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  1. April 1 – The BookCrossing scheme for leaving books for strangers to find is launched. April 13 – The film version of Helen Fielding 's 1996 novel Bridget Jones's Diary has uncredited cameo roles as themselves for Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Jeffrey Archer, at a literary party.

  2. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 was awarded to Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"

  3. Tash Aw – The Harmony Silk Factory. Steve Aylett – Lint. Doreen Baingana – Tropical Fish (short stories) John Banville – The Sea. Sebastian Barry – A Long Long Way. Nelson Bond – Other Worlds Than Ours. Dionne Brand – What We All Long For. Orson Scott Card. Magic Street.

  4. October 8 – Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. October 12 – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum Library opens at Humboldt University of Berlin. [8] November 10 – Linden MacIntyre wins the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man.

  5. Brittingham Prize in Poetry: Anna George Meek, Acts of Contortion. Compton Crook Award: Wen Spencer, Alien Taste. Frost Medal: Galway Kinnell. Hugo Award: Neil Gaiman, American Gods. National Book Award for Fiction: Julia Glass, Three Junes. National Book Critics Circle Award: Ian McEwan, Atonement.