2016 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2016.

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Events

• May 20 – Writers who sign a letter calling for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union include Hilary Mantel, John le Carré, Philip Pullman and Tom Stoppard;^[1] nevertheless, the June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum endorses Brexit.
• May 24 – Hundreds of US writers, including Stephen King, Robert Polito and Nicole Krauss, sign an "open letter to the American people" urging them not to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in the November 2016 United States presidential election.^[2]
• November 26 – UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy receives the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.^[3]

Anniversaries

• January 10 – Fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
• February 1 – 20th anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.^[4]
• February 22 – 40th anniversary of the publication of Raymond Carver's Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
• February 28 – Centenary of Henry James's death in 1916
• March 28 – 75th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf in 1941
• April 3 – 25th anniversary of Graham Greene's death in 1991
• April 12 – Centenary of the birth of Beverly Cleary, American children's author
• May 21 – Centenary of the birth of Harold Robbins, American novelist dubbed one of "the world's bestselling authors."^[5]
• May 28 – Centenary of the birth of Walker Percy, National Book Award-winning American novelist (The Moviegoer, published 55 years ago in 1961)
• April 21 – Bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth in 1816
• April 22 – 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes.^[6]
• April 23 – Possible 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death
• April 24 – Centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats's poem "Easter, 1916"
• July 1 – Centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in which those fighting included Robert Graves, Ford Madox Ford and JRR Tolkien
• July 14 – Centenary of the birth of Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author
• September 13 – Centenary of the birth of Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author
• September 17 – Centenary of the birth of Mary Stewart (Mary Rainbow), English romantic suspense novelist
• September 28 – Fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Breton, French poet, essayist and theorist; the leading exponent of Surrealism in literature
• October 3 – Centenary of the birth of James Herriot (James Alfred Wight), English writer and veterinary surgeon
• October 22 – 90 years ago, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises is published in a first edition consisting of 5090 copies, selling at $2.00 per copy
• December 14 – Centenary of the birth of Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer
• December 29 – Centenary of the publication in book form of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, in New York

New books

The date after each title indicate the U.S. publication date, unless otherwise stated.

Fiction

• Naomi Alderman – The Power (UK, October)
• Mohammed Hasan Alwan – A Small Death (موت صغير, Lebanon, May)
• Fernando Aramburu – Patria (Spain)
• Anuk Arudpragasam – The Story of a Brief Marriage (UK)
• Margaret Atwood – Hag-Seed (October)^[7]
• Sebastian Barry – Days Without End (October)^[8]
• Gary Barwin – Yiddish for Pirates (April 8)^[9]
• Mike Binder – Keep Calm (February 2)^[10]
• Pierce Brown – Morning Star (February 9)^[11]
• Graeme Macrae Burnet – His Bloody Project (UK)
• Marcia Clark – Blood Defense (May 1)^[12]
• J. M. Coetzee – The Schooldays of Jesus (UK, September 27)
• Jean-Baptiste Del Amo – Règne animal (France, August 18)
• Emma Donoghue – The Wonder (September)^[13]
• Linda Grant – The Dark Circle (UK only, November 3)
• Mark Greaney – Back Blast
• Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing
• Michael Helm – After James (September 13)^[14]
• Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – Navigators of Dune (September 13)^[15]
• Vigdis Hjorth – Arv og miljø (Wills and Testaments, Norway)
• Anosh Irani – The Parcel
• Alexandra Kleeman – Intimations: Stories (September 13)
• Christian Kracht – The Dead (Die Toten, Germany, September 8)
• László Krasznahorkai – Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (Báró Wenckheim hazatér, Hungary, September)
• Shari Lapena – The Couple Next Door
• Deborah Levy – Hot Milk (UK, March 24)^[16]
• Édouard Louis – Histoire de la violence (History of Violence, France, January 7)
• Mike McCormack – Solar Bones (UK, May 5)^[17]
• Elizabeth McKenzie – The Portable Veblen
• C. E. Morgan – The Sport of Kings
• Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman (コンビニ人間, Konbini ningen, Japan, July 27)
• Maggie O'Farrell – This Must Be the Place (UK, May 17)^[18]
• Chibundu Onuzo – Welcome to Lagos (UK)
• Stef Penney – Under A Pole Start
• Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent (UK, May 27)^[19]
• Kerry Lee Powell – Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
• Christoph Ransmayr – Cox
• David Adams Richards – Principles to Live By
• Steven Rowley – Lily and the Octopus (June 7)^[20]
• Joss Sheldon – The Little Voice (UK, November 23)^[21][22]
• Leïla Slimani – Chanson douce (France, August 18, translated as Lullaby or The Perfect Nanny)
• Ali Smith – Autumn (UK, October 20)^[23]
• Zadie Smith – Swing Time
• Botho Strauß – Oniritti Höhlenbilder (Germany, October 10)
• David Szalay – All That Man Is (linked short stories, UK, April 7)^[24]
• Yasuko Thanh – Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains (Canada)^[25]
• Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing (October 11)^[26]
• Rose Tremain – The Gustav Sonata (UK, May 19)^[27]
• Katherena Vermette – The Break (Canada)^[25]
• Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
• Zoe Whittall – The Best Kind of People (August 27)^[28]
• Corrina Wycoff – Damascus House (May 25)

Children and young people

• Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (with Mahlon F. Craft and Kinuko Y. Craft) – Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête)
• Jo Ellen Bogart – The White Cat and the Monk
• Paula Bossio – The Pencil (original El Lapiz, 2011)
• Maxine Beneba Clarke – The Patchwork Bike
• Brian Conaghan – The Bombs that Brought Us Together
• Mem Fox and Judy Horacek – Ducks Away!
• Denise Fleming – 5 Little Ducks
• Jory John and Lane Smith – Penguin Problems
• Dav Pilkey - Dog Man (first in the eponymous series of 10 books)
• J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – The Navajo Code Talkers
• Sophie Piper (with Anne Yvonne Gilbert) – Jesus is Born
• Francesca Simon – The Monstrous Child^[29]
• Maggie Stiefvater – The Raven King (last book in The Raven Cycle series)^[30]
• Jacqueline Wilson – Rent a Bridesmaid^[31]
• Toni Yuly – Cat Nap (Yuly book)

Poetry

Main article: 2016 in poetry

• Matthew and Michael Dickman – Brother
• Alice Oswald – Falling Awake
• Jacob Polley – Jackself

Drama

• Caryl Churchill
  • Escaped Alone (UK, 20 January)^[32]
  • Pigs And Dogs (UK, 21 July)^[33]
• Martyna Majok – Cost of Living
• Suman Pokhrel – Yajnaseni^[34]
• J. T. Rogers – Oslo (June)
• Zlatko Topčić – Silvertown
• Alex Vickery-Howe – Out of the Ordinary

Non-fiction

• Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Boy
• Daniel Beer – The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (UK)
• Paul Cartledge – Democracy: A Life (UK, March 24)^[35]
• Nicholas Crane – The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present
• Daisy Deomampo – Transnational Reproduction^[36]
• Susan Faludi – In the Darkroom (June 14)^[37]
• Christopher Goscha – The Penguin History of Vietnam
• John Guy – Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years (UK, May 5)^{[citation needed]}
• Jock Haswell (with John Lewis-Stempel) – A Brief History of the British Army (UK, May 26)
• Gareth Stedman Jones – Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (UK, August)^[38]
• Daniel Levitin – A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
• John Lewis-Stempel
  • The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland (UK, June 20)
  • Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, The Great War (UK)
• John McWhorter – Words on the Move: Why English Won't – and Can't – Sit Still (Like, Literally)
• Rajiv Malhotra
  • Academic Hinduphobia
  • Battle for Sanskrit
• Hisham Matar – The Return (UK, June 30)^[39]
• Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack – The Index Card (January 5)^[40]
• Patrick Phillips – Blood at the Root
• John Preston – A Very English Scandal (UK, May 5)^[41]
• Kassia St. Clair – The Secret Lives of Colour
• Gary Younge – Another Day in the Death of America

