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Overview of the events of 2016 in literature
Overview of the events of 2016 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016 .
Events
Anniversaries
January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of
Truman Capote 's
In Cold Blood
February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of
David Foster Wallace 's
Infinite Jest .
[4]
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 dubbed one of "the world's bestselling authors."
[5]
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 the death of
Miguel de Cervantes .
[6]
April 23 – Possible 400th anniversary 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 – Fiftieth anniversary 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 in book form of
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by
James Joyce , in New York
New books
The date after each title indicate the U.S. publication date, unless otherwise stated.
Fiction
Naomi Alderman –
The Power (UK, October)
Mohammed Hasan Alwan – A Small Death (موت صغير, Lebanon, May)
Fernando Aramburu –
Patria (Spain)
Anuk Arudpragasam – The Story of a Brief Marriage (UK)
Margaret Atwood –
Hag-Seed (October)
[7]
Sebastian Barry –
Days Without End (October)
[8]
Gary Barwin – Yiddish for Pirates (April 8)
[9]
Mike Binder –
Keep Calm (February 2)
[10]
Pierce Brown –
Morning Star (February 9)
[11]
Graeme Macrae Burnet –
His Bloody Project (UK)
Marcia Clark –
Blood Defense (May 1)
[12]
J. M. Coetzee –
The Schooldays of Jesus (UK, September 27)
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo –
Règne animal (France, August 18)
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder (September)
[13]
Paul Goldberg – The Yid (February 2)
[14]
Linda Grant –
The Dark Circle (UK only, November 3)
Mark Greaney –
Back Blast
Yaa Gyasi –
Homegoing
Michael Helm – After James (September 13)
[15]
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson –
Navigators of Dune (September 13)
[16]
Vigdis Hjorth – Arv og miljø (Wills and Testaments, Norway)
Anosh Irani – The Parcel
Alexandra Kleeman – Intimations: Stories (September 13)
Christian Kracht –
The Dead (Die Toten , Germany, September 8)
László Krasznahorkai –
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Báró Wenckheim hazatér , Hungary, September)
Shari Lapena – The Couple Next Door
Deborah Levy –
Hot Milk (UK, March 24)
[17]
Édouard Louis –
Histoire de la violence (History of Violence, France, January 7)
Mike McCormack – Solar Bones (UK, May 5)
[18]
Elizabeth McKenzie –
The Portable Veblen
C. E. Morgan –
The Sport of Kings
Sayaka Murata –
Convenience Store Woman (コンビニ人間, Konbini ningen , Japan, July 27)
Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be the Place (UK, May 17)
[19]
Chibundu Onuzo – Welcome to Lagos (UK)
Stef Penney – Under A Pole Start
Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent (UK, May 27)
[20]
Kerry Lee Powell – Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
Christoph Ransmayr –
Cox
David Adams Richards –
Principles to Live By
Steven Rowley –
Lily and the Octopus (June 7)
[21]
Joss Sheldon – The Little Voice (UK, November 23)
[22]
[23]
Leïla Slimani –
Chanson douce (France, August 18, translated as Lullaby or The Perfect Nanny )
Ali Smith – Autumn (UK, October 20)
[24]
Zadie Smith –
Swing Time
Botho Strauß –
Oniritti Höhlenbilder (Germany, October 10)
David Szalay –
All That Man Is (linked short stories, UK, April 7)
[25]
Yasuko Thanh – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains (Canada)
[26]
Madeleine Thien –
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (October 11)
[27]
Rose Tremain –
The Gustav Sonata (UK, May 19)
[28]
Katherena Vermette – The Break (Canada)
[26]
Colson Whitehead –
The Underground Railroad
Zoe Whittall –
The Best Kind of People (August 27)
[29]
Corrina Wycoff –
Damascus House (May 25)
Children and young people
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Jimmy Barnes –
Working Class Boy
Daniel Beer – The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (UK)
Paul Cartledge – Democracy: A Life (UK, March 24)
[37]
Nicholas Crane – The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present
Daisy Deomampo –
Transnational Reproduction
[38]
Susan Faludi –
In the Darkroom (June 14)
[39]
Christopher Goscha – The Penguin History of Vietnam
John Guy –
