2016 in literature
Overview of the events of 2016 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016 .
Events
Anniversaries
January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace 's Infinite Jest [ 4] February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Carver 's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? February 28 – Centenary of Henry James 's death in 1916March 28 – 75th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf in 1941April 3 – 25th anniversary of Graham Greene 's death in 1991April 12 – Centenary of the birth of Beverly Cleary , American children's authorMay 21 – Centenary of the birth of Harold Robbins , American novelist dubbed one of "the world's bestselling authors."[ 5] May 28 – Centenary of the birth of Walker Percy , National Book Award-winning American novelist (The Moviegoer , published 55 years ago in 1961)April 21 – Bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë 's birth in 1816April 22 – 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes .[ 6] April 23 – Possible 400th anniversary of Shakespeare 's deathApril 24 – Centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats 's poem "Easter, 1916 "July 1 – Centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme , in which those fighting included Robert Graves , Ford Madox Ford and JRR Tolkien July 14 – Centenary of the birth of Natalia Ginzburg , Italian authorSeptember 13 – Centenary of the birth of Roald Dahl , Welsh-born children's authorSeptember 17 – Centenary of the birth of Mary Stewart (Mary Rainbow), English romantic suspense novelistSeptember 28 – Fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Breton , French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literatureOctober 3 – Centenary of the birth of James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), English writer and veterinary surgeonOctober 22 – 90 years ago, Ernest Hemingway 's novel The Sun Also Rises December 14 – Centenary of the birth of Shirley Jackson , American novelist and short story writerDecember 29 – Centenary of the publication in book form of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce , in New York
New books
The date after each title indicate the U.S. publication date, unless otherwise stated.
Fiction
Naomi Alderman – The Power Mohammed Hasan Alwan – A Small Death (موت صغير, Lebanon, May)Fernando Aramburu – Patria Anuk Arudpragasam – The Story of a Brief Marriage (UK)Margaret Atwood – Hag-Seed [ 7] Sebastian Barry – Days Without End [ 8] Gary Barwin – Yiddish for Pirates (April 8)[ 9] Mike Binder – Keep Calm [ 10] Pierce Brown – Morning Star [ 11] Graeme Macrae Burnet – His Bloody Project Marcia Clark – Blood Defense [ 12] J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus Jean-Baptiste Del Amo – Règne animal Emma Donoghue – The Wonder (September)[ 13] Paul Goldberg – The Yid (February 2)[ 14] Linda Grant – The Dark Circle Mark Greaney – Back Blast Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing Michael Helm – After James (September 13)[ 15] Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune [ 16] Vigdis Hjorth – Arv og miljø (Wills and Testaments, Norway)Anosh Irani – The Parcel Alexandra Kleeman – Intimations: Stories (September 13)Christian Kracht – The Dead Die Toten , Germany, September 8)László Krasznahorkai – Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming Báró Wenckheim hazatér , Hungary, September)Shari Lapena – The Couple Next Door Deborah Levy – Hot Milk [ 17] Édouard Louis – Histoire de la violence Mike McCormack – Solar Bones (UK, May 5)[ 18] Elizabeth McKenzie – The Portable Veblen C. E. Morgan – The Sport of Kings Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman Konbini ningen , Japan, July 27)Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be the Place (UK, May 17)[ 19] Chibundu Onuzo – Welcome to Lagos (UK)Stef Penney – Under A Pole Start Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent (UK, May 27)[ 20] Kerry Lee Powell – Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush Christoph Ransmayr – Cox David Adams Richards – Principles to Live By Steven Rowley – Lily and the Octopus [ 21]
Joss Sheldon – The Little Voice (UK, November 23)[ 22] [ 23] Leïla Slimani – Chanson douce Lullaby or The Perfect Nanny )Ali Smith – Autumn (UK, October 20)[ 24] Zadie Smith – Swing Time Botho Strauß – Oniritti Höhlenbilder David Szalay – All That Man Is [ 25] Yasuko Thanh – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains (Canada)[ 26] Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing [ 27] Rose Tremain – The Gustav Sonata [ 28] Katherena Vermette – The Break (Canada)[ 26] Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad Zoe Whittall – The Best Kind of People [ 29] Corrina Wycoff – Damascus House
Children and young people
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy Daniel Beer – The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (UK)Paul Cartledge – Democracy: A Life (UK, March 24)[ 37] Nicholas Crane – The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present Daisy Deomampo – Transnational Reproduction [ 38]
Susan Faludi – In the Darkroom [ 39] Christopher Goscha – The Penguin History of Vietnam John Guy – Elizabeth : The Forgotten Years[citation needed Jock Haswell (with John Lewis-Stempel) – A Brief History of the British Army (UK, May 26)Gareth Stedman Jones – Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (UK, August)[ 40] Daniel Levitin – A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age John Lewis-Stempel
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland (UK, June 20)Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, The Great War (UK)John McWhorter – Words on the Move: Why English Won't – and Can't – Sit Still (Like, Literally) Rajiv Malhotra
Hisham Matar – The Return [ 41] Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack – The Index Card [ 42] Patrick Phillips – Blood at the Root John Preston – A Very English Scandal [ 43]
Chris Smith – The Daily Show (The Book) Kassia St. Clair – The Secret Lives of Colour J.D. Vance - Hillbilly Elegy Gary Younge – Another Day in the Death of America
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
January 11 – Gunnel Vallquist , Swedish writer and translator (born 1918 )[ 44] January 18 – Michel Tournier , French writer, 91 (born 1924 )[ 45] January 20 – David G. Hartwell , American anthologist, author and critic (b. 1941)February 8 – Margaret Forster , English novelist and biographer, 77 (born 1938 )[ 46] February 18 – Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子), Japanese author, 68 (born 1947 )[ 47] February 19
