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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013.
Events
[edit]- 21 January – An annual Orwell Day is instituted.[1]
- 26 January – Fleeing Islamist insurgents set fire to library buildings in Timbuktu containing manuscripts, mostly in Arabic, dating back to 1204.[2]
- 7 March – World Book Day becomes a UNESCO-designated event marked in more than 100 countries.[3]
- April – J. K. Rowling publishes a detective novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, with the U.K. publisher Sphere Books. The author's identity is revealed by the media in July.[4]
- 23 April – World Book Night.[3]
- 28 April – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Simon Stephens' stage adaptation of a novel by Mark Haddon, wins a record seven awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards in London.[5]
- 1 July – Publisher Penguin Random House is created by a merger.
- 3 September – The new Library of Birmingham, the largest public library in the U.K., is opened by Malala Yousafzai.[6] Its public spaces are integrated with those of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
- October – Jo Nesbø reveals himself as Tom Johansen, author of three forthcoming novels.[7]
- 28 November – Three unpublished works by J. D. Salinger (died 2010), including "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", are leaked onto the internet.[8]
Anniversaries
[edit]- 11 February
- 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963[3]
- 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Jacobs in 1813[9]
- 28 January – 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice in 1813[3]
- 5 May – 200th anniversary of the birth of Søren Kierkegaard in 1813[3]
- 2 June – 100th anniversary of the birth of Barbara Pym[10]
- 29 June – 400th anniversary of the burning of the Globe Theatre during a production of Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII in 1613[3]
- 2 August – 25th anniversary of the death of US short story writer Raymond Carver
- 7 November – 100th anniversary of the birth of Albert Camus[3]
- 22 November – 50th anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley[3]
New books
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
- José Eduardo Agualusa – A General Theory of Oblivion (Teoria Geral do Esquecimento)
- Jacob M. Appel – The Biology of Luck
- Dan Brown – Inferno
- Adam Christopher – The Burning Dark
- J. M. Coetzee – The Childhood of Jesus
- Troy Denning – Crucible
- Doug Dorst – S.
- Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Aminatta Forna – The Hired Man
- Frederick Forsyth – The Kill List
- Neil Gaiman – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Elizabeth Graver – The End of the Point
- David G. Hartwell (ed.) – Year's best SF 18
- Neamat Imam – The Black Coat
- Reinhard Jirgl – Nichts von euch auf Erden
- Stephen King – Doctor Sleep
- Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
- Pierre Lemaitre – Au revoir là-haut (The Great Swindle)
- Eimear McBride – A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
- Alex Miller – Coal Creek
- Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年, Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi)
- Adam Nevill – House of Small Shadows
- Nnedi Okorafor – Kabu-Kabu: Stories
- Chuck Palahniuk – Doomed
- Rick Riordan – The House of Hades
- Veronica Roth – Allegiant
- J. K. Rowling (as Robert Galbraith) – The Cuckoo's Calling
- Ahmed Saadawi – Frankenstein in Baghdad (فرانكشتاين في بغداد)
- M. G. Sanchez – The Escape Artist: a Gibraltarian novel
- John Scalzi – The Human Division
- Sjón – Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was (Mánasteinn – drengurinn sem aldrei var til)
- Robert Stone – Death of the Black-Haired Girl
- Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
- Zlatko Topčić – Dagmar
- Peter Watts – Beyond the Rift (collected stories)
- Tim Winton – Eyrie
Children's and young people
[edit]- David Almond – Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
- John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman - "Bone Quill"
- Anthony Horowitz – Russian Roulette[11]
- Patricia MacLachlan – Cat Talk
- Rainbow Rowell
- Maggie Stiefvater – The Dream Thieves (second book in The Raven Cycle)
Drama
[edit]- Annie Baker – The Flick
- Elfriede Jelinek – Die Schutzbefohlenen
- Lucy Kirkwood – Chimerica
- Stefano Massini – The Lehman Trilogy
- Edward Petherbridge and Kathryn Hunter – My Perfect Mind
Poetry
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- Saroo Brierley – A Long Way Home
- Kate Christensen – Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
- Pat Conroy – The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
- Jared Diamond – The World Until Yesterday
- Craig Dworkin – No Medium
- Peter Freeman – The Wallpapered Manse
- Malcolm Gladwell – David and Goliath
- Ben Goldacre – Bad Pharma
- Temple Grandin – The Autistic Brain
- Gary Greenberg – The Book of Woe
- Wil Haygood – The Butler: A Witness to History
- Michael Kimmel – Angry White Men[12]
- Mark Levin – The Liberty Amendments
