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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''2004'''.
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==Events==
*January
**The poet [[Jang Jin-sung]], in trouble with the [[North Korea]]n authorities, [[Defection|defects]] to [[South Korea]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=North Korean 'court poet' to publish memoir |first=Daniel |last=Kalder |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=2013-05-01 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/may/01/jang-jin-sung-north-korea-insider-memoir |access-date=2014-05-09}}</ref><ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-north-korea-state-of-paranoia-by-paul-french-and-dear-leader-by-jang-jin-sung-1402694519 "Book Review: 'North Korea: State of Paranoia' by Paul French and 'Dear Leader' by Jang Jin-Sung", ''Wall Street Journal'', 13 June 2014]</ref>
**The [[Richard & Judy Book Club]] is launched on UK daytime television.<ref>{{cite web|title=Richard and Judy introduce their summer reading list|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/may/21/news.michellepauli|date=21 May 2004|author=Michelle Pauli|website=The Guardian|access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
*February – [[Canada Reads]] selects [[Guy Vanderhaeghe]]'s ''[[The Last Crossing]]'' to be read across the nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/vanderhaeghe-wins-canada-reads/article994427/|title=Vanderhaeghe wins Canada Reads|date=February 21, 2004|author=Rebecca Caldwell|website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=July 13, 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 16]] – [[Edwin Morgan (poet)|Edwin Morgan]] becomes [[Scottish poetry|Scotland]]'s first official national poet, the Scots [[Makar]], appointed by the [[Scottish Parliament]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2004/02/5075 |title=The Scots Makar |last=Scottish Government |date=16 February 2004 |website=www.scotland.gov.uk |access-date=21 August 2013 |archive-date=4 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204042020/http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2004/02/5075 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/Poet_for_Scotland.html ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926023920/http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/Poet_for_Scotland.html |date=September 26, 2008}}</ref>
*[[May 23]] – [[Seattle Central Library]], designed by [[Rem Koolhaas]], opens to the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spl.org/hours-and-locations/central-library/central-library-highlights/central-library-history|title=Central Library History|website=Seattle Public Library|access-date=July 13, 2021}}</ref>
*[[June 1]] – Controversy surrounds ''[[Battle Royale (novel)|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.<ref>[http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416092000/http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html|date=April 16, 2005}}</ref><ref>[http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050420231437/http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html|date=April 20, 2005}}</ref>
*[[October 14]] – [[Edinburgh]] becomes [[UNESCO]]'s first [[City of Literature]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/14/news.unitednations "Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", ''The Guardian'', 14 October 2004]. Accessed 16 November 2014.</ref>
*[[October 31]] – Denoël in Paris publishes [[Irène Némirovsky]]'s ''[[Suite française (Némirovsky)|Suite française]]'', consisting of two [[novella]]s, ''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 You (novel)|PS, I Love You]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Don't Hit on a Dead Dude's Wife, No Matter What 'P.S. I Love You' Tells You |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dont-hit-on-a-dead-dudes-wife-no-matter-what-ps-i-love-you-tells-you/ |website=Vice.com |date=24 March 2020 |access-date=11 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Blue Balliett]] – ''[[Chasing Vermeer]]''<ref>{{cite web|first=Liza|last=Szabla|url=http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3998|title=What Makes Chasing Vermeer So Special?|publisher=Scholastic Teachers|date=May 2004|access-date=November 29, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102221309/http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3998|archive-date=January 2, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[Iain M. Banks]] – ''[[The Algebraist]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2005-hugo-awards/ |title=2005 Hugo Awards |date=24 July 2007 |publisher=The Hugo Awards |accessdate=2014-04-29}}</ref>
*[[Steven Barnes]] – ''[[The Cestus Deception]]''
*[[Alistair Beaton]] – ''[[A Planet for the President]]''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''Adventures of the Artificial Woman''<ref>{{cite book|title=Review of Contemporary Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pi-xAAAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=John O'Brien|isbn=978-1-56478-364-6|page=133}}</ref>
