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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020.
Events[]
- April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[1]
- May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale The Ickabog in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[2]
- June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in The Strand Magazine.[3]
- July 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted (later shortlisted) author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests.[4]
- August – The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, purchases Das Große Stammbuch, an album amicorum compiled by diplomat Philipp Hainhofer, which the library's patron Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, tried but failed to acquire following Hainhofer's death in 1647.[5]
- October 13 – A first issue first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sells at auction in the UK for £60,000[6] and a copy of Isaac Newton's The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in the 1729 English translation (the second to sell in recent weeks) for £24,000.[7]
- October 14 – A Shakespeare First Folio sells at auction in New York City for $9.98M (£7.6M) (50% more than the previous copy auctioned in 2001).[8]
- November 25 – Penguin Random House agrees to acquire rival publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for US$2.175 billion.[9]
New books[]
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction[]
- Gil Adamson – Ridgerunner (May 12, Canada)[10]
- Becky Albertalli – Love, Creekwood (June 30)[11]
- André Alexis – The Night Piece (August 4)[12]
- Marianne Apostolides – I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (April 7, Canada)[12]
- John Banville – Snow (September 29, UK)
- Simone de Beauvoir (died 1986) – Les Inséparables (written 1954, France)[13]
- Deni Ellis Béchard – A Song from Faraway (April 7, Canada)[12]
- Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half (June 2, US)[14]
- David Bergen – Here the Dark (March 10, Canada)[12]
- Chetan Bhagat – One Arranged Murder (India)[15]
- Lisa Bird-Wilson – Probably Ruby (April 23, Canada)[12]
- Christopher Bollen – A Beautiful Crime (January 28, US)[16]
- Marjorie Celona – How a Woman Becomes a Lake (March 3, Canada)[12]
- Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle – Even As We Breathe (November 18, United States)
- Steven Conte – The Tolstoy Estate (September 2, Australia)
- Diane Cook – The New Wilderness (July 30)
- Eva Crocker – All I Ask (June 2, Canada)[12]
- Farzana Doctor – Seven (August 1, 2020)[12]
- Raphaël Enthoven – Le Temps gagné (Time Saved; August 19, France)[17]
- William Gibson – Agency (January 21, Canada)[12]
- John Gould – The End of Me (May 2, Canada)[10]
- Aislinn Hunter – The Certainties (May 19, Canada)[12]
- Clifford Jackman – The Braver Thing (May 12, Canada)[12]
- Tim Wynne-Jones – War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories (May 1, Canada)[10]
- Kaie Kellough – Dominoes at the Crossroads (January 20, Canada)[12]
- Thomas King – Obsidian (January 28, Canada)[12]
- Karl Ove Knausgård – Morgenstjernen (September 18, Norway)[18]
- Kathy Lette – HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy (April 28, Australia)
- Pasha Malla – Kill the Mall (May 12, Canada)[12]
- Hilary Mantel – The Mirror and the Light (March 5, UK)[19]
- Emily St. John Mandel – The Glass Hotel (March 24, Canada)[12]
- Shani Mootoo – Polar Vortex (March 3, Canada)[12]
- Maria Mutch – Molly Falls to Earth (April 28, Canada)[12]
- Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet (March 31, UK)[20]
- Katrina Onstad – Stay Where I Can See You (March 31, Canada)[12]
- Ingrid Persaud – Love After Love (April 2, UK)[21]
- Kate Pullinger – Forest Green (April 28, Canada)[12]
- Lisa Robertson – The Baudelaire Fractal (January 21, Canada)[12]
- Monique Roffey – The Mermaid of Black Conch (April 2, UK)[21]
- Lydia Sandgren – Samlade verk[22]
- Vivek Shraya – The Subtweet (April 7, Canada)[12]
- Ali Smith – Summer (August 6, UK)
- Cordelia Strube – Misconduct of the Heart (April 21, Canada)[12]
- Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain (February 11, US)
- Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow (October 29, UK)[23]
- Brandon Taylor – Real Life (February 18)
- Souvankham Thammavongsa – How to Pronounce Knife (April 7, Canada)[12]
- Dianne Warren – The Diamond House (June 2, Canada)[12]
- Terry Watada – The Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (March 15, Canada)[12]
- Evan Winter – The Fires of Vengeance (July 14, Canada)[12]
Children and young people[]
- Raymond Antrobus – Can Bears Ski? (November 10, UK)
- Sophie Blackall – If You Come to Earth (September 15)
