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Overview of the events of 2017 in literature
Overview of the events of 2017 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017 .
Events
Anniversaries
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
Ayobami Adebayo – Stay With Me (March 2, UK)
Paul Auster –
4 3 2 1 (January 31)
Brunonia Barry –
The Fifth Petal: a novel
Darcey Bell –
A Simple Favor (March 1)
Dan Brown –
Origin (October 3)
Peter Carey – A Long Way From Home (October 30, Australia)
J. M. Coetzee –
The Schooldays of Jesus (February 21)
Claire G. Coleman –
Terra Nullius
Curtis Dawkins –
The Graybar Hotel (July 4)
Didier Decoin –
Le bureau des jardins et des étangs (The Office of Gardens and Ponds) (France)
Steve Erickson – Shadowbahn
Christine Féret-Fleury – La fille qui lisait dans le Métro (The Girl who Read on the Metro) (March 9, France)
Karl Geary – Montpelier Parade (August 31)
John Grisham –
Camino Island (June 6)
Mohsin Hamid –
Exit West (March 2, UK)
Catherine Hernandez -
Scarborough
Alan Hollinghurst –
The Sparsholt Affair (September 26, UK)
Gail Honeyman –
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (UK)
N. K. Jemisin –
The Stone Sky (August 15)
Lisa Jewell – Then She Was Gone (July 27, UK)
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (
Bill Drummond and
Jimmy Cauty ) – 2023 (August 23, UK)
Ian McDonald –
Luna: Wolf Moon (March 23, UK)
Jon McGregor – Reservoir 13 (April 6, UK)
Claude McKay (died
1948 ) – Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem (February 7; written 1941)
Robert Menasse – Die Hauptstadt (The Capital) (Germany)
Denise Mina – The Long Drop (March 2, UK)
Fiona Mozley –
Elmet (August 10, UK)
Neel Mukherjee – A State of Freedom (July 6, UK)
Timothy Ogene –
The Day Ends Like Any Day (April 6, UK)
James Patterson &
Candice Fox –
Never Never (January 16, US)
Tim Pears – The Horseman (January, UK)
Gwendoline Riley – First Love (February, UK)
Sally Rooney –
Conversations with Friends (June, UK)
George Saunders –
Lincoln in the Bardo (February 14)
Rachel Seiffert – A Boy in Winter (June 1, UK)
Kamila Shamsie – Home Fire (August 15, UK)
Joss Sheldon – Money Power Love (October 7, UK)
Elizabeth Strout – Anything is Possible (April 25)
J. R. R. Tolkien (died
1973 ), edited by
Christopher Tolkien –
Beren and Lúthien (June 1, UK; original version written 1917)
Zlatko Topčić
Éric Vuillard –
The Order of the Day (L'Ordre du jour) (April 29, France)
Jesmyn Ward –
Sing, Unburied, Sing (September 5)
Sarah Winman – Tin Man (July 27, UK)
Kathleen Winter –
Lost in September
Children and young people
Galia Bernstein –
I Am a Cat (November, Australia, Singapore)
Sarah Crossan – Moonrise (September 1, UK)
Lissa Evans – Wed Wabbit (January 5, UK)
Susie Ghahremani –
Stack the Cats (USA)
Connie Glynn – Undercover Princess (October 30, UK)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave – The Island at the End of Everything (May 4, UK)
Amanda Hocking – Freeks (January 3)
[12]
Anna McQuinn –
Lulu Gets a Cat
Philip Pullman – La Belle Sauvage , first volume in
The Book of Dust trilogy (October 19, UK)
Katherine Rundell – The Explorer (August 10, UK)
Angie Thomas –
The Hate U Give (September 28)
Jacqueline Wilson – Wave Me Goodbye (May 18, UK)
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Biography and memoirs
Craig Brown – Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret (September 21, UK)
Richard Ford – Between Them: Remembering My Parents (May 2)
Adam Kay –
This is Going to Hurt : Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (September 7, UK)
Caroline Moorehead – A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini (June 15)
Rebecca Stott – In the Days of Rain: a daughter, a father, a cult (June 1, UK)
Stephen Westaby – Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table (February 9, UK)
Xiaolu Guo – Once Upon a Time in the East (January 26)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
January 2 –
John Berger , English novelist, painter, art critic and poet, 90 (born
1926 )
[13]
January 12 –
William Peter Blatty , American author (
The Exorcist ), 89 (born
1928 )
[14]
January 25 :
January 29 –
Howard Frank Mosher , American novelist (
Where the Rivers Flow North ), 74 (born
1942 )
January 30 -
Teresa Amy , Uruguayan poet and translator, 66 (born
1950 )
[17]
February 1 –
William Melvin Kelley , African-American novelist, 79 (born
1937 )
[18]
February 8 –
Tom Raworth , English poet, 78 (born
1938 )
March 10 –
Robert James Waller , American novelist (
The Bridges of Madison County ), 77 (b.
