2009 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2009.

Events[]

Herta Müller
  • April 21 – UNESCO launches the World Digital Library.[1]
  • May 1 – Carol Ann Duffy is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the first woman in the position;[2] she is also the first Scot and the first openly gay occupant of the post.[3]
  • May 5 – J. R. R. Tolkien's narrative poem The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún in alliterative verse, based on the 13th century Poetic Edda and probably written in the 1930s, is published posthumously.
  • May 16–25 – Ruth Padel becomes the first woman ever elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford[4] but resigns nine days later after it is alleged she was involved in what some sources call as a smear campaign against Derek Walcott, a rival for the post.[5][6]
  • August 10 – Standard orthography for the Silesian language is adopted in Cieszyn, at a meeting of the Standardization Committee of the Silesian Language.[7]
  • October 8 – Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • October 12 – Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm-Zentrum Library opens at Humboldt University of Berlin.[8]
  • November 10 – Linden MacIntyre wins the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man.
  • unknown date – Australian publisher Allen & Unwin suspends its annual Iremonger Award, stating that no manuscript of sufficient merit has been submitted.[9]

New books[]

Fiction[]

  • Nelson Algren (died 1981) – Entrapment and Other Writings (collection)
  • Margaret Atwood – The Year of the Flood (September 8)
  • Nicholson Baker – The Anthologist (September)
  • T. C. Boyle – The Women (February 10)
  • Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol (September 15)
  • Arno Camenisch – Sez ner
  • – Bílej kůň, žlutej drak
  • Chan Koonchung – The Fat Years
  • Sam Childers – Another Man's War
  • Kate Christensen – Trouble: A Novel
  • E. L. Doctorow – Homer & Langley (September 1)
  • Dave Eggers – The Wild Things (October 1)
  • Adam Foulds – The Quickening Maze
  • Rodrigo Fresán – El fondo del cielo
  • Glen David Gold – Sunnyside (May 5)
  • Philippa Gregory – The White Queen (August 18)
  • Lauren Groff – Delicate Edible Birds (January 27)
  • Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, vol. 1–2 (May 29 – Japan)
  • Yuri Herrera – Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Signs Preceding the End of the World)
  • Terrence E. Holt – In the Valley of the Kings (September 14)
  • John Irving – Last Night in Twisted River (October 20 – Canada; October 27 – US)
  • Rabee Jaber – أميركا (America)
  • Denis Johnson – Nobody Move (June 5)
  • Daniel Kehlmann – Fame (January 16)
  • Barbara Kingsolver – The Lacuna: A Novel (November 3)
  • Karl Ove Knausgård – Min Kamp (Norway)[10]
  • Herman Koch – The Dinner (Het diner – Netherlands)
  • Joe R. Lansdale – Vanilla Ride (September 2009)
  • Janice Y. K. Lee – The Piano Teacher
  • Jonathan Lethem – Chronic City (October 13)
  • Yiyun Li (李翊雲) – The Vagrants
  • Nadifa Mohamed – Black Mamba Boy (c. December)
  • Lorrie Moore – A Gate at the Stairs (September 15)
  • Alice Munro – Too Much Happiness (August 25)
  • Vladimir Nabokov – The Original of Laura (unfinished last novel, November 3)
  • Marie NDiaye – Three Strong Women (Trois Femmes puissantes, August 20)
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Chuck Palahniuk – Pygmy (May 5)
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya – There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby (short stories translated from Russian, September 29)
  • Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice (August 4)
  • Philip Roth – The Humbling (November 2)
  • Richard Russo – That Old Cape Magic (August 4)
  • Stig Sæterbakken – Don't Leave Me
  • Raphael Selbourne – Beauty (September)
  • Steve Sem-Sandberg – De fattiga i Łódź
  • Nicholas Sparks – The Last Song (September 8)
  • Peter Stamm – Seven Years
  • Kathryn Stockett – The Help (February 10)[11]
  • Mari Strachan – The Earth Hums in B Flat
  • Olga Tokarczuk – Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead)
  • Wells Tower – Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (March 17)
  • Sue Townsend – Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (November 5)
  • Ferdinand von Schirach – "Verbrechen" (Burglary; short story)
  • John Wray – Lowboy (March 3)
  • Juli Zeh – Corpus Delicti (February 20)

Genre fiction[]

  • Yukito Ayatsuji – Another (October 29)
  • David Baldacci – First Family (April 21)
  • Jim Butcher – Turn Coat (April 7)
  • Eoin Colfer – And Another Thing... (October)
  • Matthew J. Costello – Doom 3: Maelstrom (March 31)
  • Michael Crichton – Pirate Latitudes (November 24)
  • Andrew Hussie – Homestuck (April 13)
  • J.C. Hutchins – 7th Son, Book One: Descent (October 27)
  • Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson – The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time volume 12, October 27)
  • Stephen King – Under the Dome (November 10)
  • Richard Laymon – Dark Mountain (March 2009)
  • Attica Locke – Black Water Rising
  • Michael E. Marks – Dominant Species (novel) (October 1)
  • Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, Books 1–2, May 29)
  • James Patterson
  • Lawrence M. Schoen – Buffalito Destiny (June 1, first in the Tales of the Amazing Conroy series)

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 2009 in poetry
  • Christopher Reid – A Scattering
  • Toyo Shibata (柴田トヨ) – Kujikenaide (Don't lose heart)

Non-fiction[]

