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The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present.
2001 – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen;[1]Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand;[2]Life of Pi by Yann Martel;[3] Nobel Prize: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul[4]
2002 – Atonement by Ian McEwan;[5]Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides;[6]Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer;[7] Nobel Prize: Imre Kertész[4]
2003 – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown;[8]Roman Triptych (Meditation);[9] Nobel Prize: J. M. Coetzee[4]
2004 – Nobel Prize: Elfriede Jelinek[4]
2005 – Nobel Prize: Harold Pinter[4]
2006 – The Road by Cormac McCarthy;[10]Les Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell;[11]Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon;[12] Nobel Prize: Orhan Pamuk[4]
2007 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz;[13]A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini;[14]On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan;[15] Nobel Prize: Doris Lessing[4]
2008 – Nobel Prize: J. M. G. Le Clézio[4]
2009 – The Humbling by Philip Roth;[16]Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel;[17] Nobel Prize: Herta Müller[4]
^Gates, David (9 September 2001). "American Gothic". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"In praise of older books: 'Seabiscuit' by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Life of Pi (novel) | Description & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^ abcdefghi"All Nobel Prizes in Literature". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Interview transcript: Ian McEwan". the Guardian. 3 January 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides". the Guardian. 6 October 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer". the Guardian. 26 November 2002. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Dan Brown | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"CNN.com - Pope goes from bard to verse - Mar. 6, 2003". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy". the Guardian. 4 November 2006. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^Hutton, Margaret-Anne (1 February 2010). "Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Subject of Judgment". Modern & Contemporary France. 18 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1080/09639480903504193. ISSN 0963-9489. S2CID 144894684.
^Schillinger, Liesl (26 November 2006). "Dream Maps". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao declared 21st century's best novel so far". the Guardian. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini". the Guardian. 18 May 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Review: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan". the Guardian. 25 March 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"The Humbling by Philip Roth | Book review". the Guardian. 24 October 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
^"Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel – review". the Guardian. 1 May 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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