1939 )
[19]
March 16 –
Torgny Lindgren , Swedish writer, 78 (born
1938 )
[20]
March 17 –
Derek Walcott , Saint Lucian poet and playwright,
Nobel Laureate in 1992, 87 (b.
1930 )
[21]
April 1 –
Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Russian poet, 84 (b.
1933 )
[22]
May 1 :
May 24 –
Denis Johnson , American poet, novelist (
Tree of Smoke ), and short story writer (
Jesus' Son ), 67 (born
1949 ).
[25]
June 2
June 4
June 5
June 8 –
Naseem Khan , British journalist, 77
[32]
June 12 –
C. Narayana Reddy , Indian poet and writer,
Jnanpith Awardee , 85
[33]
June 27 –
Michael Bond , English author (
Paddington Bear ), 91 (born
1926 )
[34]
June 28 –
Bruce Stewart , New Zealand author and playwright, 80
[35]
July 2
July 5 –
Irina Ratushinskaya , Russian poet, 63 (cancer)
[40]
July 9
July 10 –
Peter Härtling , German writer and poet, 83
[43]
September 23 –
Harvey Jacobs , American author, 87
[44]
November 20 –
Amir Hamed , Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator, 55 (born
1962 )
[45]
November 23 –
Božena Mačingová , Slovak writer, author of books for children and young adults (born
1922 )
[46]
December 28 –
Sue Grafton , American mystery author, 77
[47]
Awards
In alphabetical order of prize names:
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction :
Naomi Alderman for The Power
[48]
Baillie Gifford Prize :
David France for How to Survive a Plague
[49]
Booker Prize :
George Saunders for
Lincoln in the Bardo
[50]
Caine Prize for African Writing :
Bushra Elfadil , "The Story of the Girl Whose Bird Flew Away"
Camões Prize :
Manuel Alegre
[51]
Costa Book Awards :
Helen Dunmore (died June 5) for
Inside the Wave (poetry)
[52]
Danuta Gleed Literary Award :
Kris Bertin , Bad Things Happen
David Cohen Prize :
Tom Stoppard
Dayne Ogilvie Prize :
Kai Cheng Thom
[53]
Desmond Elliott Prize :
Francis Spufford , Golden Hill
[54]
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature :
Dylan Thomas Prize :
Fiona McFarlane for The High Places
[55]
European Book Prize :
David Van Reybrouck , Zink and, Raffaele Simone, Si la démocratie fait faillite
Folio Prize :
Hisham Matar for The Return
[56]
German Book Prize :
Robert Menasse for Die Hauptstadt
[57]
Goldsmiths Prize :
Nicola Barker for H(a)ppy
[58]
Gordon Burn Prize :
Denise Mina for The Long Drop
[59]
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction :
Joel Thomas Hynes ,
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
[60]
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction :
Christian Guay-Poliquin , Le Poids de la neige
[60]
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française :
Hugo Award for Best Novel :
N. K. Jemisin for
The Obelisk Gate
[61]
International Booker Prize :
David Grossman for
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
[62]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction :
Mohammed Hasan Alwan for A Small Death
[63]
International Dublin Literary Award :
José Eduardo Agualusa for
A General Theory of Oblivion
[64]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction :
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award :
Lambda Literary Awards : Various categories, see
29th Lambda Literary Awards
Miguel de Cervantes Prize :
Miles Franklin Award :
Josephine Wilson for Extinctions
[65]
National Biography Award :
National Book Award for Fiction :
National Book Critics Circle Award :
Newdigate Prize : Dominic Hand
[66]
Nike Award :
Nobel Prize in Literature :
Kazuo Ishiguro
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :
Imbolo Mbue for
Behold the Dreamers
[67]
PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
Premio Planeta de Novela :
Premio Strega :
Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing :
Prix Goncourt :
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Colson Whitehead for
The Underground Railroad
[68]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Tyehimba Jess for
Olio
[68]
RBC Taylor Prize :
Ross King for Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
[69]
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize :
David Chariandy , Brother
[70]
Russian Booker Prize :
Scotiabank Giller Prize :
Michael Redhill ,
Bellevue Square
[71]
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :
Walter Scott Prize :
Sebastian Barry for
Days Without End
[72]
W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction :
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award :
Breyten Breytenbach
[73]
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