2016 in literature
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Overview of the events of 2016 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 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 Cervantes 's death.[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 (Homeland , 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]
Linda Grant – The Dark Circle (UK only, November 3)
Mark Greaney – Back Blast
Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
Michael Helm – After James (September 13)[14]
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune (September 13)[15]
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)
Shari Lapena – The Couple Next Door
Deborah Levy – Hot Milk (UK, March 24)[16]
Mike McCormack – Solar Bones (UK, May 5)[17]
Elizabeth McKenzie – The Portable Veblen
C. E. Morgan – The Sport of Kings
Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be the Place (UK, May 17)[18]
Chibundu Onuzo – Welcome to Lagos (UK)
Stef Penney – Under A Pole Start
Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent (UK, May 27)[19]
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)[20]
Joss Sheldon – The Little Voice (UK, November 23)[21]
Leïla Slimani – Chanson douce (France, August 18, translated as Lullaby or The Perfect Nanny )
Ali Smith – Autumn (UK, October 20)[22]
Zadie Smith – Swing Time
Francis Spufford – Golden Hill (UK, May 26)
Botho Strauß – Oniritti Höhlenbilder (Germany, October 10)
David Szalay – All That Man Is (linked short stories, UK, April 7)[23]
Yasuko Thanh – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing (October 11)[24]
Rose Tremain – The Gustav Sonata (UK, May 19)[25]
Katherena Vermette – The Break
Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
Zoe Whittall – The Best Kind of People (August 27)[26]
Corrina Wycoff – Damascus House (May 25)
Children and young people
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
January 11 – Gunnel Vallquist , Swedish writer and translator (born 1918 )[39]
January 18 – Michel Tournier , French writer, 91 (born 1924 )[40]
January 20 – David G. Hartwell , American anthologist, author, and critic (b. 1941)
February 8 – Margaret Forster , English novelist and biographer, 77 (born 1938 )[41]
February 18 – Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子), Japanese author, 68 (born 1947 )[42]
February 19
February 29 – Louise Rennison , English author and comedian (born 1951 )[45]
March 4 – Pat Conroy , American novelist (The Prince of Tides ), 70 (born 1945 )[46]
March 21 – Tomás de Mattos , Uruguayan writer and librarian, 68 (born 1947 )
March 31 – Imre Kertész , Hungarian writer and the 2002 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , 86 (born 1929 )[47]
April 3 – Lars Gustafsson , Swedish writer and scholar, novelist and poet, 79 (born 1936 )[48]
April 5 – E. M. Nathanson , American author (The Dirty Dozen ), 87 (born 1928 )[49]
April 12 – Sir Arnold Wesker , English dramatist, 83 (born 1932 )[50]
April 30 – Daniel Berrigan , American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist, won the 1957 Lamont Prize in Poetry , 94 (born 1921 )[51]
June 6 – Sir Peter Shaffer , English playwright (Amadeus ), 90 (born 1926 )[52]
June 25 – Adam Small , 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize (born 1936 )[53]
June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill , English poet, 84 (born 1932 )[54]
July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy , French poet, 93 (born 1923 )[55]
July 2 – Elie Wiesel , American Jewish author (Night ) and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1928 )[56]
July 14 – Péter Esterházy , Hungarian writer, 66 (born 1950 )[57]
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 )[58]
September 4 :
September 16
October 13 – Dario Fo , Italian playwright and the 1997 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , 90 (born 1926 )[62]
October 31 – Natalie Babbitt , American author (Tuck Everlasting ), 84 (born 1932 )[63]
November 7 – Leonard Cohen , Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, 82 (born 1934 )[64]
November 10 – Francisco Nieva , Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer, 91 (born 1924 )
November 20 – William Trevor , Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, 88 (born 1928 )[65]
December 12 – Shirley Hazzard , Australian novelist and short story writer, 85 (born 1931 )[66]
December 24 – Richard Adams , English author (Watership Down ), 96 (born 1920 )[67]
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 [68]
Baillie Gifford Prize : Philippe Sands , East West Street [69]
Booker Prize : Paul Beatty , The Sellout (first American winner)[70]
Caine Prize for African Writing : Lidudumalingani Mqombothi , "Memories We Lost"
Camões Prize : Raduan Nassar [71]
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 [72]
Desmond Elliott Prize : Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies [73]
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature : Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy , India
Dylan Thomas Prize : Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers [74]
Folio Prize : No prize awarded[75]
German Book Prize : Bodo Kirchhoff , Widerfahrnis [76]
Goldsmiths Prize : Mike McCormack , Solar Bones [77]
Gordon Burn Prize : David Szalay , All That Man Is [78]
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 [79]
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 [80]
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 [81]
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 2016 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 [82]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Peter Balakian , Ozone Journal [83]
RBC Taylor Prize : Rosemary Sullivan , Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
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 [84]
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :
Walter Scott Prize : Simon Mawer , Tightrope [85]
W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction : Ralph Peters , Valley of the Shadow [86]
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award : Lars Gustafsson [87]
See also
Notes
References
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^ Another tree has fallen – RIP Adam Small
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^ "2016 Camões Prize" . www.itamaraty.gov.br . Retrieved 16 December 2016 .
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^ "' Grief is the Thing with Feathers' wins £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize" . The Telegraph . Retrieved 2 February 2017 .
^ "The Folio Prize "suspended" for 2016" . The Guardian . 30 September 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2017 .
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^ "Herbert literature Prize goes to Lars Gustafsson" . Retrieved 2019-03-12 .
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