2017 in literature

Children and young people

• Galia Bernstein – I Am a Cat <small>(November, Australia, Singapore)</small>
• Sarah Crossan – Moonrise <small>(September 1, UK)</small>
• Lissa Evans – Wed Wabbit <small>(January 5, UK)</small>
• Susie Ghahremani – Stack the Cats <small>(USA)</small>
• Connie Glynn – Undercover Princess <small>(October 30, UK)</small>
• Kiran Millwood Hargrave – The Island at the End of Everything <small>(May 4, UK)</small>
• Amanda Hocking – Freeks <small>(January 3)</small>
• Anna McQuinn – Lulu Gets a Cat
• Philip Pullman – La Belle Sauvage, first volume in The Book of Dust trilogy <small>(October 19, UK)</small>
• Katherine Rundell – The Explorer <small>(August 10, UK)</small>
• Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give <small>(September 28)</small>
• Jacqueline Wilson – Wave Me Goodbye <small>(May 18, UK)</small>

Poetry

• Helen Dunmore (died June 5) – Inside the Wave (<small>April 27, UK</small>)
• Robert Macfarlane (illustrated by Jackie Morris) – The Lost Words: A Spell Book (<small>October, UK</small>)
• Sinéad Morrissey – On Balance (<small>May 25</small>)

Drama

• Jez Butterworth – The Ferryman
• Inua Ellams – Barber Shop Chronicles

Non-fiction

• Joan Didion – South and West
• Nathaniel Frank – Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
• Howard W. French – Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
• David Grann – Killers of the Flower Moon
• Paul Hawken – Drawdown (April 18)
• Michel Houellebecq – En présence de Schopenhauer <small>(January 11, France)</small>
• Christine Hyung-Oak Lee – Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember <small>(February 14)</small>
• Obi Kaufmann – The California Field Atlas <small>(September 1)</small>
• Roel Konijnendijk - Classical Greek Tactics
• Jamie Oliver – 5 Ingredients – Quick and Easy Food <small>(August 24, UK)</small>
• Walter Scheidel – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
• Matt Taibbi – Insane Clown President <small>(January 17)</small>
• Hedi Yahmed – I Was in Raqqa (كنت في الرقة)

Biography and memoirs

• Craig Brown – Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret <small>(September 21, UK)</small>
• Richard Ford – Between Them: Remembering My Parents <small>(May 2)</small>
• Adam Kay – This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor <small>(September 7, UK)</small>
• Caroline Moorehead – A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini <small>(June 15)</small>
• Rebecca Stott – In the Days of Rain: a daughter, a father, a cult <small>(June 1, UK)</small>
• Stephen Westaby – Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table <small>(February 9, UK)</small>
• Xiaolu Guo – Once Upon a Time in the East <small>(January 26)</small>

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:

