Overview of the events of 2014 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of2014 .
28 January – On this day 75 years ago,W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.[ 10] 5 February –William Burroughs was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)[ 11] 21 February –Christopher Marlowe 's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday)[ 10] 1 March – On this day 100 years ago,Ralph Ellison (author ofInvisible Man ) was born.[ 10] 9 March –Charles Bukowski died 20 years ago today (1994).[ 12] 10 March – On this day 50 years ago,John Updike receives the National Book Award forThe Centaur .[ 13] 31 March – 100th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poetOctavio Paz in 1914.[ 14] [ 15] 4 April –Marguerite Duras was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)[ 10] 14 April – On this day 75 years ago,The Grapes of Wrath byJohn Steinbeck was published.[ 10] 16 April – Ralph Ellison dies on this date 20 years ago in 1994. (see March 1 above for Ellison links)18 April – On this day 40 years ago (1974) the first printing ofJ. M. Coetzee 'sdebut novel Dusklands [ 16] 23 April – It is assumed thatWilliam Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on 26 April).[ 10] 26 April – The centenary ofBernard Malamud 's birth (April 26, 1914).[ 17] May – The 100th anniversary ofGertrude Stein 'sTender Buttons .[ 18] [ 19] 16 June – This year'sBloomsday celebration will also mark the 100th anniversary of the publication (June 1914) of Joyce'sDubliners .[ 20] 21 September – the 50th anniversary of the publication ofHerzog bySaul Bellow , the second of his threeNational Book Award -winning novels.[ 21] 7 July –Sir Walter Scott 's debut novel,Waverley , was published (anonymously) 200 years ago today.[ 10] 22 September –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. [ 10] 27 October –Dylan Thomas was born a hundred years ago.[ 10] 18 November –Margaret Atwood celebrates her 75th birthday today.[ 10] 2 December – TheMarquis de Sade died 200 years ago today.[ 10] Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless stated otherwise.
Belinda Alexandra [pl ] –Sapphire Skies Jacob M. Appel –Scouting for the Reaper Kate Atkinson –A God in Ruins Margaret Atwood –Stone Mattress – Nine Tales Bandi –The Accusation (Korean language short stories, South Korea, May)Natalie Baszile –Queen Sugar Pierce Brown –Red Rising Jessie Burton –The Miniaturist Rosa da Silva (Sigrid Shreeve) –Jabujicaba Anthony Doerr –All the Light We Cannot See Ceridwen Dovey –Only the Animals Elizabeth Dutton -Driftwood David Grossman –A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar ), Israel)John Hornor Jacobs –The Incorruptibles Marlon James –A Brief History of Seven Killings Stephen King Thomas King –The Back of the Turtle Paul Kingsnorth –The Wake Herman Koch –Geachte heer M. (Dear Mr. M., Netherlands)Niviaq Korneliussen –Homo Sapienne Laila Lalami –The Moor's Account S. E. Lister –Hideous Creatures (UK, May)Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule) –En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule The End of Eddy , France, February)Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi –Kintu Emily St. John Mandel –Station Eleven Javier Marías –Así empieza lo malo (Thus Bad Begins) [it ] Sean Michaels –Us Conductors Karen Miller –The Falcon Throne (September)Haruki Murakami –Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Rick Riordan –The Blood of Olympus Rudy Ruiz –Seven for the Revolution Samanta Schweblin –Distancia de rescate Fever Dream , Argentina)Roger Scruton –Notes from Underground Akhil Sharma –Family Life Joss Sheldon –Involution & Evolution (August 4)Leïla Slimani –Dans le jardin de l'ogre (France)[ 22] Ali Smith –How to Be Both Miriam Toews –All My Puny Sorrows [ 23] Olga Tokarczuk –The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe)Niall Williams –History of the Rain Ivan Baran –Enzolart (first book inThe Black Books Cycle )Children and young people [ edit ] Rosemary Tonks (posthumous) –Bedouin of the London Evening (selected poetry and prose)Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article,
