This article contains information about the literary events and publications of2017.

• March – EmulatingKerouac'sOn the Road, Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with anartificial intelligence device in alaptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls ofthermal paper; the result is published unedited as1 the Road in2018.
• August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before.^[1]
• August 30 – Ahard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist SirTerry Pratchett (died2015) is crushed by asteamroller on his instructions.^[2]
• October 5 - TheSwedish Academy announce that the2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded toKazuo Ishiguro.^[3]
• October –Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China.^[4]
• December –Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" is published inThe New Yorker and becomes aviral phenomenon online, with more than 2.6 million hits.^[5][6]

• Tercentenary of the Aberbaijani poetMolla Panah Vagif's birth in 1717^[7]
• 600th anniversary of the death of the Turkic mystical poetImadaddin Nasimi in 1417^[7]
• March 19 – Bicentenary of the Slovak writerJozef Miloslav Hurban's birth^[7]
• May 8 – The American novelistThomas Pynchon turns 80.^[8]
• June 18 – Centenary of the death of the Romanian literary critic and former prime ministerTitu Maiorescu^[7]
• June 26 – 20th anniversary of the publication ofHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (U.K. edition)^[9]
• July 12 – 200th birthday ofHenry David Thoreau, author ofWalden
• July 14 – Bicentenary of the early French salonnièreMadame de Staël's death^[7]
• July 18 – Bicentenary of the novelistJane Austen's death in 1817^[10]
• Nov 30 – 350th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish satiristJonathan Swift's birth in 1667^[11]
• December 4 – Bicentenary of the birth ofNikoloz Baratashvili's in 1817, who introduced European style into Georgian literature.^[7]

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

• Ayobami Adebayo –Stay With Me(March 2, UK)
• Paul Auster –4 3 2 1(January 31)
• Brunonia Barry –The Fifth Petal: a novel
• Darcey Bell –A Simple Favor(March 1)
• Dan Brown –Origin(October 3)
• Peter Carey –A Long Way From Home(October 30, Australia)
• J. M. Coetzee –The Schooldays of Jesus(February 21)
• Claire G. Coleman –Terra Nullius
• Curtis Dawkins –The Graybar Hotel(July 4)
• Didier Decoin –Le bureau des jardins et des étangs (The Office of Gardens and Ponds)(France)
• Steve Erickson –Shadowbahn
• Christine Féret-Fleury –La fille qui lisait dans le Métro (The Girl who Read on the Metro)(March 9, France)
• Karl Geary – Montpelier Parade(August 31)
• John Grisham –Camino Island(June 6)
• Mohsin Hamid –Exit West(March 2, UK)
• Catherine Hernandez -Scarborough
• Alan Hollinghurst –The Sparsholt Affair(September 26, UK)
• Gail Honeyman –Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine(UK)
• N. K. Jemisin –The Stone Sky(August 15)
• Lisa Jewell –Then She Was Gone(July 27, UK)
• The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Bill Drummond andJimmy Cauty) –2023(August 23, UK)
• Attica Locke –Bluebird, Bluebird
• Ian McDonald –Luna: Wolf Moon(March 23, UK)
• Jon McGregor –Reservoir 13(April 6, UK)
• Claude McKay (died1948) –Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem(February 7; written 1941)
• Robert Menasse –Die Hauptstadt (The Capital)(Germany)
• Denise Mina –The Long Drop(March 2, UK)
• Fiona Mozley –Elmet(August 10, UK)
• Neel Mukherjee –A State of Freedom(July 6, UK)
• Timothy Ogene –The Day Ends Like Any Day(April 6, UK)
• James Patterson &Candice Fox –Never Never(January 16, US)
• Tim Pears –The Horseman(January, UK)
• Gwendoline Riley –First Love(February, UK)
• Sally Rooney –Conversations with Friends(June, UK)
• George Saunders –Lincoln in the Bardo(February 14)
• Rachel Seiffert –A Boy in Winter(June 1, UK)
• Kamila Shamsie –Home Fire(August 15, UK)
• Joss Sheldon –Money Power Love(October 7, UK)
• Elizabeth Strout –Anything is Possible(April 25)
• J. R. R. Tolkien (died1973), edited byChristopher Tolkien –Beren and Lúthien(June 1, UK; original version written 1917)
• Zlatko Topčić
  • Dagmar
  • The Final Word (Zavrsna rijec)
• Éric Vuillard –The Order of the Day (L'Ordre du jour)(April 29, France)
• Jesmyn Ward –Sing, Unburied, Sing(September 5)
• Sarah Winman –Tin Man(July 27, UK)
• Kathleen Winter –Lost in September