*[[Roberto Bolaño]] (posthumous) – ''[[2666 (novel)|2666]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/17/fiction-roberto-bolano-2666-chile|title=Does Roberto Bolaño's literary work live up to the hype?|last=Tayler|first=Christopher|date=16 January 2009|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=7 January 2015}}</ref>
*[[T. C. Boyle]] – ''[[The Inner Circle (T. C. Boyle novel)|The Inner Circle]]''
*[[Gennifer Choldenko]] – ''[[Al Capone Does My Shirts]]''
*[[Kate Christensen]] – ''[[The Epicure's Lament: A Novel]]''
*[[Stephen Clarke (journalist and novelist)|Stephen Clarke]] – ''[[A Year in the Merde]]''
*[[Susanna Clarke]] – ''[[Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell]]''<ref>Adam Dawtrey, [https://variety.com/2004/film/columns/strange-casts-pic-spell-1117910574/ "'Strange' casts pic spell"], ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' (19 September 2004). Retrieved 12 January 2009.</ref>
*[[Wendy Coakley-Thompson]] – ''[[Back to Life (novel)|Back to Life]]''
*[[Suzanne Collins]] – ''[[Gregor the Overlander]]''
*[[J. J. Connolly]] – ''[[Layer Cake (novel)|Layer Cake]]''
*[[Afua Cooper]] – ''The Hanging of Angelique''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]]
**''[[Sharpe's Escape]]''
**''[[The Last Kingdom]]''
*[[Douglas Coupland]] – ''[[Eleanor Rigby (novel)|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]]''
*[[Saken Omur]] – ''Joyful Road''
*[[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 (author)|Ge Fei]] (格非) – 人面桃花 (''Renmian Taohua'', Peach Blossom Beauty)
*[[Robert Goddard (novelist)|Robert Goddard]] – ''[[Play to the End]]''
*[[Adrien Goetz]] – ''[[La Dormeuse de Naples (novel)|La Dormeuse de Naples]]''
*[[Helon Habila]] – ''Waiting for an Angel''
*[[Margaret Peterson Haddix]] – ''[[Among the Brave]]''
*[[Elisabeth Harvor]], ''All Times Have Been Modern'' ([[Canadian literature|Canada]])
*[[Michael Helm]] – ''In the Place of Last Things''
*[[Carl Hiaasen]] – ''[[Skinny Dip (novel)|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 Knausgård]] – ''[[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 (novel)|Endstufe]]''
*[[David Leavitt]] – ''[[The Body of Jonah Boyd]]''
*[[Tanith Lee]] – ''[[Piratica]]''
*[[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]] – ''[[Author, Author (novel)|Author, Author]]''
*[[Andreï Makine]] – ''[[The Woman Who Waited]]'' (''La femme qui attendait'')
*[[Henning Mankell]] – ''[[Depths (novel)|Depths (Djup)]]''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Thomson|first=Ian|date=2006-11-11|title=Review: Depths by Henning Mankell|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview17|access-date=2020-06-01|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[David Michaels (author)|David Michaels]] – ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (novel)|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell]]''
*[[David Mitchell (author)|David Mitchell]] – ''[[Cloud Atlas (novel)|Cloud Atlas]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Cloud Atlas Review|date=14 September 2004|work=The New York Times |author=Miller, Laura|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/books/review/19MILLERL.html|access-date=2 August 2012}}</ref>
*[[Aka Morchiladze]] – ''[[Santa Esperanza]]''
*[[Bharati Mukherjee]] – ''[[The Tree Bride]]''
*[[Alice Munro]] – ''[[Runaway (book)|Runaway]]''
*[[V. S. Naipaul]] – ''[[Magic Seeds]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/books/review/magic-seeds-a-passage-to-india.html|title=Magic Seeds': A Passage to India|date=November 28, 2004|website=New York Times|author=James Atlas|access-date=19 October 2024}}</ref>
*[[Garth Nix]] – ''[[Grim Tuesday]]''
*[[Cees Nooteboom]] – ''[[Lost Paradise (novel)|Lost Paradise]] (Paradijs verloren)''
*[[Linda Sue Park]] – ''[[When My Name Was Keoko]]''
*[[Jodi Picoult]] – ''[[My Sister's Keeper (novel)|My Sister's Keeper]]''
*[[Terry Pratchett]]
**''[[A Hat Full of Sky]]''
**''[[Going Postal]]''
*[[Michael Reaves]] and [[Steve Perry (author)|Steve Perry]] – ''[[MedStar I: Battle Surgeons]]'' and ''[[MedStar II: Jedi Healer]]''
*[[Marilynne Robinson]] – ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wood |first=James |date=2004-11-28 |title=Acts of Devotion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/books/arts/acts-of-devotion.html |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Plot Against America]]''
*[[Edward Rutherfurd]] – ''[[Dublin: Foundation]]''
*[[Nick Sagan]] – ''[[Edenborn]]''<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/25/featuresreviews.guardianreview15?CMP=gu_com|title= Are you worth it?|last= Grimwood|first= John|date= 25 September 2004|website= [[The Guardian]]|publisher= |access-date= 27 September 2022|quote=}}</ref>
*[[Andrzej Sapkowski]] – ''[[Warriors of God]]''
*[[David Sherman]] and [[Dan Cragg]] – ''[[Jedi Trial]]''
*[[Kyle Smith (critic)|Kyle Smith]] – ''[[Love Monkey (novel)|Love Monkey]]''<ref>{{Citation | last = Champion | first = Edward | date = March 2004 | title = Y-Chromosome Lit? | periodical = January Magazine | url = http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/lovemonkey.html}}</ref>
*[[David Southwell]] – ''[[Conspiracy Files]]''
*[[Muriel Spark]] – ''[[The Finishing School (Spark novel)|The Finishing School]]''
*[[Olen Steinhauer]] – ''The Confession''
*[[Neal Stephenson]]
**''[[The Confusion]]'' (Vol. II of the [[Baroque Cycle]])
**''[[The System of the World (novel)|The System of the World]]'' (Vol. III of the [[Baroque Cycle]])
*[[Sean Stewart]] – ''[[Yoda: Dark Rendezvous]]''
*[[Michel Thaler]] – ''[[Le Train de Nulle Part]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-new-novel-no-verbs-in-france-no-less/|title=A New Novel, No Verbs, in France, No Less|date=2 June 2004|website=Chronicle of Higher Education|author=Scott McLemee|access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
*[[Colm Tóibín]] – ''[[The Master (novel)|The Master]]''
*[[Zlatko Topčić]] – ''[[Bare Skin]]''
*[[Karen Traviss]] – ''[[Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact]]''
*[[Jonathan Trigell]] – ''[[Boy A]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/boy-a-by-jonathan-trigell-bad-influence-by-william-sutcliffe-732962.html|title=Boy A, by Jonathan Trigell|date=21 June 2004|author=Nicholas Tucker|website=The Independent|access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
*[[Andrew Vachss]] – [[Andrew Vachss#The Burke series|''Down Here'']]
*[[Vivian Vande Velde]] – ''[[Heir Apparent (novel)|Heir Apparent]]''
*[[Bob Weltlich]] – ''[[Crooked Zebra]]''
*[[A. N. Wilson]] – ''[[My Name Is Legion (novel)|My Name Is Legion]]''
*[[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]]''
*[[Dave Barry]] & [[Ridley Pearson]] - ''[[Peter and the Starcatchers]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/peter-and-the-starcatchers-next-stop-neverland.html|title='Peter and the Starcatchers': Next Stop, Neverland|date=November 14, 2004|author=Michael Gorra|website=New York Times|access-date=September 16, 2024}}</ref>
*[[Mary Bartek]] – ''[[Funerals and Fly Fishing]]''
*[[John Fardell]] – ''[[The Seven Professors of the Far North]]''
*[[Mem Fox]] – ''[[Where Is the Green Sheep?]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 211</ref>
*[[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]]''
*[[E. L. Konigsburg]] - ''[[The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place]]''
*[[J. Patrick Lewis]] (with Gary Kelley) – ''The Stolen Smile''
*[[Robert Muchamore]] – ''[[The Recruit (novel)|The Recruit]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 404</ref> (first in the [[CHERUB]] series)
*[[Jenny Nimmo]] – ''[[Children of the Red King#The Blue Boa|Charlie Bone and the Blue Boa]]''
*[[Liz Pichon]] – ''[[My Big Brother, Boris]]''
*Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez – ''[[The Eyes of My Princess]]''
*[[Lemony Snicket]] – ''[[The Grim Grotto]]''<ref>{{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>
*[[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 (play)|Frozen]]''
*[[Brent Hartinger]] – ''[[Geography Club (play)|Geography Club]]''
*[[Louis Nowra]] – ''[[The Woman with Dog's Eyes]]''
*[[John Patrick Shanley]] – ''[[Doubt (play)|Doubt]]''
*[[Florian Zeller]] – ''L'Autre'' (The Other)

===Poetry===
{{Main|2004 in poetry}}
*[[Seamus Heaney]] – ''[[Beacons at Bealtaine]]''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baldi |first1=Roberta |title=Intersections of Language and Culture 2 |date=15 May 2014 |publisher=EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica |isbn=978-88-6780-260-9 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulGTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |language=en}}</ref>

===Non-fiction===
*[[Steve Almond]] &ndash; ''[[Candyfreak]]''
*[[Thomas P.M. Barnett]] – ''[[The Pentagon's New Map]]''
*[[Ingmar Bergman|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 Secret]]''<ref>Thiessen, Cherie, <span class="plainlinks">[http://januarymagazine.com/biography/tellasecret.html Telling Tales Out of School]</span>, ''January Magazine'', Retrieved 11/272012</ref>
*[[Flora Fraser (writer)|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?''<ref>Queen Mary University of London School of History [http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4569-professor-gareth-stedman-jones Retrieved 11 July 2017.]</ref>
*[[Pedro Lemebel]] – ''[[:es:Adiós mariquita linda|Adiós mariquita linda]]''
*[[Doris Lessing]] &ndash; ''[[Time Bites: Views and Reviews]]''
*[[Lawrence Lessig]] – ''[[Free Culture (book)|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 with 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 Men]]''<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Jeffrey C. Alexander |author2=Ronald Jacobs |author3=Philip Smith |title=The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2XiBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA354 |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-970344-9 |pages=354–}}</ref>

==Films==
