2022 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022.

Events

• 1 January
• The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.
• A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.
• 5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.
• 11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.
• 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.
• 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.
• 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.
• 28 May – Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
• 2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood) and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.
• 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.
• 12 August – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.

Anniversaries

• 200th anniversary of the death of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 150th anniversary of Publishers Weekly
• 150th Anniversary of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 100th anniversary of the Newbery Medal
• 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Philip Larkin
• 100th anniversary of the publication of
• In a Grove by RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
• One of Ours by Willa Cather
• "The Problem of Thor Bridge" by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
• The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
• Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence
• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
• "Celephaïs" by H. P. Lovecraft
• "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
• "The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
• "The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
• "The Garden Party"
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

New books

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

Fiction

Children and young adults

Poetry

• Ocean Vuong – Time Is a Mother (April 5, US)

Drama

Nonfiction

Biography and memoirs

Films

• Matilda the Musical

Deaths

Awards

Adult

Children's, Teen, and Young Adult

See also

References