Literature year 2004

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe 's The Englishman's Boy as national reading
Vancouver / British Columbia , April: The to the BC Book Prizes belonging Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence is the first time patron Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia Iona Campagnolo passed. The first winner is PK Page .
Canada : The Danuta Gleed Literary Awards prize pool is increased to 10,000 Canadian dollars.

September 2nd : During a fire in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar / Thuringia, thousands of books were damaged by fire, smoke and extinguishing water on the night of September 3rd. The library contains German original literature from the period 1750 and 1850 as well as numerous special collections

In October 2004, Google Print presented itself at the Frankfurt Book Fair .

In December 2004, search results from scanned books begin to appear in the results lists of the English search interface Google.com .

Literary prizes

Nobel Prize for Literature 2004 : Elfriede Jelinek

German Science Fiction Award

Andreas Eschbach : The last of its kind

Hugo Award

Lois McMaster Bujold , Paladin of Souls , Paladin of Souls , Category: Best Novel
Vernor Vinge , The Cookie Monster , Das Cookie-Monster , Category: Best Short Novel
Michael Swanwick , Legions in Time , Category: Best Narration
Neil Gaiman , A Study in Emerald , Category: Best Short Story

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Andreas Eschbach, The last of its kind , Category: Best novel
Angela Steinmüller and Karlheinz Steinmüller , Before Time Travel , Category: Best Short Story / Narrative
Vernor Vinge, A Depth in the Sky , Category: Best Foreign Work
Hannes Riffel , Category: Best Translator
Franz Rottensteiner for the long-standing publication of Quarber Merkur , special price

Locus Award

Dan Simmons , Ilium , Ilium , Category: Best SF Novel
Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls , Paladin of Souls , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
Terry Pratchett , The Wee Free Men , Little Free Men , Category: Best Children's Book
Cory Doctorow , Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , Backup , Category: Best First Novel
Vernor Vinge, The Cookie Monster , Das Cookie-Monster , Category: Best Short Novel
Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald , Category: Best Narration
Neil Gaiman, Closing Time , Category: Best Short Story
Ursula K. Le Guin , Changing Planes , Category: Best Collection
Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology

Nebula Award

Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls , Paladin of Souls , Category: Best Novel
Walter Jon Williams , The Green Leopard Plague , Category: Best Short Novel
Ellen Klages , Basement Magic , Category: Best Narration
Eileen Gunn , Coming to Terms , Category: Best Short Story
Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson , The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , Category: Best Screenplay

Philip K. Dick Award

Gwyneth Jones , Life

Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize 2004 : Christoph Ransmayr
Booker Prize 2004 : Alan Hollinghurst for The Line of Beauty
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Jacqueline Baker , A Hard Witching & Other Stories
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Caroline Adderson , Sitting Practice
Erich Fried Prize 2004 : Brigitte Oleschinski
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2004 : Péter Esterházy : Hungarian writer
Georg Büchner Prize 2004 : Wilhelm Genazino
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry 2004 Eastern Europe:
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Uwe Tellkamp , Sleep in the Clocks
Matt Cohen Prize : Howard Engel
Nadal Literature Prize : Antonio Soler for El camino de los ingleses
Newbery Medal 2004 for children's literature : Kate DiCamillo , The Tale of Despereaux
Austrian State Prize for European Literature 2004 :
Prix Goncourt 2004 :
Pulitzer Prize , General Non Fiction: The Gulag ( ISBN 3-88680-642-1 ) by Anne Applebaum (* 1964 )
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize : Alice Munro , Runaway , Short Story Collection
Whitbread Book of the Year Award 2004 :

New releases

1812: Napoleon's campaign in Russia - Adam Zamoyski
Aaron's staff - DH Lawrence
Absolute friends - John le Carré
On the slope - Markus Werner
Bambiland - Elfriede Jelinek
The belly of the ocean - Fatou Diome
The Blood Countess - Wolfgang Hohlbein
Chaos - David Mitchell
German Justice - Roman Grafe
Servant of God - Petra Morsbach
A good vintage - Peter Mayle
Half as wild - Günter Senkel and Feridun Zaimoglu
Pike summer - Jutta Richter
The Nutcracker Lord - Iain Lawrence
I'm worried, mom - Vladimir Kaminer
Jessica, 30 - Marlene Streeruwitz
Young light - Ralf Rothmann
Rock-hard - Gregor Tessnow
Kristus - Robert Schneider
Land grab - Christoph Hein
Lila, Lila - Martin Suter
Millions - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Nervous fish - Heinrich Steinfest
Anyway - Doron Rabinovici
Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The swarm - Frank Schätzing
The rare gift - Andreas Eschbach
The seven heads - 11 authors and a duo of authors
Play instinct - July toe
The city of the sighted - José Saramago
Mortal Sin - Tess Gerritsen
The dead man in the bunker - Martin Pollack
Complete idiot - Tommy Jaud
Los Voraces 2019 - Andrew Soltis
How it shines - Thomas Brussig
we don't sleep - Kathrin Röggla
The goat or Who is Sylvia? - Edward Albee
Twelve grams of happiness - Feridun Zaimoglu

Died

January 4 : John Toland , author and historian
January 4th : Joan Aiken , British writer
January 4 : Jeff Nuttall , poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture
January 10 : Alexandra Ripley , author of Scarlett
10/11? January : Spalding Gray , actor and writer
January 13 : Zeno Vendler , philosopher and linguist
January 14th : Jack Cady , science fiction writer
January 15 : Olivia Goldsmith , author
January 15 : Alex Barris , Canadian actor and writer
January 22nd : Islwyn Ffowc Elis , Welsh-speaking writer
January 29th : MM Kaye , UK writer for The Far Pavilions
January 29 : Janet Frame , New Zealand writer
February 4th : Hilda Hilst , Brazilian author
February 5 : Frances Partridge , writer
February 8 : Julius Schwartz , comic editor
February 19 : Hermann Krings , German philosopher
February 28 : Carmen Laforet , Spanish writer
February 29 : Jerome Lawrence , writer
March 9 : Albert Mol , writer, actor and dancer
March 11th : Gerhard Bengsch , German writer and screenwriter
March 12 : Finn Carling , Norwegian author
March 12 : Cid Corman , Russian-born American author and translator from Japanese
March 17th : Monique Laederach , Swiss writer
March 19 : Leo Frank , Austrian author
March 28 : Robert Merle , French author
March 28 : Peter Ustinov , British director, actor and writer
March 30 : Michael King OBE , New Zealand historian, author, and biographer
April 9 : Hannelore Valencak , Austrian writer
April 10th : Jacek Kaczmarski , Polish poet and singer, the “ bard ” of Solidarność
April 15 : Hans Gmür , Swiss playwright, director, composer and producer
April 15 : Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese manga artist
April 18 : Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer
April 19 : Norris McWhirter , British publisher
April 21 : Concha Zardoya (Chile / Spain) poet and writer
April 22nd : Richard Reichensperger , Austrian journalist a. Literary critic
April 24th : José Giovanni , Franco-Swiss author and filmmaker
April 25th : Thom Gunn , British poet
April 26 : Hubert Selby , American writer
April 27 : Roy Walford author
April 29 : Nick Joaquin , Filipino writer
May 1st : Lojze Kovačič , Slovenian writer
May 2 : Paul Guimard , French writer
May 6th : Robert Gratzer , Austrian writer a. journalist
May 6 : Kjell Hallbing , aka Louis Masterson, Norwegian western writer
May 12 : Michael Guttenbrunner , Austrian writer
May 14 : Günter Gaus , German journalist and politician
May 15 : William H. Hinton , Marxist, author of Franshen
June 2nd : Dom Moraes , Indian poet and writer
June 11 : Jens Hagen , German writer
June 14 : Jack McClelland , Canadian publisher
June 17th : Sara Lidman , Swedish writer
June 18 : Peter Märthesheimer , German screenwriter and film producer
June 20 : Hanns Cibulka , German writer and poet
June 22 : Mattie Stepanek , American lyric poet
June 24th : Ifigeneia Giannopoulou , Greek author and songwriter
June 24 : Carl Rakosi , American poet
June 28 : Anthony Buckeridge , British writer
July 1st : Ettore Cella , Swiss actor, director, author and translator
July 2nd : Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen , Portuguese poet
July 8 : Paula Danziger , American writer
July 9 : Ron Milner , African-American dramaturge
July 11 : Lothar Baier , German writer (suicide)
July 11 : Walter Wager , American writer
July 14 : Hans A. Pestalozzi , Swiss writer
July 31 : Isabella Nadolny , German writer
August 4 : Joseph Papaleo , Italian-American writer
August 9 : Ernst Naumann , German publisher
August 12th : Humayun Azad , Bengali essayist, poet and writer
August 13 : Julia Child , American chef, writer, television personality
August 14 : Czesław Miłosz , Polish writer, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature
August 15 : Ferdinand Schöningh , German publisher
August 17th : Thea Astley , Australian writer
August 25 : Robert Denoon Cumming , American author
Early autumn: Barbara Antkowiak , German Slavist, literary translator and editor (* 1933 )
September 3 : André Stil , French writer and art critic
September 8 : Ian Cochrane , British writer
September 11 : Fred Ebb , Broadway writer ( Cabaret, Chicago )
September 12 : Jerome Chodorov , dramaturge (My sister Eileen)
September 16 : Virginia Hamilton Adair , American poet
September 19 : Ryhor Reles , the last Belarusian writer to write in Yiddish
September 24th : Françoise Sagan , French writer
September 28 : Mulk Raj Anand , Indian writer
October 4th : Martin Ugalde , Spanish-Basque writer
October 6 : Brunhilde Baur , German publisher
October 7th : TJ Binyon , British crime writer
October 10 : Maurice Shadbolt , New Zealand writer
October 13 : Bernice Rubens , British writer (Madame Sousatzka)
October 13 : Tetsu Yano , Japanese science fiction writer
October 14 : Ivan Shamiakin , Belarusian writer
October 15 : Per Højholt , Danish writer