- 2002 in literature
The year 2002 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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March 16 : Authorities inSaudi Arabia arrested and jailed poetAbdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem "The Corrupt on Earth " that criticized the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accused some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
* November:Raymond Benson releases his finalJames Bond novel, a novelization of the film "Die Another Day ", bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based uponIan Fleming 's character that started in 1981.New books
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Aaron Allston - ' and '
*Jean M. Auel - "The Shelters of Stone "
*Iain Banks - "Dead Air "
*Greg Bear - "Vitals "
*Raymond Benson - "Die Another Day" and "The Man with the Red Tattoo "
*Nelson Bond - "The Far Side of Nowhere "
*William Boyd - "Any Human Heart "
*Stephen L. Carter - "The Emperor of Ocean Park "
*Tracy Chevalier - "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
*Bernard Cornwell - "Sharpe's Prey ", "Sharpe's Skirmish " and "Vagabond"
*Michael Crichton - "Prey"
*Elaine Cunningham - "Dark Journey "
*L. Sprague de Camp - "Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories "
*Thomas R. DeGregori - "The Bountiful Harvest "
*Dave Eggers - "You Shall Know Our Velocity "
*Janet Evanovich - "Hard Eight"
*Michel Faber - "The Crimson Petal and the White "
*Giorgio Faletti - "Io uccido "
*Mick Farren - "Underland"
*Janet Fitch - "White Oleander "
*Alan Dean Foster - "The Approaching Storm "
*Horace L. Gold andL. Sprague de Camp - "None But Lucifer "
*Jean-Christophe Grangé - "Le Concile de pierre "
*Niall Griffiths - "Sheepshagger "
*John Grisham - "The Summons "
*Joanne Harris - "Coastliners "
*John D. Harvey - "The Cleansing "
*Carl Hiaasen - "Hoot"
*Stephen King - "" and "From a Buick 8 "
*Rachel Klein - "The Moth Diaries "
*Dean R. Koontz - "By the Light of the Moon " and "One Door Away from Heaven "
*Robert Ludlum - "The Sigma Protocol "
*Ian McEwan - "Atonement"
*Valerio Massimo Manfredi - "The Last Legion "
*Rohinton Mistry - "Family Matters"
*Chuck Palahniuk - "Lullaby"
*Ann Patchett - "Bel Canto"
*James Patterson - "Beach House "
*Terry Pratchett - "Night Watch"
*Libby Purves - "Mother Country"
*Pascal Quignard - "Les Ombres errantes "
*Kathy Reichs - "Grave Secrets "
*Nora Roberts - "Face the Fire "
*R. A. Salvatore - ""
*Alice Sebold - "The Lovely Bones "
*Carol Shields - "Unless "
*Kenji Siratori - "Blood Electric "
*Thomas Sullivan - "Born Burning "
*David Southwell - "Dirty Cash "
*James Spix - "Sutherlin Alliance "
*Danielle Steel - "The Cottage "
*Matthew Stover - "Traitor
*Donna Tartt - "The Little Friend "
*William Trevor - "The Story of Lucy Gault "
*Andrew Vachss - "Only Child"
*Guy Vanderhaeghe - "The Last Crossing "
*Barbara Vine - "The Blood Doctor "
*Sarah Waters - "Fingersmith"
*Darren Williams - "Angel Rock "
*Walter Jon Williams - "Destiny's Way "
*Roger Zelazny - "The Last Defender of Camelot"New drama
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Peter Verhelst - "Blush"Poetry
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Linton Kwesi Johnson - "Mi Revalueshanary Fren"
*Grazyna Miller - "Alibi of a butterfly "Non-fiction
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Peter Ackroyd - ""
*Bija Bennett - "Emotional Yoga "
*Stuart Christie - "Granny Made me an Anarchist "
*Gerina Dunwich - "A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural "
*Michael J. Fox - "Lucky Man "
*Peter Jennings - "In Search of America "
*Sue Monk Kidd - "The Secret Life of Bees "
*Judith Levine - "Harmful to Minors "
*Gabriel García Márquez - "Vivir para contarla " (autobiography )
*Neil Peart - "Ghost Rider"
*James B. Stewart - "Heart of a Soldier "
*Rachel Simon - "Riding the Bus with My Sister "
*Rick Warren - "The Purpose Driven Life "Births
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Deaths
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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
**Timothy Findley , Canadian author, 71
**Kenneth Kantzer , theologian, 84
*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, 86Awards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Imre Kertész Australia
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award :Danielle Wood , "The Alphabet of Light and Dark"
*C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry : Robert Gray, "Afterimages"
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry :Alan Wearne , "The Lovemakers"
*Mary Gilmore Prize :Geraldine McKenzie , "Duty"
*Miles Franklin Award :Tim Winton , "Dirt Music "Canada
* Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction:
Austin Clarke , "The Polished Hoe"
* See2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
*Griffin Poetry Prize :Christian Bök , "Eunoia " andAlice Notley , "Disobedience"France
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Prix Décembre :Pierre Michon , "Abbés" and "Corps du Roi"
*Prix Femina :Chantal Thomas , "Les adieux à la reine"
*Prix Femina (non-fiction):Michael Barry , "Massoud"
*Prix Goncourt :Pascal Quignard , "Les Ombres errantes"
*Prix Médicis French:Daniel Desmarquet , "Kafka et les jeunes filles"
*Prix Médicis Non-Fiction:Anne F. Garréta , "Pas un jour"
*Prix Médicis International:Philip Roth , "The Human Stain "United Kingdom
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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 United States
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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 toB.H. Fairchild by theAmerican 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 forchildren'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 Other
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Finlandia Prize :Kari Hotakainen "Trench Street"
*IMPAC Award :Michel Houellebecq , "Les Particules Élémentaires "
*Macmillan Writers' Prize for Africa Adult Fiction:Yvonne Vera , "Stone Virgins"
*Premio Nadal :Angela Vallvey , "Los estados carenciales"
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