2010 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2010.
Events
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- February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.[1]
- April 3 – First release of the Apple iPad electronic book reading device.[2]
- April 12 – Little-known author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by tiny Bellevue Literary Press.[2]
- June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book.[3]
- July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation. As of May 2010, a total of 27 million copies have been sold worldwide.[4][5] On July 27 Amazon says Larsson is first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.[2]
- August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared here since 2000 with Stephen King.[2]
- October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
- October 12 – Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
- November 9 – Johanna Skibsrud wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists.[6]
- November 16 – The 2010 Governor General's Awards are announced. Winners include Dianne Warren for English fiction, Kim Thúy for French fiction, Richard Greene for poetry and Robert Chafe for drama.[7]
- November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay instructed by Twain himself. Unofficial copies had been published several times during the 20th century.
- Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland by the state ceases as all prior bans expire.
New books
Fiction
- Martin Amis – The Pregnant Widow (February 4)
- Paul Auster – Sunset Park (November 9)
- Paolo Bacigalupi – Ship Breaker (May 1)
- Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier in America (April 20)
- Eddie Chuculate – Cheyenne Madonna (June 20)
- Robert Coover – Noir (March 4)
- Michael Cunningham – By Nightfall (September 28)
- Don DeLillo – Point Omega (February 2)
- Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad (June 15)
- Bret Easton Ellis – Imperial Bedrooms (June 15)
- Joshua Ferris – The Unnamed (January 18)
- Jonathan Franzen – Freedom (August 31)
- Matthew Gallaway – The Metropolis Case (November 8)
- Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
- Sara Gruen – Ape House (September 7)
- Michel Houellebecq – The Map and the Territory (La Carte et le territoire, September 4)
- Rabee Jaber – دروز بلغراد (Duruz Bilghrad: Hikayat Hanna Yaqub, The Druze of Belgrade: the history of Hanna Yaqub)
- Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question (October 12)
- Anjali Joseph – Saraswati Park (July 8)
- Stacey Kade – The Ghost and The Goth (July 6)
- Stephen King
- Blockade Billy (April 20)
- Full Dark, No Stars (November 9)
- Nicole Krauss – Great House (October 12)
- Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (May 10)
- John Le Carre – Our Kind of Traitor (October 12)
- Dennis Lehane – Moonlight Mile (November 2)
- Tao Lin – Richard Yates (September 7)
- Ian McEwan – Solar (March 30)
- Jon McGregor – Even the Dogs[8]
- Yann Martel – Beatrice and Virgil (April 6)
- David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (June 29)
- Martin Mosebach – What Was Before
- Ben Myers – Richard: A Novel (October 1)
- Chuck Palahniuk – Tell All (May 4)
- Philip Pullman – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (May 20)
- Lincoln Peirce – Big Nate: In a Class by Himself (March 23)
- Philip Roth – Nemesis (October 5)
- Amy Sackville – The Still Point (February 4)
- Ashwin Sanghi – Chanakya's Chant
- David Sedaris – Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (September 28)
- Sarah Selecky – This Cake Is for the Party
- Gary Shteyngart – Super Sad True Love Story (July 27)
- Kim Thúy – Ru
- Valerie Toranian – Pour en Finir avec la Femme (To Do Away with the Woman)
- Mario Vargas Llosa – The Dream of the Celt (November 3)
Children and young people
- Swati Avasthi – Split
- David Almond
- Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay (August 24)
- Diane Duane – A Wizard of Mars (April 12)
- John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (November 2010)
- Matthew J. Kirby – The Clockwork Three (October 1)
- Laura Leiner
- Szent Johanna gimi 1 – Kezdet (Start, first in the St. Joan High School series of seven books)
- Szent Johanna gimi 2 – Együtt (Together)
- Szent Johanna gimi 3 – Egyedül (Alone)
- Robert Muchamore – Brigands M. C. (May 6)
- Jim Murphy - THE CROSSING: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution
- Garth Nix – Lord Sunday (February)
- James Patterson – Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel (March 15)
- Jerry Pinkney (adaption) - Three Little Kittens
- Philip Reeve – A Web of Air (April 5)
- Rick Riordan
- The Lost Hero (October 12)
- The Red Pyramid
- Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest (October 12)
- Kiersten White – Paranormalcy (August 31)
- N.D. Wilson – The Chestnut King
Drama
- Peter Handke – Storm Still
- Shahid Nadeem – Dara
- Bruce Norris – Clybourne Park
- Nina Raine – Tribes
- Anya Reiss – Spur of the Moment
- Alexis Stamatis – Dakrygona (Tear Gas)
- Laura Wade – Posh
Poetry
- Stephen Sondheim – Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) (October 26)
See also 2010 in poetry.