February 29 – Louise Rennison , English author and comedian (born 1951 )[ 50] March 1 – Carole Achache , French writer, photographer and actress, 63, (born 1952 )[ 51] March 4 – Pat Conroy , American novelist (The Prince of Tides 1945 )[ 52] March 8 - Enrique Estrázulas , Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist and diplomat, 74 (born 1942 )[ 53] March 21 – Tomás de Mattos , Uruguayan writer and librarian, 68 (born 1947 )[ 54] March 31 – Imre Kertész , Hungarian writer and the 2002 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , 86 (born 1929 )[ 55] April 3 – Lars Gustafsson , Swedish writer and scholar, novelist and poet, 79 (born 1936 )[ 56] April 5 – E. M. Nathanson , American author (The Dirty Dozen 1928 )[ 57] April 12 – Sir Arnold Wesker , English dramatist, 83 (born 1932 )[ 58] April 30 – Daniel Berrigan , American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist, won the 1957 Lamont Prize in Poetry , 94 (born 1921 )[ 59] June 6 – Sir Peter Shaffer , English playwright (Amadeus 1926 )[ 60] June 25 – Adam Small , 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize (born 1936 )[ 61] June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill , English poet, 84 (born 1932 )[ 62] July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy , French poet, 93 (born 1923 )[ 63] July 2 – Elie Wiesel , American Jewish author (Night Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1928 )[ 64] July 14 – Péter Esterházy , Hungarian writer, 66 (born 1950 )[ 65] July 19 – Carlos Gorostiza , Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist, 96 (born 1920 )August 24 – Michel Butor , French essayist, novelist, critic and a leading figure of 1950s Nouveau Roman 1926 )[ 66] September 4 :
September 16
September 28 – Gloria Naylor , African-American novelist and academic (The Women of Brewster Place 1950 )[ 70] October 13 – Dario Fo , Italian playwright and the 1997 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature , 90 (born 1926 )[ 71] October 31 – Natalie Babbitt , American author (Tuck Everlasting 1932 )[ 72] November 7 – Leonard Cohen , Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, 82 (born 1934 )[ 73] November 10 – Francisco Nieva , Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer, 91 (born 1924 )November 11 – Sir James McNeish , New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer, 85 (born 1931 )[ 74] November 20 – William Trevor , Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, 88 (born 1928 )[ 75] December 12 – Shirley Hazzard , Australian novelist and short story writer, 85 (born 1931 )[ 76] December 24 – Richard Adams , English author (Watership Down 1920 )[ 77] December 28 – Michel Déon , French novelist, 97 (born 1919 )
Awards
In alphabetical order of prize names:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award : Mary Morris for The Jazz Palace Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction : Lisa McInerney , The Glorious Heresies [ 78] Baillie Gifford Prize : Philippe Sands , East West Street [ 79] Booker Prize : Paul Beatty , The Sellout [ 80] Caine Prize for African Writing : Lidudumalingani Mqombothi , "Memories We Lost"Camões Prize : Raduan Nassar [ 81] Costa Book Awards : Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (novel and overall winner); Francis Spufford , Golden Hill (first novel); Alice Oswald , Falling Awake (poetry); Keggie Carew, Dadland (biography); Brian Conaghan, The Bombs that Brought us Together (children's)Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Heather O'Neill , Daydreams of Angels Dayne Ogilvie Prize : Leah Horlick [ 82] Desmond Elliott Prize : Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies [ 83] DSC Prize for South Asian Literature : Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy , IndiaDylan Thomas Prize : Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers [ 84] European Book Prize : Javier Cercas, The Impostor and, Erri De Luca, Le Plus et le Moins Folio Prize : No prize awarded[ 85] German Book Prize : Bodo Kirchhoff , Widerfahrnis [ 86] Goldsmiths Prize : Mike McCormack , Solar Bones [ 87] Gordon Burn Prize : David Szalay , All That Man Is [ 88] Governor General's Award for English-language fiction : Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing Governor General's Award for French-language fiction : Dominique Fortier , Au péril de la mer Governor General's Awards , other categories: See 2016 Governor General's Awards .Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française : Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre Le Dernier des nôtres International Booker Prize : Han Kang , The Vegetarian [ 89] International Dublin Literary Award : Family Life Akhil Sharma International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Rabai al-Madhoun , Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Naqba James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction : Eimear McBride , The Lesser Bohemians James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography: Laura Cumming , The Vanishing Man
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : Anne Enright , The Green Road [ 90] Lambda Literary Awards : Multiple categories; see 28th Lambda Literary Awards .Miguel de Cervantes Prize : Eduardo Mendoza Miles Franklin Award : A. S. Patrić , Black Rock White City [ 91] National Biography Award : Brenda Niall for Mannix National Book Award for Fiction : Colson Whitehead , The Underground Railroad National Book Critics Circle Award : Louise Erdrich , LaRose Nike Award : Bronka Nowicka , Nakarmić kamień Nobel Prize in Literature : Bob Dylan PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction : James Hannaham , Delicious Foods PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
Premio Planeta de Novela :Premio Strega : Edoardo Albinati , La scuola cattolica Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing : Hew Strachan Prix Goncourt : Leïla Slimani , Chanson douce Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Viet Thanh Nguyen , The Sympathizer [ 92] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Peter Balakian , Ozone Journal [ 93] RBC Taylor Prize : Rosemary Sullivan , Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva [ 94] Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize : Yasuko Thanh , Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains Russian Booker Prize :Scotiabank Giller Prize : Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing [ 95] Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :Walter Scott Prize : Simon Mawer , Tightrope [ 96] W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction : Ralph Peters , Valley of the Shadow [ 97] Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award : Lars Gustafsson [ 98]
See also
Notes
References
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