2011 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011.

Events

• June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , which pins its narrative around a series of earlier private photographs he had collected. It remains top of The New York Times Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels. ^[1]
• July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair. ^[2]
• September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, ^[3] the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March.
• November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey. ^[4]

New books

Fiction

• Chris Adrian – The Great Night ^[5]
• David Almond – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
• Kevin Barry – City of Bohane
• Giannina Braschi – United States of Banana
• T. C. Boyle – When the Killing's Done
• Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing ^[6]
• Kate Christensen – The Astral: A Novel
• 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
• Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
• 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
• Roxane Gay – Ayiti (short stories)
• Abdulrazak Gurnah – The Last Gift
• Benjamin Hale – The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
• Hallgrímur Helgason – Konan við 1000° (The Woman at 1000°)
• Ron Hansen – A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
• Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
• Philip Hensher – King of the Badgers
• Alan Hollinghurst – The Stranger's Child
• E. L. James – Fifty Shades of Grey
• Mat Johnson – Pym
• Stephen Kelman – Pigeon English
• Ben Lerner – Leaving the Atocha Station
• Merethe Lindstrøm – Days in the History of Silence (Dager i stillhetens historie)
• Javier Marías – Los enamoramientos (The Infatuations) ^[7]
• Andrew Miller – Pure
• Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – 1Q84
• Téa Obreht – The Tiger's Wife
• Daniel Olivas – The Book of Want
• Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table
• Ann Patchett – State of Wonder ^[8]
• Chuck Palahniuk – Damned
• Tom Perrotta – The Leftovers
• Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur
• Nina Revoyr – Wingshooters
• Rodrigo Rey Rosa – Severina (novella)
• Karen Russell – Swamplandia!
• Stig Sæterbakken – Through the Night (Gjennom natten)
• John Sayles – A Moment in the Sun
• Faruk Šehić – Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una) ^[9]
• Dana Spiotta – Stone Arabia
• Colm Tóibín – The Empty Family
• Zlatko Topčić – The Final Word
• Donald Trump (with Jeffrey Robinson) – Trump Tower
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez – The Sound of Things Falling (El ruido de las cosas al caer)
• David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
• Daniel Woodrell – The Outlaw Album

Children and young people

• David Almond – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
• Kelley Armstrong – The Gathering
• Stéphane-Yves Barroux – Mr Leon's Paris ^[10]
• Paula Bossio – El Lapiz (The Pencil, 2016)
• Carmen Agra Deedy (with Randall Wright) – The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
• Andy Griffiths – The 13-Storey Treehouse (first in the Treehouse series of seven books)
• Anthony Horowitz – Scorpia Rising ^[11]
• Jon Klassen – I Want My Hat Back ^[12]
• Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson – Vespers Rising ^[13]
• Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked
• Patricia McKissack (with Leo and Diane Dillon) – Never Forgotten
• Courtney Allison Moulton – Angelfire
• Brandon Mull – Beyonders: A World Without Heroes
• Christopher Paolini – Inheritance ^[14]
• Jerry Pinkney (adaptation) – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Catherine Rayner – Solomon Crocodile
• Rick Riordan
  • The Throne of Fire ^[15]
  • The Son of Neptune ^[16]
• Douglas Wood – Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World

Poetry

See 2011 in poetry.

• Rae Armantrout – Money Shot (February)
• Billy Collins – Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – Meri Tasveer (Urdu, My Portrait)
• Susan Howe – That This (February)
• Alice Notley – Culture of One (March)
• Sarah Palin (edited by Michael Solomon) – I Hope Like Heck (June 21)
• Michael Palmer – Thread (May)
• Lee Wardlaw – Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

Drama

• Richard Bean – One Man, Two Guvnors (adaptation) ^[17]
• Alecky Blythe – London Road (musical verbatim theatre)
• Nick Dear – Frankenstein
• Vivienne Franzmann – Mogadishu
• Rodrigo García – Golgota Picnic
• Stephen Adly Guirgis – The Motherfucker with the Hat
• Sam Holcroft – Edgar and Annabel
• Stephen Karam – Sons of the Prophet
• Andrew Motion – Incoming
• Various authors – Sixty-Six Books ^[18]