Science fiction and fantasy
- Jim Butcher – Changes (April 6)
- Amish Tripathi – The Immortals of Meluha (February)
Non-fiction
- Bill Bryson – At Home: A Short History of Private Life (May 27)
- George W. Bush – Decision Points (November 9)
- Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.) – Norsk presses historie 1660–2010
- Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (October 5)
- Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (November 16)
- Joel Kotkin – The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
- David Lipsky – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (April 13)
- Nursultan Nazarbayev – The Way of Kazakhstan (May 18)
- Sergio Rubin – El jesuita
- Niki Segnit – The flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook
- Jane Smiley – The Man Who Invented The Computer (December)
- Jon Stewart – Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (September 21)
- Darin Strauss – Half a Life (September 21)
- Edmund de Waal – The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance
- John Leigh Walters – A Very Capable Life[9]
Deaths
- January 1
- Bingo Gazingo, American performance poet (born 1924)
- Billy Arjan Singh, Indian author (born 1917)
- January 2 – Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Indian poet (born 1913)
- January 3 – Isak Rogde, Norwegian translator (born 1947)
- January 4
- Knox Burger, American editor, writer and agent (born 1922)
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian and writer (born 1934)
- January 5 – Bernard Le Nail, French writer and historian (born 1946)
- January 6 – George Leonard, American writer and editor (born 1923)
- January 8 – Slavka Maneva, Macedonian writer and poet (born 1934)
- January 9 – Laura Chapman Hruska, American writer and editor (born 1935)
- January 11 – Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch biographer (born 1909)
- January 14 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (born 1916)
- January 16 – Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美), Japanese novelist (born 1926)
- January 17 – Erich Segal, American author and academic (born 1937)
- January 18 – Robert B. Parker, American detective writer (born 1932)
- January 19 – Vladimir Karpov, Soviet Russian writer (born 1922)
Robert B. Parker - January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever, Polish-born Israeli poet (born 1913)
- January 21 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953)
- January 26 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (born 1917)
- January 27
- J. D. Salinger, American novelist (born 1919)
- Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922)
- January 31
- Kage Baker, American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1952)
- Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine writer (born 1934)
- February 2
- Rosa Lobato de Faria, Portuguese writer (born 1932)
- Eustace Mullins, American writer, author and biographer (born 1923)
- February 5 – Peter Calvocoressi, Pakistani-born English historian and publisher (born 1912)
- February 6 – Robert Dana, American poet (born 1929)
- February 7 – William Tenn (Philip Klass), American science fiction writer (born 1920)
Robert Dana - February 8 – Wahei Tatematsu (立松和平), Japanese novelist (born 1947)
- February 10 – H. V. F. Winstone, English biographer and journalist (born 1926)
- February 11 – Colin Ward, English anarchist writer (born 1924)
- February 13 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (born 1936)
- February 14 – Dick Francis, Welsh novelist (born 1920)
- February 16 – Jim Harmon, American science fiction writer (born 1933)
- February 17 – Arnold Beichman, American writer (born 1913)
- February 23 – Mervyn Jones, English novelist and biographer (born 1922)
- February 27 – Carlos Montemayor, Mexican writer (born 1947)
- March 1 – Barry Hannah, American novelist and short story writer (born 1942)
- March 3 – Momo Kapor, Serbian writer (born 1937)
- March 8 – Jerry E. Smith, American author (born 1950)
- March 9 – Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, São Tome poet (born 1926)
- March 10 – Truddi Chase, American autobiographical author (born c. 1935)
- March 11 – Matilde Elena López, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright (born 1919)
- March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (born 1920)
- March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, Indian poet and writer in Marathi (born 1918)
- March 15
- Joseph Galdon, Filipino writer (born 1928)
- Patricia Wrightson, Australian children's writer (born 1921)
- March 16 – Jane Sherman, American writer (born 1908)
- March 17 – Sid Fleischman, American children's writer (born 1920)
