2017 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017.

Events[]

  • March – Emulating Kerouac's On the Road, Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as 1 the Road in 2018.
  • August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before.[1]
  • August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions.[2]
  • October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro.[3]
  • December – Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" is published in The New Yorker and becomes a viral phenomenon online, with more than 2.6 million hits.[4][5]

Anniversaries[]

  • Tercentenary of the Aberbaijani poet Molla Panah Vagif's birth in 1717[6]
  • 600th anniversary of the death of the Turkic mystical poet Imadaddin Nasimi in 1417[6]
  • March 19 – Bicentenary of the Slovak writer Jozef Miloslav Hurban's birth[6]
  • May 8 – The American novelist Thomas Pynchon turns 80.[7]
  • June 18 – Centenary of the death of the Romanian literary critic and former prime minister Titu Maiorescu[6]
  • June 26 – 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (U.K. edition)[8]
  • July 12 – 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden
  • July 14 – Bicentenary of the early French salonnière Madame de Staël's death[6]
  • July 18 – Bicentenary of the novelist Jane Austen's death in 1817[9]
  • Nov 30 – 350th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift's birth in 1667[10]
  • December 4 – Bicentenary of the birth of Nikoloz Baratashvili's in 1817, who introduced European style into Georgian literature.[6]

New books[]

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 2017 in poetry
  • Helen Dunmore (died June 5) – Inside the Wave (April 27, UK)
  • Robert Macfarlane (illustrated by Jackie Morris) – The Lost Words: A Spell Book (October, UK)
  • Sinéad Morrissey – On Balance (May 25)

Drama[]

  • Jez Butterworth – The Ferryman
  • Inua Ellams – Barber Shop Chronicles

Non-fiction[]

  • Nathaniel Frank – Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
  • Howard W. French – Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
  • David Grann – Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Michel Houellebecq – En présence de Schopenhauer (January 11, France)
  • Christine Hyung-Oak Lee – Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember (February 14)
  • Obi Kaufmann – The California Field Atlas (September 1)
  • Roel Konijnendijk - Classical Greek Tactics
  • Jamie Oliver – 5 Ingredients – Quick and Easy Food (August 24, UK)
  • Walter Scheidel – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
  • Matt Taibbi – Insane Clown President (January 17)
  • Hedi Yahmed – I Was in Raqqa (كنت في الرقة)

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:

Awards[]

In alphabetical order of prize names:

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ "Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller". BBC News. BBC. 2017-08-30. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
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