January 4 –Jean Metellus , Haitian neurologist, author, poet, and playwright (born1937 )January 14 –Juan Gelman , Argentine poet, 83 (born1930 )January 28 –Nigel Jenkins , Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer, 64 (born1949 )January 29 –Hashem Shabani ,Iranian poet, 32, (hanged, born c. 1982)February 18 –Mavis Gallant , Canadian writer of short stories, 91 (born1923 )[ 26] March 2 –Justin Kaplan , American writer, editor and biographer, 88 (born1925 )[ 27] March 18 –Catherine Obianuju Acholonu , Nigerian researcher and poet,April 2 April 5 –Peter Matthiessen , American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer, 86 (born1927 )[ 28] [ 29] [ 30] April 10 April 15 –Rosemary Tonks , English poet, prose writer, and children's writer (born1928 )April 17 –Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian Nobel laureate, 87 (born1927 )[ 32] April 20 –Alistair MacLeod , Canadian writer, 77 (born1936 )[ 33] [ 34] April 24 –Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish poet, dramatist and writer, 92 (born1921 )[ 35] May 6 –Farley Mowat , Canadian author and environmentalist, 92 (born 1921)[ 36] May 21 –Ruth Guimarães , Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet, 93 (born1920 )May 28 June 19 –Josephine Pullein-Thompson , English children's novelist, 90 (born1924 )June 22 –Felix Dennis , English publisher and poet, 67 (born1947 )[ 38] June 23 –Nancy Garden , American author (born1938 )[ 39] June 25 –Ana María Matute , Spanish writer, 88 (born1925 )[ 40] June 29 –Dermot Healy , Irish poet, playwright, fiction writer and memoirist. 66 (born1947 )[ 41] July 4 –C. J. Henderson , American author and critic, 62July 7 –Sheila K. McCullagh , English children's writer (born1920 )July 13 –Nadine Gordimer , South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 90 (born1923 )[ 42] July 20 –Thomas Berger , American writer, 93 (born1924 )August 1 –Jan Roar Leikvoll , Norwegian novelist, 40 (brain tumour, born1974 )August 2 September 4 September 21 –Linda Griffiths , Canadian playwright, 60 (born1953 )[ 43] September 24 –Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist, 79 (born1935 )September 28 –Dannie Abse , Welsh poet and physician, 91 (born1923 )November 27 –P. D. James , English crime writer, 94 (born1920 )[ 44] November 29 –Mark Strand , Canadian-born American poet and writer,United States Poet Laureate , 80 (born1934 )[ 45] November 30 December 3 –Vicente Leñero , Mexican writer and journalist, 81 (born1933 )[ 48] December 12 –Norman Bridwell , American author and illustrator, 86 (born1928 )December 24 –Lee Israel , American biographer and literary forger, 75 (born1939 )Akutagawa Prize :Hiroko Oyamada forAna Hole ) andTomoka Shibasaki forHaru No Niwa Spring Garden )Anisfield-Wolf Book Award :A Constellation of Vital Phenomena byAnthony Marra Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction :A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride [ 49] 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 Helen Macdonald [ 50] Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Paul Carlucci,The Secret Life of Fission [ 51] Dayne Ogilvie Prize :Tamai Kobayashi [ 52] Desmond Elliott Prize :A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride[ 53] DSC Prize for South Asian Literature :Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer Cyrus Mistry [ 54] Dylan Thomas Prize :To Rise Again at a Decent Hour byJoshua Ferris [ 55] European Book Prize :Pascale Hugues ,Hannah's Dress , andAnthony Giddens ,Turbulent and Mighty Continent Folio Prize :Tenth of December: Stories George Saunders [ 56] Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels :Jaron Lanier German Book Prize :Kruso byLutz Seiler [ 57] Goldsmiths Prize :How to Be Both Ali Smith [ 58] Gordon Burn Prize :The Wake byPaul Kingsnorth [ 59] Governor General's Award for English-language fiction :Thomas King ,The Back of the Turtle [ 60] Governor General's Award for French-language fiction :Andrée A. Michaud ,Bondrée [ 60] Governor General's Awards , other categories: See2014 Governor General's Awards .Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française :Adrien Bosc , forConstellation International Prize for Arabic Fiction :Frankenstein in Baghdad byAhmed Saadawi [ 61] 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[ 62] Lambda Literary Awards : Multiple categories; see26th Lambda Literary Awards Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award :Steve Erickson Man Booker Prize :The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan [ 63] Miles Franklin Award :All The Birds, Singing Evie Wyld [ 64] National Biography Award :The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer by Alison Alexander[ 65] National Book Award for Fiction : toRedeployment byPhil Klay [ 66] Nobel Prize in Literature : toPatrick Modiano [ 67] PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves byKaren Joy Fowler Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :The Goldfinch Donna Tartt [ 68] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :3 Sections byVijay Seshadri [ 69] [ 70] Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize :Miriam Toews ,All My Puny Sorrows [ 71] SAARC Literary Award :Tarannum Riyaz Samuel Johnson Prize :H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald [ 72] Scotiabank Giller Prize :Sean Michaels ,Us Conductors [ 73] Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :Ko Un [ 74] Walter Scott Prize :An Officer and a Spy Robert Harris [ 75] Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award :Charles Simic [ 76] ^ "Scholars Discover New Poems from Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho" .The Daily Beast . 