2012 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012.

Events[]

  • January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death.[1]
  • January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from The Satanic Verses, which is banned in the country.[2]
  • February – James Joyce's children's story The Cats of Copenhagen is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin.[3]
  • March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years.[4]
  • April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book Beijing Coma and calls Chinese publishers a "mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party", after being "manhandled" while attempting to present the book to Liu Binjie at the fair.[5]
  • July – Jaime García Márquez tells his students that his brother Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, suffers from dementia, which has ended his writing career.[6][7]
  • September 27 – The 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is noted.[8][9][10]
  • September 28 – Sue Limb's parody of the Bloomsbury Group, Gloomsbury, begins to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K.[11]
  • October 24 – Boekenberg ("Book mountain"), a public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by MVRDV, is opened.
  • December – The discovery is announced of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by Hans Christian Andersen found at the bottom of a box in Denmark in October.[12]
  • unknown date
    • Precious Timbuktu Manuscripts are evacuated under threat from Islamist rebels by Dr. Abdel Kader Haidara and Stephanie Diakité.[13]
    • An underground library in Darayya is formed in the besieged Syrian city by students.[14]

New books[]

Fiction (literary)[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

See 2012 in poetry

  • Paige Ackerson-Kiely – My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer
  • Marilyn Buck – Inside/Out: Selected Poems
  • Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – The Qat'aat o Rubaiyat of Zia Fatehabadi (quatrains, translation)
  • Jack Gilbert – Collected Poems
  • Paul Hoover – Desolation: Souvenir
  • Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) – June Fourth Elegies (translation)
  • Eileen Myles – Snow-Flake
  • Lucia Perillo – On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
  • D. A. Powell – Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
  • W. G. Sebald – Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964–2001
  • David Wagoner – After the Point of No Return
  • Lew Welch – Ring of Bone: Collected Poems

Science fiction and fantasy[]

  • Joe Abercrombie – Red Country (November 20)
  • Daniel Abraham
    • The King's Blood (May 22)
    • (writing as James S. A. Corey) – Caliban's War (June 26)
  • Saladin Ahmed �� Throne of the Crescent Moon (February 7)
  • Aaron Allston – Mercy Kill
  • Leigh Bardugo – Shadow and Bone
  • John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman – Hollow Earth
  • John Birmingham – Angels of Vengeance (April 10)
  • Alex Bledsoe – Wake of the Bloody Angel (July 3)
  • David Brin – Existence (June 19)
  • Tobias Buckell – Arctic Rising (February 28)
  • Orson Scott Card – Shadows in Flight (January 17)
  • Samuel R. Delany – Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (April 17)
  • Troy Denning – Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse
  • Steven Erikson – Forge of Darkness (September 18)
  • Ian C. Esslemont – Orb Sceptre Throne (May 22)
  • Brian Evenson – Immobility (April 10)
  • Michael F. Flynn – In the Lion's Mouth (January 17)
  • Mira Grant – Blackout (May 22)
  • Jon Courtenay Grimwood – The Outcast Blade (March 26)
  • Robin Hobb – City of Dragons (February 7)
  • Douglas Hulick – Sworn in Steel (June 5)
  • N. K. Jemisin
    • The Killing Moon (May 1)
    • The Shadowed Sun (June 12)
  • Stephen King – The Wind Through the Keyhole (April 24)
  • Mary Robinette Kowal – Glamour in Glass (April 10)
  • Jay Lake – Calamity of So Long a Life
  • Sarah J. Maas – Throne of Glass
  • Paul Melko – Broken Universe (June 5)
  • China Miéville – Railsea (May 15)
  • Michael Moorcock – The Whispering Swarm
  • Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves (March 13)
  • Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – The Long Earth (June 19)
  • Hannu Rajaniemi – The Fractal Prince (September 4)
  • Alastair Reynolds – Blue Remembered Earth (June 5)
  • Rick Riordan – The Mark of Athena (October 2)
  • Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312 (May 22)
  • Robert J. Sawyer – Triggers (April 3)
  • John Scalzi – Redshirts (June 5)
  • Karl Schroeder – Ashes of Candesce (February 14)
  • Brian Francis Slattery – Lost Everything (April 10)
  • Charles Stross – The Apocalypse Codex (July 3)
  • Brent Weeks – The Blinding Knife (September 11)
  • Daniel H. Wilson – Amped (June 5)
  • Ben H. Winters – The Last Policeman (July 12)
  • Gene Wolfe – The Land Across

Crime, horror etc.[]