- Peter H. Maguire – Thai Stick[13]
- Diane Muldrow – Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book
- Dimitra Papagianni and Michael A. Morse – The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- Thomas Piketty – Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Le Capital au XXIe siècle)[14]
- Lisa Randall – Higgs Discovery
- Sheryl Sandberg – Lean In
- Nina Stibbe – Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
- Jeff VanderMeer – The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
Deaths
[edit]- 2 January
- Alexei Rudeanu, Romanian writer (born 1939)[15]
- Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and writer (born 1944)[16]
- 7 January – Maruša Krese, Slovene poet, writer and journalist (born 1947)[17]
- 10 January – Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet and short story writer (born 1924)
- 11 January – Robert Kee, English writer, journalist and broadcaster (born 1919)[18]
- 18 January – Jacques Sadoul, French novelist, book editor and non-fiction writer (born 1934)[19]
- 20 January
- Yemi Ajibade, Nigerian playwright and actor (born 1929)
- Dolores Prida, Cuban-American journalist and playwright (born 1943)
- Toyo Shibata (柴田トヨ), Japanese poet (born 1911)[20]
- 24 January – Richard G. Stern, American novelist and educator (born 1928)
- 2 February – Sirajul Haq Memon, Pakistani author, journalist and scholar in Sindhi (born 1933)[21]
- 3 February – Robert Anthony Welch, Irish author and academic (born 1947)[22]
- 4 February – Margaret Frazer (Gail Lynn Brown), American historical novelist (born 1946)[23]
- 5 February – Leda Mileva, Bulgarian writer, translator, and diplomat (born 1920)[24]
- 7 February
- Niki Marangou, Cypriot writer and painter (born 1948)[25]
- Jonathan Rendall, English author (born 1964)[26]
- 8 February – Alan Sharp, Scottish-American screenwriter and author (born 1934)[27]
- 10 February – W. Watts Biggers, American novelist (born 1927)[28]
- 12 February – Barnaby Conrad, American author (born 1922)[29]
- 13 February – Oswald LeWinter, Austrian-born American writer (born 1931)[30]
- 14 February
- Glenn Boyer, American author (born 1924)[31]
- Mary Brave Bird, American Lakota writer and activist (born 1954)[32]
- Friedrich Neznansky, Russian writer (born 1932)[33]
- 17 February
- William Bridges, American author and business consultant (born 1933)[34]
- Manoranjan Das, Indian playwright (born 1923)[35]
- Debbie Ford, American motivational author (born 1955)[36]
- 23 February
- Maurice Rosy, Belgian comics writer (born 1927)[37]
- Sylvia Smith, English writer (born 1945)[38]
- 24 February – Mahmoud Salem, Egyptian author (born 1931)[39]
- 26 February
- Jan Howard Finder, American science fiction writer (born 1939)[40]
- Stéphane Hessel, German-born French author and diplomat (born 1917)[41]
- 27 February
- Molly Lefebure, English writer (born 1919)[42]
- Imants Ziedonis, Latvian poet (born 1933)[43]
- 10 March – Robert Chrisman, American poet, scholar, and critic, co-founder of The Black Scholar (born 1937)
- 1 April – Kildare Dobbs, Canadian author (born 1923)
- 11 April – Adam Galos, Polish historian (born 1924)[44]
- 13 April – Nick Pollotta, American science fiction author (born 1954)[45]
- 20 April
- Jocasta Innes, China-born English non-fiction writer (born 1934)[46]
- E. L. Konigsburg, American children's novelist and illustrator (born 1930)[47]
- 22 April – Clément Marchand, Canadian poet and journalist (born 1912)[48]
- 1 May – Gregory Rogers, Australian children's author and illustrator (born 1957)
- 12 May – Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian (born 1932)
- 23 May – William Demby, American author (born 1922)
- 26 May – Jack Vance, American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer (born 1916)
- 6 June – Tom Sharpe, English comic novelist (born 1928)[49]
- 9 June – Iain Banks, Scottish novelist (born 1954)[50]
- 23 June – Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)[51]
- 12 July – Elaine Morgan, Welsh writer on anthropology (born 1920)[52]
- 2 September – Frederik Pohl, American science fiction writer (born 1919)[53]
- 18 September – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born German literary critic (born 1920)
- 21 September – Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet (shot dead, born 1935)[54]
- 23 September
- Christopher Koch, Australian novelist (born 1932)[55]
- Álvaro Mutis, Colombian poet, novelist and essayist (born 1923)[56]
- Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (born 1926)[57]
- 1 October – Tom Clancy, American thriller writer (born 1947)[58]
- 25 November – Joel Lane, English author, poet, and critic (born 1963)
- 11 December – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author (born 1929)
Awards
[edit]- Akutagawa Prize (Early): Kaori Fujino for Tsume to Me (爪と目) "Nails and Eyes"
- Caine Prize for African Writing: Tope Folarin, "Miracle"
- Camões Prize: Mia Couto[59]
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award: (announced 11 June 2013)
- David Cohen Prize: Hilary Mantel
