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2002 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2002.

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Events

  • March 16 – Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accuses some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
  • March 31American Writers: A Journey Through History resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.
  • November – Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, a novelization of the film Die Another Day, bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based upon Ian Fleming's character that started in 1981.
  • Bokklubben World Library begins publication in Norway.
  • Fiction

  • Alaa Al AswanyThe Yacoubian Building (عمارة يعقوبيان, ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān)
  • Aaron AllstonEnemy Lines: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand
  • Jean M. AuelThe Shelters of Stone
  • Paul AusterThe Book of Illusions
  • Iain BanksDead Air
  • Greg BearVitals
  • Raymond BensonDie Another Day and The Man with the Red Tattoo
  • Nelson BondThe Far Side of Nowhere
  • William BoydAny Human Heart
  • Mircea CărtărescuThe Encyclopedia of Dragons (Enciclopedia zmeilor)
  • Stephen L. CarterThe Emperor of Ocean Park
  • Bernard CornwellSharpe's Prey, Sharpe's Skirmish and Vagabond
  • Michael CrichtonPrey
  • Elaine CunninghamDark Journey
  • L. Sprague de Camp – Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories
  • Thomas R. DeGregori – The Bountiful Harvest
  • Dave EggersYou Shall Know Our Velocity
  • Janet EvanovichHard Eight
  • Michel FaberThe Crimson Petal and the White
  • Giorgio FalettiIo uccido
  • Mick FarrenUnderland
  • Nancy FarmerThe House of The Scorpion
  • Elena FerranteI giorni dell'abbandono (The Days of Abandonment)
  • Alan Dean FosterThe Approaching Storm
  • Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp – None But Lucifer
  • Jean-Christophe Grangé – Le Concile de pierre
  • Niall GriffithsSheepshagger
  • John GrishamThe Summons
  • Joanne HarrisCoastliners
  • John D. HarveyThe Cleansing
  • Aleksandar HemonNowhere Man
  • Carl HiaasenHoot
  • Frank Turner Hollon – The God File
  • Rabee Jaber – رحلة الغرناطي (Rahlat al-Gharnati, The Journey of the Granadian)
  • Stephen KingEverything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales and From a Buick 8
  • Rachel KleinThe Moth Diaries
  • Dean R. Koontz – By the Light of the Moon and One Door Away from Heaven
  • Ursula K. Le GuinThe Birthday of the World (anthology including Paradises Lost)
  • Sallie Lowenstein – Sender Unknown
  • Robert LudlumThe Sigma Protocol
  • Valerio Massimo ManfrediThe Last Legion
  • Javier MaríasYour Face Tomorrow Volume 1: Fever and Spear (Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza)
  • Rohinton MistryFamily Matters
  • Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka)
  • Chuck PalahniukLullaby
  • Orhan PamukSnow
  • Ann PatchettBel Canto
  • James PattersonBeach House
  • Terry PratchettNight Watch
  • Libby PurvesMother Country
  • Pascal QuignardLes Ombres errantes
  • Kathy ReichsGrave Secrets
  • Nora RobertsFace the Fire
  • Joel C. RosenbergThe Last Jihad
  • R. A. Salvatore – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
  • Alice SeboldThe Lovely Bones
  • Åsne Seierstad – The Bookseller of Kabul
  • Carol ShieldsUnless
  • Vladimir SorokinIce
  • Danielle SteelThe Cottage
  • David StoreyAs It Happened
  • Matthew StoverTraitor
  • Thomas SullivanBorn Burning
  • Donna TarttThe Little Friend
  • Hồ Anh TháiCõi người rung chuông tận thế (The Apocalypse Bell Tolls in the Human World)
  • William TrevorThe Story of Lucy Gault
  • Andrew VachssOnly Child
  • Guy VanderhaegheThe Last Crossing
  • Barbara Vine – The Blood Doctor
  • Sarah WatersFingersmith
  • Darren WilliamsAngel Rock
  • Walter Jon WilliamsDestiny's Way
  • Roger ZelaznyThe Last Defender of Camelot
  • Children and young people

  • Chris Van Allsburg - Zathura
  • Neil GaimanCoraline
  • Bob GrahamJethro Byrd, Fairy Child
  • Kathleen Hague (with Michael Hague) - Good Night, Fairies
  • Ulrich KargerGeisterstunde im Kindergarten (translated as The Scary Sleepover)
  • Jenny NimmoMidnight for Charlie Bone
  • Christopher PaoliniEragon (first in the Inheritance Cycle of four books)
  • Drama