Science fiction and fantasy

• Joe Abercrombie – The Heroes
• Daniel Abraham
  • The Dragon's Path
  • Leviathan Wakes (writing as James S. A. Corey, with Ty Franck) ^[19]
• Ann Aguirre – Aftermath
• Greg Bear – Halo: Cryptum
• Lauren Beukes – Zoo City
• Jack Campbell – The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
• Orson Scott Card – The Lost Gate
• Ernest Cline – Ready Player One ^[20]
• Michael Crichton & Richard Preston – Micro
• Ian Douglas – Center of Gravity
• David Anthony Durham – The Sacred Band ^[21]
• Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
• William Giraldi – Busy Monsters
• 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
• Stephen King — 11/22/63
• Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Ghost Ship
• Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
• George R. R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
• Jack McDevitt – Firebird
• China Miéville – Embassytown
• Andrew Miller – Pure
• 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

Crime and Thrillers

• 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
• Jeffery Deaver – Carte Blanche
• Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee – Forbidden
• Ted Dekker – The Priest's Graveyard
• Ranj Dhaliwal – Daaku: The Gangster's Life
• Sue Grafton – V is for Vengeance
• John Grisham – The Litigators
• Morag Joss – Among the Missing
• Stuart M. Kaminsky – A Whisper to the Living
• Joe R. Lansdale
  • Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella
  • Devil Red
• Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man
• Jo Nesbø – The Snowman
• T. Jefferson Parker – The Border Lords
• George Pelecanos – The Cut
• Ralph Peters – The Officers' Club
• Donald Ray Pollock – The Devil All the Time
• James Rollins – The Devil's Colony
• John Sandford – Buried Prey
• Marcus Sakey – The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
• Bernard J. Schaffer – Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes
• Duane Swierczynski – Fun and Games
• Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal
• Nicolaas Vergunst – Knot of Stone
• Ferdinand von Schirach – Der Fall Collini (The Collini Case)
• S. J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep

Non-fiction

• Peter Bergen – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
• Abhinav Bindra – A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
• Mark Bowden – Worm: The First Digital World War
• Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
• Michael Bronski – A Queer History of the United States
• David Brooks – The Social Animal
• Brian Christian – The Most Human Human
• Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
• Joan Didion – Blue Nights
• Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
• T. J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
• Ulrich Eberl – Life in 2050
• Tina Fey – Bossypants
• John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly - Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West ^[22]
• Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
• James Gleick – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Brian Greene – The Hidden Reality
• Yuval Noah Harari – קיצור תולדות האנושות (Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind )
• Matthew Hollis – Now All Roads Lead to France ^[23]
• Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
• Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz – I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović) ^[24]
• Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
• David King – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
• Joshua Knelman – Hot Art ^[25]
• Lawrence M. Krauss – Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science ^[26]
• B. B. Lal – Piecing Together – Memoirs of an Archaeologist
• 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
• Rajiv Malhotra – Breaking India
• 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
• Sylvain Tesson – The Consolations of the Forest
• Sarah Vowell – Unfamiliar Fishes
• Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie – The Declaration of Independents
• Daniel Yergin – The Quest
• Mitchell Zuckoff – Lost in Shangri-La