  • Ace Atkins – Lullaby (May 1)
  • Laird Barron – The Croning (May 1)
  • Ted Bell – Phantom (March 20)
  • Alex Berenson – The Shadow Patrol (February 21)
  • Steve Berry – The Columbus Affair (May 15)
  • James Lee Burke �� Creole Belle (July 17)
  • Lee Child – A Wanted Man (September 27)
  • Lincoln Child – The Third Gate (June 12)
  • Harlan Coben – Stay Close (March 20)
  • Michael Connelly – The Black Box (November 26)
  • Robert Crais – Taken (January 24)
  • Justin Cronin – The Twelve (October 16)
  • Clive Cussler – The Storm (June 5)
  • Nelson DeMille – The Panther (October 16)
  • Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl (June 5)
  • Vince Flynn – Kill Shot (February 7)
  • Seth Grahame-Smith – Unholy Night (April 10)
  • John Grisham
  • Philip Kerr – Prague Fatale (April 17)
  • Tom Knox – The Lost Goddess (February 7)
  • Dean Koontz – Odd Apocalypse (July 31)
  • William Landay – Defending Jacob (January 31)
  • Joe R. Lansdale – Edge of Dark Water (March 12)
  • Dennis Lehane – Live by Night (October 2)
  • Elmore Leonard – Raylan (January 17)
  • Robert R. McCammon – The Providence Rider (May 31)
  • Jo Nesbø – Phantom (October 2)
  • Michael Palmer – Oath of Office (February 14)
  • Ridley Pearson – The Risk Agent (June 19)
  • Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow Returns (January 3)
  • Jeremy Robinson – Second World (May 22)
  • James Rollins – Bloodline (June 26)
  • Greg Rucka – Alpha (May 22)
  • John Sandford – Stolen Prey (May 15)
  • Scott Sigler – Nocturnal (April 3)
  • Daniel Silva – Fallen Angel (July 17)
  • James Swain – Dark Magic (May 22)
  • Brad Thor – Black List (July 31)
  • Joseph Wambaugh –Harbor Nocturne (April 3)
  • David Wellington – 32 Fangs (April 24)
  • F. Paul Wilson – Nightworld (May 22)

Non-fiction[]

Deaths[]

  • January 3 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-born novelist and publisher (born 1924)
  • January 7 – Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian journalist and author (born )
  • January 19 – On Sarig, Israeli children's author (born 1926)
  • January 23 – Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (born 1931)
  • January 28 – Don Starkell, Canadian diarist and author (born 1932)
  • January 29 – Damien Bona, American historian and journalist (born 1955)
  • January 30 – Bill Wallace, American children's author and educator (born 1947)
  • February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel laureate (born 1923)[24]
  • February 3 – John Christopher (Samuel Youd) English science fiction novelist (born 1922)
  • February 4 – Irene McKinney, American poet (born 1939)[25]
  • February 4 – John Turner Sargent Sr., American publisher (born 1924)
  • February 21 – Barney Rosset, American publisher (born 1922)
  • March 21 – Christine Brooke-Rose, Swiss-born English novelist and translator (born 1923)
  • March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (born 1943)[26]
  • March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer (born 1929)[27]
  • March 28 – John Arden, English playwright (born 1930)[28]
  • April 2 – Sarah Dreher, American novelist and playwright (born 1937)[29]
  • April 7 – Miss Read (Dora Jesse Shafe), English novelist (born 1913)[30]
  • April 8 – Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American and political scientist (born 1921)
  • April 17 – Leila Berg, English children's writer and activist (born 1917)[31]
  • April 26 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian publicist and writer (suicide, born 1957)[32]
  • May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (born 1928)[33]
  • May 12 – Walter Wink, American theologian and scholar (born 1935)
  • May 15
    • Jean Craighead George, American novelist (born 1919)[34]
    • Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928)[35]
  • May 26 – Leo Dillon, American children's author and illustrator (born 1933)
  • June 5
    • Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction and fantasy author (born 1920)[36]
    • Barry Unsworth, English writer of historical fiction (born 1930)[37]
  • June 19 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan journalist and author (born 1933)
  • June 23 – Marjorie Chibnall, medievalist, biographer and translator (born 1915)
  • July 28 – Carol Kendall, American children's writer (born 1917)[38]
  • July 30
    • Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (born 1939)[39]
    • Héctor Tizón, Argentinian writer and diplomat (born 1929)[40]
  • July 31
    • Mollie Hunter, Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1922)
    • Gore Vidal, American novelist, playwright and political commentator (born 1925)
  • August 2
    • Amos Hakham, Israeli biblical scholar (born 1921)[41]
    • Sir John Keegan, English military historian and journalist (born 1934)[42]
    • Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and film director (born 1917)[43]
  • August 4 – Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (born 1921)
  • August 6 – Robert Hughes, Australian critic and historian (born 1938)
  • August 11 – Heidi Holland, South African journalist and author (born 1947)
  • August 22 – Nina Bawden, English novelist and children's writer (born 1925)[44]
  • September 6 – Horacio Vázquez-Rial, Argentine-born Spanish writer (cancer, born 1947)[45]
  • September 8 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and novelist (born 1939)[46]
  • September 10
  • September 12 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (born 1946)[49]
  • September 14 – Louis Simpson, American poet (Alzheimer's disease, born 1923)[50]
  • September 15 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian writer (born 1918)[51]
  • September 20
  • September 22 – Irving Adler, American author, mathematician, and scientist (born 1913)[54]
  • October 7 – Ivo Michiels (Henri Paul René Ceuppens), Belgian writer in Flemish (born 1923)[55]
  • October 21 – George McGovern, American author and politician (born 1922)
  • October 25 – Aude, Canadian novelist (born 1947)
  • October 29 – J. Bernlef, Dutch writer (born 1937)[56]
  • November 2 – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (born 1926)[57]
  • November 19 – Boris Strugatsky, Soviet Russian writer (pneumonia, born 1925)[58]
  • November 20 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)[59]
  • November 22 – Jan Trefulka, Czech writer and dissident (renal failure, born 1929)[60]
  • December 6 – Jan Carew, Guyanese novelist and playwright (born 1920)
  • December 28 – Jayne Cortez, African-American poet (born 1934)
  • December 31 – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1938)

Awards[]

Mo Yan in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

See also[]

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