2001 in literature
The year 2001 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- 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 books
New drama
Non-fiction
Poetry
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2001 in poetryBirths
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) (b. 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
Australia
Canada
France
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
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