Deaths

• January 2 – Robert Trumble, Australian writer (born 1919)
• January 4
  • Eva Strittmatter, German author and poet (born 1930)
  • Dick King-Smith English children's writer (born 1922)
• January 10 – Joe Gores, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1931)
• January 11 – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian and author (born 1917)
• January 14 – Sun Axelsson, Swedish novelist (born 1935)
• January 15 – Romulus Linney, American playwright (born 1930)
• January 16 – R. F. Langley, English poet and diarist (born 1938)
• January 17 – Jean Dutourd, French novelist (born 1920)
• January 19 – Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American novelist and essayist (born 1930)
• January 20
  • F. A. Nettelbeck, American poet (born 1950)
  • Reynolds Price, American author (born 1933)
• January 22 – Park Wan-suh, South Korean novelist (born 1931)
• January 23 – Novica Tadić, Serbian poet (born 1949)
• January 24 – Anna Yablonskaya, Ukrainian playwright and poet (born 1981)
• January 25 – Vincent Cronin, English writer (born 1924)
• January 29
  • Loreen Rice Lucas, Canadian author (born 1914)
  • Hemayel Martina, Curaçaon poet (born 1990)
• January 30 – Hisaye Yamamoto, Japanese American author (born 1921)
• February 2 – Eric Nicol, Canadian author (born 1919)
• February 3 – Édouard Glissant, Martinique poet and critic writing in French (born 1928)
• February 5
  • Charles E. Silberman, American author (born 1925)
  • Martin Quigley Jr., American author and publisher (born 1917)
  • Brian Jacques, English children's writer (born 1939)
• February 9 – David Sánchez Juliao, Colombian author and diplomat (born 1945)
• February 13 – Oakley Hall III, American playwright (born 1950)
• February 15 – Judith Binney, New Zealand author (born 1940)
• February 16
  • Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (born 1930)
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, German science fiction author (born 1943)
• February 17
  • Perry Moore, American author (born 1971)
  • Vivien Noakes, English biographer and critic (born 1937)
  • James McLure, American playwright (born 1951)
• February 18 – Victor Martinez, US poet and novelist (born 1954)
• February 19 – Max Wilk, American playwright, screenwriter and author (born 1920)
• February 25
  • Manny Fried, American playwright and actor (born 1913)
  • Aminath Faiza, Maldivian poet and writer in the Dhivehi language (born 1924)
• February 26 – Arnošt Lustig, Czech author (born 1926)
• February 28 – Netiva Ben-Yehuda, Israeli author (born 1928)
• March 2 – Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic author (born 1925)
• March 3 – May Cutler, Canadian author and publisher (born 1923)
• March 5 – Alberto Granado, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer (born 1922)
• March 8
  • Iraj Afshar, Iranian bibliographer and historian (born 1925)
  • Steven Kroll, American children's author (born 1941)
• March 9 – Doris Burn, American children's author and illustrator (born 1923)
• March 13 – Leo Steinberg, American art historian and critic (born 1920)
• March 14 – Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (born 1940)
• March 19 – Raymond Garlick, English-born Welsh poet and editor (born 1926)
• March 26 – Diana Wynne Jones, English children's fantasy novelist (born 1934) ^[27]
• March 27 – H. R. F. Keating, English crime novelist (born 1926)
• April 2 – Paul Violi, American poet (born 1944)
• April 3 – Ulli Beier, German writer, editor and scholar (born 1922)
• April 4 – Craig Thomas, Welsh novelist (born 1942)
• April 6 – Thøger Birkeland, Danish children's writer (born 1922)
• April 10 – Stephen Watson, South African writer and critic in English (born 1954)
• April 12 – Sachin Bhowmick, Indian screenwriter (born 1930)
• April 14
  • Rosihan Anwar, Indonesian journalist (born 1922)
  • Patrick Cullinan, South African poet and biographer (born 1933)
• April 16 – William A. Rusher, American columnist and publisher (born 1923) ^[28]
• April 17 – Bob Block, English comedy writer (born 1921) ^[29]
• April 19 – Anne Blonstein, English poet (born 1958) ^[30]
• April 20 – Madelyn Pugh, American screenwriter (born 1921) ^[31]
• April 21 – W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), Welsh-language poet (born 1916) ^[32]
• April 25 – Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (born 1917) ^[33]
• April 29
  • Abdul Hameed, Pakistani novelist (born 1928) ^[34]
  • Joanna Russ, American science fiction author (born 1937) ^[35]
• April 30
  • Richard Holmes, English military historian (born 1946) ^[36]
  • Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (born 1911)
• May 4 – Frans Sammut, Maltese writer (born 1945)
• May 5 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright, librettist and screenwriter (born 1917)
• May 9 – Newton Thornburg, American novelist (born 1929) ^[37]
• May 10 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1927)
• May 11 – Reach Sambath, Cambodian journalist (born 1964)
• May 13
  • Pam Gems, English playwright (born 1925) ^[38]
  • Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist (born 1925)
• May 14 – Birgitta Trotzig, Swedish novelist and poet (born 1929)
• May 15 – Martin Woodhouse, English novelist, screenwriter and inventor (born 1932) ^[39]
• May 19 – William Kloefkorn, American poet (born 1932) ^[40]
• May 21 – Pádraig Kennelly, Irish journalist, publisher and editor (born 1938) ^[41]
• May 22 – Chidananda Dasgupta, Indian film critic (born 1921) ^[42]
• May 23 – Roberto Sosa, Honduran poet (heart attack, born 1930)^{[ citation needed ]}
• May 24 – Fănuș Neagu, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer (cancer, born 1932) ^{[43] [44]}
