The year 2004 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Non-fiction
Deaths
January-February
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- 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-August
- March 9, Albert Mol, author, actor, and dancer
- March 29 - Peter Ustinov, actor, dramatist and memoirist (b. 1921)
- March 30
- May 2, Paul Guimard, French writer
- April 26, Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
- July 1, Peter Barnes, playwright
- July 8, Paula Danziger, young adult novelist
September-December
- September 18 - Norman Cantor, Canadian historian (b. 1929)
- September 24 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
- October 16, Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist
- October 20, Anthony Hecht, American poet
- November 24, Arthur Hailey, Canadian author
- December 2 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (b. 1921)
- December 8, Jackson Mac Low, American poet
- December 12, Phaswane Mpe, South African novelist (b. 1970)
- December 18 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (b. 1926)
- December 28, Susan Sontag, American novelist (b. 1933)
Awards
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
- Cholmondeley Award: John Agard, Ruth Padel Lawrence Sail, Eva Salzman
- Eric Gregory Award: Nick Laird, Elizabeth Manuel, Abi Curtis, Sophie Levy, Saradha Soobrayen
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: David Peace, GB84
- Man Booker Prize: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Andrea Levy, Small Island
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Hugo Williams
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Andrea Levy, Small Island
United States
Elsewhere
See also
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