Elizabeth : The Forgotten Years (UK, May 5)[
citation needed ]
Jock Haswell (with John Lewis-Stempel) – A Brief History of the British Army (UK, May 26)
Gareth Stedman Jones – Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (UK, August)
[40]
Daniel Levitin –
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
John Lewis-Stempel
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland (UK, June 20)
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, The Great War (UK)
John McWhorter – Words on the Move: Why English Won't – and Can't – Sit Still (Like, Literally)
Rajiv Malhotra
Hisham Matar –
The Return (UK, June 30)
[41]
Helaine Olen and
Harold Pollack –
The Index Card (January 5)
[42]
Patrick Phillips –
Blood at the Root
John Preston –
A Very English Scandal (UK, May 5)
[43]
Kassia St. Clair –
The Secret Lives of Colour
Gary Younge –
Another Day in the Death of America
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
January 11 –
Gunnel Vallquist , Swedish writer and translator (born
1918 )
[44]
January 18 –
Michel Tournier , French writer, 91 (born
1924 )
[45]
January 20 –
David G. Hartwell , American anthologist, author and critic (b. 1941)
February 8 –
Margaret Forster , English novelist and biographer, 77 (born
1938 )
[46]
February 18 –
Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子), Japanese author, 68 (born
1947 )
[47]
February 19
February 29 –
Louise Rennison , English author and comedian (born
1951 )
[50]
March 1 –
Carole Achache , French writer, photographer and actress, 63, (born
1952 )
[51]
March 4 –
Pat Conroy , American novelist (
The Prince of Tides ), 70 (born
1945 )
[52]
March 8 -
Enrique Estrázulas , Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist and diplomat, 74 (born
1942 )
[53]
March 21 –
Tomás de Mattos , Uruguayan writer and librarian, 68 (born
1947 )
[54]
March 31 –
Imre Kertész , Hungarian writer and the 2002 laureate of the
Nobel Prize in Literature , 86 (born
1929 )
[55]
April 3 –
Lars Gustafsson , Swedish writer and scholar, novelist and poet, 79 (born
1936 )
[56]
April 5 –
E. M. Nathanson , American author (
The Dirty Dozen ), 87 (born
1928 )
[57]
April 12 – Sir
Arnold Wesker , English dramatist, 83 (born
1932 )
[58]
April 30 –
Daniel Berrigan , American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist, won the 1957
Lamont Prize in Poetry , 94 (born
1921 )
[59]
June 6 – Sir
Peter Shaffer , English playwright (
Amadeus ), 90 (born
1926 )
[60]
June 25 –
Adam Small , 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the
Hertzog Prize (born
1936 )
[61]
June 30 – Sir
Geoffrey Hill , English poet, 84 (born
1932 )
[62]
July 1 –
Yves Bonnefoy , French poet, 93 (born
1923 )
[63]
July 2 –
Elie Wiesel , American Jewish author (
Night ) and 1986
Nobel Peace Prize winner (born
1928 )
[64]
July 14 –
Péter Esterházy , Hungarian writer, 66 (born
1950 )
[65]
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 )
[66]
September 4 :
September 16
September 28 –
Gloria Naylor , African-American novelist and academic (
The Women of Brewster Place ), 66, (born
1950 )
[70]
October 13 –
Dario Fo , Italian playwright and the 1997 laureate of the
Nobel Prize in Literature , 90 (born
1926 )
[71]
October 31 –
Natalie Babbitt , American author (
Tuck Everlasting ), 84 (born
1932 )
[72]
November 7 –
Leonard Cohen , Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, 82 (born
1934 )
[73]
November 10 –
Francisco Nieva , Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer, 91 (born
1924 )
November 11 – Sir
James McNeish , New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer, 85 (born
1931 )
[74]
November 20 –
William Trevor , Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, 88 (born
1928 )
[75]
December 12 –
Shirley Hazzard , Australian novelist and short story writer, 85 (born
1931 )
[76]
December 24 –
Richard Adams , English author (
Watership Down ), 96 (born
1920 )
[77]
December 28 –
Michel Déon , French novelist, 97 (born
1919 )
Awards
In alphabetical order of prize names:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award :
Mary Morris for The Jazz Palace
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction :
Lisa McInerney , The Glorious Heresies
[78]
Baillie Gifford Prize :
Philippe Sands , East West Street
[79]
Booker Prize :
Paul Beatty ,
The Sellout (first American winner)
[80]
Caine Prize for African Writing :
