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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.

Anniversaries[edit]

30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).^[1]
11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.^[2]
2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).

100th anniversary of the publication of
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

New books[edit]

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction[edit]

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of Pub.	Ref.
Álvaro Enrigue	You Dreamed of Empires	January 9	^[3]
Kristin Hannah	The Women	February 6
Jennifer Croft	The Extinction of Irena Rey	March 5	^[4]
Percival Everett	James	March 19
Téa Obreht	The Morningside	March 19	^[5]
Amor Towles	Table for Two	April 2
Miranda July	All Fours	May 14
Stephen King	You Like It Darker	May 21	^[6]
Rachel Cusk	Parade	June 6

Children and young adults[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Drama[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Sylvain Tesson	Avec les fées	January 10	^[7]

Biography and memoirs[edit]

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
RuPaul	The House of Hidden Meanings	March 5
Salman Rushdie	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder	April 16	^[8]

Deaths[edit]

January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85^[9]
January, 24 – N. Scott Momaday, american novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.^[10]
March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98^[11]
April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93^[12]
April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94^[13]
April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71^[14]
April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86^[15]
April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77^[16]
May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84^[17]
May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88^[18]

Awards[edit]

2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award		Alicia Elliott	And Then She Fell	^[19]
Atlantic Book Awards	Ann Connor Brimer Award	Jack Wong	The Words We Share	^[20]
	J. M. Abraham Poetry Award	Fawn Parker	Soft Inheritance
	Thomas Head Raddall Award	Michelle Porter	A Grandmother Begins the Story
Danuta Gleed Literary Award		Lisa Alward	Cocktail	^[21]
Griffin Poetry Prize	Best Poetry Book	George McWhirter	Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence	^[22]
Griffin Poetry Prize	Best First Poetry Book	Maggie Burton	Chores	^[23]
Lambda Literary Awards	Bisexual Fiction	Ling Ling Huang	Natural Beauty	^[24]
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Myriam Gurba	Creep: Accusations and Confessions
	Bisexual Poetry	Danielle Cadena Deulen	Desire Museum
	Comics	E. M. Carroll	A Ghost in the House
	Gay Fiction	Bryan Washington	Family Meal
	Gay Memoir/Biography	Jason Yamas	Tweakerworld
	Gay Poetry	Charif Shanahan	Trace Evidence
	Gay Romance	Cat Sebastian	We Could Be So Good
	Lesbian Fiction	Catherine Lacey	Biography of X
	Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Amelia Possanza	Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
	Lesbian Poetry	Kimberly Alidio	Teeter
	Lesbian Romance	Georgia Beers	Dance with Me
	LGBTQ Anthology	Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis	2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies
	LGBTQ Children's	Nina LaCour, Sonia Albert	The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
	LGBTQ Drama	James Ijames	Fat Ham
	LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica	laura q	A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories
	LGBTQ Middle Grade	Robin Gow	Dear Mothman
	LGBTQ Mystery	Cari Hunter	A Calculated Risk
	LGBT Nonfiction	Matt Baume	Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
	LGBTQ Poetry	Quinn Carver Johnson	The Perfect Bastard
	LGBTQ Speculative Fiction	Marisa Crane	I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
	LGBTQ Studies	Erin L. Durban	The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
	LGBTQ Young Adult	Abdi Nazemian	Only This Beautiful Moment
	Transgender Fiction	Soula Emmanuel	Wild Geese
	Transgender Nonfiction	Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek	Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
	Transgender Poetry	Michael MJ Jones	Hood Vacations
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour		Patrick deWitt	The Librarianist	^[25]
Trillium Book Awards	English Prose	Nina Dunic	The Clarion	^[26]
	English Poetry	A. Light Zachary	More Sure
	French Prose	Nicolas Weinberg	Vivre ou presque

References[edit]

^ Smith, Helena (April 18, 2021). "Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece". The Guardian. Athens. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
^ Thompson, Lawrance (ed.). Selected Letters of Robert Frost. p. lvi. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
^ Garner, Dwight (January 8, 2024). "A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
^ "Exclusive Cover Reveal of Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"". Electric Literature. July 7, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
^ "The Morningside by Téa Obreht". Kirkus Reviews. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
^ Collis, Clark (November 6, 2023). "Read the start of Stephen King's Cujo sequel in excerpt from story collection, You Like It Darker". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
^ Plouviez, Grégory (10 January 2024). "'Avec les fées' : que vaut le dernier livre de Sylvain Tesson ?". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ "Salman Rushdie to publish memoir on stabbing that left him blind in one eye". CNN. Reuters. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
^ "Schriftstellerin Elke Erb gestorben". Zeit. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
^ "N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89". Associated Press News. January 29, 2024. Archived from the original on January 29, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
^ "Laurent de Brunhoff".
^ Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
^ "The Indian In The Cupboard author Lynne Reid Banks dies aged 94". NewsChain. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
^ Knight, Lucy (April 29, 2024). "CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71". The Guardian.
^ "Sir Vincent O'Sullivan Obituary". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Paul Auster, famed novelist known for 'The New York Trilogy' and '4 3 2 1,' dies at 77". NBC News. May 1, 2024.
^ 唐十郎さん死去、84歳…「泥人魚」「ベンガルの虎」アングラ小劇場運動を先導 (in Japanese)
^ "Albania's world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88". AP News. 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
^ Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.
^ Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2024.
^ Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2024.

[1] Smith, Helena (April 18, 2021). "Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece". The Guardian. Athens. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

[2] Thompson, Lawrance (ed.). Selected Letters of Robert Frost. p. lvi. Retrieved 21 January 2024.

[3] Garner, Dwight (January 8, 2024). "A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2024.

[4] "Exclusive Cover Reveal of Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"". Electric Literature. July 7, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

[5] "The Morningside by Téa Obreht". Kirkus Reviews. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

[6] Collis, Clark (November 6, 2023). "Read the start of Stephen King's Cujo sequel in excerpt from story collection, You Like It Darker". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 21, 2024.

[7] Plouviez, Grégory (10 January 2024). "'Avec les fées' : que vaut le dernier livre de Sylvain Tesson ?". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 25 January 2024.

[8] "Salman Rushdie to publish memoir on stabbing that left him blind in one eye". CNN. Reuters. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2024-04-19.

[9] "Schriftstellerin Elke Erb gestorben". Zeit. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.

[10] "N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89". Associated Press News. January 29, 2024. Archived from the original on January 29, 2024. Retrieved January 29, 2024.

[11] "Laurent de Brunhoff".

[12] Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.

[13] "The Indian In The Cupboard author Lynne Reid Banks dies aged 94". NewsChain. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

[14] Knight, Lucy (April 29, 2024). "CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71". The Guardian.

[15] "Sir Vincent O'Sullivan Obituary". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.

[16] "Paul Auster, famed novelist known for 'The New York Trilogy' and '4 3 2 1,' dies at 77". NBC News. May 1, 2024.

[17] 唐十郎さん死去、84歳…「泥人魚」「ベンガルの虎」アングラ小劇場運動を先導 (in Japanese)

[18] "Albania's world-renowned novelist Ismail Kadare dies at 88". AP News. 2024-07-01. Retrieved 2024-07-02.

[19] Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.

[20] Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.

[21] Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.

[22] Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.

[23] Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.

[24] Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.

[25] Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2024.

[26] Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2024.

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Anniversaries[edit]

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

Children and young adults[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Drama[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

Biography and memoirs[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]