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Overview of the events of 2000 in literature
Overview of the events of 2000 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Films
Deaths
January 2 –
Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born
1914 )
[27]
January 26
January 31 –
Gil Kane , Latvian-American comic book cartoonist (born
1926 )
February 11 –
Bernardino Zapponi , Italian novelist (born
1927 )
February 12 –
Charles M. Schulz , American cartoonist (born
1922 )
March 28 –
Anthony Powell , English novelist (born
1905 )
[28]
April 3 –
Terence McKenna , American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born
1946 )
[29]
April 13 –
Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer (born
1916 )
April 15 –
Edward Gorey , American illustrator and writer (born
1925 )
[30]
April 21 –
Al Purdy , Canadian poet (born
1918 )
April 28 –
Penelope Fitzgerald , English novelist, poet and biographer (born
1916 )
[31]
May 13 –
Paul Bartel , American actor, writer and director (born
1938 )
May 16 –
Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer (born
1924 )
May 21 – Dame
Barbara Cartland , English novelist and playwright (born
1901 )
[32]
July 14 –
William Roscoe Estep , American historian and educator (born
1920 )
August 3 –
Michael Meyer , English translator and biographer (born
1921 )
August 25 –
Carl Barks , American comic book cartoonist (born
1901 )
September 2 –
Curt Siodmak , American novelist and screenwriter (born
1902 )
[33]
September 3 –
Jack Simmons , English historian (born
1915 )
September 7 – Sir
Malcolm Bradbury , English novelist and critic (born
1932 )
[34]
September 14 –
Hwang Sun-won , Korean fiction writer (born
1915 )
September 22 –
Yehuda Amichai , Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born
1924 )
September 25 –
R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (born
1913 )
[35]
October 8 –
Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born
1937 )
October 30 –
Steve Allen , American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born
1921 )
November 2 –
Robert Cormier , American young adult fiction writer (born
1925 )
November 6 –
L. Sprague de Camp , American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born
1907 )
[36]
December 3 –
Gwendolyn Brooks , African-American poet (born
1917 )
[37]
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
Serbia
United Kingdom
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature (first award):
Howard Jacobson , The Mighty Walzer
Booker Prize :
Margaret Atwood ,
The Blind Assassin
Caine Prize for African Writing :
Leila Aboulela , "The Museum"
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Beverley Naidoo ,
The Other Side of Truth
[40]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Zadie Smith ,
White Teeth
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Martin Amis ,
Experience
Cholmondeley Award :
Alistair Elliot ,
Michael Hamburger ,
Adrian Henri ,
Carole Satyamurti
Eric Gregory Award :
Eleanor Margolies ,
Antony Rowland ,
Antony Dunn ,
Karen Goodwin ,
Clare Pollard
Orange Prize for Fiction :
Linda Grant , When I Lived in Modern Times
Samuel Johnson Prize :
David Cairns , Berlioz: Volume 2
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Edwin Morgan
Whitbread Best Book Award :
Matthew Kneale ,
English Passengers
United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :
Quan Barry , Asylum
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry :
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry :
Corey Marks , "Renunciation", and (separately)
Christopher Patton , "Broken Ground"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry :
David Ferry , Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Brittingham Prize in Poetry :
Greg Rappleye , A Path Between Houses
Business Week Best Book of the Year :
Roger Lowenstein , When Genius Failed
Compton Crook Award :
Stephen L. Burns , Flesh and Silver
Edgar Award :
Joe R. Lansdale ,
The Bottoms
Frost Medal :
Anthony Hecht
Hugo Award :
Vernor Vinge ,
A Deepness in the Sky
Michael L. Printz Award for the "best book written for teens" (first award):
Walter Dean Myers ,
Monster
National Book Award for Fiction :
Susan Sontag ,
In America
National Book Critics Circle Award :
Ted Conover ,
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Nebula Award :
Greg Bear ,
Darwin's Radio
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Christopher Paul Curtis ,
Bud, Not Buddy
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :
Ha Jin ,
Waiting
Pulitzer Prize for Drama :
Donald Margulies ,
Dinner With Friends
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Jhumpa Lahiri ,
Interpreter of Maladies
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
C.K. Williams , Repair
Wallace Stevens Award :
Frank Bidart
Whiting Awards :
Fiction:
Robert Cohen ,
Samantha Gillison ,
Lily King ,
John McManus ,
Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction:
Andrew X. Pham
Plays:
Kelly Stuart
Poetry:
Albert Mobilio (poetry/fiction),
James Thomas Stevens ,
Claude Wilkinson
Other
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
References
^ San Martín, Raquel (17 January 2008).
"El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo" [El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a jewel among the libraries of the world]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Archived from
the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2015 .
^ Francesca de Châtel; Robin Hunt (2 August 2004).
Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail . Routledge. pp. 231–.
ISBN
978-1-135-47609-0 .
^
Herald of Library Science . 2002. p. 161.
^ Simon, Diane (October 16, 2000).
"Drowning Ruth (Book Review)" . People . 54 (16): 58. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
^ Claire Squires (26 June 2002).
Zadie Smith's White Teeth . A&C Black. p. 94.
ISBN
978-0-8264-5326-6 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 120
^ Hahn 2015, p. 184
^
"Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!" . archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 574
^ Hahn 2015, p. 223
^ Hahn 2015, p. 289
^ Hahn 2015, p. 408
^ Hahn 2015, p. 410
^
"The Same Old Stories" . archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^
"His Dark Materials" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 265
^
a
b
c Olson, Danel (2011).
21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 . Scarecrow Press. p. 523.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7728-3 .
^
"Vicky Angel" . www.penguin.co.uk . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^
"Dejan Stojanović" .
Internet Archive .
^ Prosveta, Beograd.Stojanović, Dejan.
"Znak i njegova deca" . Internet Archive .
^ Gramatik, Podgorica,
Montenegro .
^
a
b
Narodna knjiga–Alfa , Beograd.
^
"X + Y = Z" . movies2.nytimes.com .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2001,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
^ Bernstein, Richard (July 31, 2000).
"BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000)" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Patrick Tort (2000).
Darwin et la science de l'évolution (in French). Gallimard.
ISBN
978-2-07-053520-0 .
^ Prial, Frank J (7 January 2000).
"Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85" . The New York Times .
^
"Obituary: Anthony Powell" . The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 March 2000. Archived from
the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2017 .
^ Martin, Douglas (September 10, 2013).
"Terence McKenna, 53, dies; Patron of psychedelic drugs" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2012-09-12 .
^ Kelley, Tina (April 16, 2000).
"Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75" . The New York Times .
^ Harvey-Wood, Harriet (3 May 2000).
"Penelope Fitzgerald" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 January 2021 .
^
"BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies" . news.bbc.co.uk . 21 May 2000. Retrieved 24 January 2021 .
^
"Curt Siodmak; Writer Created the 'Wolf Man' " . Los Angeles Times . 2000-09-09. Retrieved 2021-01-19 .
^ Mark Twain (25 March 2004).
Pudd'nhead Wilson . Penguin Books Limited. p. 4.
ISBN
978-0-14-192033-7 .
^ M. Wynn Thomas.
"THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000), poet and clergyman" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . Retrieved 26 August 2021 .
^ Thurber, Jon (November 13, 2000). "Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, CA. p. B4.
^
Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000).
"Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83" .
The New York Times . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2000,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
^
"Rastko: Dejan Stojanović" . Archived from
the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2010-08-28 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 661