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, C. E. Gatchalian; honours of distinction, Anand Mahadevan, Barry Webster
- Dylan Thomas Prize: Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins[60]
- European Book Prize: Eduardo Mendoza, An Englishman in Madrid, and Arnaud Leparmentier, The French, gravediggers of the euro
- German Book Prize: Terézia Mora, Das Ungeheuer
- Goldsmiths Prize: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride[61]
- Gordon Burn Prize: Pig Iron by Ben Myers[62]
- Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Quand les guêpes se taisent by Stéphanie Pelletier
- Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Plonger by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: John Scalzi for Redshirts
- International Dublin Literary Award: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry[63]
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction: The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2013 Lambda Literary Awards
- Man Booker Prize: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Miles Franklin Award: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser[64][65]
- National Biography Award (5 August): The Two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick[66]
- National Book Award for Fiction: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Alice Munro
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Premio Planeta de Novela: El cielo ha vuelto by Clara Sánchez
- Premio Strega: Resistere non serve a niente by Walter Siti
- Pritzker Military Library Literature Award: to Tim O'Brien[67]
- Prix Goncourt: Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
- Russian Booker Prize: Возвращение в Панджруд (Return to Panjrud) by Andrei Volos
- SAARC Literary Award: Suman Pokhrel, Abhay K, Daya Dissanayake, Farheen Chaudhary, Abdul Khaliq Rashid
- Samuel Johnson Prize: (announced November 2013) The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Lynn Coady, Hellgoing[68]
- Whiting Awards: Fiction: Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams (fiction/nonfiction), Amanda Coplin, Jennifer duBois, C.E. Morgan, Stephanie Powell Watts; Nonfiction: Morgan Meis, Clifford Thompson; Plays: Virginia Grise; Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Women's Prize for Fiction: May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
- Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: W.S. Merwin[69]
References
[edit]- ^ "George Orwell Day begins annual commemoration". The Guardian. London. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ Harding, Luke (28 January 2013). "Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "2013: the year ahead in books". The Guardian. London. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Lyall, Sarah (14 July 2013). "This Detective Novel's Story Doesn't Add Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Curious Night at the Oliviers". Olivier Awards. 28 April 2013. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ Brown, Graeme (20 March 2012). "Opening date for new Library of Birmingham revealed". Birmingham Post.
- ^ "Harvill Secker Announces Two New Books From Jo Nesbo". booktrade.info. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ Payne, Ed; Friedman, Chandler (1 December 2013). "Report: Unpublished J.D. Salinger stories leak online". CNN. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ^ "Harriet Jacobs | American abolitionist and author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ "Philip Hensher toasts the novelist Barbara Pym", 2 June 2013. Accessed 23 September 2013.
- ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Second ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 9780198715542.
- ^ Rosin, Hanna (22 November 2013). "Even Madder Men". The New York Times.
- ^ Courtwright, David T. (August 2015), "Book Review: Maguire and Ritter, Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade", Pacific Historical Review, 84 (3), University of California Press: 400–401, doi:10.1525/phr.2015.84.3.400
- ^ Éric Toussaint (19 January 2014). "Que faire de ce que nous apprend Thomas Piketty sur Le Capital au XXI siecle" (in French).
- ^ "Scriitorul Alexei Rudeanu a DECEDAT la vârsta de 73 de ani". România Liberă. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ "Teresa Torańska nie żyje" (in Polish). Wiadomosci.gazeta.pl. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
- ^ "Umrla je Maruša Krese". Delo (in Slovenian). 8 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Author Robert Kee dies aged 93". BBC News. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ "Mort de l'éditeur Jacques Sadoul". Le Figaro (in French). Agence France-Presse. 18 January 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Granny poet marks 100th birthday with verse for victims". asahi.com. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
- ^ Siraj Memon, an icon of Sindhi literature, passes away at 79, The Express Tribune.
- ^ Robert Welch obituary, guardian.co.uk. 1 March 2013.
- ^ Gail Lynn Frazer obituary, legacy.com, 6 February 2013.
- ^ На 93 години почина Леда Милева (in Bulgarian)
- ^ Σκοτώθηκε στην Αίγυπτο η συγγραφέας Νίκη Μαραγκού lifo.gr (in Greek)
- ^ Jonathan Rendall dies, The Times, 7 February 2013.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (14 February 2013). "Alan Sharp obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
- ^ W. Watts Biggers, Creator of 'Underdog' Cartoon, Dies at 85
- ^ Barnaby Conrad, Man of Many Hats and a Cape, Dies at 90, The New York Times, 16 February 2013
- ^ Oswald Le Winter – Holly Hill, thetandd.com, 18 February 2013.
- ^ Glenn Boyer, author of trilogy on Wyatt Earp dies azcentral.com
- ^ Mary Ellen Bird dies Archived 5 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, kvsh.com, 18 February 2013.
- ^ ДНИ.РУ ИНТЕРНЕТ-ГАЗЕТА ВЕРСИЯ 5.0/Умер писатель Фридрих Незнанский.
- ^ William Bridges, Larkspur author of books on life changes, dies at 79 Archived 5 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Marin Independent Journal.
- ^ Playwright Manoranjan Das dead, The Times of India, 19 February 2013.
- ^ Debbie Ford, Author of Self-Help Books, Is Dead at 57 NY Times.
- ^ Décès du céramiste Maurice Savoie (in French)
- ^ Sylvia Smith, telegraph.co.uk
- ^ "Egyptian author Mahmoud Salem dies age 84" Daily News Egypt.
- ^ Jan Howard Finder, #1 fan, dies at 73.
- ^ Best-selling French author Stephane Hessel dies at 95 Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine themalaysianinsider.com.
- ^ Memory of Molly Lefebure.
- ^ Miris dzejnieks Imants Ziedonis|Diena.lv.
- ^ Zmarł profesor Adam Galos, wybitny wrocławski historyk.
- ^ SF Site News " Obituary: Nick Pollotta.
- ^ Jocasta Innes.
- ^ Award-winning children's author E.L. Konigsburg dies in Virginia at age 83 The Washington Post.
- ^ Décès du poète et éditeur Clément Marchand, ledevoir.com.]
- ^ Tom Sharpe, Porterhouse Blue novelist, dies aged 85.
- ^ Kelly, Stuart (15 June 2013). "Iain Banks: the final interview". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (24 June 2013). "'I Am Legend' author Richard Matheson has died at 87". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Fishlock, Trevor (16 July 2013). "A writer who brought out the flavour of Wales". Retrieved 7 November 2016.
- ^ Jonas, Gerald (3 September 2013). "Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction Master Who Vaporized Utopias, Dies at 93". The New York Times.
- ^ "Prof. Awoonor dies in Al-Shabab attack in Kenyan Mall". citifmonline. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ Miles Franklin Award winning novelist Christopher Koch dead at 81.
- ^ Álvaro Mutis muere a la edad de 90 años en México (in Spanish)
- ^ Addio a Luciano Vincenzoni, scrisse "Il buono, il brutto e il cattivo" (in Italian)
- ^ Kite, Lorien (2 October 2013). "Thriller writer Tom Clancy dies". FT.com. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ "Award: Mia Couto recipient of the 2013 Camões Prize for Literature – Brazil | Portuguese American Journal". Portuguese American Journal. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ "Dylan Thomas Prize: US writer Claire Vaye Watkins wins £30,000". BBC News. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Maughan, Philip (13 November 2013). "Goldsmiths Prize awarded to debut novelist Eimear McBride for A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing". New Statesman. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ Bury, Liz (21 October 2013). "Benjamin Myers claims inaugural Gordon Burn prize". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ Lea, Richard (7 June 2013). "Kevin Barry wins Impac award". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- ^ 2013 Winner, Michelle de Kretser Archived 25 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Miles Franklin Literary Awards.
- ^ Michelle de Kretser wins Miles Franklin Award for her book Questions of Travel, ABC News, Wed 19 Jun 2013.
- ^ Steger, Jason (5 August 2013). "Frank Thring double bill wins biography award". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ "Tim O'Brien: 2013 Pritzker Literature Award Winner | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago". Pritzkermilitary.org. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ "Lynn Coady Wins The 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize". www.scotiabank.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ "W. S. Merwin Granted International Herbert Award". Retrieved 12 March 2019.
External links
[edit]- 2013: the year ahead in books at The Guardian
- Most popular 2013 book articles viewed on Wikipedia, with user comments on traffic jumps – The latest statistics can be found on Wikitop