- – Voyage of the Sparrowhawk (September 3, UK)[21]
- Jordan Ifueko – Raybearer (August 8)
- Jeff Kinney
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End (October 27)
- Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure (August 4)
- – (February 20)[24][25]
- J. K. Rowling – The Ickabog (November, UK, book publication)
- Trung Le Nguyen – The Magic Fish (graphic novel)
- Jacqueline Wilson – Love Frankie (August 20, UK)[26]
Poetry[]
- Eavan Boland (died 2020) – The Historians (October 29, UK)[21]
- Lana Del Rey – Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (September 29)
- Carolyn Forché – In The Lateness of The World: Poems (March 10)
- Srikanth Reddy – Underworld Lit (August 4)
Drama[]
- Ben Elton – The Upstart Crow[27]
- David Hare – Beat the Devil
- David Williamson – Family Values[28]
Non-fiction[]
- Emily Levesque – The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers[29]
- Dara McAnulty – Diary of a Young Naturalist (May 21, UK)
- James Nestor – Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (May 26)
- Barack Obama - A Promised Land (November 17, US)[30]
- Camilla Pang – Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships (March 12, UK)
- Jay Parini – Borges and Me: An Encounter
- Stuart Ritchie – Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (July 21, UK)
- Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig – A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
- Peter Sloterdijk – Den Himmel zum Sprechen bringen (October 26, Germany)
- Mary Trump – Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (August 11)
Biography and memoirs[]
- – The Louder I Will Sing (September 17, UK)[21]
Deaths[]
- January 7 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, American author (Prozac Nation) (born 1967)[31]
- January 9 – Chukwuemeka Ike, 88, Nigerian writer (born 1931)[32]
- January 12 – Roger Scruton, 75, English philosopher and writer (born 1944)[33]
- January 16 – Christopher Tolkien, 95, British academic and editor (born 1924)[34]
- January 17 – Charles Carrère, 91, Senegalese poet.[35]
- January 23 – Armando Uribe, 86, Chilean writer (winner of the National Prize for Literature 2004) (born 1933)[36]
- January 30 – Jörn Donner, 86, Finland-Swedish writer, film director and politician (born 1933).[37]
- January 31 – Mary Higgins Clark, 92, American best-selling author, known as the Queen of Suspense (born 1927)[38]
- February 3 – George Steiner, 90, French-American literary critic and essayist (After Babel) (born 1929)[39]
- February 4 – Kamau Brathwaite, 89, Barbadian poet and academic (born 1930)[40]
- February 12 – Christie Blatchford, 68, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist, writer and broadcaster (born 1951)[41]
- February 17 – Charles Portis, 86, American author (True Grit, Norwood, Gringos) (born 1933)[42]
- February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, 88, Greek poet (born 1931)[43]
- February 24 – Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!, Sahara) and underwater explorer, founder of the NUMA (born 1931)[44]
- March 13 – Yang Mu, 79, Taiwanese poet and essayist (born 1940)[45]
- March 24 – Terrence McNally, 81, American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist (born 1938)[46]
- March 30 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator (born 1934)[47]
- April 1 – Bruce Dawe, 90, Australian poet (born 1930)[48]
- April 2 – Patricia Bosworth, 86, American biographer, journalist, and memoirist (born 1933)[49]
- April 6 – Jean Little, 88, Canadian children's fiction author (born 1932)[50]
- April 16 – Luis Sepúlveda, 70, Chilean author and journalist (The Old Man Who Read Love Novels, The Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly) (born 1949)[51]
- April 25 – Per Olov Enquist, 85, Swedish author (The Visit of the Royal Physician) (born 1934)[52]
- April 29 – Yahya Hassan, Danish poet and political activist (born 1995)[53]
- May 4 – Michael McClure, 87, American poet and writer (born 1932)
- May 12 – Carolyn Reidy, 71, American publisher, CEO of Simon & Schuster, heart attack (born 1949)
- May 27 – Larry Kramer, 84, American playwright (The Normal Heart) and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)
- June 2 – Hiber Conteris, 86, Uruguayan literary critic, writer and playwright (born 1933)
- June 28 – Rudolfo Anaya, 82, American Chicano author (born 1937)[54]
- July 7 – Elizabeth Harrower, 92, Australian novelist (born 1928)
- August 5
- August 10 – Jacobo Langsner, 93, Transylvanian-born Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (born 1927)
- August 24 – Gail Sheehy, 83, American author (Hillary's Choice) (born 1936)
- September 23 – Sir Harold Evans, 92, English-born American author (The American Century), newspaper editor and journalist (The Sunday Times, The Week, The Guardian) (born 1928)
