This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014.
Events
Anniversaries
- 28 January â On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.
- 5 February â William Burroughs was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)
- 21 February â Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday)
- 1 March â On this day 100 years ago, Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man) was born.
- 9 March â Charles Bukowski died 20 years ago today (1994).
- 10 March â On this day 50 years ago, John Updike receives the National Book Award for The Centaur.
- 31 March â 100th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz in 1914.
- 4 April â Marguerite Duras was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)
- 14 April â On this day 75 years ago, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published.
- 16 April â Ralph Ellison dies on this date 20 years ago in 1994. (see March 1 above for Ellison links)
- 18 April â On this day 40 years ago (1974) the first printing of J. M. Coetzee's debut novel Dusklands appeared in hardback.
- 23 April â It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on 26 April).
- 26 April â The centenary of Bernard Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914).
- May â The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.
- 16 June â This year's Bloomsday celebration will also mark the 100th anniversary of the publication (June 1914) of Joyce's Dubliners.
- 21 September â the 50th anniversary of the publication of Herzog by Saul Bellow, the second of his three National Book Award-winning novels.
- 7 July â Sir Walter Scott's debut novel, Waverley, was published (anonymously) 200 years ago today.
- 22 September â Alain-Fournier died in action in northern France 100 years ago today, just a year after the publication of his only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes.
- 27 October â Dylan Thomas was born a hundred years ago.
- 18 November â Margaret Atwood celebrates her 75th birthday today.
- 2 December â The Marquis de Sade died 200 years ago today.
New books
Fiction
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless stated otherwise.
- â Sapphire Skies (Australia)
- Jacob M. Appel â Scouting for the Reaper (February 15)
- Kate Atkinson â A God in Ruins (UK)
- Margaret Atwood â Stone Mattress â Nine Tales (September 16)
- Bandi â The Accusation (Korean language short stories, South Korea, May)
- Natalie Baszile â Queen Sugar (February 6)
- Pierce Brown â Red Rising (January 28)
- Jessie Burton â The Miniaturist (UK)
- Rosa da Silva (Sigrid Shreeve) â Jabujicaba (UK)
- Anthony Doerr â All the Light We Cannot See (May 6)
- Ceridwen Dovey â Only the Animals (April 23)
- Elizabeth Dutton - Driftwood
- David Grossman â A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel (In original Hebrew as áÃÂá ÃÂÃÂààÃÂàá ÃÂðÃÂøüè (Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar), Israel)
- John Hornor Jacobs â The Incorruptibles (UK)
- Marlon James â A Brief History of Seven Killings (October 2)
- Stephen King
- Mr. Mercedes (June 3)
- Revival (November 11)
- Thomas King â The Back of the Turtle
- Paul Kingsnorth â The Wake (UK, April?)
- Herman Koch â Geachte heer M. (Dear Mr. M., Netherlands)
- Niviaq Korneliussen â Homo Sapienne (Greenland)
- Laila Lalami â The Moor's Account (September 9)
- S. E. Lister â Hideous Creatures (UK, May)
- ÃÂdouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule) â ' (translated as The End of Eddy, France, February)
- Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi â Kintu (Ugandan-born author published in Kenya)
- Emily St. John Mandel â Station Eleven (Canada)
- Javier MarÃÂas â ' (Spain)
- Sean Michaels â Us Conductors (Canada, April 8)
- Karen Miller â The Falcon Throne (September)
- Haruki Murakami â Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (translation, August 12)
- Rick Riordan â The Blood of Olympus (October 7)
- Rudy Ruiz â Seven for the Revolution
- Samanta Schweblin â Distancia de rescate (translated as Fever Dream, Argentina)
- Roger Scruton â Notes from Underground (March 12)
- Akhil Sharma â Family Life
- Joss Sheldon â Involution & Evolution (August 4)
- Leïla Slimani â Dans le jardin de l'ogre (France)
- Ali Smith â How to Be Both (UK, August 28)
- Miriam Toews â All My Puny Sorrows
- Olga Tokarczuk â The Books of Jacob (KsiÃÂgi Jakubowe) (Poland, October)
- Niall Williams â History of the Rain
- Ivan Baran â Enzolart (first book in The Black Books Cycle)
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
- Rosemary Tonks (posthumous) â Bedouin of the London Evening (selected poetry and prose)
Non-fiction
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article,
- January 4 â Jean Metellus, Haitian neurologist, author, poet, and playwright (born 1937)
- January 14 â Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, 83 (born 1930)
- January 28 â Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer, 64 (born 1949)
- January 29 â Hashem Shabani, Iranian poet, 32, (hanged, born c. 1982)
- February 18 â Mavis Gallant, Canadian writer of short stories, 91 (born 1923)
- March 2 â Justin Kaplan, American writer, editor and biographer, 88 (born 1925)
- March 18 â Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet,
- April 2
- Glyn Jones, South African actor and screenwriter (born 1931)
- Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (born 1938)
- April 5 â Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer, 86 (born 1927)
- April 10
- Doris Pilkington Garimara (Nugi Garimara), Aboriginal novelist, 77 (born 1937)
- Sue Townsend, English comic novelist and playwright, 68 (born 1946)
- April 15 â Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer, and children's writer (born 1928)
- April 17 â Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez, Colombian Nobel laureate, 87 (born 1927)
- April 20 â Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer, 77 (born 1936)
- April 24 â Tadeusz RóÃ
¼ewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer, 92 (born 1921)
- May 6 â Farley Mowat, Canadian author and environmentalist, 92 (born 1921)
- May 21 â Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet, 93 (born 1920)
- May 28
- Maya Angelou, American author, poet and civil rights activist, 86 (born 1928)
- Oscar Dystel, American paperback publisher, 101 (born 1912).
- June 19 â Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist, 90 (born 1924)
- June 22 â Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet, 67 (born 1947)
- June 23 â Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)
- June 25 â Ana MarÃÂa Matute, Spanish writer, 88 (born 1925)
- June 29 â Dermot Healy, Irish poet, playwright, fiction writer and memoirist. 66 (born 1947)
- July 4 â C. J. Henderson, American author and critic, 62
- July 7 â Sheila K. McCullagh, English children's writer (born 1920)
- July 13 â Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 90 (born 1923)
- July 20 â Thomas Berger, American writer, 93 (born 1924)
- August 1 â Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian novelist, 40 (brain tumour, born 1974)
- August 2
- Billie Letts, American novelist, 73 (born 1938)
- James Thompson, American-Finnish author, 49 (born 1964)
- September 4
- Orunamamu, American-Canadian author, story-teller and educator, 93 (born 1921)
- Edgar Steele, American lawyer and author, 69 (born 1945)
- September 21 â Linda Griffiths, Canadian playwright, 60 (born 1953)
- September 24 â Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist, 79 (born 1935)
- September 28 â Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and physician, 91 (born 1923)
- November 27 â P. D. James, English crime writer, 94 (born 1920)
- November 29 â Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet and writer, United States Poet Laureate, 80 (born 1934)
- November 30
- Radwa Ashour, Egyptian writer and academic, 68 (born 1946)
- Kent Haruf, American novelist, 71 (born 1943)
- December 3 â Vicente Leñero, Mexican writer and journalist, 81 (born 1933)
- December 12 â Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, 86 (born 1928)
- December 24 â Lee Israel, American biographer and literary forger, 75 (born 1939)
Awards
- Akutagawa Prize: Hiroko Oyamada for ' (Hole) and Tomoka Shibasaki for ' (Spring Garden)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- Caine Prize for African Writing: Okwiri Oduor, "My Father's Head"
- Camões Prize: Alberto da Costa e Silva
- Costa Book of the Year: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Paul Carlucci, The Secret Life of Fission
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Tamai Kobayashi
- Desmond Elliott Prize: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- DSC Prize for South Asian Literature: Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry
- Dylan Thomas Prize: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
- European Book Prize: Pascale Hugues, Hannah's Dress, and Anthony Giddens, Turbulent and Mighty Continent
- Folio Prize: ' by George Saunders
- Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Jaron Lanier
- German Book Prize: Kruso by Lutz Seiler
- Goldsmiths Prize: How to Be Both by Ali Smith
- Gordon Burn Prize: The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Andrée A. Michaud, Bondrée
- Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2014 Governor General's Awards.
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Adrien Bosc, for Constellation
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- International Dublin Literary Award: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 26th Lambda Literary Awards
- Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award: Steve Erickson
- Man Booker Prize: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- Miles Franklin Award: All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
- National Biography Award: The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer by Alison Alexander
- National Book Award for Fiction: to Redeployment by Phil Klay
- Nobel Prize in Literature: to Patrick Modiano
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows
- SAARC Literary Award: Tarannum Riyaz
- Samuel Johnson Prize: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Sean Michaels, Us Conductors
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings: Ko Un
- Walter Scott Prize: An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Charles Simic
See also
References
External links