2001 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
- January 15 : The Wikipedia project as a free, multilingual online dictionary is started. Wikipedia is currently the most widely used online reference work and, at the time of the survey on January 13, 2013, is the sixth most visited website worldwide.
- April 17th : Foundation of Bookcrossing by the American Ron Hornbaker
- June 22nd : The Volxtheatercaravan is arrested by the Italian police
Literary prizes
- Catherine Asaro , The Quantum Rose , Die Quantenrose , Category: Best Novel
- Jack Williamson , The Ultimate Earth , Chapter 4 The Ultimate Earth of the Novel: The End Times Engineers , Category: Best Short Novel
- Kelly Link , Louise's Ghost , Category: Best Narration
- Severna Park , The Cure for Everything , Category: Best Short Story
- James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai & Hui-Ling Wang , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Tiger and Dragon , Category: Best Screenplay
- JK Rowling , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Category: Best Novel
- Jack Williamson, The Ultimate Earth , Chapter 4 The Ultimate Earth of the Novel: The End Times Engineers , Category: Best Short Novel
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch , Millennium Babies , Category: Best Story
- David Langford , Different Kinds of Darkness , Category: Best Short Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin , The Telling , The Narrators , Category: Best SF Novel
- George RR Martin , A Storm of Swords , Schwertgewitter , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Geoffrey A. Landis , Mars Crossing , Category: Best First Novel
- Lucius Shepard , Radiant Green Star , Category: Best Short Novel
- Ursula K. Le Guin , The Birthday of the World , Category: Best Story
- Larry Niven , The Missing Mass , Category: Best Short Story
- Michael Swanwick , Tales of Old Earth , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Michael Marrak , Lord Gamma , Category: Best Novel
- Marcus Hammerschmitt , Troubadours , Category: Best short story / short story
- Mary Doria Russell , Sperling , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Horst Pukallus and Michael K. Iwoleit , Category: Best Translator
- Wolfgang Jeschke for his life's work and his services to SF in Germany, special award
- Richard Paul Russo , Ship of Fools
- Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize : Urs Widmer
- Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award : Olaf Stapledon
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Barbara Lambert , A Message for Mr. Lazarus
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Eden Robinson , Monkey Beach
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Jürgen Habermas
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Michael Lentz , Muttersterben
- Kurd Laßwitz Prize : Michael Marrak , Lord Gamma
- Gabrielle Roy Prize for Criticism (Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures): Fred Wah , Faking It
- Georg Büchner Prize : Friederike Mayröcker
- Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts : Uwe Timm
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Terry Glavin , The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean
- Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize : Götz-Ulrich Coblenz , My Walk from Arkona to Pisa. A diary
- National Book Award : Jonathan Franzen , The Corrections (Fiction); Andrew Solomon , Shadows of Saturn: The Dark Worlds of Depression (Nonfiction); Alan Dugan : Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (Poetry); Virginia Euwer Wolff : Believe in it (Young People's Literature)
- Prix Goncourt : Jean-Christophe Rufin , Rouge Brésil
- Tukan Prize : Uwe Timm for red
New releases
- 1979 - Christian Kracht
- July 21st - Christian v. Ditfurth
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- American Gods - Neil Gaiman
- An American Nightmare - James Ellroy
- Work poor. Out and about in the service society - Barbara Ehrenreich
- Austerlitz - WG Sebald
- The visit of the personal doctor - Per Olov Enquist
- Bibbi Bokken's magical library - Jostein Gaarder and Klaus Hagerup
- One trillion dollars - Andreas Eschbach
- Bourdanin's children - Gertrud Fussenegger
- The firewall - Henning Mankell
- The Brotherhood - John Grisham
- Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds
- The surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
- Badger Hunt - Tony Hillerman
- The eternal gardener - John le Carré
- Flatterland - Ian Stewart
- The flycatcher - Willy Russell
- Franz or Why antelopes run side by side - Christoph Simon
- Sky Fire - Barbara Wood
- You don't know me! - David Klass
- Suspended - Tess Gerritsen
- The camera killer - Thomas Glavinic
- Head and collar - Feridun Zaimoglu
- The corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- The résumé of love - Martin Walser
- Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War - Eve Ensler
- Thirty-nine ninety -nine - Frédéric Beigbeder
- Fainting - Jorge Semprún
- Phonon or state without a name - Dietmar Dath
- Platform - Michel Houellebecq
- Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
- The Priestess of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- PUDER or: Sleeping Beauty in the Valley of the Wild, Wild Pigs - Tor Åge Bringsværd
- Quest - Andreas Eschbach
- An umbrella for this day - Wilhelm Genazino
- Red is my name - Orhan Pamuk
- Swan love. Lines and miracles - Sarah Kirsch
- Siegfried - Harry Mulisch
- Soldiers from Salamis - Javier Cercas
- The sun on your face - Deborah Ellis
- Trail of the Wolves - Dennis Lehane
- The fatal blow - Wolfgang Hohlbein
- Approximate landscape - Peter Stamm
- The hidden word - Ulla Hahn
- Waste your youth - Jürgen Teipel
- The fourth hand - John Irving
- Like animals - Wolf Haas
- Wild journey through the night - Walter Moers
Died
- January 10 : Necati Cumalı , Turkish writer (* 1921 )
- January 14 : Karl Bednarik , Austrian painter and writer (* 1915 )
- February 11 : Maurice Zermatten , Swiss writer (* 1910 )
- February 26 : Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan writer, diplomat and politician (* 1906 )
- March 12 : Robert Ludlum , American writer, actor and producer (* 1927 )
- March 20 : Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes , British writer (* 1919 )
- May 9 : Marie Cardinal , French writer (* 1928 or 1929)
- May 9 : Johannes Poethen , German writer (* 1928 )
- May 11 : Douglas Adams , British writer (born 1952 )
- May 11 : Klaus Schlesinger , German writer and journalist (* 1937 )
- May 19 : Hans Mayer , German literary scholar, lawyer, social researcher, critic (* 1907 )
- June 19 : Harald Gerlach , German poet, writer and playwright (* 1940 )
- June 28 : Arno Reinfrank , German writer, publicist and translator (* 1934 )
- July 3 : Mordecai Richler , Canadian writer (* 1931 )
- July 21 : Einar Schleef , German writer and director (* 1944 )
- July 22 : Miklós Mészöly , Hungarian writer (* 1921 )
- July 31 : Poul Anderson , American science fiction writer (born 1926 )
- August 6 : Jorge Amado , Brazilian writer (* 1912 )
- August 9 : Otti Pfeiffer , German poet and author of children's and young adult books (* 1931 )
- August 21 : Everett B. Cole , American science fiction writer (born 1910 )
- August 24 : Donald A. Prater , British writer, Germanist and diplomat (* 1918 )
- October 21 : Anna Maria Jokl , Austrian-Israeli writer (* 1911 )
- November 1 : Juan Bosch , Dominican politician, head of state and writer (* 1909 )
- November 10 : Ken Kesey , American writer and performance artist (* 1935 )
- November 29 : Viktor Petrovich Astafjew , Russian writer (* 1924 )
- December 6th : Carla Hansen , Danish writer (* 1906 )
- December 9 : Willi Erzgräber , German Anglist (* 1926 )
- December 14 : WG Sebald , German writer (* 1944 )
- December 16 : Stefan Heym , German writer (* 1913 )
- December 16 : Christian Loidl , German writer and performer (* 1957 )
- December 20 : Léopold Sédar Senghor , African poet and politician (* 1906 )
- December 22nd : Jan Kott , Polish theater scholar and translator (* 1914 )