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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2004.

Events

January - Poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea.^[1]^[2]
February 16 - Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first ever official national poet, The Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament.^[3]^[4]
May 23 - Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.
June 1 - Sasebo slashing: Controversy briefly surrounds Koushun Takami's Battle Royale, when an 11-year-old fan of the story murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story, in Sasebo, Nagasaki.^[5]^[6]
October 14 - Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature.^[7]
October 31 - Publication in Paris by Denoël of Irène Némirovsky's Suite française, two novellas (Tempête en juin and Dolce) written and set in 1940–41 from a sequence left unfinished on the author's death in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
December 18 - The première of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti ("Dishonour") at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (England) is cancelled as a result of violent protests by members of the local Sikh community.
date unknown Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing to be read across the nation.

New prose fiction

C.C. Allentini – Dead of Winter
Germano Almeida - O mar na Lajinha
John Ames - Wake Up Sir!
R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness That Comes Before
Blue Balliett - Chasing Vermeer
Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist
Steven Barnes - The Cestus Deception
Mary Bartek - Funerals and Fly Fishing
Alistair Beaton - A Planet for the President
Thomas Berger - Adventures of the Artificial Woman
Louis de Bernières - Birds Without Wings
Roberto Bolaño - 2666
T. C. Boyle - The Inner Circle
Gennifer Choldenko - Al Capone Does My Shirts
Stephen Clarke - A Year in the Merde
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Wendy Coakley-Thompson - Back to Life
Suzanne Collins - Gregor the Overlander
J. J. Connelly - Layer Cake
Afua Cooper - The Hanging of Angelique
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Escape and The Last Kingdom
Douglas Coupland - Eleanor Rigby
Stevie Davies - Kith & Kin
L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - Sagas of Conan
Cory Doctorow - Eastern Standard Tribe
Ben Elton - Past Mortem
Gustav Ernst - Grado. Süße Nacht
Giorgio Faletti - Niente di vero tranne gli occhi
Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austen Book Club
Ge Fei - 人面桃花 (Renmian Taohua, "Peach Blossom Beauty")
Robert Goddard - Play to the End
Adrien Goetz - La Dormeuse de Naples
Helon Habila - Waiting for an Angel
Elisabeth Harvor, All Times Have Been Modern (Canada)
Michael Helm - In the Place of Last Things
Carl Hiaasen - Skinny Dip
Allison Hedge Coke - Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
Jiang Rong - Wolf Totem
Cynthia Kadohata - Kira-Kira
Peg Kehret - Escaping the Giant Wave
Thomas Keneally - The Tyrant's Novel
Stephen King - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower and The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
John Kiriamiti - My Life in Prison
Karl Ove Knausgård - A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven
David Leavitt - The Body of Jonah Boyd
Tanith Lee - Piratica
David Lodge - Author, Author
Henning Mankell - Depths
David Michaels - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
David Mitchell -Cloud Atlas
Aka Morchiladze - Santa Esperanza
Robert Muchamore - The Recruit (novel) and Class A (novel)
Bharati Mukherjee - The Tree Bride
Alice Munro - Runaway
Garth Nix - Grim Tuesday
Cees Nooteboom - Lost Paradise
Daniel Olivas - Devil Talk: Stories
Linda Sue Park - When My Name Was Keoko
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full of Sky and Going Postal
Michael Reaves and Steve Perry - MedStar I: Battle Surgeons and MedStar II: Jedi Healer
Marilynne Robinson - Gilead
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Edward Rutherfurd - Dublin: Foundation
Nick Sagan - Edenborn
David Sherman and Dan Cragg - Jedi Trial
Kyle Smith - Love Monkey
Lemony Snicket - The Grim Grotto
David Southwell - Conspiracy Files
Muriel Spark - The Finishing School
Olen Steinhauer - The Confession
Neal Stephenson - The Confusion (Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle) and The System of the World (Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle)
Sean Stewart - Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
Thomas Sullivan - Dust of Eden
Michel Thaler - Le Train de Nulle Part
Colm Tóibín - The Master
Karen Traviss - Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact
Jonathan Trigell - Boy A
Andrew Vachss - Down Here
Vivian Vande Velde - Heir Apparent
Bob Weltlich - Crooked Zebra
A. N. Wilson - My Name Is Legion
Michael Winter - The Big Why
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
Juli Zeh - Gaming Instinct
Florian Zeller - La Fascination du pire ("The Fascination of Evil")

New drama

Alan Bennett - The History Boys
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti - Behzti
Neil Brand - Stan (radio)
Bryony Lavery - Frozen
Brent Hartinger - Geography Club
Louis Nowra - The Woman with Dog's Eyes
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Florian Zeller - L'Autre ("The Other")

