2020 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2020.
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Events
- April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[1]
- May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale The Ickabog in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[2]
- June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in The Strand Magazine.[3]
- August 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests.[4]
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
- Kaie Kellough - Dominoes at the Crossroads (January 20, Canada)[5]
- William Gibson - Agency (January 21, Canada)[5]
- Lisa Robertson - The Baudelaire Fractal (January 21, Canada)[5]
- Thomas King - Obsidian (January 28, Canada)[5]
- Marjorie Celona - How a Woman Becomes a Lake (March 3, Canada)[5]
- Shani Mootoo - Polar Vortex (March 3, Canada)[5]
- Hilary Mantel – The Mirror and the Light (March 5, UK)
- David Bergen - Here the Dark (March 10, Canada)[5]
- Terry Watada - The Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (March 15, Canada)[5]
- Emily St. John Mandel - The Glass Hotel (March 24, Canada)[5]
- Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet (March 31, UK)
- Katrina Onstad - Stay Where I Can See You (March 31, Canada)[5]
- Marianne Apostolides - I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (April 7, Canada)[5]
- Deni Ellis Béchard - A Song from Faraway (April 7, Canada)[5]
- Vivek Shraya - The Subtweet (April 7, Canada)[5]
- Souvankham Thammavongsa - How to Pronounce Knife (April 7, Canada)[5]
- Cordelia Strube - Misconduct of the Heart (April 21, Canada)[5]
- Lisa Bird-Wilson - Probably Ruby (April 23, Canada)[5]
- Maria Mutch - Molly Falls to Earth (April 28, Canada)[5]
- Kate Pullinger - Forest Green (April 28, Canada)[5]
- Tim Wynne-Jones - War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories (May 1, Canada)[6]
- John Gould - The End of Me (May 2, Canada)[6]
- Gil Adamson - Ridgerunner (May 12, Canada)[6]
- Clifford Jackman - The Braver Thing (May 12, Canada)[5]
- Pasha Malla - Kill the Mall (May 12, Canada)[5]
- Aislinn Hunter - The Certainties (May 19, Canada)[5]
- Eva Crocker - All I Ask (June 2, Canada)[5]
- Dianne Warren - The Diamond House (June 2, Canada)[5]
- Becky Albertalli – Love, Creekwood (June 30)[7]
- Evan Winter - The Fires of Vengeance (July 14, Canada)[5]
- Farzana Doctor - Seven (August 1, 2020)[5]
- André Alexis - The Night Piece (August 4)[5]
- Ali Smith - Summer (August 6, UK)
- Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow (October 29, UK)[8]
Children and young people
- J. K. Rowling – The Ickabog (November, UK, book publication)
- Jacqueline Wilson – Love Frankie (August 20, UK)[9]
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
- Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig – A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America (U.S.)
- Mary Trump Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (August 11)
Biography and memoirs
Deaths
- January 7 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, 52, American author (Prozac Nation) (born 1967)[10]
- January 9 – Chukwuemeka Ike, 88, Nigerian writer (born 1931)
- January 12 – Roger Scruton, 75, English philosopher and writer (born 1944)[11]
- January 16 – Christopher Tolkien, 95, British academic and editor (born 1924)[12]
- January 17 – Charles Carrère, 91, Senegalese poet.[13]
- January 23 – Armando Uribe, 86, Chilean writer (winner of the National Prize for Literature 2004) (born 1933)[14]
- January 30 – Jörn Donner, 86, Finland-Swedish writer, film director and politician (born 1933).[15]
- January 31 – Mary Higgins Clark, 92, American best-selling author, known as the Queen of Suspense (born 1927)[16]
- February 3 – George Steiner, 90, French-American literary critic and essayist (After Babel) (born 1929)[17]
- February 4 – Kamau Brathwaite, 89, Barbadian poet and academic (born 1930)[18]
- February 12 – Christie Blatchford, 68, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist, writer and broadcaster (born 1951)[19]
- February 17 – Charles Portis, 86, American author (True Grit, Norwood, Gringos) (born 1933)[20]
- February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, 88, Greek poet (born 1931)[21]
- February 24 – Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!, Sahara) and underwater explorer, founder of the NUMA (born 1931)[22]
- March 13 – Yang Mu, 79, Taiwanese poet and essayist (born 1940)[23]
- March 24 – Terrence McNally, 81, American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist (born 1938)[24]
- March 30 – Tomie dePaola, American author and illustrator (born 1934)[25]
- April 1 – Bruce Dawe, 90, Australian poet (born 1930)
- April 2 – Patricia Bosworth, 86, Amrerican biographer, journalist, and memoirist (born 1933)
- April 6 – Jean Little, 88, Canadian children's fiction author (born 1932)
- April 16 – Luis Sepúlveda, 70, Chilean author and journalist (The Old Man Who Read Love Novels, The Story of A Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly) (born 1949)
- April 25 – Per Olov Enquist, 85, Swedish author (The Visit of the Royal Physician) (born 1934)
- May 4 – Michael McClure, 87, American poet and writer (born 1932)
- May 12 – Carolyn Reidy, 71, American publisher, CEO of Simon & Schuster, heart attack (born 1949)
