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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2002.

Events

March 16 - Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor following the publication of Musalam's poem The Corrupt on Earth that criticizes the state's Islamic judiciary. In it, the poet accuses some judges of being corrupt and issuing unfair rulings for their own personal benefit.
March 31 - American Writers: A Journey Through History resumes its run on C-SPAN, having been interrupted by the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.^[1]
November - Raymond Benson releases his final James Bond novel, a novelization of the film Die Another Day, bringing to a close an uninterrupted series of novels based upon Ian Fleming's character that started in 1981.
Bokklubben World Library begins publication in Norway.

New prose fiction

Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building (عمارة يعقوبيان, ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān)
Aaron Allston - Enemy Lines: Rebel Dream and Enemy Lines: Rebel Stand
Jean M. Auel - The Shelters of Stone
Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions
Iain Banks - Dead Air
Greg Bear - Vitals
Raymond Benson - Die Another Day and The Man with the Red Tattoo
Nelson Bond - The Far Side of Nowhere
William Boyd - Any Human Heart
Mircea Cărtărescu - The Encyclopedia of Dragons (Enciclopedia zmeilor)
Stephen L. Carter - The Emperor of Ocean Park
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Prey, Sharpe's Skirmish and Vagabond
Michael Crichton - Prey
Elaine Cunningham - Dark Journey
L. Sprague de Camp - Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories
Thomas R. DeGregori - The Bountiful Harvest
Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity
Janet Evanovich - Hard Eight
Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
Giorgio Faletti - Io uccido
Mick Farren - Underland
Nancy Farmer - The House of The Scorpion
Elena Ferrante - I giorni dell'abbandono ("The Days of Abandonment")
Alan Dean Foster - The Approaching Storm
Horace L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp - None But Lucifer
Jean-Christophe Grangé - Le Concile de pierre
Niall Griffiths - Sheepshagger
John Grisham - The Summons
Joanne Harris - Coastliners
John D. Harvey - The Cleansing
Aleksandar Hemon - Nowhere Man
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
Rabee Jaber - رحلة الغرناطي (Rahlat al-Gharnati, "The Journey of the Granadian")
Stephen King - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales and From a Buick 8
Rachel Klein - The Moth Diaries
Dean R. Koontz - By the Light of the Moon and One Door Away from Heaven
Sallie Lowenstein - Sender Unknown
Robert Ludlum - The Sigma Protocol
Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Last Legion
Javier Marías - Your Face Tomorrow Volume 1: Fever and Spear (Tu rostro mañana 1. Fiebre y lanza)
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (海辺のカフカ, Umibe no Kafuka)
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Orhan Pamuk - Snow
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
James Patterson - Beach House
Terry Pratchett - Night Watch
Libby Purves - Mother Country
Pascal Quignard - Les Ombres errantes
Kathy Reichs - Grave Secrets
Nora Roberts - Face the Fire
Joel C. Rosenberg - The Last Jihad
R. A. Salvatore - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
Åsne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul
Carol Shields - Unless
Vladimir Sorokin - Ice
Thomas Sullivan - Born Burning
Danielle Steel - The Cottage
Matthew Stover - Traitor
Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
Hồ Anh Thái - Cõi người rung chuông tận thế ("The Apocalypse Bell Tolls in the Human World")
William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault
Andrew Vachss - Only Child
Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Last Crossing
Barbara Vine - The Blood Doctor
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Darren Williams - Angel Rock
Walter Jon Williams - Destiny's Way
Roger Zelazny - The Last Defender of Camelot

New drama

Poetry

Neil Astley (ed.) - Staying Alive: real poems for unreal times (anthology)
Jim Dodge - Rain on the River
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren
Grazyna Miller - Alibi of a butterfly

Non-fiction

Peter Ackroyd - Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Jeffrey Archer (as FF 8282) - A Prison Diary: Volume 1: Belmarsh: Hell
Bija Bennett - Emotional Yoga
T. J. Binyon - Pushkin: A Biography
Stuart Christie - Granny Made me an Anarchist
Gerina Dunwich - A Witch's Guide to Ghosts and the Supernatural
Tye R. Farrell and Jeffrey Morrow - University of Psychogenic Fugue
Pim Fortuyn - De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars
Michael J. Fox - Lucky Man: A Memoir
Stephen J. Gould - I Have Landed
Peter Jennings - In Search of America
Judith Levine - Harmful to Minors
Gabriel García Márquez - Vivir para contarla (autobiography)
Jeremy Paxman - The Political Animal
Neil Peart - Ghost Rider
Rachel Simon - Riding the Bus with My Sister
David Southwell - Dirty Cash
James B. Stewart - Heart of a Soldier
Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari
Rick Warren - The Purpose Driven Life
Alison Watt - The Last Island^[2]
Edited by John Brockman - The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century

Deaths

January 12 – Lady Violet Powell, British critic and biographer (born 1912)
January 28 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's author (born 1907)
February 8 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (born 1930)
February 21 – A. L. Barker, English novelist (born 1918)
February 27 – Spike Milligan, Indian-born English comedian, screenwriter and poet (born 1918)
March 21 – Thomas Flanagan, American historical novelist (born 1923)
April 6 – Martin Sperr, German dramatist (born 1944)
May 6 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch political columnist and writer (born 1948)
May 17 – Dave Berg, American cartoonist (born 1920)
May 20 – Stephen J. Gould, American paleontologist, biologist and writer (born 1941)
June 2 – Flora Lewis, American journalist (born 1922)
June 13 – R. W. B. Lewis, American critic (born 1917)
June 20
- Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1930)
- Kenneth Kantzer, American theologian (born 1917)
July 23 – Chaim Potok, American writer (born 1929)
August 25 – Dorothy Hewett, Australian poet and playwright (born 1923)
September 20 – Joan Littlewood, English theater director and biographer (born 1914)
October 13 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (born 1936)
October 21 – Harbhajan Singh, Indian Punjabi poet and critic (born 1920)
October 28 – Sugathapala de Silva, Sri Lankan dramatist, novelist and translator writing in Sinhalese (born 1928)
November 8 – Jon Elia, Pakistani poet and philosopher writing in Urdu (born 1931)

Awards

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Danielle Wood, The Alphabet of Light and Dark
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Afterimages
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Wearne, The Lovemakers
Mary Gilmore Prize: Geraldine McKenzie, Duty
Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Dirt Music

Canada

Giller Prize: 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
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Tom Allen, Rolling Home^[3]

France

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

References

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↑ Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen, Retrieved 11/26/2012

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[2] Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[3] Faculty of Arts, 2002, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Tom Allen, Retrieved 11/26/2012

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2002 in literature

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