• Galia Bernstein –I Am a Cat(November, Australia, Singapore)
• Sarah Crossan –Moonrise(September 1, UK)
• Lissa Evans –Wed Wabbit(January 5, UK)
• Susie Ghahremani –Stack the Cats(USA)
• Connie Glynn –Undercover Princess(October 30, UK)
• Kiran Millwood Hargrave –The Island at the End of Everything(May 4, UK)
• Amanda Hocking –Freeks(January 3)^[12]
• Anna McQuinn –Lulu Gets a Cat
• Philip Pullman –La Belle Sauvage, first volume inThe Book of Dust trilogy(October 19, UK)
• Katherine Rundell –The Explorer(August 10, UK)
• Angie Thomas –The Hate U Give(September 28)
• Jacqueline Wilson –Wave Me Goodbye(May 18, UK)

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

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

• 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(January 11, France)
• Christine Hyung-Oak Lee –Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember(February 14)
• Obi Kaufmann –The California Field Atlas(September 1)
• Roel Konijnendijk -Classical Greek Tactics
• Jamie Oliver –5 Ingredients – Quick and Easy Food(August 24, UK)
• 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(January 17)
• Hedi Yahmed –I Was in Raqqa (كنت في الرقة)

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

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

• January 2 –John Berger, English novelist, painter, art critic and poet, 90 (born1926)^[13]
• January 12 –William Peter Blatty, American author (The Exorcist), 89 (born1928)^[14]
• January 25:
  • Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian novelist and children's writer (The Bride Price,The Joys of Motherhood), 72 (born1944)^[15]
  • Harry Mathews, American novelist and poet, 86 (born1930)^[16]
• January 29 –Howard Frank Mosher, American novelist (Where the Rivers Flow North), 74 (born1942)
• January 30 -Teresa Amy, Uruguayan poet and translator, 66 (born1950)^[17]
• February 1 –William Melvin Kelley, African-American novelist, 79 (born1937)^[18]
• February 8 –Tom Raworth, English poet, 78 (born1938)
• March 10 –Robert James Waller, American novelist (The Bridges of Madison County), 77 (b.1939)^[19]
• March 16 –Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer, 78 (born1938)^[20]
• March 17 –Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright,Nobel Laureate in 1992, 87 (b.1930)^[21]
• April 1 –Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet, 84 (b.1933)^[22]
• May 1:
  • Anatoly Aleksin, Russian writer and poet, 92^[23]
  • Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian, 95^[24]
• May 24 –Denis Johnson, American poet, novelist (Tree of Smoke), and short story writer (Jesus' Son), 67 (born1949).^[25]
• June 2
  • Jaroslav Kořán, Czech translator, writer and politician, 77^[26]
  • Barrie Pettman, English author, publisher and philanthropist, 73^[27]
  • S. Abdul Rahman, Indian poet, 79^[28]
• June 4
  • Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist, 86^[29]
  • Jack Trout, American marketer and author, 82^[30]
• June 5
  • Helen Dunmore, English poet, novelist and children's writer, 64 (born1952)
  • Anna Jókai, Hungarian writer, 84^[31]
• June 8 –Naseem Khan, British journalist, 77^[32]
• June 12 –C. Narayana Reddy, Indian poet and writer,Jnanpith Awardee, 85^[33]
• June 27 –Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear), 91 (born1926)^[34]
• June 28 –Bruce Stewart, New Zealand author and playwright, 80^[35]
• July 2
  • Tony Bianchi, Welsh-language author, 65^[36]
  • Jack Collom, American poet, essayist and poetry teacher, 85^[37]
  • Abiola Irele, Nigerian literary critic, 81^[38]
  • Fay Zwicky, Australian poet, 83^[39]
• July 5 –Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet, 63 (cancer)^[40]
• July 9
  • Miep Diekmann, Dutch writer of children's literature, 92 (born1925)^[41]
  • Anton Nossik, Russian writer and internet entrepreneur, 51 (heart attack)^[42]
• July 10 –Peter Härtling, German writer and poet, 83^[43]
• September 23 –Harvey Jacobs, American author, 87^[44]
• November 20 –Amir Hamed, Uruguayan writer, essayist and translator, 55 (born1962)^[45]
• November 23 –Božena Mačingová, Slovak writer, author of books for children and young adults (born1922)^[46]
• December 28 –Sue Grafton, American mystery author, 77^[47]

