2008 in literature
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The year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- January 1 – In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature".
- June 15 – Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times interview how he felt about the death of his great rival William F. Buckley, Jr., replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred."
- July – Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children is the winner of a poll to select the "Best of the Booker".
[edit] Books
[edit] Prose fiction
- Aravind Adiga – Between the Assassinations (November 1)
- Uwem Akpan – Say You’re One of Them
- Paul Auster – Man in the Dark
- Henry Bauchau – Le Boulevard périphérique
- Charles Bock – Beautiful Children (January 22)
- Roberto Bolaño – 2666: A Novel (November 11)
- Christopher Buckley – Supreme Courtship (September 3)
- Alastair Campbell – All in the Mind (October 30)
- Martín Caparrós – A quien corresponda
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson – Triptych (novel) (December 18)
- Robert Crais – Chasing Darkness
- Klaus Ebner – Hominid (novel) (October 1)
- Ralph Ellison (edited by John F. Callahan) – Three Days Before the Shooting (posthumously published manuscript)
- Keith Gessen – All the Sad Young Literary Men (April 10)
- Juan Goytisolo – Exiled from Almost Everywhere
- Lauren Groff – The Monsters of Templeton (February 5)
- Johan Harstad = DARLAH
- Zoë Heller – The Believers (September 24)
- Aleksandar Hemon – The Lazarus Project (May 1)
- Samantha Hunt – The Invention of Everything Else (February 7)
- Siri Hustvedt – The Sorrows of an American (April 1)
- Karl Iagnemma – The Expeditions (January 15)
- Christian Kracht – Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (September)
- Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth (April 1)
- Kelly Link – Pretty Monsters (October 2)
- David Lodge – Deaf Sentence (May 1)
- James McBride – Song Yet Sung (February 5)
- Joe McGinniss Jr. – The Delivery Man (January 15)
- Lydia Millet – How the Dead Dream (January 25)
- Toni Morrison – A Mercy (November 11)
- Nunoe Mura – GeGeGe no Nyōbō
- Joyce Carol Oates – My Sister, My Love (June 24)
- Chuck Palahniuk – Snuff (May 20)
- Arturo Perez-Reverte – The Painter of Battles (January 8)
- Jodi Picoult – Change of Heart (March 4)
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Sueños urbanos
- Richard Price – Lush Life (March 4)
- Ruth Rendell – Portobello (November 20)
- Nathaniel Rich – The Mayor's Tongue (April 8)
- Marilynne Robinson – Home (September 2)
- Charlotte Roche – Feuchtgebiete (February 25)
- Philip Roth – Indignation (September 16)
- Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence (June 3)
- Curtis Sittenfeld – American Wife (September 2)
- John Updike – The Widows of Eastwick (October 28)
- Tobias Wolff – Our Story Begins (March 25)
[edit] Horror Fiction
- Stephen King – Duma Key (January 22)
- Matthew J. Costello – Doom 3: Worlds on Fire (February 26)
- Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn (August 2)
[edit] Children's and young adults' fiction
- Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (July 15)
- John Green – Paper Towns (October 16)
- Brian Greene – Icarus At The Edge Of Time
- Charlie Higson – Young Bond: By Royal Command (September 3)
- Tōru Honda and Kasumu Kirino – Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata (February 15)
- Minoru Kawakami and Satoyasu – Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere
- D. J. MacHale – Raven Rise (May 20)
- Jenny Nimmo – Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock (June 1)
- Garth Nix – Superior Saturday (May 5)
- Christopher Paolini – Brisingr (September 20)
- Angie Sage – Queste (April 8)
- Michael Salzhauer – My Beautiful Mommy
[edit] Science fiction and fantasy
- Douglas Preston – Blasphemy (January 8)
- Jim Butcher – Small Favor (April 1) (Harry Dresden #10)
- Cornelia Funke – Inkdeath (October 7)
- Patricia A. McKillip – The Bell at Sealey Head (September 2)
- Matthew Stover – Caine Black Knife (October 14)
- T.S. Church – Betrayal at Falador
- Brent Weeks – The Way of Shadows
[edit] New drama
- Salvatore Antonio – In Gabriel's Kitchen
- Howard Brenton – Never So Good
- Mary Higgins Clark – Where Are You Now?