* [[2046 (film)|2046]] - inspired by [[Liu Yichang]]'s "The Drunkard"
* [[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]
* [[The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[Lillian Beckwith]], English novelist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/island-author-dies-1-1749088|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323150958/http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/island-author-dies-1-1749088|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-23|title=Island author dies|newspaper=Isle of Man Today|date=9 January 2004|access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[January 4]]
**[[Joan Aiken]], English novelist and children's writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1451045/Joan-Aiken.html|newspaper=The Telegraph|title=Joan Aiken|date=7 January 2004|access-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
**[[Jeff Nuttall]], English poet, artist and activist (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])<ref>{{cite web|author=[[Michael Horovitz]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,1120760,00.html|title=Jeff Nuttall – Author of 1968's Bomb Culture|website=The Guardian|date=12 January 2004|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref>
**[[Dorota Terakowska]], Polish writer and journalist, author of fantasy books for children and young adults (born [[1938 in literature|1938]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dorota TERAKOWSKA |url=http://www.ppibl.ibl.waw.pl/mediawiki/index.php?title=Dorota_TERAKOWSKA |access-date=2023-05-08 |website=Polscy pisarze i badacze literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku}}</ref>
**[[John Toland (author)|John Toland]], American author and historian (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{Cite news|author=Barnes, Bart|date=January 6, 2004|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2004/01/06/historian-john-toland-dies/3b15b0cb-82b5-4db9-af53-ecadaef103d9/|title=Historian John Toland Dies; Won Pulitzer for 'Rising Sun|newspaper=The Washington Post|page=B05|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref> 
*[[January 10]]
**[[Alexandra Ripley]], American novelist (born [[1934 in literature|1934]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilpin |first1=Kenneth N. |title=Alexandra Ripley, 'Scarlett' Author, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/arts/alexandra-ripley-scarlett-author-dies-at-70.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 January 2004}}</ref>
**(or January 11) [[Spalding Gray]], American writer and actor (born [[1942 in literature|1942]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/08/obituaries/spalding-grays-body-is-found-2-months-after-disappearance.html?_r=0|title=Spalding Gray's Body Is Found 2 Months After Disappearance|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=The New York Times| date=March 8, 2004|access-date=March 2, 2017}}</ref>
*[[January 13]] – [[Zeno Vendler]], American philosopher and linguist (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
*[[January 14]] – [[Jack Cady]], American fantasy and horror novelist (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[January 15]]
**[[Alex Barris]], Canadian actor and writer (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
**[[Olivia Goldsmith]], American novelist (complications from cosmetic surgery, born [[1949 in literature|1949]])<ref>{{cite news|last=Associated Press|title=Author Olivia Goldsmith Dies at 54|date=January 16, 2004|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/author-olivia-goldsmith-dies-at-54|accessdate=2019-02-03|work=Fox News}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Abdul Rahman Munif]], Arab writer (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/nyregion/abdul-rahman-munif-71-political-novelist.html|title=Abdul Rahman Munif, 71, Political Novelist|website=New York Times|date=February 2, 2004|access-date=August 9, 2020}}</ref>
*[[January 29]]
**[[Janet Frame]], New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
**[[M. M. Kaye]], Indian-born English novelist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[February 2]] – [[Alan Bullock]], English historian (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Hilda Hilst]], Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born [[1930 in literature|1930]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/31609d9171447296149d3f36e1a01c14|title=Brazilian Writer Hilda Hilst Dies at 73|date=February 4, 2004|author=Tom Murphy|website=AP news|access-date=July 13, 2021}}</ref>
*[[February 5]] – [[Frances Partridge]], English diarist (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/nyregion/frances-partridge-diarist-and-last-survivor-of-bloomsbury-group-dies-at-103.html|title=Frances Partridge, Diarist and Last Survivor of Bloomsbury Group, Dies at 103|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2004-02-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-15|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[February 7]] – [[Norman Thelwell]], English cartoonist (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1453805/Norman-Thelwell.html "Norman Thelwell" (obituary)], ''The Telegraph'', 9 February 2004.</ref>
