2004 in literature
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Events
- Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy to be read across the nation
New Books
- Eastern Standard Tribe - Cory Doctorow
- - Chuck Palahniuk
Births
Deaths
- January 4, John Toland, author and historian
- January 4, Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- January 4, Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture
- January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett
- January 10/11?, Spalding Gray, actor and author
- January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist
- January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author
- January 15, Olivia Goldsmith, author
- January 15, Alex Barris, Canadian actor and writer
- January 22, George Woodbridge, illustrator
- January 29, M. M. Kaye, author of The Far Pavilions
- 29 January, Janet Frame, New Zealand author
- February 2, Alan Bullock, historian
- February 4, Hilda Hilst, Brazilian novelist
- February 5, Frances Partridge, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
- February 7, Norman Thelwell, cartoonist
- February 8, Julius Schwartz, comic book and pulp magazine editor
- February 16, Bill Oakley, comic book letterer
- February 19, Hermann Krings, German philosopher
- February 27, Paul Sweezy, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
- February 28, Daniel J. Boorstin, historian
- February 29, Jerome Lawrence, playwright
- March 9, Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
- 30 March, Dr Michael King OBE (b. 15 December 1945), a widely respected New Zealand historian, author and biographer
Awards
- The Hanging of Angelique - Afua Cooper