Poetry

Seamus Heaney - Beacons of Bealtaine

Non-fiction

Thomas P.M. Barnett - The Pentagon's New Map
Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman and Maria von Rosen - Tre dagböcker ("Three diaries")
T. Mike Childs - The Rocklopedia Fakebandica
Richard A. Clarke - Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror
Jonathan Coe - Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson
Anne Coleman - I'll Tell You a Secret^[8]
Flora Fraser - Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
Leonie Frieda - Catherine de' Medici
Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw
Allison Hedge Coke - Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer
Pedro Lemebel - Adiós mariquita linda
Predrag Miletić - Biciklom do Hilandara
Lawrence Lessig - Free Culture
Roger Lowenstein - Origins of the Crash
Farah Pahlavi - An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah
Chuck Palahniuk - Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
Michael Palin - Himalaya
Sethy Regenvanu - Laef blong mi – from village to nation: an autobiography
Anita Roddick - Take it Personally: How globalization affects you and powerful ways to challenge it
Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend
Owen Sheers - The Dust Diaries
Ben Stein - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, The Truth, and What to Do About It
Jon Stewart and writers of The Daily Show - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Milt Thomas - Cave of a Thousand Tales
J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Mario Vargas Llosa - The Temptation of the Impossible
Francis Wheen - How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (aka Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions)
United Kingdom government - Delivering Security in a Changing World

Deaths

January–February

January 3 – Lillian Beckwith, English novelist (born 1916)
January 4
- John Toland, American author and historian (born 1912)
- Joan Aiken, English novelist and children's writer (born 1924)
- Jeff Nuttall, English poet, artist and activist (born 1933)
January 10
- Alexandra Ripley, American novelist (born 1934)
- (or January 11) Spalding Gray, American writer and actor (born 1942)
January 13 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher and linguist (born 1921)
January 14 – Jack Cady, American fantasy and horror novelist (born 1932)
January 15
- Olivia Goldsmith, American novelist (complications from cosmetic surgery, born 1949)
- Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer (born 1922)
January 29
- M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist (born 1908)
- Janet Frame, New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
February 2 – Alan Bullock, English historian (born 1914)
February 4 – Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, playwright and novelist (born 1930)
February 5 – Frances Partridge, English diarist (born 1900)
February 7 – Norman Thelwell, English cartoonist (born 1923)
February 17 – Bruce Beaver, Australian poet and novelist (born 1928)
February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (born 1910)
February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian (born 1914)
February 29 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (born 1915)

Mar-August

March 9 – Albert Mol, Dutch author, actor and dancer (born 1917)
March 27 – Robert Merle, French novelist (born 1908)
March 29 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, dramatist and memoirist (born 1921)
March 30
- Dr Michael King OBE, New Zealand historian, author and biographer (born 1945)
- Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)
April 19
- Norris McWhirter, English writer and activist (born 1925)
- John Maynard Smith, English evolutionary biologist and writer (born 1920)
April 25 – Thom Gunn, English poet (born 1929)
April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author (born 1928)
May 2 – Paul Guimard, French writer (born 1921)
May 12 – Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (born 1912)
July 1 – Peter Barnes, English playwright (born 1931)
July 8 – Paula Danziger, American children's and young adult novelist (born 1945)
August 8 – Farida Diouri, Moroccan novelist (born 1953)
August 12 – Humayun Azad, Bangladeshi author, poet, scholar and linguist (born 1947)
August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish writer and Nobel laureate (born 1911

September–December

September 18 – Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (born 1929)
September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French novelist (born 1935)
September 28 – Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English (born 1905)
October – Natalya Baranskaya, Russian short-story writer (born 1908)
October 8 – Jacques Derida, Algerian-born French literary critic (born 1930)
October 13 – Bernice Rubens, Welsh-born novelist (born 1928)
October 16 – Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (born 1910)
October 20 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (born 1923)
November 9 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and crime novelist (heart attack, born 1954)
November 24 – Arthur Hailey, Canadian novelist (born 1920)
December 2 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born 1921)
December 8 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (born 1922)
December 12 – Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (born 1970)
December 18 – Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)
December 28 – Susan Sontag, American novelist (born 1933)

Awards

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Antonio Soler, El camino de los ingleses

References

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↑ "Book Review: 'North Korea: State of Paranoia' by Paul French and 'Dear Leader' by Jang Jin-Sung", Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2014
↑ Edwin Morgan announced as the first Scots Makar, 2004.
↑ ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland.
↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Archived April 4, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
↑ http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Archived October 4, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", The Guardian, 14 Oct 2004. Accessed 16 November 2014
↑ Thiessen, Cherie, Telling Tales Out of School, January Magazine, Retrieved 11/272012
↑ Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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[2] "Book Review: 'North Korea: State of Paranoia' by Paul French and 'Dear Leader' by Jang Jin-Sung", Wall Street Journal, 13 June 2014

[3] Edwin Morgan announced as the first Scots Makar, 2004.

[4] ASLS: A National Poet for Scotland.

[5] ttp://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200406/05/20040605p2a00m0dm003001c.html Archived April 4, 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[6] ttp://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/features/0412/27sasebo.html Archived October 4, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[7] "Edinburgh crowned the capital of literature", The Guardian, 14 Oct 2004. Accessed 16 November 2014

[8] Thiessen, Cherie, Telling Tales Out of School, January Magazine, Retrieved 11/272012

[9] Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

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2004 in literature

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Events

New prose fiction

New drama

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Deaths

January–February

Mar-August

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