2001 in literature

The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * The film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is released to movie theaters. The film is directed by Peter Jackson.


 * February 15 – Author Michael Crichton signs a new two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishers, reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.


 * September 11 attacks, leading to the invasion of Afghanistan and the second U.S. invasion of Iraq.

New prose fiction

 * Niccolò Ammaniti – Io non ho paura
 * Raymond Benson – Never Dream of Dying
 * Dennis Bock – The Ash Garden
 * Ben Bova – The Precipice
 * Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
 * Lois McMaster Bujold – The Curse of Chalion
 * Joseph Connolly – S.O.S.
 * Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Trafalgar and Gallows Thief
 * Douglas Coupland – All Families Are Psychotic
 * Achmat Dangor – Bitter Fruit
 * Umberto Eco – Baudolino
 * Barbara Ehrenreich – Nickel and Dimed
 * James Ellroy – The Cold Six Thousand
 * Leif Enger – Peace Like a River
 * Sebastian Faulks – On Green Dolphin Street
 * Leon Forrest – Meteor in the Madhouse
 * Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections
 * Diana Gabaldon – The Fiery Cross
 * Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff – Past Imperfect
 * John Grisham – A Painted House and Skipping Christmas
 * Joanne Harris – Five Quarters of the Orange
 * Nick Hornby - How to Be Good
 * Nancy Huston – Dolce Agonia
 * John Irving – The Fourth Hand
 * P. D. James – Death in Holy Orders
 * Greg Keyes – Edge of Victory: Conquest and Edge of Victory: Rebirth
 * Stephen King – Black House and Dreamcatcher
 * Robert N. Kucey – Giving Something Back
 * Hanif Kureishi – Gabriel's Gift
 * John le Carré – The Constant Gardener
 * Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat
 * David Lodge -Thinks ...
 * James Luceno – Cloak of Deception
 * Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy
 * Yann Martel – Life of Pi
 * Ian McEwan – Atonement
 * V S Naipaul – Half a Life
 * R. K. Narayan – Under the Banyan Tree
 * Joyce Carol Oates – Middle Age: A Romance
 * Chuck Palahniuk – Choke
 * Kate Grenville Picador – The Idea of Perfection
 * Terry Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Thief of Time and The Last Hero
 * Sven Regener – Herr Lehmann
 * Kathy Reichs – Fatal Voyage
 * Alain Robbe-Grillet – La reprise
 * Jean-Christophe Rufin – Rouge Brésil
 * Salman Rushdie – Fury
 * Richard Russo – Empire Falls
 * Eric Schlosser – Fast Food Nation
 * W. G. Sebald – Austerlitz
 * Michael Slade – Death's Door
 * Danielle Steel – Leap of Faith
 * Antonio Tabucchi – It's Getting Later All the Time
 * Amy Tan – The Bonesetter's Daughter
 * Timothy Taylor – Stanley Park
 * Anne Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups
 * Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers
 * Andrew Vachss – Pain Management
 * Binod Bihari Verma – Adim Purkha
 * Juli Zeh – Eagles and Angels

New drama

 * Neil LaBute – The Shape of Things
 * Lynn Manning – Weights

Non-fiction

 * Dionne Brand – A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
 * Antonia Fraser – Marie Antoinette: The Journey
 * Stephen Hawking – The Universe in a Nutshell
 * Laura Hillenbrand -Seabiscuit: An American Legend
 * Christopher Hitchens – The Trial of Henry Kissinger
 * 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
 * Michael Moore – Stupid White Men
 * Mumtaz Mufti – Ali Pur Ka Aeeli
 * T. Subba Row Collected Writings
 * Pavel Polian – Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR
 * E. Hoffmann Price – Book of the Dead
 * Miranda Seymour – Mary Shelley
 * Frans de Waal – The Ape and the Sushi Master
 * Benjamin Woolley – The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee

Deaths

 * January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction writer
 * February 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, aviator
 * February 14 – Alan Ross, 78, poet and editor
 * March 12 –  Robert Ludlum, author
 * May 11 – Douglas Adams, author (heart attack) (born 1952)
 * May 13 – R.K. Narayan, 94, Indian novelist
 * June 1 – Hank Ketcham, 81, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
 * June 27 – Tove Jansson, children's author
 * July 3 – Mordecai Richler
 * August 1 – Poul Anderson – fantasy / sci-fi author
 * August 6 – Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer
 * August 20 – Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
 * November 10 – Ken Kesey, 66, author.

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: V.S. Naipaul

Kate DiCamillo made a book name The Tiger Rising or also call TTR all the kids like the book the book was made in March 16, 2001

Canada

 * 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.

France

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

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 
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

Other

 * Finlandia Prize: Hannu Raittila Canal Grande
 * IMPAC Award: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
 * Orange Prize for Fiction: Kate Grenville Picador, The Idea of Perfection
 * Premio Nadal: Fernando Marías, El Niño de los Coroneles
 * Premio Strega: Domenico Starnone, Via Gemito
 * Viareggio Prize: Niccolò Ammaniti, Io non ho paura, Michele Ranchetti, Verbale, and Giorgio Pestelli, Canti del destino

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