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2024 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.

Anniversaries

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New books

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Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

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New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
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
Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History May 14 [6]
Stephen King You Like It Darker May 21 [7]
Rachel Cusk Parade June 6
Akwaeke Emezi Little Rot June 18
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville The Book of Elsewhere July 23 [8]
Stephen Harrison The Editors August 13 [9]
Rachel Kushner Creation Lake September 3 [10]
Anna Montague How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? October 22 [11]
Louise Penny The Grey Wolf October 29 [12]
Richard Price Lazarus Man November 12 [13]

Children and young adults

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New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Tomi Adeyemi Children of Anguish and Anarchy June 25 [14]
Jordan Ifueko The Maid and the Crocodile August 13

Poetry

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Drama

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Nonfiction

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New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Sylvain Tesson Avec les fées January 10 [15]
Evan Friss The Bookshop August 6 [16]
John Grisham & Jim McCloskey Framed October 8 [17]

Biography and memoirs

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New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
RuPaul The House of Hidden Meanings March 5 [18]
Salman Rushdie Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder April 16 [19]
Melania Trump Melania October 8 [20]

Deaths

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Awards

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2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award Category Author Title Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award Alicia Elliott And Then She Fell [37]
Atlantic Book Awards Ann Connor Brimer Award Jack Wong The Words We Share [38]
J. M. Abraham Poetry Award Fawn Parker Soft Inheritance
Thomas Head Raddall Award Michelle Porter A Grandmother Begins the Story
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits [39]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Richard Adams Carey The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire [40]
Danuta Gleed Literary Award Lisa Alward Cocktail [41]
Giller Prize Anne Michaels Held [42]
Governor General's Awards English Fiction Jordan Abel Empty Spaces [43]
English Non-Fiction Niigaan Sinclair Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
English Poetry Chimwemwe Undi Scientific Marvel
English Drama Caleigh Crow There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
English Children's Literature Li Charmaine Anne Crash Landing
English Children's Illustration Jean E. Pendziwol, Todd Stewart Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
French to English Translation Katia Grubisic Nights Too Short to Dance
French Fiction Steve Poutré Lait cru [44]
French Non-Fiction Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
French Poetry Névé Dumas poème dégénéré
French Drama Sarah Berthiaume Wollstonecraft
French Children's literature Stéfani Meunier Une bulle en dehors du temps
French Children's illustration Ovila Fontaine, Charlotte Parent Le premier arbre de Noël
English to French translation Éric Fontaine Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage
Griffin Poetry Prize Best Poetry Book George McWhirter Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence [45]
Best First Poetry Book Maggie Burton Chores [46]
Lambda Literary Awards Bisexual Fiction Ling Ling Huang Natural Beauty [47]
Bisexual Nonfiction Myriam Gurba Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Bisexual Poetry Danielle Cadena Deulen Desire Museum
Comics E. M. Carroll A Ghost in the House
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington Family Meal
Gay Memoir/Biography Jason Yamas Tweakerworld
Gay Poetry Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence
Gay Romance Cat Sebastian We Could Be So Good
Lesbian Fiction Catherine Lacey Biography of X
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Amelia Possanza Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
Lesbian Poetry Kimberly Alidio Teeter
Lesbian Romance Georgia Beers Dance with Me
LGBTQ Anthology Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies
LGBTQ Children's Nina LaCour, Sonia Albert The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
LGBTQ Drama James Ijames Fat Ham
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica laura q A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories
LGBTQ Middle Grade Robin Gow Dear Mothman
LGBTQ Mystery Cari Hunter A Calculated Risk
LGBT Nonfiction Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
LGBTQ Poetry Quinn Carver Johnson The Perfect Bastard
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Marisa Crane I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
LGBTQ Studies Erin L. Durban The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
LGBTQ Young Adult Abdi Nazemian Only This Beautiful Moment
Transgender Fiction Soula Emmanuel Wild Geese
Transgender Nonfiction Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Transgender Poetry Michael MJ Jones Hood Vacations
League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award Hannah Green Xanax Cowboy [48]
Pat Lowther Award Sandra Ridley Vixen
Raymond Souster Award Bradley Peters Sonnets from a Cell
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Patrick deWitt The Librarianist [49]
Trillium Book Awards English Prose Nina Dunic The Clarion [50]
English Poetry A. Light Zachary More Sure
French Prose Nicolas Weinberg Vivre ou presque
Writers' Trust of Canada Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Sheung-King Batshit Seven [51]
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Martha Baillie There Is No Blue
Dayne Ogilvie Prize Anthony Oliveira Dayspring
Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize Rita Wong
Matt Cohen Award Marie Clements
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Sara O'Leary
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Madeleine Thien
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing John Vaillant Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast [52]
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy TBA November 26
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry Faith Paré "Selections from 'a fine African Head'" [53]
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction Nayani Jensen "Like Rabbits"