  • Olivier Ameisen – The End of my Addiction (March 5)
  • Daniel Ammann – The King of Oil (October 13)
  • Joshua Blu Buhs – Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
  • Michael Chabon – Manhood for Amateurs (October 6)
  • Wendy Doniger – The Hindus: An Alternative History
  • Dave Eggers – Zeitoun (July 15)
  • Christopher M. Fairman – Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
  • Craig Ferguson – American on Purpose (September 22)
  • Brian Floca – Moonshot: The Flight Of Apollo 11
  • Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals (November 2)
  • Jade Goody – Forever in My Heart: the Story of My Battle against Cancer
  • David Grann – The Lost City of Z (February 24)
  • Michael Jones – The Retreat: Hitler's First Defeat
  • Thomas Levenson – Newton and the Counterfeiter (June 3)
  • Mark Levin – Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (March 24)
  • Norman Mailer (died 2007) – MoonFire ($112,500 coffee table edition)
  • Joel Mokyr – The Enlightened Economy
  • Ram Oren – Gertruda's Oath
  • Eric W. Sanderson – Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (May 1)
  • Bill Simmons – The Book of Basketball (October 26)
  • Peter Sloterdijk – You Must Change Your Life (Du mußt dein Leben ändern)
  • Guy Sorman – Economics Does Not Lie (July 20)
  • William T. Vollmann – Imperial (July 29)
  • Helen Waldstein Wilkes – Letters from the Lost[14]

Deaths[]

  • January 1 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian novelist and screenwriter (born 1924)[15]
  • January 7 – Valerie Flint, English medieval historian (born 1936)[16]
  • January 20 – Sheila Walsh, English novelist (born 1928)[17]
  • January 27 – John Updike, American novelist (born 1932)[18]
  • February 18 – Tayeb Salih, Sudanese fiction writer and cultural commentator (born 1929)[19]
  • February 20 – Christopher Nolan, Irish poet and author (choking; born 1965)[20]
  • February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American science fiction writer (born 1918)[21]
  • March 13 – James Purdy, American novelist, poet and playwright (born 1914)[22]
  • March 21 – Winifred Foley, English memoirist (born 1914)[23]
  • March 31 – Michael Cox, English novelist and biographer (hemangiopericytoma, born 1948)
Maurice Druon
  • April 14 – Maurice Druon, French historical novelist (born 1918)[24]
  • April 15 – Clement Freud, German-born English writer and broadcaster (born 1924)[25]
  • April 19 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist (born 1930)[26]
  • May 6 – Lev Losev, Russian American poet (born 1937)
  • May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (born 1920)
  • June 2 – David Eddings, American novelist (born 1931)
  • June 27 – Frank Barlow, English historian (born 1911)[27]
  • July 6 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (born 1932)
  • July 14 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian novelist (born 1926)[28]
  • July 19 – Frank McCourt, American memoirist and Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1930)[29]
Frank McCourt
  • July 23 – E. Lynn Harris, African American novelist (heart disease; born 1955)
  • July 25 – Stanley Middleton, English novelist (cancer; born 1919)
  • July 27
    • Aeronwy Thomas, English-born Welsh translator and writer (born 1943)[30]
Aeronwy Thomas
  • July 31 – Tim Guest, English writer (drug overdose; born 1975)
  • August 2 – Adolf Endler, German writer (born 1930)
  • August 4 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and author (born 1957)
  • August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (born 1914)
  • August 6
    • Jack T. Kirby, American historian (born 1938)
    • Willibrordus S. Rendra, Indonesian poet (born 1935)
  • August 7 – Danko Popović, Serbian writer (born 1928)
  • August 8 – Alfonso Calderón, Chilean writer and poet (born 1930)[31]
  • August 9 – Thierry Jonquet, French writer (born 1954)
  • August 10
    • Josef Burg, Ukrainian writing in Yiddish (born 1912)
    • Merlyn Mantle, American author (born 1932)
  • August 16 – Alistair Campbell, New Zealand poet (born 1925)
  • August 18
    • Dic Jones, Welsh poet writing in Welsh (born 1934)[32]
    • Hugo Loetscher, Swiss author writing in German (born 1929)
    • Fernanda Pivano, Italian writer (born 1917)
  • August 20 – Karla Kuskin, American children's author (born 1932)
  • August 22 – Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (born 1926)
Elmer Kelton
  • August 25
    • Bob Carroll, American historian and author (born 1936)
    • Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (born 1913)
  • September 3 – Christine D'Haen, Belgian poet writing in Flemish (born 1923)
Christine D'Haen
Veikko Huovinen
  • November 30 – Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (born 1929)
  • December 2 –Elizabeth Berridge, British novelist (born 1919)[36]
  • December 5 – William Lederer, American author (born 1912)[37]
  • December 7
    • Carlene Hatcher Polite, American novelist (born 1932)
    • Pyotr Vail, Latvian-born Russian essayist and journalist (born 1949)
  • December 13 – Julian Fane, British author (born 1927)[38]
  • December 15 – C. D. B. Bryan, American author (born 1936)
  • December 19 – Loren Singer, American novelist (born 1923)
  • December 20 – Vera Rich, English poet and journalist (born 1936)
Vera Rich

Awards[]

Australia[]

  • Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Breath

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

  • Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2009 Lambda Literary Awards.
  • National Book Award for Fiction: Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
  • National Book Critics Circle Award: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction: Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
  • Whiting Awards: Fiction: Adam Johnson, Nami Mun, Salvatore Scibona, Vu Tran; Nonfiction: Michael Meyer, Hugh Raffles; Plays: Rajiv Joseph; Poetry: Jericho Brown, Jay Hopler, Joan Kane

Elsewhere[]

See also[]

References[]

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