2002 in literature

See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Booker Prize: Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
• Finlandia Prize: Kari Hotakainen Trench Street
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
• See 2002 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Griffin Poetry Prize: Christian Bök, Eunoia and Alice Notley, Disobedience
• Hugo Award: Neil Gaiman, American Gods
• IMPAC Award: Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Imre Kertész
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
• Prix Décembre: Pierre Michon, Abbés and Corps du Roi
• Prix Femina: Chantal Thomas, Les adieux à la reine
• Prix Femina (non-fiction): Michael Barry, Massoud
• Prix Goncourt: Pascal Quignard, Les Ombres errantes
• Prix Médicis French: Daniel Desmarquet, Kafka et les jeunes filles
• Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Anne F. Garréta, Pas un jour
• Prix Médicis International: Philip Roth, The Human Stain
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Richard Russo, Empire Falls
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carl Dennis, Practical Gods
• Samuel Johnson Prize: Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass