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Template:Globalize/USA 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

Poetry[]

Main article: 2001 in poetry

Births[]

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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[]

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[]

United States[]

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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