- May 27 – Larry Kramer, 84, American playwright (The Normal Heart) and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)
- June 2 – Hiber Conteris, 86, Uruguayan literary critic, writer and playwright
- July 7 – Elizabeth Harrower, 92, Australian novelist (born 1928)
- August 10 – Jacobo Langsner, 93, Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright (born 1927 in Transylvania)
Awards
The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Akutagawa Prize:
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award:
- Baillie Gifford Prize:
- Booker Prize: See:2020 Booker Prize
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year:
- Caine Prize for African Writing:
- Camões Prize:
- Carnegie Medal: Anthony McGowan, Lark
- Costa Book Awards:
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain
- David Cohen Prize:
- Desmond Elliott Prize:
- Dylan Thomas Prize: Bryan Washington, Lot[26]
- Folio Prize: Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
- German Book Prize:
- Goldsmiths Prize:
- Gordon Burn Prize:
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction:
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction:
- Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2020 Governor General's Awards
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française:
- Hugo Award for Best Novel:
- International Booker Prize:
- International Dublin Literary Award:
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdelouahab Aissaoui, The Spartan Court
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award:
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 32nd Lambda Literary Awards.
- Legion of Honour, Chevalier:
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize:
- Miles Franklin Award:
- National Biography Award:
- National Book Award for Fiction:
- National Book Critics Circle Award:
- Newbery Medal: Jerry Craft, New Kid
- Nike Award:
- Nobel Prize in Literature:
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
- PEN Center USA 2018 Fiction Award:
- Premio Planeta de Novela:
- Premio Strega:
- Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing:
- Prix Goncourt:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
- Queen's Birthday Honours (UK)
- RBC Taylor Prize: Mark Bourrie, Bush Runner
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:
- Russian Booker Prize:
- SAARC Literary Award:
- Scotiabank Giller Prize:
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
- Walter Scott Prize: Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Narrow Land[27]
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction:
- Nonfiction:
- Plays:
- Poetry:
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See also
References
- "Coronavirus: Austria and Italy reopen some shops as lockdown eased". BBC News. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- "JK Rowling unveils The Ickabog, her first non-Harry Potter children's book". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- Italie, Hillel (2020-06-25). "Early, rarely seen Alcott story published in Strand Magazine". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
- Flood, Alison (2020-07-31). "Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested in Zimbabwe". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- "47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020". CBC Books. February 5, 2020.
- "12 Canadian books coming out in May we can't wait to read". CBC Books, May 5, 2020.
- "'Love, Creekwood' is the Simonverse Epilogue We've Been Waiting For". Epic Reads. April 21, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- Deen, Sarah. "Zoella turns to crime as she introduces new book series The Magpie Society". Metro. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
- Flood, Alison (April 20, 2020). "Jacqueline Wilson reveals publicly that she is gay". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52
- Sir Roger Scruton, conservative philosopher of wide accomplishments – obituary
- Garth, John (20 January 2020). "Christopher Tolkien obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- Le poète Charles Carrère n'est plus (in French)
- Fallece el escritor Armando Uribe a los 86 años de edad « Diario y Radio U Chile
- Författaren och regissören Jörn Donner har dött – blev 86 år, read 29 February 2020.
- Cohen, Noah (1 February 2020). "Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling mystery author who called N.J. home, dies at 92". nj.com. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90
- Noted Barbadian poet and historian Brathwaite dies
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-veteran-journalist-christie-blatchford-was-known-for-her-work-ethic/
- 'True Grit' Novelist Charles Portis Dies at 86
- Prominent Greek Poet Kiki Dimoula Died - The National Herald
- Clive Cussler: Dirk Pitt novels author dies aged 88 - BBC News
- Noted Taiwanese poet Yang Mu dies at 79
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/legendary-broadway-playwright-terrence-mcnally-remembered-for-bringing-the-complexity-of-gay-life-to-the-stage-2020-03-30
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/books/tomie-de-paola-dead.html
- "Dylan Thomas prize £30,000 winner named". BBC News. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- "Irish author wins Walter Scott fiction prize". BBC News. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
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