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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
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Imani Perry | South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | January 25 | [25] [23] |
Daniel H. Pink | The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward | February 1 | [25] |
Chuck Klosterman | The Nineties | February 8 | [25] |
Alexandra Lange | Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall | June 14 | [69] |
Ed Yong | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | June 21 | [70] |
Elizabeth Alexander | The Trayvon Generation | June 28 | [23] |
Patrick Radden Keefe | Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks | June 28 | [71] |
Quentin Tarantino | Cinema Speculation | November 1 | [72] |
Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times | November 15 | [32] |
Oskar Lafontaine | Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung Europas | November 21 | [73] |
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
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Bernardine Evaristo | Manifesto: On Never Giving Up | January 18 | [23] |
Laura Gao | Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American | March 8 | [74] |
Elena Ferrante | In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing | March 15 | [23] |
Maud Newton | Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation | March 29 | [25] [23] |
Hannah Gadsby | Ten Steps to Nanette | March 29 (Australia) | [75] |
Delia Ephron | Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life | April 12 | [23] |
Janelle Monáe | The Memory Librarian | April 19 | [30] |
Viola Davis | Finding Me | April 26 | [30] |
Jennette McCurdy | I'm Glad My Mom Died | August 9 | [32] |
Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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Zheng Min | Chinese poet | January 3 | 101 | [76] | |
F. Sionil José | Filipino novelist and journalist | January 6 | 97 | [77] | |
Terry Teachout | American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist | January 13 | 65 | [78] [79] | |
Ron Goulart | American author of Groucho Marx mysteries | January 14 | 89 | Respiratory arrest | [80] |
Thiago de Mello | Brazilian poet and translator | January 14 | 95 | [81] | |
André Leon Talley | American fashion author, editor, and journalist | January 18 | 73 | Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 | [82] [83] [84] [85] |
Lani Forbes | American young adult novelist` | February 3 | 35 | Neuroendocrine cancer | [86] |
Ashley Bryan | American writer and illustrator of children's books | February 4 | 98 | [87] [88] | |
Jason Epstein | American editor and publisher | February 4 | 93 | Congestive heart failure | [89] |
Kenta Nishimura | Japanese novelist | February 5 | 54 | [90] | |
Bruce Duffy | American novelist | February 10 | 70 | Brain cancer | [91] |
P. J. O'Rourke | American political satirist and journalist | February 15 | 74 | Lung cancer | [92] |
Jan Pieńkowski | Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books ( Meg and Mog ) | February 19 | 85 | Complications of dementia | [93] |
Shirley Hughes | English writer and illustrator of children's books | February 25 | 94 | [94] | |
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. | American author, editor, and journalist | March 8 | 86 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [95] |
Maureen Howard | American novelist, memoirist, and editor | March 13 | 91 | [96] | |
Yuz Aleshkovsky | Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter | March 21 | 92 | [97] (in Russian) | |
Ted Mooney | American novelist and journalist ( Art in America ) | March 22 | 70 | Heart disease | [98] |
Richard Howard | American poet, critic, and translator | March 31 | 92 | [99] | |
David McKee | English writer and illustrator of children's books ( Elmer the Patchwork Elephant , Not Now, Bernard ) | April 6 | 87 | [100] | |
Jack Higgins | British crime writer | April 9 | 92 | [101] | |
Serhiy Dyachenko | Ukrainian fantasy novelist | May 5 | 77 | [102] | |
Patricia A. McKillip | American fantasy novelist ( The Forgotten Beasts of Eld ) | May 6 | 74 | [103] | |
Kim Chi-ha | South Korean poet and playwright | May 8 | 81 | [104] | |
Peter Lamborn Wilson | American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) | May 22 | 76-77 | [105] | |
Morton L. Janklow | American literary agent | May 25 | 91 | [106] [107] | |
Walter Abish | Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories | May 28 | 90 | [108] | |
Boris Pahor | Slovenian writer ( Necropolis ) | May 30 | 108 | [109] | |
George Lamming | Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet | June 4 | 94 | [110] | |
Duncan Hannah | American visual artist and author | June 11 | 69 | Heart attack | [111] |
A. B. Yehoshua | Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright | June 14 | 85 | Cancer | [112] |
