2000 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000.

Events[]

  • February – El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space.[1]
  • February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published.
  • March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book.[2]
  • September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, The Accused.[3]
  • December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material specifically ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 2000 in poetry
  • Anne Carson – Men in the Off Hours
  • Paul Celan – Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
  • Fanny Howe – Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
  • Pierre Labrie – À tout hasard
  • Grazyna Miller – Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
  • Owen Sheers – The Blue Book
  • Dejan Stojanović[6]
    • Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)[7]
    • Oblik (The Shape)[8]
    • Tvoritelj (The Creator)[9]
    • Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed.[9]

Non-fiction[]

  • Peter Ackroyd – London: A Biography
  • Martin Amis – Experience
  • The Beatles Anthology
  • Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: The Science of History
  • Michael Burleigh – The Third Reich: A New History
  • Christian Cannuyer – Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile
  • John Colapinto – As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl[10]
  • Mary Craig – Blessings
  • Gerina Dunwich – Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship
  • Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Charles Foster – Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
  • John Bellamy Foster – Marx's Ecology
  • Aileen Fox – Aileen: a Pioneering Archaeologist (autobiography)
  • Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  • Lynda Gratton – Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose
  • Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues[11]
  • Christina Hoff Sommers – The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men[12]
  • Will Hutton – The World We're In
  • Stephen King – On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Lawrence Lessig – Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
  • Roger Lowenstein – When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
  • Sidney Poitier – The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
  • Arun Shourie – Harvesting Our Souls
  • Paul H. Ray – The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
  • Lorna Sage – Bad Blood
  • Diane Stanley – Michelangelo
  • – Darwin and the Science of Evolution[13]
  • Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee – Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
  • Michael White – Leonardo: the First Scientist
  • Bruce Wilkinson – The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life

Deaths[]

  • January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914)[14]
  • January 26
    • Kathleen Hale, English children's author and illustrator (born 1898)
    • A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction author (born 1912)
  • January 31 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American comic book cartoonist (born 1926)
  • February 11 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (born 1927)
  • February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922)
  • March 28 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (born 1905)[15]
  • April 3 – Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born 1946)[16]
  • April 13 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (born 1916)
  • April 15 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (born 1925)[17]
  • April 21 – Al Purdy, Canadian poet (born 1918)
  • April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916)[18]
  • May 13 – Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (born 1938)
  • May 16 – Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (born 1924)
  • May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist and playwright (born 1901)[19]
  • July 14 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (born 1920)
  • August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921)
  • August 25 – Carl Barks, American comic book cartoonist (born 1901)
  • September 2 – Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1902)[20]
  • September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915)
  • September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist and critic (born 1932)[21]
  • September 14 – Hwang Sun-won, Korean fiction writer (born 1915)
  • September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born 1924)
  • September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913)[22]
  • October 8 – Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born 1937)
  • October 30 – Steve Allen, American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born 1921)
  • November 2 – Robert Cormier, American young adult fiction writer (born 1925)
  • November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born 1907)[23]
  • December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet (born 1917)[24]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian
  • Camões Prize: Autran Dourado

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

Serbia[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Fiction: Robert Cohen, Samantha Gillison, Lily King, John McManus, Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction: Andrew X. Pham
Plays: Kelly Stuart
Poetry: Albert Mobilio (poetry/fiction), James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson

Other[]

References[]

  1. ^ San Martín, Raquel (17 January 2008). "El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo" [El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a jewel among the libraries of the world]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. ^ Francesca de Châtel; Robin Hunt (2 August 2004). Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail. Routledge. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-1-135-47609-0.
  3. ^ Herald of Library Science. 2002. p. 161.
  4. ^ Simon, Diane (October 16, 2000). "Drowning Ruth (Book Review)". People. 54 (16): 58. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Claire Squires (26 June 2002). Zadie Smith's White Teeth. A&C Black. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-8264-5326-6.
  6. ^ "Dejan Stojanović". Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Prosveta, Beograd.Stojanović, Dejan. "Znak i njegova deca". Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd.
  10. ^ "X + Y = Z". movies2.nytimes.com.
  11. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
  12. ^ Bernstein, Richard (July 31, 2000). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000)" – via NYTimes.com.
  13. ^ Patrick Tort (2000). Darwin et la science de l'évolution (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-053520-0.
  14. ^ Prial, Frank J (7 January 2000). "Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85". The New York Times.
  15. ^ "Obituary: Anthony Powell". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 March 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  16. ^ Martin, Douglas (September 10, 2013). "Terence McKenna, 53, dies; Patron of psychedelic drugs". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  17. ^ Kelley, Tina (April 16, 2000). "Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75". The New York Times.
  18. ^ Harvey-Wood, Harriet (3 May 2000). "Penelope Fitzgerald". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  19. ^ "BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies". news.bbc.co.uk. 21 May 2000. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  20. ^ "Curt Siodmak; Writer Created the 'Wolf Man'". Los Angeles Times. 2000-09-09. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  21. ^ Mark Twain (25 March 2004). Pudd'nhead Wilson. Penguin Books Limited. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-14-192033-7.
  22. ^ M. Wynn Thomas. "THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000), poet and clergyman". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  23. ^ Thurber, Jon (November 13, 2000). "Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, CA. p. B4.
  24. ^ Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000). "Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  25. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
  26. ^ "Rastko: Dejan Stojanović". Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
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