- Tyler Perry – The Marriage Counselor
- Lynn Nottage – Ruined
- R T Hunt – Gaffers' Row
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 2008 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Julie Andrews – Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (April 1)
- Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational (February 19)
- Margaret Atwood – Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (October 1)
- Dionne Brand – A Kind of Perfect Speech: The Ralph Gustafson Lecture Malaspina University-College October 19, 2006
- Augusten Burroughs – A Wolf at the Table (April 29)
- Michael Chabon – Maps and Legends (May 1)
- Sloane Crosley – I Was Told There'd Be Cake (April 1)
- John Duignan – The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (October 7) by
- Eminem – The Way I Am (October 21)
- Richard Florida – Who's Your City? (March)
- Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel) – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (July 29)
- David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 3)
- Ronnie Thompson – Screwed (January 24)
- Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – One for the Road (January 31)
- Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir (May 6)
[edit] Spirituality
Michael Laitman – Kabbalah for the Student
[edit] Awards and honors
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction – Kate Christensen, The Great Man
- Canada Reads – Paul Quarrington, King Leary
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
- Man Booker Prize – Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Junot Diaz, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Scotiabank Giller Prize – Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
- Nobel Prize in Literature – J. M. G. Le Clézio
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais, Philip M. Parker
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Laura Amy Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–February
- January 2 – George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British author (Flashman)
- January 3 – Henri Chopin, 85, French poet
- January 11 – Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer
- January 13 – Patricia Verdugo, 60, Chilean journalist and writer
- January 16 – Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand poet
- January 17 – Edward D. Hoch, 77, American pulp writer
- January 26
- John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and writer
- Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor
- January 29 – Margaret Truman, 83, American writer
- January 30 – Miles Kington, 66, British journalist and writer
- February 4 – Rose Hacker, 101, British writer and journalist
- February 7 – Richard Altick, 92, American literary scholar
- February 8 – Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery writer
- February 10 – Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck)
- February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French novelist
- February 21
- Archie Hind, 80, British novelist
- Robin Moore, 82, American writer
- February 22 – Stephen Marlowe, 79, American sci-fi and crime writer
- February 28 – Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist
- February 28 (probable) – Val Plumwood, 68, Australian philosopher
[edit] March–April
- March 16 – Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet
- March 19
- Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science-fiction writer and futurist
- Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian writer
- March 23 – E. A. Markham, 68, Montserratian poet
- April 3 – Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet and editor
- April 7 – Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese writer and journalist
- April 13 – Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet
- April 17
- Aimé Césaire, 94, French-Martinican poet
- Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian writer and editor
- April 18
- Michael de Larrabeiti, 63, British novelist
- William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer
[edit] May–June
- May 1 – Elaine Dundy, 86, American novelist
- May 9 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish Journalist, novelist and critic
- May 11 – Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist
- May 12 – Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist
- May 14 – Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese novelist
- May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright
- May 23 – Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and novelist
- May 28 – Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer
- June 2 – Ferenc Fejtő, 98, French-Hungarian historian and journalist
- June 4 – Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American biographer and editor
- June 5 – Angus Calder, 65, British writer and editor
- June 8 – Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German poet
- June 9 – Algis Budrys, 77, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer and editor
- June 10
- Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyz writer
- Eliot Asinof, 88, American sportswriter
- June 16 – Mario Rigoni Stern, 86, Italian novelist
- June 18 – Tasha Tudor, 92, American children's writer and illustrator
- June 22 – Albert Cossery, 94, French-Egyptian novelist
- June 24 – Ruth Cardoso, 77, Brazilian anthropologist and writer
- June 25 – Lyall Watson, 69, South African new age writer
- June 27 – Lenka Reinerová, 92, Czech writer
[edit] July–August
- July 1
- Clay Felker, 82, American magazine editor and journalist, founder of New York
- Robert Harling, 98, British typographer, editor and novelist
- July 2 – Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish cookery writer
- July 4
- Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author and poet.
- Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch novelist
- July 20 – Roger Wolcott Hall, 89, American memoirist and novelist
- July 27 – Bob Crampsey, 78, British writer
- July 30 – Peter Coke, 95, British playwright
- August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
- August 7 – Simon Gray, 71, British playwright
- August 9 – Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet
- August 11 – George Furth, 75, American playwright
- August 17 – Dave Freeman, 47, American travel writer
- August 23 – John Russell, 89, British-American art critic
- August 25 – Ahmed Faraz, 77, Pakistani poet
- August 31 – Ken Campbell, 66, British novelist and playwright
[edit] September–October
- September 5 – Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher
- September 7 – Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American mystery writer
- September 12 – David Foster Wallace, 46, American novelist
- September 17 – James Crumley, 68, American crime writer
- September 20 – Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, critic and literary historian
- September 23 – William Woodruff, 92, British historian and autobiographer
- September 29 – Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic
- October 4 – Peter Vansittart, 88, British historical novelist
- October 14 – Barrington J. Bayley, 71, British science-fiction writer
- October 26 – Tony Hillerman, 83, American mystery writer
- October 27 – Es'kia Mphahlele, 88, South African writer
- October 29 – William Wharton, 82, American novelist
- October 31 – Studs Terkel, 96, American historian
[edit] November–December
- November 4 – Michael Crichton, M.D., 66, author.
- December 1 – Dorothy Sterling, 95, nonfiction writer of black history for children[1]
- December 15 – Anne-Catharina Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's book author[2]
- December 24 – Harold Pinter, 78, playwright and screenwriter.
- December 31 – Donald E. Westlake, American novelist, [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Staino, Rocco (January 5, 2009). "In Memoriam: Children's Authors and Illustrators Who Died in 2008" (in English). School Library Journal. http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6626055.html?industryid=47074. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Hedeman, Anders (December 15, 2008). "Anne-Cath. Vestly er død" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2824292.ece. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
- ^ NYTimes.com 1 januari 2009
