2016 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2016.
Anniversaries
- January 10 – semicentenary of the publication of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
- February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.[1]
- February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- February 28 – centenary of Henry James's death in 1916.
- March 28 – 75th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf in 1941.
- April 3 – 25th anniversary of Graham Greene's death in 1991.
- April 12 – centenary of the birth of Beverly Cleary, American children's author
- May 21 – centenary of the birth of Harold Robbins, American novelist, who has been dubbed one of "the world's bestselling authors."[2]
- May 28 – centenary of the birth of Walker Percy, National Book Award-winning American novelist (The Moviegoer, published 55 years ago in 1961)
- April 21 – bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth in 1816.
- April 22 – 400th anniversary of Cervantes's death.[3]
- April 23 – 400th anniversary (possibly) of Shakespeare's death.
- April 24 – Centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916".
- July 1 – centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in which those fighting included Robert Graves, Ford Madox Ford and JRR Tolkien.
- July 14 – centenary of the birth of Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author
- September 13 – centenary of the birth of Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author
- September 17 – centenary of the birth of Mary Stewart (Mary Rainbow), English romantic suspense novelist
- September 28 – semicentenary of the death of André Breton, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature
- October 3 – centenary of the birth of James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), English writer and veterinary surgeon
- October 22 – 90 years ago, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises is published in a first edition consisting of 5090 copies, selling at $2.00 per copy.
- December 14 – centenary of the birth of Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer
- December 29 – centenary of the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce in book form (in New York).
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated:
Fiction
- Margaret Atwood – Hag-Seed (October)
- Sebastian Barry – Days Without End (October)
- Gary Barwin – Yiddish for Pirates
- Mike Binder – Keep Calm (February 2)[4]
- Pierce Brown – Morning Star (February 9)[5]
- Emma Donoghue, The Wonder
- Michael Helm – After James
- Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune (September 13)
- Anosh Irani – The Parcel
- Christian Kracht – Die Toten (September 8, Germany)
- Deborah Levy – Hot Milk (March 24)
- Mike McCormack – Solar Bones (May, Republic of Ireland)
- Ian McDonald – Luna: Wolf Moon (September 27)[6]
- Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be the Place (May 17, UK)
- Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent (May 27, UK)
- Kerry Lee Powell – Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
- Steven Rowley – Lily and the Octopus (June 7)[7]
- Ali Smith – Autumn (October 20, UK)
- Botho Strauß – Oniritti Höhlenbilder (October 10, Germany)
- David Szalay – All That Man Is (linked short stories) (April 7)
- Yasuko Thanh – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
- Rose Tremain – The Gustav Sonata (May 19, UK)
- Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Katherena Vermette – The Break
- Zoe Whittall – The Best Kind of People
- Corrina Wycoff – Damascus House (May 25)
Children and young people
- Francesca Simon – The Monstrous Child
- Maggie Stiefvater – The Raven King (last book in The Raven Cycle, April 26)
- Jacqueline Wilson – Rent a Bridesmaid (May 5)
Poetry
Main article: 2016 in poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
- Keggie Carew – Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory (July 28, UK)
- John Guy – Elizabeth: the forgotten years (May 5, UK)
- Hisham Matar – The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (June 30, UK)
- Sylvia Patterson – I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music (June 16, UK)
- Aaron Swartz – The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
- January 11 – Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer and translator (born 1918)[8]
- January 18 – Michel Tournier, French writer, 91 (born 1924)
- February 8 – Margaret Forster, English novelist and biographer, 77 (born 1938)
- February 18 – Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子), Japanese author, 68 (born 1947)[9]
- February 19
- Umberto Eco – Italian philosopher and novelist, 84 (born 1932)[10]
- Harper Lee – American author, 89 (born 1926)[11]
- March 4 – Pat Conroy, American novelist, 70 (born 1945)
- March 31 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer and the 2002 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 86 (born 1929).
- April 3 – Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and scholar, novelist and poet, 79 (born 1936).
