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Prizes
International
- The Nobel Prize for Literature - Dario Fo , "Inheriting medieval jesters, condemns power and authority and defends the dignity of the oppressed."
UK
- Booker Prize - Arundati Roy , God of the Little Things
Russia
- Russian Booker - Anatoly Azolsky , “Cell”.
USA
- The Pulitzer Prize in the category of fiction, written by an American writer — Stephen Millhauser, “Martin Dressler. Tale of the American Dreamer "
- The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry - Lisel Muller, Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
France
- Goncourt Prize - Patrick Rambo , Battle
- Renodo Prize - Pascal Bruckner , “Beauty Thieves”
- Femin Award - Jia Pingwa, The Fallen Capital
Books
Novels
- “The Shake ” is Kurt Vonnegut’s latest novel.
- " Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone " - a novel by Joan Rowling .
- “ Goldfish ” is a novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Leklesio .
- “ The Book of the Warrior of the Light ” is a novel by Paulo Coelho .
- “ Love lives three years ” - a novel by Frederick Begbeder .
- “ Memoirs of a Geisha ” is a novel by Arthur Golden .
- “ Patriot (Flat World) ” - a novel by Terry Pratchett .
- “ Underground ” is a novel by Haruki Murakami .
- “ Sex and the City ” is a Candace Bushnell novel.
- The Wonderful Knife is a novel by Philip Pullman .
Died
- January 19 - James Dickey , American poet and writer (born 1923 ).
- February 3 - Bohumil Grabal , Czech writer, prose writer and poet (born in 1914 ).
- April 2 - David Shahar , an Israeli writer (born 1926 ).
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg , American poet (born 1926 ).
- June 20 - Jahit Külebi , Turkish poet (born in 1917 ).
- August 2 - William Burroughs , American writer (born 1914 ).
- October 16 - James Michener , American writer (born 1907 ).