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EVENTS

The film version of '', hits movie theaters. The film is directed by Peter Jackson

February 15 - Author Michael Crichton signed a new two book deal with HarperCollins Publishers reportedly earning $40 million for the two books.

is taken to Belmarsh jail in a van, seated next to a convicted knife murderer.

NEW BOOKS

'' All Families Are Psychotic '' - Douglas Coupland

'' The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents '' - Terry Pratchett

'' The Ash Garden '' - Dennis Bock

'' Austerlitz '' - W.G. Sebald

'' Back When We Were Grownups '' - Anne Tyler

'' Baudolino '' - Umberto Eco

'' Black House '' - Stephen King

'' The Bonesetter's Daughter '' - Amy Tan

'' Choke '' - Chuck Palahniuk

'' The Cold Six Thousand '' - James Ellroy

'' The Constant Gardener '' - John Le Carré

'' The Corrections '' - Jonathan Franzen

'''' - Steven Levy

'' The Curse Of Chalion '' - Lois McMaster Bujold

'' Death In Holy Orders '' - P.D. James

'' Dolce Agonia '' - Nancy Huston

'' Dreamcatcher '' - Stephen King

'' Empire Falls '' - Richard Russo

'' Exploring Spellcraft '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' Fatal Voyage '' - Kathy Reichs

'' The Fiery Cross '' - Diana Gabaldon

'' Five Quarters Of The Orange '' - Joanne Harris

'' The Fourth Hand '' - John Irving

'' Fury '' - Salman Rushdie

'' The Future Of Ideas '' - Lawrence Lessig

'' Giving Something Back '' - Robert N. Kucey

'''' - Gale E. Christianson

'' The Idea Of Perfection '' - Kate Grenville Picador

'' The Last Hero '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Leap Of Faith '' - Danielle Steel

'' Life Of Pi '' - Yann Martel

'' Man Ray's Montparnasse '' - Herbert R. Lottman

'''' - Antonia Fraser

'' Mary Shelley '' - Miranda Seymour

'' The Modern Witch's Complete Sourcebook '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' Never Dream Of Dying '' - Raymond Benson

'' Nickel And Dimed '' - Barbara Ehrenreich

'' A Painted House '' - John Grisham

'' Rouge Brésil '' - Jean-Christophe Rufin

'''' - Laura Hillenbrand

'''' - Peter Kurth

'' Skipping Christmas '' - John Grisham

'' The Stone Carvers '' - Jane Urquhart

'' Stupid White Men '' - Michael Moore

'' Thief Of Time '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Thinks ... '' - David Lodge

'' The Trial Of Henry Kissinger '' - Christopher Hitchens

'' The White Castle '' - Orhan Pamuk

NEW DRAMA

'' The Shape Of Things '' - Neil LaBute

''Weights'' - Lynn Manning

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 31 - Gordon R. Dickson , Science Fiction writer

February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh , author, Aviator

February 14 - Alan Ross ,78, poet and editor

March 12 - Robert Ludlum , author

May 11 - Douglas Adams , author (heart attack) (b. 1952 )

May 13 - R.K. Narayan , 94, Indian Novelist

June 1 - Hank Ketcham , 81, Cartoonist , creator of '' Dennis The Menace ''

June 27 - Tove Jansson , children's author

July 3 - Mordecai Richler

August 1 - Poul Anderson - Fantasy / sci-fi author

August 6 - Jorge Amado , 88, Brazilian writer

August 20 - Fred Hoyle , Astronomer and Science Fiction writer

November 10 - Ken Kesey , 66, author.

AWARDS

, ''True History of the Kelly Gang''

''Canal Grande''

- ''Clara Callan''

See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''

, ''No Great Mischief''

, ''A Year Down Yonder''

, ''The Idea of Perfection''

, ''Le Cri du sablier''

, ''Rosie Carpe''

, ''Rouge Brésil''

, ''Secrets de jeunesse''

Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: ''Le Loup mongol''

, ''La noce du poète''

, '' Proof ''

, '' The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay ''

, ''Different Hours''

, ''The Third Reich''

, ''Io non ho paura'', Michele Ranchetti , ''Verbale'', and Giorgio Pestelli , ''Canti del destino''