2024 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.
Contents
Anniversaries
- 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).[1]
- 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.[2]
- 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
- 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
- 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
| Author | Title | Date of Pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Álvaro Enrigue | You Dreamed of Empires | January 9 | [3] |
| Kristin Hannah | The Women | February 6 | |
| Jennifer Croft | The Extinction of Irena Rey | March 5 | [4] |
| Percival Everett | James | March 19 | |
| Téa Obreht | The Morningside | [5] | |
| Amor Towles | Table for Two | April 2 | |
| Miranda July | All Fours | May 14 | |
| Stephen King | You Like It Darker | May 21 | [6] |
| Rachel Cusk | Parade | June 6 |
Children and young adults
Poetry
Drama
Nonfiction
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Tesson | Avec les fées | January 10 | [7] |
Biography and memoirs
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| RuPaul | The House of Hidden Meanings | March 5 | |
| Salman Rushdie | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | April 16 | [8] |
Deaths
- January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85[9]
- January, 24 – N. Scott Momaday, american novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.[10]
- March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98[11]
- April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93[12]
- April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
- April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94[13]
- April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71[14]
- April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86[15]
- April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77[16]
- May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84[17]
- May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
- July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88[18]
- July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93
Awards
See also
References
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- ↑ Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.
- ↑ Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2024.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2024.
