The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] New books [edit] New drama [edit] Poetry [edit] Non-fiction [edit] Deaths [edit] January-February - January 3 - Lillian Beckwith, writer of semi-autobiographical Hebridean novels (b. 1916)
- January 4
- January 10
- January 13 - Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist
- January 14 - Jack Cady, science fiction author
- January 15
- January 22 - George Woodbridge, illustrator
- January 29 -
- February 2 - Alan Bullock, historian
- February 4 - Hilda Hilst, Brazilian novelist
- February 5 - Frances Partridge, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
- February 7 - Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
- February 8 - Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor
- February 16 - Bill Oakley, comic book letterer
- February 27 - Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
- February 28 - Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
- February 29 - Jerome Lawrence, playwright
[edit] March-August - March 9 - Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
- March 29 - Peter Ustinov, actor, dramatist and memoirist (b. 1921)
- March 30
- May 2 - Paul Guimard, French writer
- April 25 - Thom Gunn, poet (b. 1929)
- April 26 - Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
- July 1 - Peter Barnes, playwright
- July 8 - Paula Danziger, young adult novelist
[edit] September-December - September 18 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- September 24 - Françoise Sagan, French novelist (b. 1935)
- September 28 - Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English language (b. 1905)
- October - Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (b. 1908)
- October 16 - Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist
- October 20 - Anthony Hecht, American poet
- November 24 - Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist
- December 2 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- December 8 - Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- December 12 - Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (b. 1970)
- December 18 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
- December 28 - Susan Sontag, American novelist (b. 1933)
[edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] United Kingdom - Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
- Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: David Peace, GB84
- Man Booker Prize: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Hugo Williams
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Andrea Levy, Small Island
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