2001 in literature

See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Booker Prize: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• Finlandia Prize: Hannu Raittila Canal Grande
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright - Clara Callan
• See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Griffin Poetry Prize: Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours and Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh, translation of Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
• Hugo Award: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• IMPAC Award: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Richard Peck, A Year Down Yonder
• Nobel Prize for Literature: V.S. Naipaul
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Kate Grenville Picador, The Idea of Perfection
• Prix Décembre: Chloé Delaume, Le Cri du sablier
• Prix Femina: Marie Ndiaye, Rosie Carpe
• Prix Goncourt: Jean-Christophe Rufin, Rouge Brésil
• Prix Médicis French: Edwy Plenel, Secrets de jeunesse
• Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Le Loup mongol
• Prix Médicis International: Antonio Skarmeta, La noce du poète
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Auburn, Proof
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
• Samuel Johnson Prize: Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich
• Viareggio Prize: Nicolò Ammaniti, Io non ho paura, Michele Ranchetti, Verbale, and Giorgio Pestelli, Canti del destino