Wikipedia: 2002 in literature

2002 in literature
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See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

March 16, 2002: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul 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.

New Books

Atonement - Ian McEwan
Beach House - James Patterson
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art - Dan Franck & Cynthia Liebow
The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War - Charles J. Hanley , Sang-Hun Choe, & Martha Mendoza
The Bountiful Harvest - Thomas R. DeGregori
By the Light of the Moon - Dean R. Koontz
Coastliners - Joanne Harris
Le Concile de pierre - Jean-Christophe Grangé
The Cottage - Danielle Steel
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
Dead Air - Iain Banks
The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen L. Carter
Face the Fire - Nora Roberts
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs
Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich
Heart of a Soldier - James B. Stewart
In Search of America - Peter Jennings
The Last Crossing - Guy Vanderhaeghe
Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox
Les Ombres errantes - Pascal Quignard
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Modigliani & the Artists of Montparnasse - Kenneth Wayne
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
One Door Away from Heaven - Dean R. Koontz
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret Olwen Macmillan
Prey - Michael Crichton
Surrealist Subversions: Rants, Writings & Images by the Surrealist Movement in the United States, edited by Ron Sakolsky
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Shelters of Stone - Jean M. Auel
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
The Summons - John Grisham
Unless - Carol Shields
Vitals - Greg Bear
Vivir para contarla (autobiography) - Gabriel García Márquez
White Oleander - Janet Fitch

Births

Deaths

May 17 - Dave Berg (81), cartoonist for Mad Magazine
June 20 - Timothy Findley (71), Canadian author
July 23 - Chaim Potok, novelist

Awards

Booker Prize: Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
Finlandia Prize: Kari Hotakainen Trench Street
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
IMPAC Award: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
Nobel Prize for Literature: Imre Kertész
Orange Prize for Fiction: Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Prix Décembre: Pierre Michon, Abbés and Corps du Roi
Prix Fémina: Chantal Thomas, Les adieux à la reine
Prix Fémina (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
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
Samuel Johnson Prize: Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
Whitbread Best Book Award: