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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024.

Anniversaries

• 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

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

Fiction

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		[5]
Amor Towles	Table for Two	April 2
Miranda July	All Fours	May 14
Claire Messud	This Strange Eventful History	May 14	[6]
Stephen King	You Like It Darker	May 21	[7]
Rachel Cusk	Parade	June 6
Akwaeke Emezi	Little Rot	June 18
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville	The Book of Elsewhere	July 23	[8]
Stephen Harrison	The Editors	August 13	[9]
Rachel Kushner	Creation Lake	September 3	[10]
Anna Montague	How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?	October 22	[11]
Louise Penny	The Grey Wolf	October 29	[12]
Richard Price	Lazarus Man	November 12	[13]

Children and young adults

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Tomi Adeyemi	Children of Anguish and Anarchy	June 25	[14]
Jordan Ifueko	The Maid and the Crocodile	August 13

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Sylvain Tesson	Avec les fées	January 10	[15]
Evan Friss	The Bookshop	August 6	[16]
John Grisham & Jim McCloskey	Framed	October 8	[17]
Muhammad Sarip & Nanda Puspita Sheilla	Historipedia Kalimantan Timur	January 23	[18]

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
RuPaul	The House of Hidden Meanings	March 5	[19]
Salman Rushdie	Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder	April 16	[20]
Melania Trump	Melania	October 8	[21]

Deaths

• January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85 ^[22]
• January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969. ^[23]
• March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98 ^[24]
• April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93 ^[25]
• April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
• April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94 ^[26]
• April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer ( Shardlake series ), 71 ^[27]
• April 27 – Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61 ^[28]
• April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86 ^[29]
• April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer ( The New York Trilogy ), 77 ^[30]
• May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84 ^[31]
• May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
• July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88 ^[32]
• July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93 ^[33]
• September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76 ^[34]
• November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91 ^[35]
• December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86 ^[36]
• December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92 ^[37]
• December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91 ^[38]

Awards

2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award

Award	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award		Alicia Elliott	And Then She Fell	[39]
Atlantic Book Awards	Ann Connor Brimer Award	Jack Wong	The Words We Share	[40]
	J. M. Abraham Poetry Award	Fawn Parker	Soft Inheritance
	Thomas Head Raddall Award	Michelle Porter	A Grandmother Begins the Story
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize		Ferdia Lennon	Glorious Exploits	[41]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year		Richard Adams Carey	The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire	[42]
Danuta Gleed Literary Award		Lisa Alward	Cocktail	[43]
Giller Prize		Anne Michaels	Held	[44]
Governor General's Awards	English Fiction	Jordan Abel	Empty Spaces	[45]
	English Non-Fiction	Niigaan Sinclair	Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
	English Poetry	Chimwemwe Undi	Scientific Marvel
	English Drama	Caleigh Crow	There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
	English Children's Literature	Li Charmaine Anne	Crash Landing
	English Children's Illustration	Jean E. Pendziwol, Todd Stewart	Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
	French to English Translation	Katia Grubisic	Nights Too Short to Dance
	French Fiction	Steve Poutré	Lait cru	[46]
	French Non-Fiction	Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau	Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
	French Poetry	Névé Dumas	poème dégénéré
	French Drama	Sarah Berthiaume	Wollstonecraft
	French Children's literature	Stéfani Meunier	Une bulle en dehors du temps
	French Children's illustration	Ovila Fontaine, Charlotte Parent	Le premier arbre de Noël
	English to French translation	Éric Fontaine	Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage
Griffin Poetry Prize	Best Poetry Book	George McWhirter	Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence	[47]
	Best First Poetry Book	Maggie Burton	Chores	[48]
Lambda Literary Awards	Bisexual Fiction	Ling Ling Huang	Natural Beauty	[49]
	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
League of Canadian Poets	Gerald Lampert Award	Hannah Green	Xanax Cowboy	[50]
	Pat Lowther Award	Sandra Ridley	Vixen
	Raymond Souster Award	Bradley Peters	Sonnets from a Cell
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour		Patrick deWitt	The Librarianist	[51]
Trillium Book Awards	English Prose	Nina Dunic	The Clarion	[52]
	English Poetry	A. Light Zachary	More Sure
	French Prose	Nicolas Weinberg	Vivre ou presque
Writers' Trust of Canada	Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Sheung-King	Batshit Seven	[53]
	Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction	Martha Baillie	There Is No Blue
	Dayne Ogilvie Prize	Anthony Oliveira	Dayspring
	Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize	Rita Wong
	Matt Cohen Award	Marie Clements
	Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People	Sara O'Leary
	Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award	Madeleine Thien
	Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing	John Vaillant	Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast	[54]
	Balsillie Prize for Public Policy	TBA November 26
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry	Faith Paré	"Selections from 'a fine African Head'"	[55]
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction	Nayani Jensen	"Like Rabbits"

Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions that premiered / were broadcast during 2024:

Title	The book on which the movie/TV series is based	Type	Genre	Premiere date	Distribution company / original broadcasting network
One Day	"One Day" by David Nicholls	TV series	Romantic drama	February 8, 2024	Netflix
Spaceman	"Spaceman of Bohemia" by Jaroslav Kalfař	Movie	Science fiction, drama	February 23, 2024	Netflix
Dune: Part Two	"Dune" by Frank Herbert	Movie	Science fiction, action, adventure, fantasy	March 1, 2024	Warner Bros. Films
3 Body Problem	"The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin	TV series	Drama, Science Fiction	March 21, 2024	Netflix
Ronja, the Robber's Daughter	"Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" by Astrid Lindgren	TV series	Adventure, Drama	March 28, 2024	Netflix
A Gentleman in Moscow	"A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles	TV series	Period drama	March 29, 2024	Paramount+
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder	"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson	TV series	Mystery, Drama, Suspense	July 1, 2024	BBC Three
It Ends with Us	"It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover	Movie	Romantic movie	August 6, 2024	Columbia films
Uglies	"Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld	Movie	Science fiction, dystopian film	September 13, 2024	Netflix
Wicked	"Wicked" by Gregory Maguire	Movie	Fantasy, musical	November 3, 2024	Universal Pictures

References

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2. Thompson, Lawrance, ed. (1964). Selected Letters of Robert Frost. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. p. lvi. ISBN   978-0-88427-011-9 . 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. "This Strange Eventful History". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-02-03. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
7. 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.
8. Rivera, Joshua (May 30, 2024). "Let Keanu Reeves punch and shoot his way onto your summer reading list". Polygon . Retrieved July 9, 2024.
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10. "Creation Lake". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-05-31. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
11. "How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
12. "The Grey Wolf". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-10-29.
13. "Lazarus Man". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-07-10. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
14. "Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi: Review by Eugen M. Bacon". Locus Online. 2024-09-18. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
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17. "Framed". Kirkus Reviews . 2024-10-08.
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30. "Paul Auster, famed novelist known for 'The New York Trilogy' and '4 3 2 1,' dies at 77". NBC News . May 1, 2024.
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33. "Irish author Edna O'Brien has died aged 93". The Irish Times . Archived from the original on 29 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
34. "Leading Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury dies at 76". AP News. 2024-09-15. Retrieved 2024-09-16.
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38. Mort de Michel del Castillo à 91 ans, écrire sur un champ de ruines. la-croix.com, 17 December 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024 (in French).
39. Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire , June 7, 2024.
40. Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire , June 6, 2024.
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43. Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire , June 12th, 2024.
44. Brad Wheeler, "Anne Michaels wins the 2024 Giller Prize for her generations-spanning novel Held". The Globe and Mail , November 18, 2024.
45. Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire , November 13, 2024.
46. Léa Harvey, "Steve Poutré couronné aux prix littéraires du gouverneur général". Le Soleil , November 13, 2024.
47. Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire , June 6, 2024.
48. Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire , May 29, 2024.
49. Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People , June 12, 2024.
50. "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024.
51. Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire , June 24, 2024.
52. Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire , June 20, 2024.
53. "Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners". CBC Books, November 19, 2017.
54. "Vancouver author John Vaillant wins $25K Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing". CBC Books, May 8, 2024.
55. Cassandra Drudi, "Faith Paré, Nayani Jensen win 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award". Quill & Quire , June 3, 2024.