• May 25
  • Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican painter and novelist (born 1917) ^[45]
  • Edwin Honig, American poet and translator (born 1919)
  • Yannis Varveris, Greek poet, critic and translator (born 1955)
• May 30 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy (born 1942)
• June 4 – Curth Flatow, German dramatist and screenwriter (born 1920)
• June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (born 1923)
• June 10 – Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, English travel writer and novelist, (born 1915)
• June 13 – Burt Styler, American screenwriter (born 1925)
• June 18 – Cheryl B, American poet and spoken word artist (born 1972)
• June 21 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian novelist and poet (car crash, born 1927)
• June 22 – Zbyněk Zeman, Czech historian (born 1928)
• June 29 – K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, writer and cultural critic (born 1904)
• July 7 – Olav Versto, Norwegian journalist and editor (drowning, born 1950) ^[46]
• July 3 – Iain Blair (Emma Blair), Scottish romance novelist (born 1942)
• July 11 – Henry Carlisle, American translator, novelist and activist (born 1926)
• July 16 – Geraint Bowen, Welsh poet (born 1915)
• July 18 – Georgess McHargue, American author and poet (born 1941)
• July 20 – Blaize Clement, American mystery writer and psychologist (born 1932)
• July 22 – Ifti Nasim, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host (born 1946)
• July 27 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian novelist writing in French (born 1935) ^[47]
• July 28 – Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak, Afghan journalist (killed in explosion, born c. 1958)
• July 30 – Pêr Denez, French Breton linguist and writer (born 1921)
• July 31 – Eliseo Alberto, Cuban-born Mexican novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1951)
• August 1 – Stan Barstow, English novelist (born 1928) ^[48]
• August 3
  • Simona Monyová, Czech novelist (murdered, born 1967) ^[49]
  • William Sleator, American science-fiction writer (born 1945) ^[50]
• August 10 – Selwyn Griffith, Welsh poet (born 1928) ^[51]
• August 15 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (born 1923)
• August 17 – Michel Mohrt, French writer (born 1914) ^[52]
• August 26 – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, American novelist (born 1940) ^[53]
• August 27 – N. F. Simpson, English dramatist (born 1919) ^[54]
• September 9
  • Herbert Lomas, English poet (born 1924) ^[55]
  • Khairy Shalaby, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (born 1938) ^[56]
• September 14 – Frank Parkin, Welsh sociologist and novelist (born 1931) ^[57]
• September 22
  • Cengiz Dağcı, Crimean Tatar novelist and poet writing in Turkish (born 1919) ^[58]
  • Margaret Ogola, Kenyan novelist (born 1958) ^[59]
• September 23 – José Miguel Varas, Chilean writer (born 1928) ^[60]
• September 26 – David Zelag Goodman, American screenwriter (born 1930) ^[61]
• September 27
  • David Croft, English television writer and producer (born 1922) ^[62]
  • Sara Douglass, Australian fantasy author (ovarian cancer, born 1957) ^[63]
• September 29 – Hella Haasse, Dutch novelist (born 1918) ^[64]
• October 4 – Vittorio Curtoni, Italian science fiction writer and translator (born 1949) ^[65]
• October 10 – Uno Röndahl, Swedish writer (born 1924)
• October 11 – Ewald Osers, Czech translator and poet (born 1917) ^[66]
• October 12 – Lowell H. Harrison, American historian (born 1922) ^[67]
• October 15 – Earl McRae, Canadian journalist (born 1942) ^[68]
• October 18
  • Paul Everac, Romanian writer (born 1924) ^[69]
  • Friedrich Kittler, German literary scholar and media theorist (born 1943) ^[70]
• October 19
  • Kakkanadan, Indian Malayalam writer (born 1935) ^[71]
  • Bohdan Osadchuk, Ukrainian historian and journalist (born 1920) ^[72]
• October 21
  • Hikmet Bilâ, Turkish journalist and author (lung cancer, born 1954) ^[73]
  • Tone Pavček, Slovenian author and translator (born 1928) ^[74]
• October 23
  • Florence Parry Heide, American children's author (born 1919) ^[75]
  • Bogdan Zakrzewski, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature (born 1916) ^[76]
• October 24 – Morio Kita (北 杜夫), Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist (born 1927) ^[77]
• November 3
  • H. G. Francis, German science fiction author (born 1936) ^[78]
  • Morris Philipson, American novelist and publisher (born 1926) ^[79]
• November 21
  • Arie van Deursen, Dutch historian (born 1931) ^[80]
  • Theodore Enslin, American poet (born 1925) ^[81]
  • Anne McCaffrey, American fantasy writer (born 1926) ^[82]
• November 25 – Leonid Borodin, Russian novelist, journalist and Soviet dissident, (born 1938) ^[83] (Russian)
• November 26 – Rashid Karim, Bangladeshi novelist (born 1925) ^[84]
• November 30
  • Ana Daniel, Portuguese poet (born 1928) ^[85]
  • Partap Sharma, Indian playwright (born 1939) ^[86]
• December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, English journalist and commentator (esophageal cancer, born 1949) ^[87]
• December 20 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (born 1926) ^[88]
• December 23 – Tripuraneni Maharadhi, Indian screenwriter (born 1930) ^[89]
• December 27 – Thinley Norbu, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher (born 1931) ^[90]
• December 30 – Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet (born 1920) ^[91]
• December 31
  • Celia Dale, English fiction writer and book reviewer (born 1912 ^[92]
  • Penny Jordan, English romantic novelist (born 1946) ^[93]