2014-01-28. Retrieved2014-04-04 .^ Quinn, Annalisa (2014-01-30)."Book News: Two Poems By Greek Poet Sappho Discovered" .The Two-Way . NPR. Retrieved2014-04-04 . ^ "New poems by Sappho" .TLS . Retrieved2014-04-04 .^ "A discussion on the new Sappho papyrus" .New Sappho . 2014-01-29. Retrieved2014-04-04 .^ "Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins CBC's Canada Reads contest" .Edmonton Journal the original on 2014-04-11. Retrieved2014-03-07 .^ Williams, Aime (2014-04-24)."Authors campaign against ban on sending books to prisoners" .The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved2014-12-05 . ^ Garth, John (2014-03-22)."JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf: bring on the monsters" .The Guardian . Retrieved2014-04-28 . ^ Buchanan, Rose Troup; Saul, Heather (2015-02-25)."Isis burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul's libraries" The Independent Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved2019-06-19 . ^ Mulholland, Rory (2014-11-25)."Shakespeare First Folio discovered in French library" .The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved2014-12-09 . ^a b c d e f g h i j k "2014 in books: turn over a new leaf" .The Guardian . January 2014. Retrieved2014-02-27 .^ Link (2014-03-22)."Silliman's Blog" . Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved2014-04-28 . ^ "Charles Bukowski Called it Splitsville 20 Years ago" . Pierrejoris.com. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ Begley, Adam (2014).Updike . HarperCollins (2014). p. 265.ISBN 978-0061896453 Updike and Cheever had met fleetingly at literary events, such as the National Book Award on March 10, 1964, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, where Updike accepted the prize for The Centaur ^ "Octavio Paz, b. 100 Years ago today..." Pierrejoris.com. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ Joel Whitney."Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100" . Dissent Magazine. Retrieved2014-04-28 . ^ Kannermeyer, J. C. (2012).J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing . Michiel Heyns, translator. Scribe Publications. p. 247.ISBN 9781922070081 On 18 April 1974 the first printing ofDusklands appeared in hardback, with a press release by Randall praising the novel as "one of the most important works of literature to have been written in South Africa". The retail price was R4.80. ^ "Bernard Malamud Centenary | Work in Progress" . Fsgworkinprogress.com. 2013-01-24. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ "Gertrude Stein. 1914. Tender Buttons: Bibliographic Record" .bartleby.com .^ "Twenty-two on 'Tender Buttons' | Jacket2" .^ Ernest Hemingway, born 115 years ago this month, had ways of making the world smaller and larger |The Kansas City Star ^ "Li: Herzog" .libraryofinspiration.com .^ "Dans le jardin de l'ogre" .Gallimard . Retrieved27 January 2021 .^ Bethune, Brian (11 October 2014)."Miriam Toews wrestles with suicide in her latest quest for narrative truth" .Maclean's ^ "Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater | Waterstones" .www.waterstones.com . Retrieved15 December 2016 .^ "King Charles III" .almeida.co.uk .Almeida Theatre . Retrieved27 January 2021 .^ Christopher Hawtree (18 February 2014)."Mavis Gallant obituary" .the Guardian . ^ "Justin Kaplan, Biographer of Whitman and Twain, Dies at 88 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog" . The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved2014-06-17 .^ National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012-03-09. (With interview, acceptance speech by Matthiessen, and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)^ "2008 National Book Award Winner, Fiction" . National Book Foundation. Archived fromthe original on 2009-01-29. Retrieved2009-01-16 .^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher ,"Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86" ",The New York Times ^ Martin, Douglas (21 April 2014)."Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76" .The New York Times . ^ "Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87" .^ "Author Alistair MacLeod dies at 77, remembered as 'great writer and a great man' . Archived fromthe original on 2018-10-24. Retrieved2019-01-26 .^ "Alistair MacLeod, acclaimed Canadian writer, dead at 77 – Nova Scotia – CBC News" . Cbc.ca. 2014-04-20. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ "Poet Tadeusz Rozewicz dies, aged 92" .Radio Poland . 2014-04-24. Archived fromthe original on 2018-10-24. Retrieved2016-07-11 .