2017 in literature
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Overview of the events of 2017 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 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)
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)
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)
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 – zavrsna.rijec & Dagmar
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
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 )[11]
January 12 – William Peter Blatty , American author (The Exorcist ), 89 (born 1928 )[12]
January 25 :
January 29 – Howard Frank Mosher , American novelist (Where the Rivers Flow North ), 74 (born 1942 )
February 1 – William Melvin Kelley , African-American novelist, 79 (born 1937 )[15]
February 8 – Tom Raworth , English poet, 78 (born 1938 )
March 10 – Robert James Waller , American novelist (The Bridges of Madison County ), 77 (b. 1939 )[16]
March 16 – Torgny Lindgren , Swedish writer, 78 (born 1938 )[17]
March 17 – Derek Walcott , Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992, 87 (b. 1930 )[18]
April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko , Russian poet, 84 (b. 1933 )[19]
May 1 :
May 24 – Denis Johnson , American poet, novelist (Tree of Smoke ), and short story writer (Jesus' Son ), 67 (born 1949 ).[22]
June 2
June 4
June 5
June 8 – Naseem Khan , British journalist, 77[29]
June 12 – C. Narayana Reddy , Indian poet and writer, Jnanpith Awardee , 85[30]
June 27 – Michael Bond , English author (Paddington Bear ), 91 (born 1926 )[31]
June 28 – Bruce Stewart , New Zealand author and playwright, 80[32]
July 2
July 5 – Irina Ratushinskaya , Russian poet, 63 (cancer)[37]
July 9
September 23 – Harvey Jacobs , American author, 87[40]
December 28 – Sue Grafton , American mystery author, 77[41]
Awards
In alphabetical order of prize names:
See also
References
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^ "John Berger obituary" . The Guardian . 2 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017 .
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^ "Bridges of Madison County author dies" . 10 March 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
^ "Författaren Torgny Lindgren är död" . Retrieved 27 November 2017 .
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^ Скончался классик детской литературы Анатолий Алексин (in Russian)
^ Décès du penseur Mohamed Talbi (in French)
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^ Zemřel Jaroslav Kořán, první polistopadový primátor Prahy (in Czech)
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^ "Michael Bond obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 28 June 2017 .
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^ "Acclaimed Welsh language writer dies" . 3 July 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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^ Smith, Harrison (9 July 2017). "Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet dissident who turned captivity into poetry, dies at 63" . Retrieved 27 November 2017 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
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^ "Man Booker Prize: George Saunders wins for Lincoln in the Bardo" . BBC News . 18 October 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018 .
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