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The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.

Events

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• October - Tomas Tranströmer wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• April - Jennifer Egan wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad.
• 18 October - Julian Barnes wins the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Sense of an Ending.

Books

Literature

• T.C. Boyle – When the Killing's Done
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing (novel)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell – Once Upon a River
• Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
• E. L. Doctorow – All the Time in the World
• Steve Earle – I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot
• Jonathan Evison – West of Here
• Robb Forman Dew – Being Polite to Hitler
• Charles Frazier – Nightwoods
• James Frey – The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
• Benjamin Hale – The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
• Ron Hansen – A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
• Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
• Mat Johnson – Pym
• Haruki Murakami – 1Q84
• Téa Obreht – The Tiger's Wife
• Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table
• Ann Patchett – State of Wonder
• Chuck Palahniuk – Damned
• Tom Perrota – The Leftovers
• Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur
• Karen Russell – Swamplandia!
• John Sayles – A Moment in the Sun
• Colm Tóibín – The Empty Family
• David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
• Daniel Woodrell – The Outlaw Album

Non-fiction

• Peter Bergen – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
• Mark Bowden – Worm: The First Digital World War
• Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
• David Brooks – The Social Animal
• Brian Christian – The Most Human Human
• Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
• Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
• T.J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
• Tina Fey – Bossypants
• Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
• James Gleick – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Geoffrey Gray – Skyjack
• Brian Greene – The Hidden Reality
• Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
• Steve Inskeep – Instant City
• David King – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
• Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
• Joseph Lelyveld – Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
• Steven Levy – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Charles C. Mann – 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
• David McCullough – The Greater Journey
• Ben Mezrich – Sex on the Moon
• Scott Miller – The President and the Assassin
• Errol Morris – Believing is Seeing
• Grant Morrison – Supergods
• Joyce Carol Oates – A Widow's Story
• Patton Oswalt – Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
• Dana Priest – Top Secret America
• Annie Proulx – Bird Cloud: A Memoir
• Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
• Tom Scocca – Beijing Welcomes You
• Tom Shales & J.A. Miller – Those Guys Have All the Fun
• Sarah Vowell – Unfamiliar Fishes
• Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie – The Declaration of Independents
• Daniel Yergin – The Quest
• Mitchell Zuckoff – Lost in Shangri-La

Poetry

See 2011 in poetry.

• Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (February)
• Susan Howe, That This (February)
• Alice Notley, Culture of One (March)
• Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
• Michael Palmer, Thread (May)
• Sarah Palin (edited by Michael Solomon), I Hope Like Heck (June 21)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Joe Abercrombie – The Heroes
• Daniel Abraham – The Dragon's Path
• Daniel Abraham (writing as James S.A. Corey) – Leviathan Wakes (with Ty Franck)
• Ann Aguirre – Aftermath
• Greg Bear – Halo: Cryptum
• Lauren Beukes – Zoo City
• Alex Bledsoe – Dark Jenny
• Alex Bledsoe – The Hum and the Shiver
• M. M. Buckner – The Gravity Pilot
• Robert Buettner – Undercurrents
• Jack Campbell – The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
• Orson Scott Card – The Lost Gate
• Michael Crichton & Douglas Preston – Micro (novel)
• Ian Douglas – Center of Gravity
• David Anthony Durham – The Sacred Band
• Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
• Kate Elliott – Cold Fire
• C.S. Friedman – Legacy of Kings
• Steven Gould – The 7th Sigma
• Michael Grant — Plague
• Mira Grant – Deadline
• Lev Grossman – The Magician King
• Stephen Hunt – The Rise of the Iron Moon
• N. K. Jemisin – The Kingdom of Gods
• Richard Kadrey – Aloha from Hell
• Stephen King — 11/22/63
• Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Ghost Ship (novel)
• Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
• Richard Matheson – Other Kingdoms
• George R. R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
• Jack McDevitt – Firebird
• China Mieville – Embassytown
• Karen Miller – A Blight of Mages
• Richard K. Morgan – The Cold Commands
• Joseph Nassise – Eyes to See
• Terry Pratchett – Snuff
• Cherie Priest – Ganymede
• Hannu Rajaniemi – The Quantum Thief
• Brian Ruckley – The Edinburgh Dead
• Brandon Sanderson – The Alloy of Law
• John Scalzi – Fuzzy Nation
• Dan Simmons – Flashback
• Neal Stephenson – Reamde
• Charles Stross – Rule 34
• Michael Swanwick – Dancing with Bears
• Catherynne M. Valente – Deathless
• Vernor Vinge – The Children of the Sky
• Jo Walton – Among Others
• David Weber – How Firm a Foundation
• Robert Charles Wilson – Vortex
• Daniel Wilson – Robopocalypse
• Gene Wolfe – Home Fires

Young Adult

• Cynthia Hand — Unearthly (January 4)
• Courtney Allison Moulton — Angelfire (February 15)
• Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson – Vespers Rising (April 5)
• Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed (April 5) (Spain release)
• Kelley Armstrong — The Gathering (April 12)
• K. A. Applegate – Re-release of Animorphs books
  • The Invasion (May 1)
  • The Visitor (May 1)
• Rick Riordan – The Throne of Fire (May 3)
• Rick Riordan – The Son of Neptune (October 4th)
• Anthony Horowitz — Scorpia Rising
• Christopher Paolini — Inheritance

