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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Deaths 5.1 January-February 5.2 March-August 5.3 September-December 6 Awards 6.1 Australia 6.2 Canada 6.3 United Kingdom 6.4 United States 7 See also

[edit] Events

• 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 (known on the internet as Nevada-tan) murdered her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimicked a scene from the story. [1] [2]

[edit] New books

• Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror - Richard A. Clarke
• Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
• Author, Author - David Lodge
• Back to Life (novel) - Wendy Coakley-Thompson
• The Big Why - Michael Winter
• The Body of Jonah Boyd - David Leavitt
• The Cestus Deception - Steven Barnes
• Conspiracy Files - David Southwell
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• The Confession - Olen Steinhauer
• The Confusion - Neal Stephenson (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle)
• The Dark Tower - Stephen King
• The Dust Diaries - Owen Sheers
• Dust of Eden - Thomas Sullivan
• Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
• Edenborn - Nick Sagan
• Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
• Eragon - Christopher Paolini
• Escaping the Giant Wave - Peg Kehret
• Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
• Gregor the Overlander - Suzanne Collins
• The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
• The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper
• Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde
• How to Ruin Your Financial Life - Ben Stein
• In the Place of Last Things - Michael Helm
• Jedi Trial - David Sherman & Dan Cragg
• Layer Cake - J.J. Connelly
• The Inner Circle - T. C. Boyle
• The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
• Love Monkey - Kyle Smith
• MedStar I: Battle Surgeons - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• MedStar II: Jedi Healer - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• My Name Is Legion - A. N. Wilson
• Origins of the Crash - Roger Lowenstein
• Past Mortem - Ben Elton
• The Pentagon's New Map - Thomas P.M. Barnett
• A Planet for the President - Alistair Beaton
• The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
• The Rocklopedia Fakebandica - T. Mike Childs
• Runaway - Alice Munro
• Sahara Special - Esmé Raji Codell
• The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troost
• Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen
• Song of Susannah - Stephen King
• Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact - Karen Traviss
• Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories - Chuck Palahniuk
• The System of the World - Neal Stephenson (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
• Ten Men - Alexandra Gray
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - David Michaels
• When My Name Was Keoke - Linda Sue Park
• A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
• Yoda: Dark Rendezvous - Sean Stewart

[edit] New drama

• Alan Bennett - The History Boys
• John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

[edit] Non-fiction

• Flora Fraser - Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
• Leonie Frieda - Catherine de' Medici
• Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
• 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

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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
• 29 January, 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Elfriede Jelinek

[edit] Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Julienne van Loon, Road Story
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
• Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
• 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

[edit] United States

• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Henry Taylor
• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Aaron Smith for 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 for 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
• Wallace Stevens Award: Mark Strand

[edit] See also

• list of years in literature
• Literature
• Poetry
• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awardsde:Literaturjahr 2004

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