21st century in literature
- 21st century in literature
"See also:" 20th century in literature, other events of the 21st century, list of years in literature.
__TOC__The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present.
2000s
* 2001 - "" – Laura Hillenbrand; "Life of Pi" - Nobel prize: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
* 2002 - "Atonement" - Ian McEwan; "" - Nobel prize: Imre Kertész
* 2003 - "Roman Triptych (Meditation)" - Nobel prize: J. M. Coetzee
* 2004 - "Free Culture" - Lawrence Lessig; Nobel prize: Elfriede Jelinek
* 2005 - "Haunted" - Chuck Palahniuk; Nobel prize: Harold Pinter
* 2006 - "The Road", by Cormac McCarthy; Daniel Handler, "The End", 13th and final book in A Series of Unfortunate Events; Les Bienveillantes, by Jonathan Littell; Nobel prize: Orhan Pamuk
* 2007 - Nobel prize:Doris Lessing
In popular fantasy literature, the 2000s were dominated by the conclusion of the "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling (vols. 5-7 appearing 2003, 2005 and 2007) .
See also
*2000s in books
*21st century#Literature
*History of modern literature
*Electronic literature
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