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2024 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.

Anniversaries[edit]

New books[edit]

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

Fiction[edit]

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of Pub. Ref.
Álvaro Enrigue You Dreamed of Empires January 9 [3]
Kristin Hannah The Women February 6
Jennifer Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey March 5 [4]
Téa Obreht The Morningside March 19 [5]
Stephen King You Like It Darker May 21 [6]

Children and young adults[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Drama[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Sylvain Tesson Avec les fées January 10 [7]

Biography and memoirs[edit]

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
RuPaul The House of Hidden Meanings March 5
Salman Rushdie Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder April 16 [8]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award Category Author Title Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award Alicia Elliott And Then She Fell [17]
Atlantic Book Awards Ann Connor Brimer Award Jack Wong The Words We Share [18]
J. M. Abraham Poetry Award Fawn Parker Soft Inheritance
Thomas Head Raddall Award Michelle Porter A Grandmother Begins the Story
Danuta Gleed Literary Award Lisa Alward Cocktail [19]
Griffin Poetry Prize Best Poetry Book George McWhirter Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence [20]
Best First Poetry Book Maggie Burton Chores [21]
Lambda Literary Awards Bisexual Fiction Ling Ling Huang Natural Beauty [22]
Bisexual Nonfiction Myriam Gurba Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Bisexual Poetry Danielle Cadena Deulen Desire Museum
Comics E. M. Carroll A Ghost in the House
Gay Fiction Bryan Washington Family Meal
Gay Memoir/Biography Jason Yamas Tweakerworld
Gay Poetry Charif Shanahan Trace Evidence
Gay Romance Cat Sebastian We Could Be So Good
Lesbian Fiction Catherine Lacey Biography of X
Lesbian Memoir/Biography Amelia Possanza Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
Lesbian Poetry Kimberly Alidio Teeter
Lesbian Romance Georgia Beers Dance with Me
LGBTQ Anthology Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies
LGBTQ Children's Nina LaCour, Sonia Albert The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
LGBTQ Drama James Ijames Fat Ham
LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica laura q A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories
LGBTQ Middle Grade Robin Gow Dear Mothman
LGBTQ Mystery Cari Hunter A Calculated Risk
LGBT Nonfiction Matt Baume Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
LGBTQ Poetry Quinn Carver Johnson The Perfect Bastard
LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Marisa Crane I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
LGBTQ Studies Erin L. Durban The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
LGBTQ Young Adult Abdi Nazemian Only This Beautiful Moment
Transgender Fiction Soula Emmanuel Wild Geese
Transgender Nonfiction Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Transgender Poetry Michael MJ Jones Hood Vacations

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Smith, Helena (April 18, 2021). "Revealed: Lord Byron's £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece". The Guardian. Athens. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  2. ^ Thompson, Lawrance (ed.). Selected Letters of Robert Frost. p. lvi. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ Garner, Dwight (January 8, 2024). "A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  4. ^ "Exclusive Cover Reveal of Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"". Electric Literature. July 7, 2023. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "The Morningside by Téa Obreht". Kirkus Reviews. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  6. ^ Collis, Clark (November 6, 2023). "Read the start of Stephen King's Cujo sequel in excerpt from story collection, You Like It Darker". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 21, 2024.
  7. ^ Plouviez, Grégory (10 January 2024). "'Avec les fées' : que vaut le dernier livre de Sylvain Tesson ?". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Salman Rushdie to publish memoir on stabbing that left him blind in one eye". CNN. Reuters. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  9. ^ "Schriftstellerin Elke Erb gestorben". Zeit. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
  10. ^ "Laurent de Brunhoff".
  11. ^ Parini, Jay (2004). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-515653-9.
  12. ^ "The Indian In The Cupboard author Lynne Reid Banks dies aged 94". NewsChain. 4 April 2024. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  13. ^ Knight, Lucy (April 29, 2024). "CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71". The Guardian.
  14. ^ "Sir Vincent O'Sullivan Obituary". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Paul Auster, famed novelist known for 'The New York Trilogy' and '4 3 2 1,' dies at 77". NBC News. May 1, 2024.
  16. ^ 唐十郎さん死去、84歳…「泥人魚」「ベンガルの虎」アングラ小劇場運動を先導 (in Japanese)
  17. ^ Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.
  18. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
  19. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.
  20. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.
  21. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.
  22. ^ Athena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.