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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2007.

Events

January 1 – Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (begun in 1645 as Ordinari Post Tijdender), starts publishing online only.^[1]
March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the city's historic center of bookselling.
April 1 – The first in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney is released in book form in New York.^[2]
April 26 – Polly Stenham's play That Face, written when she was 19, opens at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sells over 11 million copies in its first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.^[3]
November 2 – The Tomi Ungerer Museum opens in Strasbourg.^[4]
November 19 – The first Kindle e-book reader is released.
December 11 – Terry Pratchett informs fans online that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.^[5]

New books

Poetry

Dejan Stojanović – Ples vremena (Dance of Time)^[6]

Non-fiction

Peter Ackroyd – Thames: Sacred River
Andrea Cagan – Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
Umberto Eco – On Ugliness
Wayne Federman, Marshall Terrill and Jackie Maravich – Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich
David Halberstam – The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Ian Halperin – Hollywood Undercover
Christopher Hitchens – God is not Great
A. J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically
Linda and Terry Jamison – Separated at Earth
Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
Arthur Kroeger – Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada
Nica Lalli – Nothing: Something to Believe In
Anthony Lewis – Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
David McMillan – Escape
John Matteson – Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Daisuke Miyao – Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto)
Ram Oren – ha-Shevu?ah (released in English in 2009 as Gertruda's Oath)
Jessica Riskin – Genesis Redux
Bruce Serafin – Stardust^[7]

Deaths

January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (born 1932)
January 27 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1914)^[8]
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (born 1917)
February 16 – Sheridan Morley, English critic and biographer (born 1941)
March 30 – Michael Dibdin, British crime writer (born 1947)^[9]
April 3 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh (born 1921)^[10]
April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American satirical novelist (born 1922)^[11]
May 8 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (born 1933)
June 3 – Suzanne Robert, French Canadian novelist (born 1948)
June 21 – Douglas Hill, Canadian science fiction author and reviewer (born 1935)
June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (born 1905)
July 31 – Margaret Avison, Canadian poet (born 1918)
September 3 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (born 1908)
September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American novelist (born 1918)
September 16 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), American fantasy and historical novelist (born 1948)
November 10 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, journalist and playwright (born 1923)
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist, dramatist and songwriter (born 1929)
November 19 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1917)
November 27 – Jane Rule, Canadian novelist (born 1931)
December 22 – Julien Gracq, French novelist, critic and poet (born 1910)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature: Doris Lessing

Australia

Canada

Canada Reads: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals, Le Combat des livres: Denis Thériault, L'Iguane
Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Michael V. Smith
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway^[12]
Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Governor General's Awards
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
Scotiabank Giller Prize: Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air

Europe

United Kingdom

Caine Prize for African Writing: Monica Arac de Nyeko,"Jambula Tree"
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
Man Booker Prize: Anne Enright, The Gathering
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction: to Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

United States

Newbery Award for children's literature: Susan Patron, The Higher Power Of Lucky
Compton Crook Award: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Lambda Literary Awards.
National Book Award for Fiction: to Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Everyman by Philip Roth
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Whiting Awards: Fiction: Ben Fountain, Brad Kessler, Dalia Sofer; Nonfiction: Carlo Rotella, Peter Trachtenberg, Jack Turner; Plays: Sheila Callaghan, Tarell Alvin McCraney; Poetry: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin

Other

SAARC Literary Award: Mahasveta Devi

References

^ "World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Purely Digital". Newsmax Media. Associated Press. February 6, 2007. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
^ Kinney, Jeff (April 1, 2007). Diary of a wimpy kid (Hardcover ed.). New York: Amulet Books. ISBN 978-0810993136.
^ "'Harry Potter' tale is fastest-selling book in history". International Herald Tribune. July 23, 2007. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
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^ "Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
^ "Dejan Stojanović, Ples Vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007". Internet Archive.
^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived December 8, 2012, at archive.today, Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (September 1, 2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-85745-565-9.
^ Christopher Hawtree (April 4, 2007). "Guardian obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
^ J. Beverley Smith. "Eames, Marion Griffith (Williams, Gwladys Marion Griffith) (1921-2007), historical novelist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
^ "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84". The New York Times. April 11, 2007. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
^ Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ Mélisande Queïnnec (November 4, 2019). "Prix Goncourt : les livres primés font-ils toujours recette ?". France TV Info. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

[1] "World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Purely Digital". Newsmax Media. Associated Press. February 6, 2007. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2011.

[2] Kinney, Jeff (April 1, 2007). Diary of a wimpy kid (Hardcover ed.). New York: Amulet Books. ISBN 978-0810993136.

[3] "'Harry Potter' tale is fastest-selling book in history". International Herald Tribune. July 23, 2007. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2011.

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[5] "Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2010.

[6] "Dejan Stojanović, Ples Vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007". Internet Archive.

[7] Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived December 8, 2012, at archive.today, Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/16/2012

[8] Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (September 1, 2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-85745-565-9.

[9] Christopher Hawtree (April 4, 2007). "Guardian obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

[10] J. Beverley Smith. "Eames, Marion Griffith (Williams, Gwladys Marion Griffith) (1921-2007), historical novelist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

[11] "Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84". The New York Times. April 11, 2007. Retrieved December 30, 2016.

[wlu07-12] Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012

[13] Mélisande Queïnnec (November 4, 2019). "Prix Goncourt : les livres primés font-ils toujours recette ?". France TV Info. Retrieved January 9, 2021.

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Events

New books

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Genre fiction

Children and young people

Drama

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Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

Europe

United Kingdom

United States

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