=Snicket>{{cite book |last1=Olson |first1=Danel |title=21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7728-3 |page=523 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 |language=en}}</ref>
**''[[The Vile Village]]''<ref name=Snicket />
**''[[The Hostile Hospital]]''<ref name=Snicket />
*[[Jacqueline Wilson]] – ''[[Sleepovers (book)|Sleepovers]]''

===Drama===
*[[Richard Alfieri]] – ''[[Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks]]''
*[[Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti]] – ''Behsharam'' (Shameless)
*[[Abdelkader Benali]] – ''[[Yasser (play)|Yasser]]''
*[[Jon Fosse]] – ''Dødsvariasjonar'' (Death Variations)
*[[Neil LaBute]] – ''[[The Shape of Things]]''
*[[Lynn Manning]] – ''Weights''
*[[Peter Morris (playwright)|Peter Morris]] – ''The Age of Consent''
*[[Zlatko Topčić]] – ''Time Out''

===Poetry===
{{Main|2001 in poetry}}

* Anne Carson – [[The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos|''The Beauty of the Husband'']]

===Non-fiction===
*[[David Allen (author)|David Allen]] – ''Getting Things Done''
*[[Tom Allen (broadcaster)|Tom Allen]] – ''[[Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir|Rolling Home]]''<ref>Faculty of Arts, 2002, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11311 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164156/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11311 |date=2014-06-06 }}</span>, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen. Retrieved 2012-11-26.</ref>
*[[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 (author)|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|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 (book)|Against Their Will]]... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR''
*[[E. Hoffmann Price]] – ''[[Book of the Dead (memoir)|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]]''
*[[Saparmurat Niyazov|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 in literature|1913]])
*[[January 11]] – [[Lorna Sage]], English scholar (born [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[January 31]] – [[Gordon R. Dickson]], Canadian-born American science fiction writer (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>{{cite news |work=The New York Times |title=Gordon R. Dickson -- Science Fiction Writer, 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/16/arts/gordon-r-dickson-science-fiction-writer-77.html |date=February 16, 2001 |access-date=April 1, 2010}}</ref>
*[[February 7]] – [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], American author and aviator (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[February 14]]
**[[Alan Ross]], Indian-born English poet and editor (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
**[[Richard Laymon]], American horror fiction writer (born [[1947 in literature|1947]])
*[[March 1]]  – [[Mahmud Arif]], Saudi Arabian poet (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>{{cite journal |title=رحيل محمود عارف |journal=Al-Faisal |date=March 2001 |issue=295 |page=125 |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[March 12]] – [[Robert Ludlum]], American novelist (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[May 11]] – [[Douglas Adams]], English writer, humorist and dramatist (born [[1952 in literature|1952]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ |title=Lots of Screamingly Funny Sentences. No Fish. – page 1 |last1=Lewis |first1=Judith |last2=Shulman |first2=Dave |newspaper=LA Weekly |date=24 May 2001 |access-date=20 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010233102/http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-24/news/lots-of-screamingly-funny-sentences-no-fish/ |archive-date= 10 October 2011 |url-status=live  }}</ref>
*[[May 13]] 
**[[Jason Miller (playwright)|Jason Miller]], American actor and playwright (born [[1939 in literature|1939]])<ref>{{cite news|author=Henn, Jennifer |title=Jason Miller dies |url=http://www.scrantontimestribune.com/zwire/jasonmiller/story1.htm |work=Scranton Times Tribune |date=May 24, 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114031645/http://www.scrantontimestribune.com/zwire/jasonmiller/story1.htm |archive-date=January 14, 2009}}</ref>
**[[R. K. Narayan]], Indian novelist writing in English (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/15spec.htm|title=I'm giving you a lot of trouble|last=[[N. Ram]]|date=15 May 2001|work=[[Rediff.com]]|access-date=8 September 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004034951/http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/may/15spec.htm|archive-date=4 October 2009}}</ref>
*[[June 1]] – [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])
*[[June 27]] – [[Tove Jansson]], Finnish children's author writing in Swedish (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review|title=Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words by Boel Westin – review|last1=Prideaux|first1=Sue|date=2014-01-15|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref>
*[[July 3]] – [[Mordecai Richler]], Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist (born [[1931 in literature|1931]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/05/guardianobituaries.books|author=Michael McNay|title=Mordecai Richler|website=The Guardian|date=July 5, 2001}}</ref>
*[[July 18]] – [[James Hatfield]], American author (born [[1958 in literature|1958]])
*[[July 31]] – [[Poul Anderson]], American fantasy and sci-fi author (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/books/poul-anderson-science-fiction-novelist-dies-at-74.html |title=Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74 |date =3 August 2001 |access-date=24 October 2018 |author= Douglas Martin |website= The New York Times}}</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Jorge Amado]], Brazilian writer (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/arts/jorge-amado-dies-at-88-brazil-s-leading-novelist.html|title=Jorge Amado dies at 88; Brazil's leading novelist|date=7 August 2001|website=New York Times |access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – [[Fred Hoyle]], English astronomer and science fiction writer (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[November 10]] – [[Ken Kesey]], American author (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])<ref>{{cite news |title=All times a great artist, Ken Kesey is dead at age 66 |last=Baker |first=Jeff |date=November 11, 2001 |work=The Oregonian |page=A1}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[David Gascoyne]], English surrealist poet (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/27/guardianobituaries.books|title=David Gascoyne|date=27 November 2001|author=Valentine Cunningham|website=The Guardian|access-date=5 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[December 21]] – [[Dick Schaap]], American journalist and author (born [[1934 in literature|1934]])<ref name="la obit">{{cite news |last=Penner |first=Mike |date=22 December 2001 |title=Dick Schaap, 67; Sports Journalist (obituary) |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-22-me-17249-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807031812/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-22-me-17249-story.html |archive-date=7 August 2020 |access-date=31 May 2025}}</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[W. G. Sebald]], German novelist and academic (born [[1944 in literature|1944]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Eric Homberger|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/dec/17/guardianobituaries.books1|title=WG Sebald|website=The Guardian|date=17 December 2001|access-date=9 October 2010}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[V.S. Naipaul]]