- September 23 – Emyr Humphreys, 101, Welsh-language writer (born 1919)[55]
- October 1 – Derek Mahon, 78, Irish poet and journalist (born 1941)[56]
- October 25 – Diane Di Prima, 86, American poet (born 1934)[57]
- November 6
- November 29 – Ben Bova, 88, American writer and magazine editor (Analog), Hugo Award winner (born 1932)[60]
- December 1 – Miguel Algarín, 79, Puerto Rican writer, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (born 1941)[61]
- December 3 – Alison Lurie, 94, American novelist (Foreign Affairs, The War Between the Tates), Pulitzer Prize winner (born 1926)[62]
- December 12 – John le Carré, 89, English author (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Night Manager, The Little Drummer Girl) (born 1931)[63]
Awards[]
The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Akutagawa Prize: Haneko Takayama, Shuri no Uma (首里の馬)[64]
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift[65]
- Baillie Gifford Prize:
- Booker Prize: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain[66]
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society by Gregory Forth.[67]
- Caine Prize for African Writing: Irenosen Okojie, "Grace Jones"[68]
- Camões Prize: [69]
- Carnegie Medal: Anthony McGowan, Lark
- Costa Book Awards: Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch (novel prize and overall Book of the Year)
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain
- David Cohen Prize: not awarded this year
- Desmond Elliott Prize: Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me[70]
- Dylan Thomas Prize: Bryan Washington, Lot[71]
- Edgar Award
- European Book Prize: Pavol Rankov, Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy) and Kapka Kassabova, Border: a journey to the edge of Europe
- Folio Prize: Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive[72]
- German Book Prize: Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos[73]
- Goldsmiths Prize: M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
- Gordon Burn Prize: Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Michelle Good, Five Little Indians
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Sophie Létourneau, Chasse à l'homme
- Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2020 Governor General's Awards
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Étienne de Montety, La grande épreuve
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
- International Booker Prize: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening translated by Michele Hutchison[74]
- International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns, Milkman[75]
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdelouahab Aissaoui, The Spartan Court
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award: Edna O'Brien, Girl (Faber and Faber)[76]
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 32nd Lambda Literary Awards.
- Legion of Honour, Chevalier:
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Francisco Brines
- Miles Franklin Award: Tara June Winch, The Yield[77]
- National Biography Award:
- National Book Award for Fiction: Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
- National Book Critics Circle Award:
- Newbery Medal: Jerry Craft, New Kid
- Nike Award: Joanna Gierak-Onoszko: 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Louise Glück[78]
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
- PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
- Premio Planeta de Novela:
- Premio Strega: Sandro Veronesi, Il colibrì[79]
- Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: David M. Glantz[80]
- Prix Goncourt: Hervé Le Tellier, L'anomalie[81]
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys[82]
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jericho Brown The Tradition [83]
- Queen's Birthday Honours (UK)
- RBC Taylor Prize: Mark Bourrie, Bush Runner
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner[84]
- Russian Booker Prize:
- SAARC Literary Award:
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings: Amir Or[85]
- Walter Scott Prize: Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Narrow Land[86]
- Whiting Awards:
- Drama: Will Arbery[87]
- Fiction: Andrea Lawlor,[88] Ling Ma,[89] and Genevieve Sly Crane[90]
- Nonfiction: Jaquira Díaz[91] and Jia Tolentino[92]
- Poetry: Aria Aber,[93] Dianely Antigua,[94] Jake Skeets,[95] and Genya Turovskaya[96]
- Women's Prize for Fiction: Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet[97]
- W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: Ralph Peterson, Darkness at Chancellorsville[98]
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Durs Grünbein[99]
See also[]
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