- March 18 – Amanda Castro, Honduran poet (born 1962)
- March 20 – Ai Ogawa, American poet (born 1947)
- March 21 – Susana, Lady Walton, Argentine writer (born 1926)
- March 24 – William Mayne, English children's novelist (born 1928)
- March 28 – Zofia Romanowiczowa, Polish writer and translator (born 1922)
- April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, American poet (born 1940)
- April 9
- Hisashi Inoue (井上 ひさし), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1934)
- Kerstin Thorvall, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist (born 1925)
- April 14 – Erika Burkart, Swiss German-language author (born 1922)
- April 16 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and activist (born 1921)
- April 20 – Myles Wilder, American television comedy writer (born 1933)
- April 23 – Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet (born 1929)
- April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (born 1928)
- April 28
- Evelyn Cunningham, American journalist (born 1916)
- Stefania Grodzieńska, Polish writer and actress (born 1914)
- May 1 – T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (born 1918)[10]
- May 3
- Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Moroccan philosopher and writer (born 1935)
- Peter O'Donnell, English novelist (born 1920)
- May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1922)
- May 7
- Rane Arroyo, American poet (cerebral hemorrhage, born 1954)[11]
- Anders Buraas, Norwegian journalist (born 1915)
- May 12 – Allan Manings, American television writer (born 1924)
- May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet (born 1930)
- June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
- June 19 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, critic and activist (born 1938)
- July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (born 1932)
- July 4 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927)
- July 9 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist and short story writer (born 1916)
- August 6 – Tony Judt, English historian (born 1948)
- August 9 – Juan Marichal, Spanish historian (born 1922)
- August 10 – Marie de Garis, Guernsey ethnographer and philologist (born 1910)
- August 12 – Laurence Gardner, English writer (born 1943)
- August 13 – Patrick Cauvin, French novelist (born 1932)
- August 14 – Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (born 1922)
- August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet (born 1926)
- August 17
- Sir Frank Kermode, Manx-born literary critic (born 1919)
- Ludvík Kundera, Czech writer and translator (born 1920)
- Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (born 1920)
- August 18 – Efraim Sevela, Russian writer and screenwriter (born 1928)
- August 20 – David J. Weber, American historian and author (born 1940)
- August 21 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentine writer (born 1941)
- August 27
- George Hitchcock, American poet (born 1914)
- Ravindra Kelekar, Indian author and poet (born 1925)
- August 29 – A. C. Baantjer, Dutch author (born 1923)
- August 31 – Vance Bourjaily, American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1922)
- September 3 – Micky Burn, English writer and poet (born 1912)
- September 5
- Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (born 1905)[12]
- Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (born 1936)
- September 7 – Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933)
- September 10 – Edwin Charles Tubb, English science fiction author (born 1919)
- September 11 – Fathi Osman, Egyptian author (born 1928)
- September 12 – Judith Merkle Riley, American author (born 1942)
- September 18 – James Bacon, American author (born 1914)
- September 20 – Jennifer Rardin, American author (born 1965)
- September 24 – Gilda O'Neill, English novelist and historian (born 1951)
- September 29 – Clifford B. Hicks, American writer and editor (born 1920)
- October 1 – Mikhail Roshchin, Russian playwright (born 1933)
- October 4 – Henrique de Senna Fernandes, Macanese author (born 1923)
- October 5
- Alba Bouwer, South African writer in Afrikaans (born 1920)
- Bernard Clavel, French writer (born 1923)
- October 11 – Claire Rayner, English author (born 1931)
- October 12 – Belva Plain, American novelist (born 1915)
- October 13 – Donald H. Tuck, Australian science fiction bibliographer (born 1922)
- October 20
- Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-born English novelist (born 1925)
- Robert Katz, American writer (born 1933)
- Julian Roberts, English scholar and librarian (born 1930)
- October 21 – A. Ayyappan, Indian poet in Malayalam (born 1945)
- October 22 – Alí Chumacero, Mexican writer and poet (born 1918)