Awards

Tomas Tranströmer in 2008

• Nobel Prize in Literature: Tomas Tranströmer

Australia

• Miles Franklin Award: Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance ^[94]

Canada

• Amazon.ca First Novel Award: David Bezmozgis, The Free World
• Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost ^[95]
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Farzana Doctor; honours of distinction, Dani Couture, Matthew J. Trafford.
• Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2011 Governor General's Awards.
• Scotiabank Giller Prize: Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
• Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times
• Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Wayne Johnston

United Kingdom

• Man Booker Prize: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending ^[96]
• Caine Prize for African Writing: NoViolet Bulawayo, "Hitting Budapest"^{[ citation needed ]}
• David Cohen Prize: Julian Barnes ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

United States

• Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2011 Lambda Literary Awards.
• National Book Award for Fiction: to Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• National Book Critics Circle Award: to Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
• Whiting Awards: Fiction: Scott Blackwood, Ryan Call, Daniel Orozco, Teddy Wayne; Nonfiction: Paul Clemens; Plays: Amy Herzog; Poetry: Don Mee Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Shane McCrae, Kerri Webster

Other

• Camões Prize: Manuel António Pina
• Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Stein
• European Book Prize: Maxim Leo, Red Love, and Anna Bikont, The Crime and the Silence
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Mohammed Achaari, The Arch and the Butterfly, and Raja'a Alem, The Doves' Necklace
• SAARC Literary Award: Ibrahim Waheed, Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar

See also

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

Notes

• Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN   9780198715542.

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