===Australia===
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Frank Moorhouse]], ''[[Dark Palace]]''

===Canada===
*[[Giller Prize|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 Blues]]''<ref name="wlu01">Faculty of Arts, 2001, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 |date=2014-06-06 }}</span>, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-26.</ref>

===France===
*[[Prix Décembre]]: [[Chloé Delaume]], ''{{Lang|fr|Le Cri du sablier}}''
*[[Prix Femina]]: [[Marie Ndiaye]], ''{{Lang|fr|Rosie Carpe}}''
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Jean-Christophe Rufin]], ''{{Lang|fr|Rouge Brésil}}''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Edwy Plenel]], ''{{Lang|fr|Secrets de jeunesse}}''
*[[Prix Médicis]] Non-Fiction: ''{{Lang|fr|Le Loup mongol}}''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Antonio Skarmeta]], ''{{Lang|fr|La noce du poète}}''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]], ''[[True History of the Kelly Gang]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Sid Smith (writer)|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 (poet)|Thomas Warner]], [[Tishani Doshi]], [[Patrick Mackie]], [[Kathryn Gray]], [[Sally Read]]
*[[Griffin Poetry Prize]]: [[Anne Carson]], ''[[Men in the Off Hours]]'' and [[Nikolai B. Popov|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]]''
*[[2001 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[Patrick Neate]], ''[[Twelve Bar Blues (novel)|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 (poet)|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 (writer)|Richard Peck]], ''[[A Year Down Yonder]]''
*[[National Book Award for Fiction]]: to [[The Corrections]] by [[Jonathan Franzen]]
*[[National Book Critics Circle Award]]: to [[Austerlitz (novel)|Austerlitz]] by [[W.G. Sebald]]
*[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]]: to [[Philip Roth]] for [[The Human Stain]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[David Auburn]], ''[[Proof (play)|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 (novelist)|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): [[: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 (poet)|Shamsur Rahman]]
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Niccolò Ammaniti]], ''[[Io non ho paura]]'', [[Michele Ranchetti]], ''Verbale'', and [[Giorgio Pestelli]], ''Canti del destino''

==References==
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