*[[February 17]] – [[Bruce Beaver]], Australian poet and novelist (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/celebrating-life-death-writing-itself-20040220-gdie1j.html|title=Celebrating life, death, writing itself|date=February 20, 2004|website=Sydney Morgning Herald (archive)|author=John Tranter|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref>
*[[February 27]] – [[Paul Sweezy]], American economist and editor (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])<ref>[[Louis Uchitelle]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/business/02SWEE.html?ex=1079225155&ei=1 "Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies,"] ''New York Times,'' March 2, 2004.</ref>
*[[February 28]] – [[Daniel J. Boorstin]], American historian (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>Wilson, Linda D. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BO014.html "Boorstin, Daniel J. (1914–2004)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105080846/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BO014.html |date=January 5, 2009 }}</ref>
*[[February 29]] – [[Jerome Lawrence]], American playwright (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[March 9]] – [[Albert Mol]], Dutch author, actor and dancer (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[March 27]] – [[Robert Merle]], French novelist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[March 29]] – [[Peter Ustinov]], English actor, dramatist and memoirist (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wfm.org/IN_HOUSE/sirpeter.html|title=Sir Peter Ustinov, President of the World Federalist Movement from 1991–2004, Dies at Age 82|website=wfm.org|publisher=World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy|via=[[Wayback Machine]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051215200529/http://www.wfm.org/IN_HOUSE/sirpeter.html|archive-date=15 December 2005|url-status=dead|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref> 
*[[March 30]]
**[[Alistair Cooke]], English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4552742.stm |work=BBC News | title=Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen' | date=22 December 2005 | access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref>
**[[Michael King (historian)|Michael King]] OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born [[1945 in literature|1945]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=202&objectid=10112577|title=Historian's death puzzles coroner|last=Boyes|first=Nicola|date=25 February 2005|publisher=New Zealand Herald|access-date=8 June 2008}}</ref>
*[[April 19]]
**[[Norris McWhirter]], English writer and activist (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3643039.stm|title=Record Breakers' McWhirter dies|date=20 April 2004|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=16 December 2008}}</ref>
**[[John Maynard Smith]], English evolutionary biologist and writer (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Thom Gunn]], English poet (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stefania Michelucci|title=The Poetry of Thom Gunn: A Critical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFWweZk4Fi8C&pg=PA196|date=10 December 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3687-3|pages=196}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Hubert Selby, Jr.]], American author (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3665719.stm|title=Author Hubert Selby Jr dies at 75|date=2004-04-28|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref>
*[[May 2]] – [[Paul Guimard]], French writer (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard Le Nail|title=Dictionnaire biographique de Nantes et de Loire-Atlantique|publisher=Le Temps|year=2010|isbn=978-2-363-12000-7|pages=200–201}}</ref>
*[[May 12]]
**[[Syd Hoff]], American author and illustrator (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jul/09/guardianobituaries|title=Syd Hoff|date=9 July 2004|author=Christopher Hawtree|website=Guardian|access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref>
**[[Alexander Skutch]], American scientific writer and naturalist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Pearce|first=Jeremy|date=June 17, 2004|title=Alexander Skutch, 99, Expert on Central American Birds|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/us/alexander-skutch-99-expert-on-central-american-birds.html}}</ref>
*[[May 31]] – [[Lionel Abrahams]], South African novelist, poet and essayist (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Lionel Abrahams: Mischievous guru of South African letters |last=Pogrund |first=Anne |date=9 June 2004 |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lionel-abrahams-730543.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lionel-abrahams-730543.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |accessdate=4 July 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[July 1]] – [[Peter Barnes (playwright)|Peter Barnes]], English playwright (born [[1931 in literature|1931]])