Crime and Thriller

• Jeff Abbott – Adrenaline
• Ace Atkins – The Ranger
• Kate Atkinson – Started Early, Took My Dog
• Steve Berry – The Jefferson Key
• James Lee Burke – Feast Day of Fools
• Lee Child – The Affair
• Edward Conlon – Red on Red
• Michael Connelly – The Fifth Witness
• John Connolly – The Burning Soul
• Jeffrey Deaver – Carte Blanche
• Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee – Forbidden
• Ted Dekker – The Priest's Graveyard
• Sue Grafton – V is for Vengeance
• John Grisham – The Litigators
• Morag Joss – Among the Missing
• Stuart M. Kaminsky – A Whisper to the Living
• Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man
• Jo Nesbo – The Snowman
• T. Jefferson Parker – The Border Lords
• George Pelecanos – The Cut
• Ralph Peters – The Officers' Club
• James Rollins – The Devil's Colony
• John Sandford – Buried Prey
• Marcus Sakey – The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
• Bernard J. Schaffer – Whitechapel
• Duane Swierczynski – Fun and Games
• Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal
• Nicolaas Vergunst – Knot of Stone
• S.J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep

Forthcoming

Literature

• Steven Millhauser – We Others: New and Selected Stories (August 23)
• A. S. Byatt – Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (September 6)
• Craig Thompson – Habibi (September 20)
• Scott Snyder – The Goodbye Suit

Non-fiction

• Stephen Sondheim – Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) (October 25)
• Joan Didion – Blue Nights (November 1)
• Jonathan Lethem – The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (November 8)

Children's

• Brian Selznick – Wonderstruck (September 13)

Young Adult

• Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed – English release – (May 31)
• K. A. Applegate – Re-release of Animorphs books
  • The Encounter (July)
  • The Message (October)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Michael Crichton & Richard Preston — Micro (November 22)
• Joe Haldeman – Earthbound
• John C. Wright – Count to a Trillion

Crime and Thriller

• Michael Connelly – The Drop
• Stephen Hunter – Soft Target
• James Patterson – Kill Alex Cross (November 14)

Deaths

• 2 January - Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer
• 4 January
  • Eva Strittmatter, 80, German author and poet
  • Dick King-Smith 88, British children's writer whose book The Sheep-Pig was adapted as a film Babe
• 10 January – Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter
• 11 January – Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author
• 14 January – Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist
• 15 January – Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright
• 16 January - R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist
• 17 January – Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist
• 19 January – Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist
• 20 January
  • F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet
  • Reynolds Price, 77, American author, whose novel Kate Vaiden won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986
• 22 January – Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist
• 23 January – Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet
• 24 January – Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright
• 25 January – Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer
• 29 January
  • Loreen Rice Lucas, 96, Canadian author
  • Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet
• 30 January – Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, Japanese American author
• 2 February – Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian author
• 3 February – Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and critic
• 5 February
  • Charles E. Silberman, 86, American author
  • Martin Quigley, Jr.. 93, American publisher, author, spy
  • Brian Jacques, 71, British children's writer
• 9 February – David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author, diplomat
• 13 February – Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright
• 15 February – Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand author
• 16 February
  • Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German science fiction author
• 17 February
  • Perry Moore, 39, American author
  • Vivien Noakes, 74, British biographer and critic
  • James McLure, 59, American playwright
• 19 February – Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter, author
• 22 February – Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author
• 25 February
  • Manny Fried, 97, American playwright, actor
  • Aminath Faiza, 82, Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author.
• 26 February – Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech author
• 28 February – Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author
• 2 March – Thor Vilhjálmsson, 85, Icelandic author
• 3 March – May Cutler, 87, Canadian author and publisher
• 4 March – Vivienne Harris, 89, British newspaper publisher, co-founder of the Jewish Telegraph
• 5 March – Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer, travel companion of Che Guevara (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• 8 March
  • Iraj Afshar, 85, Iranian bibliographer and historian
  • Steven Kroll, 69, American children's author
• 9 March – Doris Burn, 87, American children's author and illustrator
• 13 March – Leo Steinberg, 90, American art historian and critic
• 14 March – Giora Leshem, 71, Israeli poet and publisher
• 19 March – Raymond Garlick, 84, British poet and editor
• 27 March – H. R. F. Keating, 84, British crime novelist
• 2 April - Paul Violi, 66, American poet
• 3 April - Ulli Beier, 88, German editor, writer and scholar
• 4 April - Craig Thomas, 68, Welsh novelist
• 6 April - Thøger Birkeland, 89, Danish children's writer
• 10 April - Stephen Watson, 56, South African writer and critic
• 12 April - Sachin Bhowmick, 80, Indian screenwriter
• 14 April
  • Rosihan Anwar, 88, Indonesian journalist
  • Patrick Cullinan, 77, South African poet and biographer
• 16 April - William A. Rusher, 87, American columnist, publisher of National Review (1957–1988). [1]
• 17 April - Bob Block, 89, British comedy writer [2]
• 19 April - Anne Blonstein, 52, British poet [3]
• 20 April - Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter [4]
• 21 April - W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh-language poet [5]
• 25 April - Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet. (Spanish)
• 29 April
  • Abdul Hameed, 83, Pakistani novelist [6]
  • Joanna Russ, 74, American science fiction author [7]
• 30 April
  • Richard Holmes, 65, British military historian [8]
  • Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer
• 1 May - William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher
• 4 May - Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer
• 5 May - Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter
• 9 May - Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist [9]
• 11 May - Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist
• 13 May
  • Pam Gems, 85, British playwright [10]
  • Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist
• 14 May - Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish novelist and poet
• 15 May - Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor [11]
• 19 May - William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet [12]
• 21 May - Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish publisher, editor and journalist [13]
• 22 May - Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic [14]
• 23 May - Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack (Spanish)
• 25 May
  • Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist [15]
  • Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator
  • Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator
• 30 May - Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy

See also

• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• 2011 in comics