2008 in literature
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Overview of the events of 2008 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2008 .
Events
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New books
Fiction
Genre fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
The Academi – Encyclopaedia of Wales (Gwyddoniadur Cymru) (January)
Julie Andrews – Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (April 1)
Kwame Anthony Appiah – Experiments in Ethics
Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational (February 19)
Margaret Atwood – Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (October 1)
Mary Beard – Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Dionne Brand – A Kind of Perfect Speech (Ralph Gustafson Lecture)
Augusten Burroughs – A Wolf at the Table (April 29)
Michael Chabon – Maps and Legends (May 1)
D. K. Chakrabarti – The Battle for Ancient India: An essay in the sociopolitics of Indian archaeology
Sloane Crosley – I Was Told There'd Be Cake (April 1)
John Duignan – The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (October 7)
Eminem – The Way I Am (October 21)
Richard Florida – Who's Your City? (March)
Raymond Geuss – Philosophy and Real Politics
Philip Hoare – Leviathan, or The Whale (September 16)
Chloe Hooper – The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
B. B. Lal – Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir, and Setu: Evidence of Literature, Archaeology, and Other Sciences
Scholastique Mukasonga – La femme aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Woman)
Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel ) – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (July 29)
Shuja Nawaz – Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
Frances Osborne – The Bolter: Idina Sackville
Chris Pash – The Last Whale
Peter Rees – The Other ANZACs
David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 3)
Vaclav Smil – Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems
Chunghee Sarah Soh – The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan
Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (April)
Ronnie Thompson (pseudonym) – Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer (January 24)
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – One for the Road (January 31; translation of I pose og sekk! , 2005)
Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir (May 6)
Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself [2]
Meralda Warren and others – Mi Base side orn Pitcairn (My Favourite Place on Pitcairn , first book published in Pitkern creole )
Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger and Carolin Schneider (eds.) – Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon
Jim Holt – Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Deaths
March 16 – Jonathan Williams , American poet (born 1929 )
March 19
March 23 – E. A. Markham , Montserrat poet, writer and activist (born 1939 )
April 3 – Andrew Crozier , English poet and scholar (born 1943 )
April 7 – Ludu Daw Amar , Burmese writer and journalist (born 1915 )
April 13 – Robert Greacen , Irish poet (born 1920 )
April 17
April 18
May 1 – Elaine Dundy , American novelist, biographer and playwright (born 1921 )
May 9 – Nuala O'Faolain , Irish critic and writer (born 1940 )
May 11 – Jeff Torrington , Scottish novelist (born 1935 )
May 12 – Oakley Hall , American novelist (born 1920 )
May 14 – Roy Heath , Guyanese novelist (born 1926 )
May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar , Indian playwright (born 1928 )
May 23 – Alan Brien , English journalist and novelist (born 1925 )
May 28 – Elinor Lyon , British children's writer (born 1921 )
June 2 – Ferenc Fejtő , Hungarian-born French historian and journalist (born 1909 )
June 4 – Matthew Bruccoli , American biographer and scholar (born 1931 )
June 5 – Angus Calder , British writer and scholar (born 1942 )
June 8 – Peter Rühmkorf , German poet and writer (born 1929 )
June 9 – Algis Budrys (John A. Sentry), American science fiction writer of Lithuanian origin (born 1931 )
June 10
June 16 – Mario Rigoni Stern , Italian novelist (born 1921 )
June 18 – Tasha Tudor , American children's writer and illustrator (born 1915 )
June 22 – Albert Cossery , Egyptian-born French novelist (born 1913 )
June 24 – Ruth Cardoso , Brazilian anthropologist and writer (born 1930 )
June 25 – Lyall Watson , South African scientist and new age writer (born 1939 )
June 27 – Lenka Reinerová , Czech writer in German (born 1916 )
September 5 – Robert Giroux , American editor and publisher (born 1914 )
September 7 – Gregory Mcdonald , American mystery writer (born 1937 )
September 12 – David Foster Wallace , American novelist (born 1962 )
September 17 – James Crumley , American crime writer (born 1939 )
September 20 – Duncan Glen , Scottish poet, critic and literary historian (born 1933 )
September 23 – William Woodruff , English historian and autobiographer (born 1916 )
September 24 – Bengt Anderberg , Swedish poet, novelist and children's writer (born 1920 )
September 29 – Hayden Carruth , American poet and literary critic (born 1921 )
October 4 – Peter Vansittart , English novelist and historical writer (born 1920 )
October 14 – Barrington J. Bayley , English science fiction writer (born 1937 )
October 26 – Tony Hillerman , American mystery writer (born 1925 )
October 27 – Es'kia Mphahlele , South African writer in English (born 1919 )
October 29 – William Wharton (Albert William Du Aime), American novelist (born 1925 )
October 31 – Studs Terkel , American historian and broadcaster (born 1912 )
November 4 – Michael Crichton , American writer and scholar (born 1942 )
November 13 – Jules Archer , American historian and author (born 1915 )
November 14 – Kristin Hunter , American author and academic (born 1931 )
December 1 – Dorothy Sterling , American non-fiction writer for children and historian (born 1913 )[3]
December 15 – Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian children's book author (born 1920 )[4]
December 24 – Harold Pinter , English playwright and screenwriter (born 1930 ).
December 31 – Donald E. Westlake , American novelist (born 1933 )[5]
Awards and honors
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Fiction: Mischa Berlinski , Laleh Khadivi , Manuel Muñoz , Benjamin Percy , Lysley Tenorio
Nonfiction: Donovan Hohn
Plays: Dael Orlandersmith
Poetry: Rick Hilles , Douglas Kearney , Julie Sheehan
References
^ Sihvonen, Lauri (September 24, 2008). "Lauri Sihvonen on Sofi Oksanen's novel: A Body and a Blowfly" . FILI . Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2010 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived June 6, 2014, at Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University , Previous winners, Russell Wangersky, Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ Staino, Rocco (January 5, 2009). "In Memoriam: Children's Authors and Illustrators Who Died in 2008" . School Library Journal . Archived from the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2009 .
^ Hedeman, Anders (December 15, 2008). "Anne-Cath. Vestly er død" . Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2008 .
^ The New York Times 2009-01-01.
^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived December 8, 2012, at Archive.today , Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/27/2012
See also