*[[July 8]] – [[Paula Danziger]], American children's and young adult novelist (born [[1945 in literature|1945]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lipson|first1=Eden Ross|title=Paula Danziger, 59, Author Of 'The Cat Ate My Gymsuit'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/arts/paula-danziger-59-author-of-the-cat-ate-my-gymsuit.html|access-date=19 Feb 2018|work=The New York Times|date=10 July 2004}}</ref>
*[[August 8]] – [[Farida Diouri]], Moroccan novelist (born [[1953 in literature|1953]]){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
*[[August 12]] – [[Humayun Azad]], Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (born [[1947 in literature|1947]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/367509|title=BD author found dead in Germany|work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|date=14 August 2004}}</ref>
*[[August 14]] – [[Czesław Miłosz]], Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/style/appreciation-the-legacies-of-polands-poet.html|title=Appreciation: The legacies of Poland's poet|last=Dupont|first=Joan|date=2004-09-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-10|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[August 30]] – [[Mario Levrero]], Uruguayan novelist (born [[1940 in literature|1940]])<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.agencialiterariacbq.com/autores/jorge-mario-varlotta-levrero-mario-levrero/|title = Mario Levrero|author = Agencia Literaria CBQ|access-date=24 March 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150423055653/http://www.agencialiterariacbq.com/autores/jorge-mario-varlotta-levrero-mario-levrero/|archive-date=23 April 2015|language=es}}</ref>
*[[September 18]] – [[Norman Cantor]], Canadian historian (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Norman F. Cantor, 74, a Noted Medievalist, Is Dead|date=September 21, 2004|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/obituaries/norman-f-cantor-74-a-noted-medievalist-is-dead.html|author=Saxon, Wolfgang|work=The New York Times |access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref>
*[[September 24]] – [[Françoise Sagan]], French novelist (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3689484.stm "French literary icon Sagan dies"], [[BBC]], 25 September 2004</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[Mulk Raj Anand]], Indian novelist in English (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite news |title= The last of Indian English fiction's grand troika: Encyclopaedia of arts |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/the-last-of-indian-english-fictions-grand-troika/article27675173.ece |url-access=subscription |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |first= Ranjit|last= Hoskote |author-link= Ranjit Hoskote |date=29 September 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217175613/http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/29/stories/2004092904171100.htm |archive-date=17 December 2004 |access-date=19 October 2024}}</ref>
*October – [[Natalya Baranskaya]], Russian short-story writer (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[October 8]] – [[Jacques Derrida]], Algerian-born French literary critic (born [[1930 in literature|1930]])<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/11/guardianobituaries.france "Obituary: Jacques Derrida"], by Derek Attridge and Thomas Baldwin, ''[[The Guardian]]'', October 11, 2004. Retrieved January 19, 2010.</ref>
*[[October 13]] – [[Bernice Rubens]], Welsh-born novelist (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=94398|title=Rubens, Bernice (1923-2004)|last=Cunningham|first=Valentine|year=2008}}</ref>
*[[October 16]]
**[[Vincent Brome]], English biographer and novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/nov/23/guardianobituaries.obituaries|title=Vincent Brome|author=Sarah Jardine-Willoughby|date=23 November 2004|website=The Guardian|access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
**[[Harold Perkin]], English social historian (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*[[October 20]] – [[Anthony Hecht]], American poet (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Anthony Hecht, a Formalist Poet, Dies at 81 |last=Shapiro |first=Harvey |date=October 22, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/books/22Hecht.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
*[[November 9]] – [[Stieg Larsson]], Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born [[1954 in literature|1954]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/stieg-larsson-girlfriend-eva-gabrielsson-rages-memoir/story?id=12950542|last=Donaldson James|first=Susan|title=Stieg Larsson's Girlfriend Rages in Memoir|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=21 February 2011|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>
