2001 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2001.
- February 15 – The author Michael Crichton signs a new deal with HarperCollins Publishers that reportedly earns him $40 million for two books.
- April 1 – The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched.
- April 13 – The film version of Helen Fielding's 1996 novel Bridget Jones's Diary has uncredited cameo roles as themselves for Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer, at a literary party.
- July 19 – The English popular novelist and politician Jeffrey Archer, having been found guilty of perjury in a libel trial, is sentenced to imprisonment.[1]
- September 19 – Amiri Baraka reads his poem "Somebody Blew Up America?" at a poetry festival in New Jersey, eight days after the September 11 attacks.
- November 4 – Film premiere of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first in the commercially successful Harry Potter film series based on the novels of J. K. Rowling.
- December 10 – The live-action film version of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson, opens in London. Its appearance has a strong impact on readership of the trilogy.[2]
New books
Fiction
- Niccolò Ammaniti – Io non ho paura
- Hiromu Arakawa – Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, manga series, begins publication)
- Tahar Ben Jelloun – Cette aveuglante absence de lumière (This Blinding Absence of Light)
- Raymond Benson – Never Dream of Dying
- Dennis Bock – The Ash Garden
- Ben Bova – The Precipice
- Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders
- Lois McMaster Bujold – The Curse of Chalion
- Javier Cercas – Soldiers of Salamis (Soldados de Salamina)
- Joseph Connolly – S.O.S.
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland – All Families Are Psychotic
- Achmat Dangor – Bitter Fruit
- Helen Dunmore – The Siege
- Umberto Eco – Baudolino
- James Ellroy – The Cold Six Thousand
- Leif Enger – Peace Like a River
- Sebastian Faulks – On Green Dolphin Street
- Ken Follett – Jackdaws
- Leon Forrest – Meteor in the Madhouse
- Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections[3]
- Rodrigo Fresán – Mantra
- Diana Gabaldon – The Fiery Cross
- Neil Gaiman – American Gods
- Kate Grenville – The Idea of Perfection
- John Grisham
- Abdulrazak Gurnah – By the Sea
- Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Impostors
- Joanne Harris – Five Quarters of the Orange
- Vigdis Hjorth – Om bare (If only)
- Nick Hornby – How to Be Good
- Silas House – Clay's Quilt
- Nancy Huston – Dolce Agonia
- John Irving – The Fourth Hand
- Fleur Jaeggy – Proleterka
- P. D. James – Death in Holy Orders
- Greg Keyes
- Edge of Victory: Conquest
- Edge of Victory: Rebirth
- Stephen King
- Christian Kracht – 1979
- Hanif Kureishi – Gabriel's Gift
- Joe R. Lansdale – Captains Outrageous
- John le Carré – The Constant Gardener
- Ursula K. Le Guin – The Birthday of the World, and Other Stories
- Pedro Lemebel – Tengo miedo torero (My Tender Matador)
- Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
- David Lodge – Thinks ...
- James Luceno – Cloak of Deception
- Ian McEwan – Atonement
- Andreï Makine – Music of a Life (La Musique d'une vie)
- Juliet Marillier – Child of the Prophecy
- Yann Martel – Life of Pi
- Alice Munro – Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (short stories)
- V S Naipaul – Half a Life
- R. K. Narayan – Under the Banyan Tree
- Joyce Carol Oates – Middle Age: A Romance
- Chuck Palahniuk – Choke
- Noni Power – Crawling at Night
- Terry Pratchett
- Sven Regener – Herr Lehmann
- Kathy Reichs – Fatal Voyage
- Alain Robbe-Grillet – La Reprise
- Jean-Christophe Rufin – Rouge Brésil
- Salman Rushdie – Fury
- Richard Russo – Empire Falls
- W. G. Sebald – Austerlitz
- Nava Semel – And the Rat Laughed (ואת צחוק של עכברוש)
- Olga Slavnikova – Bessmertniy (The Immortal)
- Danielle Steel – Leap of Faith
- Antonio Tabucchi – It's Getting Later All the Time
- Amy Tan – The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Timothy Taylor – Stanley Park
- Anne Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups
- Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers
- Andrew Vachss – Pain Management
- Tim Winton – Dirt Music
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón – La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind; first in El cementerio de los libros olvidados (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books) series)
- Juli Zeh – Eagles and Angels
Children and young people
- David Almond – Secret Heart
- Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses (first in the Noughts and Crosses series of five books)
- Ann Brashare – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (first in the eponymous series of eight books)
- Eva Ibbotson – Journey to the River Sea
- Brian Jacques – Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
- David Klass – You Don't Know Me
- Hilary McKay – Saffy's Angel
- Patricia McKissack – Goin' Someplace Special
- Michael Morpurgo
- More Muck and Magic
- Out of the Ashes
- Toro! Toro!
- Lesléa Newman – Cats, Cats, Cats!
- Linda Sue Park – A Single Shard
- Philip Reeve – Mortal Engines (November 16)
- J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Lemony Snicket
- Jacqueline Wilson – Sleepovers
Drama
- Richard Alfieri – Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
- Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti – Behsharam (Shameless)
- Abdelkader Benali – Yasser
- Jon Fosse – Dødsvariasjonar (Death Variations)
- Neil LaBute – The Shape of Things
- Lynn Manning – Weights
- Peter Morris – The Age of Consent
- Zlatko Topčić – Time Out
Poetry
- Anne Carson – The Beauty of the Husband
Non-fiction
- David Allen – Getting Things Done
- Tom Allen – Rolling Home[5]
- Jan Bondeson – Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
- Dionne Brand – A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
- Edwin Bryant – The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture
- Joan Didion – Political Fictions
- Eamon Duffy – The Voices of Morebath. Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
- Barbara Ehrenreich – Nickel and Dimed
- Koenraad Elst – The Saffron Swastika
- Mem Fox – Reading Magic
- Antonia Fraser – Marie Antoinette: The Journey
- Dorothy Gallagher – How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories
- Stephen Hawking – The Universe in a Nutshell
- Laura Hillenbrand – Seabiscuit: An American Legend
- Christopher Hitchens – The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- Gary Lachman – Turn Off Your Mind
- Lawrence Lessig – The Future of Ideas
- Normand Lester – Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais (The Black Book of English Canada)
- Steven Levy – Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
- Margaret MacMillan – Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
- Michael Moore – Stupid White Men
- Mumtaz Mufti – Ali Pur Ka Aeeli
- Pavel Polian – Against Their Will... A History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR
- E. Hoffmann Price – Book of the Dead
- Eric Schlosser – Fast Food Nation
- Miranda Seymour – Mary Shelley
- Andrew Solomon – The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
- Ben Thompson - Ways of Hearing
- Türkmenbaşy – Ruhnama (The Book of the Soul, first part)
- Ivan Vladislavic – The Restless Supermarket
- Frans de Waal – The Ape and the Sushi Master
- Benjamin Woolley – The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee