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Overview of the events of 2008 in literature
Overview of the events of 2008 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008 .
Events
January 1 – In the UK's
2008 New Year Honours List,
Hanif Kureishi (CBE),
Jenny Uglow (OBE),
Peter Vansittart (OBE) and
Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature."
February 29 – Belgian-born "
Misha Defonseca " admits that her bestselling
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997) is a
literary forgery .
April –
Signet Books announce they will cease to publish the American historical romance novelist
Cassie Edwards after a dispute over
plagiarism .
April 25 – The first
Twitter novel, Small Places by Nicholas Belardes, is launched.
[1]
May 7 –
11 – The first
Palestine Festival of Literature is held.
June 15 –
Gore Vidal , asked in a New York Times interview how he felt about the death of his rival
William F. Buckley, Jr. , replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred."
July –
Salman Rushdie 's
Midnight's Children (1981) is the winner of a poll to select the "
Best of the Booker ".
New books
Fiction
Genre fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
The Academi –
Encyclopaedia of Wales (Gwyddoniadur Cymru) (January)
Julie Andrews –
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (April 1)
Kwame Anthony Appiah –
Experiments in Ethics
Dan Ariely –
Predictably Irrational (February 19)
Margaret Atwood –
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (October 1)
Mary Beard – Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Dionne Brand – A Kind of Perfect Speech (Ralph Gustafson Lecture)
Augusten Burroughs –
A Wolf at the Table (April 29)
Michael Chabon –
Maps and Legends (May 1)
D. K. Chakrabarti – The Battle for Ancient India: An essay in the sociopolitics of Indian archaeology
Sloane Crosley –
I Was Told There'd Be Cake (April 1)
John Duignan –
The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (October 7)
Eminem –
The Way I Am (October 21)
Richard Florida –
Who's Your City? (March)
Raymond Geuss –
Philosophy and Real Politics
Philip Hoare – Leviathan, or The Whale (September 16)
Jim Holt –
Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
Chloe Hooper –
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
B. B. Lal – Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir, and Setu: Evidence of Literature, Archaeology, and Other Sciences
Thomas Cairns Livingstone –
Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918
Minae Mizumura –
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Scholastique Mukasonga – La femme aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Woman)
Haruki Murakami (translated by
Philip Gabriel ) –
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (July 29)
Shuja Nawaz –
Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
Frances Osborne – The Bolter: Idina Sackville
Chris Pash –
The Last Whale
Randy Pausch and
Jeffrey Zaslow – Last Lecture
Peter Rees –
The Other ANZACs
David Sedaris –
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 3)
Vaclav Smil – Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems
Chunghee Sarah Soh –
The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan
Jane Straus – The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (April)
Ronnie Thompson (pseudonym) –
Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer (January 24)
Bjørn Christian Tørrissen –
One for the Road (January 31; translation of I pose og sekk! , 2005)
Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir (May 6)
Russell Wangersky –
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
[10]
Meralda Warren and others – Mi Base side orn Pitcairn (My Favourite Place on
Pitcairn , first book published in
Pitkern
creole )
Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger and Carolin Schneider (eds.) –
Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon
Deaths
Margaret Truman
Steve Gerber
Arthur C. Clarke
March 16 –
Jonathan Williams , American poet (born
1929 )
March 19
March 23 –
E. A. Markham , Montserrat poet, writer and activist (born
1939 )
April 3 –
Andrew Crozier , English poet and scholar (born
1943 )
April 7 –
Ludu Daw Amar , Burmese writer and journalist (born
1915 )
April 13 –
Robert Greacen , Irish poet (born
1920 )
April 17
April 18
May 1 –
Elaine Dundy , American novelist, biographer and playwright (born
1921 )
May 9 –
Nuala O'Faolain , Irish critic and writer (born
1940 )
May 11 –
Jeff Torrington , Scottish novelist (born
1935 )
May 12 –
Oakley Hall , American novelist (born
1920 )
May 14 –
Roy Heath , Guyanese novelist (born
1926 )
May 15 –
Muhyi al-Din Faris , Sudanese poet (born
1936 )
[15]
May 19 –
Vijay Tendulkar , Indian playwright (born
1928 )
May 22 –
Robert Asprin , American science fiction writer (born
1946 )
[16]
[17]
May 23 –
Alan Brien , English journalist and novelist (born
1925 )
May 28 –
Elinor Lyon , British children's writer (born
1921 )
Chinghiz Aitmatov
June 2 –
Ferenc Fejtő , Hungarian-born French historian and journalist (born
1909 )
June 4 –
Matthew Bruccoli , American biographer and scholar (born
1931 )
June 5 –
Angus Calder , British writer and scholar (born
1942 )
June 8 –
Peter Rühmkorf , German poet and writer (born
1929 )
June 9 –
Algis Budrys (John A. Sentry), American science fiction writer of Lithuanian origin (born
1931 )
[18]
June 10
June 16 –
Mario Rigoni Stern , Italian novelist (born
1921 )
June 18 –
Tasha Tudor , American children's writer and illustrator (born
1915 )
June 22 –
Albert Cossery , Egyptian-born French novelist (born
1913 )
June 24 –
Ruth Cardoso , Brazilian anthropologist and writer (born
1930 )
June 25 –
Lyall Watson , South African scientist and new age writer (born
1939 )
June 27 –
Lenka Reinerová , Czech writer in German (born
1916 )
Thomas M. Disch
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
David Foster Wallace
September 5 –
Robert Giroux , American editor and publisher (born
1914 )
September 7 –
Gregory Mcdonald , American mystery writer (born
1937 )
September 12 –
David Foster Wallace , American novelist (born
1962 )
[22]
September 17 –
James Crumley , American crime writer (born
1939 )
[23]
September 20 –
Duncan Glen , Scottish poet, critic and literary historian (born
1933 )
September 23 –
William Woodruff , English historian and autobiographer (born
1916 )
September 24 –
Bengt Anderberg , Swedish poet, novelist and children's writer (born
1920 )
September 29 –
Hayden Carruth , American poet and literary critic (born
1921 )
October 4 –
Peter Vansittart , English novelist and historical writer (born
1920 )
October 10 –
Ilie Purcaru , Romanian journalist and poet (born
1933 )
October 14 –
Barrington J. Bayley , English science fiction writer (born
1937 )
October 26 –
Tony Hillerman , American mystery writer (born
1925 )
October 27 –
Es'kia Mphahlele , South African writer in English (born
1919 )
October 29 –
William Wharton (Albert William Du Aime), American novelist (born
1925 )
October 31 –
Studs Terkel , American historian and broadcaster (born
1912 )
November 4 –
Michael Crichton , American writer and scholar (born
1942 )
November 13 –
Jules Archer , American historian and author (born
1915 )
November 14 –
Kristin Hunter , American author and academic (born
1931 )
December 1 –
Dorothy Sterling , American non-fiction writer for children and historian (born
1913 )
[24]
December 4 –
Forrest J Ackerman , American magazine editor, science fiction writer, and literary agent (born
1916 )
[25]
December 15 –
Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian children's book author (born
1920 )
[26]
December 20 –
Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and fiction writer (born
1932 )
December 24 –
Harold Pinter , English playwright and screenwriter (born
1930 )
[27]
December 31 –
Donald E. Westlake , American novelist (born
1933 )
[28]
Awards and honors
Australia
Canada
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Fiction:
Mischa Berlinski ,
Laleh Khadivi ,
Manuel Muñoz ,
Benjamin Percy ,
Lysley Tenorio
Nonfiction:
Donovan Hohn
Plays:
Dael Orlandersmith
Poetry:
Rick Hilles ,
Douglas Kearney ,
Julie Sheehan
Other
Premio de la Crítica de Galicia (category Ensayo y Pensamiento):
Xurxo Borrazás , Arte e parte
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
References
^ Nicholas Belardes.
"Twitter Novel: Small Places" . Nicholas Belardes . Retrieved January 26, 2021 .
^ Robins, Peter (August 9, 2008).
"Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga" .
The Telegraph . Archived from
the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved October 16, 2008 .
^
Revue internationale Henry Bauchau n°1 - 2009: L'écriture à l'écoute (in French). Presses univ. de Louvain. 2008. p. 5.
ISBN
978-2-87463-139-9 .
^ Sihvonen, Lauri (September 24, 2008).
"Lauri Sihvonen on Sofi Oksanen's novel: A Body and a Blowfly" .
FILI . Archived from
the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2010 .
^ Steven P. Sondrup; Mark B. Sandberg; Thomas A. DuBois; Dan Ringgaard (December 15, 2017).
Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes . John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 336.
ISBN
978-90-272-6505-0 .
^ Jenkins, Thomas E. (May 14, 2015).
Antiquity Now: The Classical World in the Contemporary American Imagination . Cambridge University Press. p. 186.
ISBN
978-0-521-19626-0 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 21
^ Hahn 2015, p. 73
^ Hahn 2015, p. 500
^ Faculty of Arts, 2009,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived June 6, 2014, at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University , Previous winners, Russell Wangersky, Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ Acquaviva, Frédéric (February 5, 2008).
"Obituary: Henri Chopin" . the Guardian . Retrieved January 21, 2022 .
^ Douglas Johnson (February 19, 2008).
"Alain Robbe-Grillet obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved April 23, 2010 .
^ Nick Coleman (March 4, 2008).
"Julian Rathbone" . Guardian . Retrieved January 26, 2021 .
^ Douglas Messerli (May 2, 2008).
"Hugo Claus" . The Guardian . Retrieved August 19, 2021 .
^
"وفاة الشاعر السوداني محيي الدين فارس" . alyaum (in Arabic). May 18, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2022 .
^
"Trans World News Notice of Death" . Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2008 . {{
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^
"SFScope Notice of Death from Natural Causes" . Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2008 . {{
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^ Jensen, Trevor (June 11, 2008).
"Tapped human side of science fiction" . Chicago Tribune . Archived from
the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-11 .
^
"KYRGYZSTAN: CHINGIZ AITMATOV, A MODERN HERO, DIES" . EurasiaNet. June 11, 2008. Archived from
the original on March 31, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2009 .
^ Weber, Bruce (June 11, 2008).
"Eliot Asinof, 'Eight Men Out' Author, Is Dead at 88" .
The New York Times . Retrieved November 20, 2012 .
^ Kaufman, Michael T; Barnard, Anne (August 4, 2008).
"Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89" . The New York Times . p. 1. Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
^ Max, D. T. (2012). Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace . p. 301.
ISBN
978-1-84708-494-1 .
^
"Obituary: James Crumley" . the Guardian . September 21, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2022 .
^ Staino, Rocco (January 5, 2009).
"In Memoriam: Children's Authors and Illustrators Who Died in 2008" .
School Library Journal . Archived from
the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2009 .
^ Carlson, Michael (December 7, 2008).
"Forrest J Ackerman" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved December 9, 2008 .
^ Hedeman, Anders (December 15, 2008).
"Anne-Cath. Vestly er død" .
Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from
the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2008 .
^ Billington, Michael (January 1, 2009).
"Goodnight, sweet prince: Shakespearean farewell to Pinter" .
The Guardian .
London :
GMG .
ISSN
0261-3077 .
OCLC
60623878 . Archived from
the original on March 26, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2011 .
^
The New York Times 2009-01-01.
^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived December 8, 2012, at
archive.today , Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases). Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ Hahn 2015, p. 653
^ Hahn 2015, p. 661
^ Hahn 2015, p. 658
See also