Raffaele La Capria | Italian writer and screenwriter ( Hands over the City , Many Wars Ago ) | June 26 | 99 | [113] | |
Frank Moorhouse | Australian novelist and screenwriter | June 26 | 83 | [114] | |
Susie Steiner | British crime novelist | July 2 | 51 | Brain cancer | [115] |
Joan Lingard | Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) | July 12 | 90 | [116] | |
Stuart Woods | American novelist ( Chiefs ) | July 22 | 84 | [2] | |
Melissa Bank | American author ( The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing ) | August 2 | 61 | Lung cancer | [117] |
David McCullough | American author. Historian, and biographer ( Truman , John Adams ) | August 7 | 89 | [118] | |
Raymond Briggs | English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist ( The Snowman , Father Christmas , Fungus the Bogeyman ) | August 9 | 88 | Pneumonia | [119] [120] |
Nicholas Evans | English journalist, novelist ( The Horse Whisperer ), and screenwriter | August 9 | 72 | Heart attack | [121] |
Jean-Jacques Sempé | French cartoonist ( Le Petit Nicolas ) | August 11 | 89 | [122] | |
Frederick Buechner | American novelist ( A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist ( The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher | August 15 | 96 | [123] [124] | |
Joseph Delaney | English author ( Spook's ) | August 16 | 77 | [125] | |
Hadrawi | Somali poet | August 18 | 78-79 | [126] | |
Michael Malone | American writer | August 19 | 80 | Pancreatic cancer | [127] |
Peter Straub | American writer ( Julia, Ghost Story , and The Talisman ) | September 4 | 79 | [128] | |
Mariella Mehr | Swiss novelist, playwright and poet | September 5 | 74 | [129] | |
Javier Marías | Spanish novelist ( A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) | September 11 | 70 | Pneumonia | [130] |
Yadollah Royaee | Iranian poet | September 14 | 90 | [131] | |
Tibor Frank | Hungarian historian | September 15 | 74 | [132] | |
Saul Kripke | American philosopher and logician | September 15 | 81 | [133] | |
Hilary Mantel | British novelist ( Wolf Hall ) | September 22 | 70 | [134] [135] | |
Knud Sørensen | Danish novelist, essayist and poet | September 26 | 94 | [136] | |
Marguerite Andersen | German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator | October 1 | 97 | [137] | |
Charles Fuller | American playwright ( A Soldier's Play , Zooman and the Sign ) | October 3 | 83 | [138] | |
Rebecca Godfrey | Canadian author | October 3 | 54 | Lung cancer | [139] |
David Huerta | Mexican poet | October 3 | 72 | [140] | |
Peter Robinson | British-born Canadian crime writer | October 4 | 72 | [141] | |
Temsüla Ao | Indian poet and writer ( Laburnum For My Head ) | October 9 | 76 | [142] | |
Bruno Latour | French philosopher and sociologist ( Laboratory Life , Science in Action , We Have Never Been Modern ) | October 9 | 75 | Pancreatic cancer | [143] |
Thomas Cahill | American scholar and writer ( How the Irish Saved Civilization) | October 18 | 82 | [144] | |
John Jay Osborn Jr. | American writer (The Paper Chase) | October 19 | 77 | Squamous cell cancer | [145] |
Anton Donchev | Bulgarian novelist ( Time of Parting ) and screenwriter | October 20 | 92 | [146] | |
Leszek Engelking | Polish writer and translator | October 22 | 67 | [147] | |
Mike Davis | American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian ( City of Quartz , Late Victorian Holocausts , Set the Night on Fire ) | October 25 | 76 | Cancer | [148] |
Julie Powell | American author (Julie & Julia) | October 25 | 49 | Cardiac arrest | [149] |
Gerald Stern | American poet, essayist, and educator | October 27 | 97 | [150] | |
Bahaa Taher | Egyptian novelist and short story writer | October 27 | 87 | [151] | |
Hava Pinhas-Cohen | Israeli writer and poet | October 29 | 67 | [152] | |
Gael Greene | American author | November 1 | 88 | [153] | |
Doris Grumbach | American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist | November 4 | 104 | [154] | |
Geoff Cochrane | New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer | November 14 | 71 | [155] | |
Marcus Sedgwick | British writer, illustrator and musician | November 15 | 54 | [156] | |
Joëlle Guillais | French writer | November 19 | 70 | Stroke | [157] |
Marijane Meaker | American writer ( Spring Fire ) | November 21 | 95 | Cardiac arrest | [158] |
Bernadette Mayer | American poet and writer | November 22 | 77 | [159] | |
Milovan Danojlić | Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic | November 23 | 85 | [160] | |
Christian Bobin | French author and poet | November 24 | 71 | [161] | |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger | German author, poet, translator, and editor ( Der Untergang der Titanic , The Number Devil ) | November 24 | 93 | [162] | |
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh | Yemeni poet and essayist | November 28 | 85 | [163] | |
Ray Nelson | American science fiction writer ( The Ganymede Takeover , The Prometheus Man ) | November 30 | 91 | [164] | |
