2001 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2001.

The play—for which Briony had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper—was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss breakfast and lunch.

—Opening sentence, Ian McEwan, Atonement

Events

February 15 – Author Michael Crichton signs a new two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishers, reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.
July 19 – English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer is found guilty of perjury in an earlier libel trial and sentenced to imprisonment.
September 19 – Amiri Baraka reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey.
December 10 – The live-action film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's classic book, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, is premièred in London. The film is directed by Peter Jackson. Its release has a noticeable impact on readership of the original trilogy.^[1]

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
Rodrigo Fresán – Mantra
Diana Gabaldon – The Fiery Cross
Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff – Past Imperfect
Kate Grenville – The Idea of Perfection
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
Christian Kracht – 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, and Other Stories
Pedro Lemebel – Tengo miedo torero ("My tender matador")
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
David Lodge -Thinks ...
James Luceno – Cloak of Deception
Ian McEwan – Atonement
Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
V S Naipaul – Half a Life
R. K. Narayan – Under the Banyan Tree
Joyce Carol Oates – Middle Age: A Romance
Chuck Palahniuk – Choke
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
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 – Stanley Park
Anne Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups
Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers
Andrew Vachss – Pain Management
Tim Winton – Dirt Music
Carlos Ruiz Zafón – La sombra del viento ("The Shadow of the Wind")
Juli Zeh – Eagles and Angels

New drama

Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti - Behsharam ("Shameless")
Abdelkader Benali - Yasser
Neil LaBute – The Shape of Things
Lynn Manning – Weights

Non-fiction

Tom Allen – Rolling Home^[2]
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
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
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
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

Poetry

Deaths

January 11 – Lorna Sage, English scholar (born 1943)
January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-born American science fiction writer (born 1923)
February 7 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (born 1906)
February 14
- Alan Ross, Indian-born English poet and editor (born 1922)
- Richard Laymon, American horror fiction writer (born 1947)
March 12 – Robert Ludlum, American novelist (born 1927)
May 11 – Douglas Adams, English writer, humorist and dramatist (born 1952)
May 13 – R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist writing in English (born 1906)
June 1 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (born 1920)
June 27 – Tove Jansson, Finnish children's author writing in Swedish (born 1914)
July 3 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist (born 1931)
July 31 – Poul Anderson, American fantasy and sci-fi author (born 1926)
August 6 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (born 1912)
August 20 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (born 1915)
November 10 – Ken Kesey, American author (born 1935)
December 21 – Dick Schaap, American journalist and author (born 1934)
December 14 – W. G. Sebald, German novelist and academic (born 1944)

Awards

Australia

Miles Franklin Award: Frank Moorhouse, Dark Palace

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.
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues^[3]

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

References

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New prose fiction

New drama

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Australia

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