^ Parini, Jay (8 May 2014)."Farley Mowat obituary" . www.theguardian.com. Retrieved9 May 2014 . ^ Link (2014-05-29)."Silliman's Blog" . Ronsilliman.blogspot.com. Retrieved2014-06-17 . ^ "Felix Dennis" The Independent Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved2014-06-24 .^ "Nancy Garden: The author whose novel Annie on My Mind was credited" The Independent . 14 July 2014.Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved14 February 2020 .^ Sergi Doria (June 25, 2014)."Muere la escritora Ana María Matute" .ABC ^ "Death of writer Dermot Healy" .RTÉ News . Retrieved2014-06-30 .^ "SA novelist Nadine Gordimer dies" .Channel .^ "Linda Griffiths, actor and playwright, dead after battle with cancer" .CBC News , 21 September 2014.^ Retrieved 28 November 2014. ^ Pulitzer-winning poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 years old ^ "Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour dies at 68" .ahram.org.eg .^ "Publisher says novelist Kent Haruf dies at age 71 – StarTribune.com" .Star Tribune .^ "El Universal – In English – Mexican writer Vicente Leñero dies at 81" .El Universal . 3 December 2014. Archived fromthe original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved5 December 2014 .^ Tim Masters (4 June 2014)."Eimear McBride wins Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction" . BBC. Retrieved20 June 2014 . ^ "Helen Macdonald wins Costa Book of the Year 2014" .BBC News . Retrieved30 January 2015 .^ "Paul Carlucci wins Danuta Gleed Award" .Quill & Quire ^ "Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers" .Quill & Quire ^ "The 2014 Prize | The Desmond Elliott Prize" .The Desmond Elliott Prize . 3 July 2014. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved2 September 2014 .^ Aditi Malhotra (18 January 2014)."Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature" .The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved9 September 2014 . ^ Wroe, Nicholas (7 November 2014)."Joshua Ferris wins Dylan Thomas prize" .The Guardian Guardian News and Media . Retrieved13 November 2014 . ^ "Tenth of December by George Saunders wins inaugural Folio Prize 2014" (PDF) . Folio Prize. 10 March 2014. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 11 March 2014. Retrieved21 June 2014 .^ "Lutz Seiler Wins 2014 German Book Prize" .Publishing Perspectives . 7 October 2014. Retrieved15 December 2016 .^ "Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both" .BBC News . Retrieved13 November 2014 .^ "Mark Rylance-backed novel wins £5,000 literary prize" .BBC News . Retrieved11 October 2014 .^a b "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction" .The Globe and Mail ^ "Baghdad Writes!" . Pierrejoris.com. Retrieved2014-06-17 .^ Doyle, Martin (28 May 2014)."Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award" .Irish Times . Retrieved3 September 2014 . ^ Masters, Tim (14 October 2014)."Man Booker Prize: Richard Flanagan wins for wartime love story" .BBC News . Retrieved15 October 2014 . ^ Adrian Raschella (27 June 2014)."Miles Franklin Literary Award: Author Evie Wyld wins for her book All The Birds Singing" .ABC News . Retrieved2 January 2015 . ^ Begley, Patrick (4 August 2014)."Alison Alexander wins National Biography Award for The Ambitions of Jane Franklin" .Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved27 June 2015 . ^ Kell y, Keith J. (November 20, 2014)."Phil Klay wins National Book Award for 'Redeployment' .New York Post . RetrievedNovember 20, 2014 . ^ Ron Charles (9 October 2014)."Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize in literature" .Washington Post . ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes – Citation" . Pulitzer.org. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ Citation reads: "for a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless." ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Jurors" . Pulitzer.org. Retrieved2014-04-28 .^ Medley, Mark (4 November 2014)."Miriam Toews wins Writers' Trust award for All My Puny Sorrows" .The Globe and Mail . Retrieved5 November 2014 . ^ Clark, Nick (4 November 2014)."Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: Helen Macdonald wins with 'H is for Hawk' .The Independent the original . Retrieved11 November 2014 . ^ "Sean Michaels awarded Giller Prize for his book 'Us Conductors'" .The Globe and Mail ^ "Ko Un is the winner of the "Golden Wreath" 2014" .Struga Poetry Evenings . 21 February 2014. Archived fromthe original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved21 February 2014 .^ "Robert Harris wins Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction" .BBC News . BBC. 13 June 2014. Retrieved10 September 2014 .^ "Charles Simic wins 2014 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award" . Archived fromthe original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved2019-03-12 .