Dominique Lapierre | French author | December 4 | 91 | [165] [166] | |
Claude Mossé | French historian | December 12 | 97 | [167] | |
Xi Xi | Chinese novelist and poet | December 18 | 85 | Heart failure | [168] |
Manfred Messerschmidt | German historian ( Germany and the Second World War ) | December 19 | 96 | [169] | |
Françoise Bourdin | French novelist | December 25 | 70 | [170] | |
Begoña Huertas | Spanish writer | December 25 | 57 | [171] | |
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam | Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic | December 28 | 86 | [172] | |
Marion Meade | American biographer and novelist | December 29 | 88 | [173] |
The John Dos Passos Prize is an annual literary award given to American writers.
The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. The prize, named in honour of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a remuneration of £30,000 (~$46,000). It is open to published writers in the English language under the age of forty. The prize was originally awarded biennially but became an annual award in 2010. Entries for the prize are submitted by the publisher, editor, or agent; for theatre plays and screenplays, by the producer.
The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors. The award was first given in 1988.
The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The award is given in four categories—best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. The Sue Feder Historical Mystery has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual United States literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006. Awards are given for adult fiction and non-fiction books published at some point within the immediate past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other peoples, cultures, religions, and political views, with the winner in each category receiving a cash prize of $10,000. The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War. In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They remain the most prestigious awards in the entire mystery genre. The award for Best Young Adult Mystery was established in 1989 and recognizes works written for ages twelve to eighteen, and grades eight through twelve. Prior to the establishment of this award, the Mystery Writers of America awarded a special Edgar to Katherine Paterson for The Master Puppeteer in 1977.
The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. From 2007 to 2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News. The prize is named after Barry Gardner, an American critic.
The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by The Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize in honor of John Turner Sargent, Sr., and, from 2011 to 2014, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, named after Center for Fiction board member Nancy Dunnan and her journalist father Ray W. Flaherty.
The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection is awarded by the PEN America "to exceptionally talented fiction writers whose debut work — a first novel or collection of short stories ... represent distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise." The winner is selected by a panel of PEN Members made up of three writers or editors. The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize was originally named the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers. The prize awards the debut writer a cash award of US$25,000.
The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is awarded by PEN America biennially "to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues which have been published in the United States during the previous two calendar years. It is intended that the winning book possess the qualities of intellectual rigor, perspicuity of expression, and stylistic elegance conspicuous in the writings of author and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, whose four dozen books and countless other publications continue to provide an important and incisive commentary on the American social, intellectual and political scene."
The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award is an annual U.S. literary award.
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021.
The Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, that awards books with bisexual content. The award can be separated into three categories: bisexual fiction, bisexual nonfiction, and bisexual poetry. Awards are granted based on literary merit and bisexual content, and therefore, the writer may be homo-, hetero-, or asexual.
The Aspen Words Literary Prize, established in 2018, is an annual literary award presented by Aspen Words, a literary center in Aspen, Colorado. The prize is presented to an author for "an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.” Winners receive a $35,000 prize.
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