The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Poetry Main article: 2002 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births [edit] Deaths - January 12 - Lady Violet Powell, literary critic, 89
- January 28 - Astrid Lindgren, children's author, 94
- February 8 - Joachim Hoffmann, 71
- February 21 - A. L. Barker, novelist, 83
- March 21 - Thomas Flanagan, novelist, 78
- May 17 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine, 81
- June 2 - Flora Lewis, journalist, 84
- June 13 - R. W. B. Lewis, critic, 84
- June 20
- July 23 - Chaim Potok, novelist
- August 25 - Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet and playwright, 79
- October 13 - Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian and biographer, 66
- October 21 - Harbhajan Singh (poet), poet and critic, 82
- November 8 - Jon Elia, poet and philosopher, 64
- November 19 - Max Reinhardt, publisher, 86
[edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] France [edit] United Kingdom - Booker Prize: Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
- Cholmondeley Award: Moniza Alvi, David Constantine, Liz Lochhead, Brian Patten
- Eric Gregory Award: Caroline Bird, Christopher James, Jacob Polley, Luke Heeley, Judith Lal, David Leonard Briggs, Eleanor Rees, Kathryn Simmonds
- Samuel Johnson Prize: Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Peter Porter
[edit] United States - Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Shao Wei for Pulling a Dragon's Teeth
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Grace Schulman
- Arthur Rense Prize for poetry awarded to B.H. Fairchild by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Timothy Donnelly, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Alice Fulton for Felt
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Anna George Meek, Acts of Contortion
- Compton Crook Award: Wen Spencer, Alien Taste
- Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell
- Hugo Award: Neil Gaiman, American Gods
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Richard Russo, Empire Falls
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, Practical Gods
- Wallace Stevens Award: Ruth Stone
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