2007 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2007.

Events

January 1 – Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (begun in 1645 as Ordinari Post Tijdender), begins to be published online only.^[1]
March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of bookselling in the city.
April 1 – The first in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series is released in New York.
April 26 – Polly Stenham's play That Face, written when the author was 19, premières at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.^[2]
November 2 – The Tomi Ungerer Museum opens in Strasbourg.^[3]
November 19 – The first Kindle e-book reader is released.
December 11 – Terry Pratchett informs fans online that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.^[4]

January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (born 1932)
January 27 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1914)
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (born 1917)
February 16 – Sheridan Morley, English critic and biographer (born 1941)
March 30 – Michael Dibdin, British crime writer (born 1947)
April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American satirical novelist (born 1922)^[7]
May 8 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (born 1933)
June 3 – Suzanne Robert, French Canadian novelist (born 1948)
June 21 – Douglas Hill, Canadian science fiction author and reviewer (born 1935)
June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (born 1905)
July 31 – Margaret Avison, Canadian poet (born 1918)
September 3 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (born 1908)
September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American novelist (born 1918)
September 16 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), American fantasy and historical novelist (born 1948)
November 10 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, journalist and playwright (born 1923)
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist, dramatist and songwriter (born 1929)
November 19 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1917)
November 27 – Jane Rule, Canadian novelist (born 1931)
December 22 – Julien Gracq, French novelist, critic and poet (born 1910)

^ "World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Purely Digital". Newsmax Media. Associated Press. February 6, 2007. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
^ "'Harry Potter' tale is fastest-selling book in history". International Herald Tribune. July 23, 2007. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
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^ "Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
^ "Dejan Stojanović, Ples Vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007". Internet Archive.
^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived December 8, 2012, at Archive.today, Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84". The New York Times. April 11, 2007. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
^ Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012