Deaths

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

• January 11 – Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer and translator (born 1918)^[42]
• January 18 – Michel Tournier, French writer, 91 (born 1924)^[43]
• January 20 – David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author and critic (b. 1941)
• February 8 – Margaret Forster, English novelist and biographer, 77 (born 1938)^[44]
• February 18 – Yūko Tsushima (津島 佑子), Japanese author, 68 (born 1947)^[45]
• February 19
  • Umberto Eco – Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose), 84 (born 1932)^[46]
  • Harper Lee – American author (To Kill a Mockingbird), 89 (born 1926)^[47]
• February 29 – Louise Rennison, English author and comedian (born 1951)^[48]
• March 4 – Pat Conroy, American novelist (The Prince of Tides), 70 (born 1945)^[49]
• March 8 - Enrique Estrázulas, Uruguayan writer, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist and diplomat, 74 (born 1942)^[50]
• March 21 – Tomás de Mattos, Uruguayan writer and librarian, 68 (born 1947)^[51]
• March 31 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer and the 2002 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 86 (born 1929)^[52]
• April 3 – Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer and scholar, novelist and poet, 79 (born 1936)^[53]
• April 5 – E. M. Nathanson, American author (The Dirty Dozen), 87 (born 1928)^[54]
• April 12 – Sir Arnold Wesker, English dramatist, 83 (born 1932)^[55]
• April 30 – Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and recidivist, won the 1957 Lamont Prize in Poetry, 94 (born 1921)^[56]
• June 6 – Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Amadeus), 90 (born 1926)^[57]
• June 25 – Adam Small, 79, South African writer and poet, winner of the Hertzog Prize (born 1936)^[58]
• June 30 – Sir Geoffrey Hill, English poet, 84 (born 1932)^[59]
• July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, 93 (born 1923)^[60]
• July 2 – Elie Wiesel, American Jewish author (Night) and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1928)^[61]
• July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer, 66 (born 1950)^[62]
• July 19 – Carlos Gorostiza, Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist, 96 (born 1920)
• August 24 – Michel Butor, French essayist, novelist, critic and a leading figure of 1950s Nouveau Roman group, 89 (born 1926)^[63]
• September 4 :
  • Isidore Okpewho, Nigerian novelist and critic, 74 (born 1941)^[64]
  • Cyril C. Perera, Sri Lankan author and translator, 93 (born 1923)
• September 16
  • Edward Albee, American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), 88 (born 1928)^[65]
  • W. P. Kinsella, Canadian author (Shoeless Joe), 81 (born 1935)^[66]
• September 28 – Gloria Naylor, African-American novelist and academic (The Women of Brewster Place), 66, (born 1950)^[67]
• October 13 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright and the 1997 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 90 (born 1926)^[68]
• October 31 – Natalie Babbitt, American author (Tuck Everlasting), 84 (born 1932)^[69]
• November 7 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist and songwriter, 82 (born 1934)^[70]
• November 10 – Francisco Nieva, Spanish playwright, novelist and short story writer, 91 (born 1924)
• November 11 – Sir James McNeish, New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer, 85 (born 1931)^[71]
• November 20 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer, 88 (born 1928)^[72]
• December 12 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian novelist and short story writer, 85 (born 1931)^[73]
• December 24 – Richard Adams, English author (Watership Down), 96 (born 1920)^[74]
• December 28 – Michel Déon, French novelist, 97 (born 1919)

Awards

In alphabetical order of prize names:

• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Mary Morris for The Jazz Palace
• Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies^[75]
• Baillie Gifford Prize: Philippe Sands, East West Street^[76]
• Booker Prize: Paul Beatty, The Sellout (first American winner)^[77]
• Caine Prize for African Writing: Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, "Memories We Lost"
• Camões Prize: Raduan Nassar^[78]
• Costa Book Awards: Sebastian Barry, Days Without End (novel and overall winner); Francis Spufford, Golden Hill (first novel); Alice Oswald, Falling Awake (poetry); Keggie Carew, Dadland (biography); Brian Conaghan, The Bombs that Brought us Together (children's)
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Heather O'Neill, Daydreams of Angels
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Leah Horlick^[79]
• Desmond Elliott Prize: Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies^[80]
• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature: Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy, India
• Dylan Thomas Prize: Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers^[81]
• European Book Prize: Javier Cercas, The Impostor and, Erri De Luca, Le Plus et le Moins
• Folio Prize: No prize awarded^[82]
• German Book Prize: Bodo Kirchhoff, Widerfahrnis^[83]
• Goldsmiths Prize: Mike McCormack, Solar Bones^[84]
• Gordon Burn Prize: David Szalay, All That Man Is^[85]
• Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
• Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
• Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2016 Governor General's Awards.
• Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre Le Dernier des nôtres
• International Booker Prize: Han Kang, The Vegetarian^[86]
• International Dublin Literary Award: Family Life by Akhil Sharma
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Rabai al-Madhoun, Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Naqba
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction: Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography: Laura Cumming, The Vanishing Man
• Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award: Anne Enright, The Green Road^[87]
• Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 28th Lambda Literary Awards.
• Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Eduardo Mendoza
• Miles Franklin Award: A. S. Patrić, Black Rock White City^[88]
• National Biography Award: Brenda Niall for Mannix
• National Book Award for Fiction: Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
• National Book Critics Circle Award: Louise Erdrich, LaRose
• Nike Award: Bronka Nowicka, Nakarmić kamień
• Nobel Prize in Literature: Bob Dylan
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: James Hannaham, Delicious Foods
• PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
• Premio Planeta de Novela:
• Premio Strega: Edoardo Albinati, La scuola cattolica
• Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: Hew Strachan
• Prix Goncourt: Leïla Slimani, Chanson douce
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer^[89]
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Peter Balakian, Ozone Journal^[90]
• RBC Taylor Prize: Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva^[91]
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Yasuko Thanh, Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
• Russian Booker Prize:
• Scotiabank Giller Prize: Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing^[92]
• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings:
• Walter Scott Prize: Simon Mawer, Tightrope^[93]
• W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: Ralph Peters, Valley of the Shadow^[94]
• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Lars Gustafsson^[95]

See also

Notes

• Information on the literary calendar at Books in 2016: a literary calendar |Books |The Guardian

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