*[[November 24]] – [[Arthur Hailey]], Canadian novelist (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Jankiewicz |first=Adam |date=26 November 2004 |title=Arthur Hailey, 84, novelist who wrote 'Airport,' 'Hotel' |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/11/26/arthur_hailey_84_novelist_who_wrote_airport_hotel/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=14 February 2017}}</ref>
*[[December 2]] – [[Mona Van Duyn]], American poet (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marquis Who's Who|title=Who Was Who In America 2004-2005: With World Notables|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkYAAAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Marquis Who's who|isbn=978-0-8379-0251-7|page=268}}</ref>
*[[December 8]] – [[Jackson Mac Low]], American poet (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/20/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Obituary: Jackson MacLow|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=20 December 2004}}</ref>
*[[December 12]] – [[Phaswane Mpe]], South African novelist (born [[1970 in literature|1970]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/dec/22/guardianobituaries.southafrica|title=Phaswane Mpe|date=22 December 2004|author=Liz McGregor|website=The Guardian|access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[December 13]] – [[Jón frá Pálmholti]] (Jón Kjartansson), Icelandic writer and journalist (born [[1930 in literature|1930]])<ref>{{cite news |date=20 December 2004 |url=https://timarit.is/page/3620482#page/n24/mode/2up |title=Minningar: Jón frá Pálmholti |work=[[Morgunblaðið]] |language=is |page=24 |access-date=4 October 2021 }}</ref>
*[[December 18]] – [[Anthony Sampson]], British journalist and biographer (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/dec/21/pressandpublishing.booksobituaries |first=John |last=Thompson|title=Anthony Sampson (obituary)|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=21 December 2004|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>
*[[December 28]] – [[Susan Sontag]], American novelist (born [[1933 in literature|1933]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wasserman |first1=Steve |title=Author Susan Sontag Dies |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-122804sontag_lat-story.html |newspaper=LA Times |access-date=October 20, 2020}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Elfriede Jelinek]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Stuart Taberner|title=The Novel in German since 1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0xUXwpIjIiYC&pg=PA163|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-49988-0|pages=163}}</ref>
*[[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 (poet)|Michael Brennan]], ''Imageless World''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Shirley Hazzard]], ''[[The Great Fire (Hazzard novel)|The Great Fire]]''
*[[Victorian Premier's Literary Award]] [[Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Annamarie Jagose]], ''[[Slow Water]]''

===Canada===
*[[Giller Prize]]: [[Alice Munro]], ''[[Runaway (book)|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 Blue (book)|Into the Blue]]''<ref>Goodreads, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4825775-into-the-blue ''Into the Blue'']</span>, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012</ref>

===Sweden===

*[[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]]: [[Lygia Bojunga Nunes]]<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 653</ref>

===United Kingdom===
*[[Caine Prize for African Writing]]: [[Brian Chikwava]], "Seventh Street Alchemy"
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Frank Cottrell Boyce]], ''[[Millions (novel)|Millions]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 661</ref>
*[[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 (novel)|Small Island]]''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Hugo Williams]]
*[[2004 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[Andrea Levy]], ''[[Small Island (novel)|Small Island]]''

===United States===
*[[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Henry S. Taylor|Henry Taylor]]
*[[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Aaron Smith (American poet)|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]]:
:Fiction: [[Daniel Alarcón]], [[Kirsten Bakis]], [[Victor LaValle]]
:Nonfiction: [[Allison Glock]], [[John Jeremiah Sullivan]]
:Plays: [[Elana Greenfield]], [[Tracey Scott Wilson]]
:Poetry: [[Catherine Barnett]], [[Dan Chiasson]], [[A. Van Jordan]]

===Elsewhere===
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Antonio Soler (composer)|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==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford companion to children's literature |date=2015 |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-871554-2 |edition=Second}}

==References==
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{{Year in literature article categories}}

[[Category:2004-related lists]]