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Smith, Helena (April 18, 2021). "Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece". The Guardian. Athens. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  2. ^ Thompson, Lawrance, ed. (1964). Selected Letters of Robert Frost. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. lvi. ISBN 978-0-88427-011-9. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ Garner, Dwight (January 8, 2024). "A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  4. ^ "Exclusive Cover Reveal of Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"". Electric Literature. July 7, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "The Morningside by Téa Obreht". Kirkus Reviews. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  6. ^ "This Strange Eventful History". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  7. ^ Collis, Clark (November 6, 2023). "Read the start of Stephen King's Cujo sequel in excerpt from story collection, You Like It Darker". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  8. ^ Rivera, Joshua (May 30, 2024). "Let Keanu Reeves punch and shoot his way onto your summer reading list". Polygon. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  9. ^ "The Editors". Inkshares. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  10. ^ "Creation Lake". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-05-31. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  11. ^ "How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  12. ^ "The Grey Wolf". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-10-29.
  13. ^ "Lazarus Man". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-07-10. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
  14. ^ "Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi: Review by Eugen M. Bacon". Locus Online. 2024-09-18. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
  15. ^ Plouviez, Grégory (10 January 2024). "'Avec les fées' : que vaut le dernier livre de Sylvain Tesson ?". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  16. ^ "The Bookshop". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-04-19. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  17. ^ "Framed". Kirkus Reviews. 2024-10-08.
  18. ^ "An Emotional RuPaul Announces Memoir Titled 'House of Hidden Meanings'". www.out.com. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  19. ^ "Salman Rushdie to publish memoir on stabbing that left him blind in one eye". CNN. Reuters. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  20. ^ Mahdawi, Arwa (2024-09-17). "Melania Trump has a memoir coming out – and she's acting pretty strangely". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  21. ^ "Schriftstellerin Elke Erb gestorben". Zeit. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  22. ^ "N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89". Associated Press News. January 29, 2024. Archived from the original on January 29, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  23. ^ "Laurent de Brunhoff".
  24. ^ Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
  25. ^ "The Indian In The Cupboard author Lynne Reid Banks dies aged 94". NewsChain. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  26. ^ Knight, Lucy (April 29, 2024). "CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71". The Guardian.
  27. ^ "Sir Vincent O'Sullivan Obituary". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  28. ^ "Paul Auster, famed novelist known for 'The New York Trilogy' and '4 3 2 1,' dies at 77". NBC News. May 1, 2024.
  29. ^ 唐十郎さん死去、84歳…「泥人魚」「ベンガルの虎」アングラ小劇場運動を先導 (in Japanese)
  30. ^ "Albania's world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88". AP News. 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  31. ^ "Irish author Edna O'Brien has died aged 93". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  32. ^ "Leading Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury dies at 76". AP News. 2024-09-15. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
  33. ^ "Barbara Taylor Bradford: A Woman of Substance author dies at 91". BBC News. BBC. 25 November 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  34. ^ "Renowned novelist Chiung Yao found dead at 86 in Taipei". TVBS. 4 December 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  35. ^ Le poète mathématicien Jacques Roubaud en 2014 dans “Télérama” : “L’Oulipo, c’était à la fois très sérieux et un peu dingue”. telerama.fr, 5 December 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024 (in French).
  36. ^ Mort de Michel del Castillo à 91 ans, écrire sur un champ de ruines. la-croix.com, 17 December 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024 (in French).
  37. ^ Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.
  38. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
  39. ^ Doyle, Martin (2024-12-03). "Ferdia Lennon wins Wodehouse Prize and is one of several Irish authors on Nero Awards shortlists". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  40. ^ Bent, Horace (6 December 2024). "Philosopher Fish claims The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  41. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.
  42. ^ Brad Wheeler, "Anne Michaels wins the 2024 Giller Prize for her generations-spanning novel Held". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2024.
  43. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.
  44. ^ Léa Harvey, "Steve Poutré couronné aux prix littéraires du gouverneur général". Le Soleil, November 13, 2024.
  45. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
  46. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.
  47. ^ Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.
  48. ^ "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024.
  49. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2024.
  50. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2024.
  51. ^ "Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners". CBC Books, November 19, 2017.
  52. ^ "Vancouver author John Vaillant wins $25K Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing". CBC Books, May 8, 2024.
  53. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Faith Paré, Nayani Jensen win 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2024.
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