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi , "Memories We Lost"
Camões Prize :
Raduan Nassar
[81]
Costa Book Awards :
Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (novel and overall winner);
Francis Spufford , Golden Hill (first novel);
Alice Oswald , Falling Awake (poetry); Keggie Carew, Dadland (biography); Brian Conaghan, The Bombs that Brought us Together (children's)
Danuta Gleed Literary Award :
Heather O'Neill , Daydreams of Angels
Dayne Ogilvie Prize :
Leah Horlick
[82]
Desmond Elliott Prize : Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies
[83]
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature :
Sleeping on Jupiter by
Anuradha Roy , India
Dylan Thomas Prize : Max Porter,
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
[84]
European Book Prize : Javier Cercas, The Impostor and, Erri De Luca, Le Plus et le Moins
Folio Prize : No prize awarded
[85]
German Book Prize :
Bodo Kirchhoff , Widerfahrnis
[86]
Goldsmiths Prize :
Mike McCormack , Solar Bones
[87]
Gordon Burn Prize :
David Szalay ,
All That Man Is
[88]
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 :
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre Le Dernier des nôtres
International Booker Prize :
Han Kang ,
The Vegetarian
[89]
International Dublin Literary Award :
Family Life by
Akhil Sharma
International Prize for Arabic Fiction :
Rabai al-Madhoun , Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Naqba
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction :
Eimear McBride , The Lesser Bohemians
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
Laura Cumming , The Vanishing Man
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award :
Anne Enright , The Green Road
[90]
Lambda Literary Awards : Multiple categories; see
28th Lambda Literary Awards .
Miguel de Cervantes Prize :
Eduardo Mendoza
Miles Franklin Award :
A. S. Patrić ,
Black Rock White City
[91]
National Biography Award :
Brenda Niall for Mannix
National Book Award for Fiction :
Colson Whitehead ,
The Underground Railroad
National Book Critics Circle Award :
Louise Erdrich ,
LaRose
Nike Award :
Bronka Nowicka , Nakarmić kamień
Nobel Prize in Literature :
Bob Dylan
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :
James Hannaham , Delicious Foods
PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
Premio Planeta de Novela :
Premio Strega :
Edoardo Albinati , La scuola cattolica
Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing :
Hew Strachan
Prix Goncourt :
Leïla Slimani , Chanson douce
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Viet Thanh Nguyen ,
The Sympathizer
[92]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Peter Balakian , Ozone Journal
[93]
RBC Taylor Prize :
Rosemary Sullivan , Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
[94]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize :
Yasuko Thanh , Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
Russian Booker Prize :
Scotiabank Giller Prize :
Madeleine Thien ,
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
[95]
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :
Walter Scott Prize :
Simon Mawer , Tightrope
[96]
W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction :
Ralph Peters , Valley of the Shadow
[97]
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award :
Lars Gustafsson
[98]
See also
Notes
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"Poetry – Past Winners" . www.pulitzer.org . Retrieved 14 December 2016 .
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"Rosemary Sullivan wins the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize for Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva" . Cision . March 7, 2016. Retrieved January 21, 2021 .
^
"Madeleine Thien Wins the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize" . Scotiabank Giller Prize . Retrieved 14 December 2016 .
^
"The winner of the 2016 Walter Scott Prize is announced! –" . The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction . 18 June 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016 .
^
" 'Valley of the Shadow' wins W. Y. Boyd Award for excellence in military fiction" . News and Press Center . 10 May 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016 .
^
"Herbert literature Prize goes to Lars Gustafsson" . Retrieved 2019-03-12 .