In alphabetical order of prize names:

• Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction:Naomi Alderman forThe Power^[48]
• Baillie Gifford Prize:David France forHow to Survive a Plague^[49]
• Booker Prize:George Saunders forLincoln in the Bardo^[50]
• Caine Prize for African Writing:Bushra Elfadil, "The Story of the Girl Whose Bird Flew Away"
• Camões Prize:Manuel Alegre^[51]
• Costa Book Awards:Helen Dunmore (died June 5) forInside the Wave (poetry)^[52]
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award:Kris Bertin,Bad Things Happen
• David Cohen Prize:Tom Stoppard
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize:Kai Cheng Thom^[53]
• Desmond Elliott Prize:Francis Spufford,Golden Hill^[54]
• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature:
• Dylan Thomas Prize:Fiona McFarlane forThe High Places^[55]
• European Book Prize:David Van Reybrouck,Zink and, Raffaele Simone,Si la démocratie fait faillite
• Folio Prize:Hisham Matar forThe Return^[56]
• Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels:Margaret Atwood
• German Book Prize:Robert Menasse forDie Hauptstadt^[57]
• Goldsmiths Prize:Nicola Barker forH(a)ppy^[58]
• Gordon Burn Prize:Denise Mina forThe Long Drop^[59]
• Governor General's Award for English-language fiction:Joel Thomas Hynes,We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night^[60]
• Governor General's Award for French-language fiction:Christian Guay-Poliquin,Le Poids de la neige^[60]
• Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française:
• Hugo Award for Best Novel:N. K. Jemisin forThe Obelisk Gate^[61]
• International Booker Prize:David Grossman forA Horse Walks Into a Bar^[62]
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction:Mohammed Hasan Alwan forA Small Death^[63]
• International Dublin Literary Award:José Eduardo Agualusa forA General Theory of Oblivion^[64]
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
• Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award:
• Lambda Literary Awards: Various categories, see29th Lambda Literary Awards
• Miguel de Cervantes Prize:
• Miles Franklin Award:Josephine Wilson forExtinctions^[65]
• National Biography Award:
• National Book Award for Fiction:
• National Book Critics Circle Award:
• Newdigate Prize: Dominic Hand^[66]
• Nike Award:
• Nobel Prize in Literature:Kazuo Ishiguro
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:Imbolo Mbue forBehold the Dreamers^[67]
• 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 forThe Underground Railroad^[68]
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:Tyehimba Jess forOlio^[68]
• RBC Taylor Prize:Ross King forMad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies^[69]
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:David Chariandy,Brother^[70]
• Russian Booker Prize:
• Scotiabank Giller Prize:Michael Redhill,Bellevue Square^[71]
• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
• Walter Scott Prize:Sebastian Barry forDays Without End^[72]
• W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction:
• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award:Breyten Breytenbach^[73]

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