  • Caryl ChurchillA Number
  • Nilo CruzAnna in the Tropics
  • Peter VerhelstBlush
  • Poetry

  • Neil Astley (ed.) – Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology)
  • Jim DodgeRain on the River
  • Linton Kwesi JohnsonMi Revalueshanary Fren
  • Grazyna Miller – Alibi of a butterfly
  • Non-fiction

  • Peter AckroydAlbion: The Origins of the English Imagination
  • Jeffrey Archer (as FF 8282) – A Prison Diary: Volume 1: Belmarsh: Hell
  • Bija Bennett – Emotional Yoga
  • T. J. Binyon – Pushkin: A Biography
  • Stuart ChristieGranny Made me an Anarchist
  • Gerina DunwichA Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural
  • Tye R. Farrell and Jeffrey Morrow – University of Psychogenic Fugue
  • Pim FortuynDe puinhopen van acht jaar Paars
  • Michael J. FoxLucky Man: A Memoir
  • Stephen J. Gould – I Have Landed
  • Peter JenningsIn Search of America
  • Judith LevineHarmful to Minors
  • Gabriel García MárquezVivir para contarla (autobiography)
  • Jeremy PaxmanThe Political Animal
  • Neil PeartGhost Rider
  • Rachel SimonRiding the Bus with My Sister
  • David SouthwellDirty Cash
  • James B. StewartHeart of a Soldier
  • Paul TherouxDark Star Safari
  • Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life
  • Alison WattThe Last Island
  • Edited by John BrockmanThe Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
  • Deaths

  • January 12 – Lady Violet Powell, British critic and biographer (born 1912)
  • January 28Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's author (born 1907)
  • February 8Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (born 1930)
  • February 21 – A. L. Barker, English novelist (born 1918)
  • February 27Spike Milligan, Indian-born English comedian, screenwriter and poet (born 1918)
  • March 21Thomas Flanagan, American historical novelist (born 1923)
  • April 6Martin Sperr, German dramatist (born 1944)
  • May 6Pim Fortuyn, Dutch political columnist and writer (born 1948)
  • May 17Dave Berg, American cartoonist (born 1920)
  • May 20 – Stephen J. Gould, American paleontologist, biologist and writer (born 1941)
  • June 2Flora Lewis, American journalist (born 1922)
  • June 13 – R. W. B. Lewis, American critic (born 1917)
  • June 20
  • Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1930)
  • Kenneth Kantzer, American theologian (born 1917)
  • June 24 – John Kincaid McNeillie (also Ian Niall), Scottish novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1916)
  • July 23Chaim Potok, American writer (born 1929)
  • August 25Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet and playwright (born 1923)
  • September 17Eileen Colwell, English children's librarian (born 1904)
  • September 20Joan Littlewood, English theater director and biographer (born 1914)
  • October 13Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (born 1936)
  • October 21Harbhajan Singh, Indian Punjabi poet and critic (born 1920)
  • October 27Sesto Pals, Romanian Israeli poet and philosopher (cancer, born ca. 1912)
  • October 28Sugathapala de Silva, Sri Lankan dramatist, novelist and translator writing in Sinhalese (born 1928)
  • November 8 – Jon Elia, Pakistani poet and philosopher writing in Urdu (born 1931)
  • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Imre Kertész
  • Camões Prize: Maria Velho da Costa
  • Australia

  • 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: Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
  • See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
  • Griffin Poetry Prize: Christian Bök, Eunoia and Alice Notley, Disobedience
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Tom Allen, Rolling Home
  • France

  • 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

  • Booker Prize: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler
  • 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

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shao Wei, Pulling a Dragon's Teeth
  • Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Grace Schulman
  • Arthur Rense Prize for poetry: B.H. Fairchild
  • Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
  • Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Alice Fulton, 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
  • National Book Award for Fiction: to Three Junes by Julia Glass
  • National Book Critics Circle Award: to Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • 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
  • Whiting Awards:
  • Fiction: Jeffery Renard Allen, Justin Cronin, Kim Edwards, Michelle Huneven, Danzy SennaPlays: Melissa James Gibson, Evan SmithPoetry: Elizabeth Arnold, David Gewanter, Joshua Weiner

    Other

  • 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: Ángela Vallvey, Los estados carenciales
  • References

    2002 in literature Wikipedia


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