- April 6 – E. M. Nathanson, American author of The Dirty Dozen, 87 (born 1928).
- April 12 – Sir Arnold Wesker, English dramatist, 83 (born 1932)
- April 30 – Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist. Won the 1957 Lamont Prize in Poetry, 94 (born 1921)
- June 6 – Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright, 90 (born 1926)
- June 25 – Adam Small, 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize. (born 1936).[12]
- June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill, English poet, 84 (born 1932)
- July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, 93 (born 1923)
- July 2 – Elie Wiesel, American Jewish author and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1928)[13]
- July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer, 66 (born 1950).
- July 19 – Carlos Gorostiza, Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist, 96 (born 1920)
- August 24 – Michel Butor, French essayist, novelist, critic, and a leading figure of 1950s Nouveau Roman group, 89 (born 1926)
- September 4 :
- Isidore Okpewho, Nigerian novelist and critic, 74 (born 1941)
- Cyril C. Perera, Sri Lankan author and translator, 93 (born 1923)
- September 16 – Edward Albee, American playwright, 88 (born 1928)
- October 13 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright and the 1997 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 90 (born 1926).
- November 10 – Francisco Nieva, Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer, 91 (born 1924).
- November 20 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, 88 (born 1928).
Awards
The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Akutagawa Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Mary Morris for The Jazz Palace
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies
- Camões Prize:
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Heather O'Neill, Daydreams of Angels
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Leah Horlick
- Desmond Elliott Prize: Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies
- DSC Prize for South Asian Literature:
- Dylan Thomas Prize: Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- Folio Prize:
- German Book Prize:
- Goldsmiths Prize: Mike McCormack, Solar Bones[14]
- Gordon Burn Prize: David Szalay, All That Man Is[15]
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
- Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2016 Governor General's Awards.
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française:
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction:
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award:
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 28th Lambda Literary Awards.
- Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty, The Sellout (first American winner)
- Man Booker International Prize: Han Kang, The Vegetarian
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Eduardo Mendoza
- Miles Franklin Award:
- National Biography Award:
- National Book Award for Fiction:
- National Book Critics Circle Award:
- Nike Award: Bronka Nowicka, Nakarmić kamień
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Bob Dylan
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: James Hannaham, Delicious Foods
- PEN Center USA 2016 Fiction Award:
- Premio Planeta de Novela:
- Premio Strega:
- Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing:
- Prix Goncourt:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: to Ozone Journal by Peter Balakian
- RBC Taylor Prize:
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Yasuko Thanh, Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
- Russian Booker Prize:
- Samuel Johnson Prize:
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
- Walter Scott Prize: to Tightrope by Simon Mawer
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction:
- Nonfiction:
- Plays:
- Poetry:
Notes
- information on the Literary calendar at Books in 2016: a literary calendar | Books | The Guardian
References
- ↑ "Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest at 20". The New York Times. February 7, 2016.
- ↑ "Harold Robbins". OverDrive.
- ↑ Is it fair for Shakespeare to overshadow Cervantes?, BBC, 18 April 2016.
- ↑ "Keep Calm by Mike Binder". Kirkus Reviews. November 18, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Best Sellers for the week of February 28, 2016". The New York Times. February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
- ↑ "Cover Reveal for Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon". Tor.com. January 19, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (January 13, 2016). "Meet the Unknown Author of the Next Blockbuster Novel". The New York Observer. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Akademieledamoten Gunnel Vallquist är död". Aftonbladet.(Swedish)
- ↑ 作家の津島佑子さん死去６８歳 太宰治の次女 (Japanese)
- ↑ Morto lo scrittore Umberto Eco. Ci mancherà il suo sguardo sul mondo (Italian)
- ↑ Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,' Dies at 89
- ↑ Another tree has fallen – RIP Adam Small
- ↑ Berger, Joseph (July 2, 2016). "Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Armitstead, Claire (9 November 2016). "Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (7 October 2016). "David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
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