• January 2 – John Berger, English novelist, painter, art critic and poet, 90 (born 1926)
• January 12 – William Peter Blatty, American author (The Exorcist), 89 (born 1928)
• January 25:
• Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian novelist and children's writer (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood), 72 (born 1944)
• Harry Mathews, American novelist and poet, 86 (born 1930)
• January 29 – Howard Frank Mosher, American novelist (Where the Rivers Flow North), 74 (born 1942)
• January 30 - Teresa Amy, Uruguayan poet and translator, 66 (born 1950)
• February 1 – William Melvin Kelley, African-American novelist, 79 (born 1937)
• February 8 – Tom Raworth, English poet, 78 (born 1938)
• March 10 – Robert James Waller, American novelist (The Bridges of Madison County), 77 (b. 1939)
• March 16 – Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer, 78 (born 1938)
• March 17 – Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate in 1992, 87 (b. 1930)
• April 1 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84 (b. 1933)
• May 1:
• Anatoly Aleksin, Russian writer and poet, 92
• Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian, 95
• May 24 – Denis Johnson, American poet, novelist (Tree of Smoke), and short story writer (Jesus' Son), 67 (born 1949).
• June 2
• Jaroslav Kořán, Czech translator, writer and politician, 77
• Barrie Pettman, English author, publisher and philanthropist, 73
• S. Abdul Rahman, Indian poet, 79
• June 4
• Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist, 86
• Jack Trout, American marketer and author, 82
• June 5
• Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer, 64 (born 1952)
• Anna Jókai, Hungarian writer, 84
• June 8 – Naseem Khan, British journalist, 77
• June 12 – C. Narayana Reddy, Indian poet and writer, Jnanpith Awardee, 85
• June 27 – Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear), 91 (born 1926)
• June 28 – Bruce Stewart, New Zealand author and playwright, 80
• July 2
• Tony Bianchi, Welsh-language author, 65
• Jack Collom, American poet, essayist and poetry teacher, 85
• Abiola Irele, Nigerian literary critic, 81
• Fay Zwicky, Australian poet, 83
• July 5 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet, 63 (cancer)
• July 9
• Miep Diekmann, Dutch writer of children's literature, 92 (born 1925)
• Anton Nossik, Russian writer and internet entrepreneur, 51 (heart attack)
• July 10 – Peter Härtling, German writer and poet, 83
• September 23 – Harvey Jacobs, American author, 87
• November 20 – Amir Hamed, Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator, 55 (born 1962)
• November 23 – Božena Mačingová, Slovak writer, author of books for children and young adults (born 1922)
• December 28 – Sue Grafton, American mystery author, 77

Awards

In alphabetical order of prize names:

• Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Naomi Alderman for The Power
• Baillie Gifford Prize: David France for How to Survive a Plague
• Booker Prize: George Saunders for Lincoln in the Bardo
• Caine Prize for African Writing: Bushra Elfadil, "The Story of the Girl Whose Bird Flew Away"
• Camões Prize: Manuel Alegre
• Costa Book Awards: Helen Dunmore (died June 5) for Inside the Wave (poetry)
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Kris Bertin, Bad Things Happen
• David Cohen Prize: Tom Stoppard
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Kai Cheng Thom
• Desmond Elliott Prize: Francis Spufford, Golden Hill
• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature:
• Dylan Thomas Prize: Fiona McFarlane for The High Places
• European Book Prize: David Van Reybrouck, Zink and, Raffaele Simone, Si la démocratie fait faillite
• Folio Prize: Hisham Matar for The Return
• Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Margaret Atwood
• German Book Prize: Robert Menasse for Die Hauptstadt
• Goldsmiths Prize: Nicola Barker for H(a)ppy
• Gordon Burn Prize: Denise Mina for The Long Drop
• Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
• Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige
• Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française:
• Hugo Award for Best Novel: N. K. Jemisin for The Obelisk Gate
• International Booker Prize: David Grossman for A Horse Walks Into a Bar
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Mohammed Hasan Alwan for A Small Death
• International Dublin Literary Award: José Eduardo Agualusa for A General Theory of Oblivion
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
• Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award:
• Lambda Literary Awards: Various categories, see 29th Lambda Literary Awards
• Miguel de Cervantes Prize:
• Miles Franklin Award: Josephine Wilson for Extinctions
• National Biography Award:
• National Book Award for Fiction:
• National Book Critics Circle Award:
• Newdigate Prize: Dominic Hand
• Nike Award:
• Nobel Prize in Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Imbolo Mbue for Behold the Dreamers
• PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
• Premio Planeta de Novela:
• Premio Strega:
• Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing:
• Prix Goncourt:
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Colson Whitehead for The Underground Railroad
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Tyehimba Jess for Olio
• RBC Taylor Prize: Ross King for Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: David Chariandy, Brother
• Russian Booker Prize:
• Scotiabank Giller Prize: Michael Redhill, Bellevue Square
• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
• Walter Scott Prize: Sebastian Barry for Days Without End
• W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction:
• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Breyten Breytenbach

See also

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