- October 23 – George Cain, American author (born 1943)
- October 24 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (born 1912)
- October 25 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (born 1922)
- October 29 – Bärbel Mohr, German author (born 1964)
- October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927)
- November 1 – Monica Johnson, American novelist (born 1946)
- November 3 – P. Lal, Indian writer (born 1929)
- November 4 – Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Filipino poet (born 1932)
- November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian author and poet (born 1943)
- November 8
- Philip Carlo, American crime author (born 1949)
- George Solomos, American poet and writer (born 1925)
- November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, Greek poet (born 1920)
- November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Spanish poet (born 1923)
- November 15
- Edmond Amran El Maleh, Moroccan writer (born 1917)
- Hugh Prather, American self-help author (born 1938)
- November 16 – Ragnhild Magerøy, Norwegian writer (born 1920)
- November 21 – Norris Church Mailer, American author (born 1949)
- November 25
- Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (born 1930)
- Yaroslav Pavulyak, Ukrainian poet (born 1948)
- November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (born 1937)
- December 5
- David French, Canadian playwright (born 1939)
- Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author (born 1919)
- December 6 – Martin Russ, American author (born 1931)
- December 7 – Elizabeth Edwards, American author (born 1949)
- December 14 – Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (born 1917)
- December 20 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (born 1949)[13]
- December 24 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-born English children's writer (born 1926)
Awards
- Camões Prize: Ferreira Gullar
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Gerbrand Bakker, The Twin
- Nobel Prize in Literature: to Mario Vargas Llosa
- Petrarca-Preis: Pierre Michon, for his body of work
Australia
Canada
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Nancy Jo Cullen; honours of distinction, Lisa Foad, George K. Ilsley.
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life[9]
- Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Governor General's Awards.
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Emma Donoghue, Room
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Miriam Toews
United Kingdom
- Man Booker Prize: to The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- Orange Prize for Fiction: to The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
United States
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Lambda Literary Awards.
- National Book Award for Fiction: to Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to War Dances by Sherman Alexie
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to Tinkers by Paul Harding
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Michael Dahlie, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Lydia Peelle
- Nonfiction: Elif Batuman, Amy Leach, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
- Plays: David Adjmi
- Poetry: Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. Thompson
References
- ^ ABC:Wheeler Centre's Gala Night Of Storytelling, Feb 24, 2010. Retrieved August 23, 2010
- ^ a b c d Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page.12, December 12, 2010, The Washington Post.
- ^ Carnegie Press Desk: 2010 winner announcement.
- ^ McGrath, Charles (May 23, 2010). "The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
- ^ "The Fourth Book". Archived from the original on April 1, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "The Sentimentalists wins Giller Prize". BBC Online. November 10, 2010. Archived from the original on November 10, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Regina's Dianne Warren wins Gov-Gen Award for ‘Cool Water’". The Globe and Mail, November 16, 2010.
- ^ Flood, Alison (June 13, 2012). "Jon McGregor wins International Impac Dublin Literary Award: British author wins world's richest literary prize for his novel Even the Dogs". The Guardian. London. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
- ^ a b Faculty of Arts, November 10, 2010, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines (Campus Updates), Retrieved 11/16/2012
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- ^ "Elizabeth Jenkins Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ "Brian Hanrahan Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved January 2, 2017.