2019 in literature
Overview of the events of 2019 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2019 .
Events
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
André Alexis – Days by Moonlight [ 7]
Margaret Atwood – The Testaments (September 10)[ 8]
Leigh Bardugo – Ninth House (October 8)[ 8]
Kevin Barry – Night Boat to Tangier (June 29, UK)
Simon Beckett – The Scent of Death (February 12, Germany; April 18, UK)
Xurxo Borrazás – Covalladas. Prosa vertical
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Starling Days (July 11, UK)
Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie (April 11, UK)
Ted Chiang – Exhalation: Stories (May 7)
Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Water Dancer (September 24)[ 8]
Lindsey Davis – A Capitol Death (April 4, UK)
Lucy Ellmann – Ducks, Newburyport (July 4)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (May, UK)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Little Boy (March)
Jon Fosse – Det andre namnet – Septologien I-II (The Other Name: Septology I-II) (Norway)
Alice Hoffman – The World That We Knew (September 24)
Michel Houellebecq – Serotonin (January 4, France)
Luke Jennings – Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (March 26, UK)
László Krasznahorkai – Chasing Homer (October 8, Hungary)
John Lanchester – The Wall (January 17, UK)
John le Carré – Agent Running in the Field (October 15, UK)
Deborah Levy – The Man Who Saw Everything (August 29, UK)
Valeria Luiselli – Lost Children Archive (March 7)
Ian McDonald – Luna: Moon Rising (March 19)
Ian McEwan – Machines Like Me (April)
Maaza Mengiste – The Shadow King (September 24)
Chigozie Obioma – An Orchestra of Minorities (January)
Joseph O'Connor – Shadowplay (June 6, UK)
Téa Obreht – Inland (August 13)
Ann Patchett – The Dutch House (September 24)[ 8]
Max Porter – Lanny (March 5)
Salman Rushdie – Quichotte (August 29, UK)[ 8]
Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (October 15)
Zlatko Topčić – June 28, 1914 (July 5)
Christos Tsiolkas – Damascus (Australia)
Mario Vargas Llosa – Harsh Times [ 9]
Ocean Vuong – On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (June 4)[ 8]
Colson Whitehead – The Nickel Boys (July 16)[ 8]
Ian Williams – Reproduction (January 22, Canada)
Jeanette Winterson – Frankissstein: A Love Story (May 28, UK)
Children and young people
Poetry
Drama
Non-fiction
Biography and memoirs
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
January 1
January 2
January 3
January 4 – John Burningham , English writer of children's literature (Mr Gumpy's Outing , Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers ), 82 (born 1936 )[ 23]
January 5
January 6 – Bea Vianen , Surinamese writer (mainly in Dutch but also in Sranan Tongo ) and admirer of V. S. Naipaul , 83 (born 1935 )[ 26]
January 7
January 8 – Pierre Barillet , French playwright, 95 (born 1923 )[ 31]
January 9
January 12
A. Brian Deer , Canadian Kahnawake Mohawk librarian noted for developing the Brian Deer Classification System , 74 (born 1945 )[ 34]
Javier de Hoz , Spanish philologist and academic noted for his work on Paleohispanic languages , historical linguistics , ancient Celtic languages , history of writing , preclassical Greek literature , Greek epigraphy and ancient Greek theatre , 78 (born 1940)[ 35]
Linda Kelly , English Romantic historian noted for portraying Thomas Chatterton , Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Thomas Moore , 82 (born 1936 )[ 36]
January 13
January 15 – Bai Hua , Chinese novelist, playwright and poet, 88 (born 1930)[ 39]
January 16 – Mirjam Pressler , German novelist and translator from Hebrew , English, Dutch and Afrikaans , 78 (born 1940)[ 40]
January 17
January 18 – Brian Stowell , the first recorded full-length Manx novelist, translator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into Manx and 2008 Reih Bleeaney Vanannan recipient, 82 (born 1936)[ 44]
January 19
January 20
Ian Dewhirst MBE , British historian, 82 (born 1936)[ 49]
Ronald Hayman , British biographer of Pinter , Beckett , Stoppard , Nietzsche , Kafka , Grass , Proust and Thomas Mann , 86 (born 1932)[ 50]
Norman Itzkowitz , American translator, historian of the Ottoman Empire and purveyor of psychoanalysis , 87 (born 1931)[ 51]
January 21
January 22
January 23 – Diana Athill OBE , British literary editor and novelist, 101 (born 1917)[ 57]
February 1 – Andrew McGahan , Australian novelist, 52 (born 1966)[ 58]
February 9 – Farhad Ebrahimi , Iranian poet and writer, 83 (born 1935)[ 59]
February 14 – Andrea Levy , English novelist, 62 (born 1956)[ 60]
February 25 – Nikhil Sen , Bangladeshi dramatist, 87[ 61]
March 1 – Peter van Gestel , Dutch writer, 81 (born 1937)[ 62]
March 4 – Les Carlyon , Australian writer and newspaper editor, 76 (born 1942)[ 63]
March 10 – Pius Adesanmi , Nigerian-born Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, satirist, and columnist, 47 (killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 [ 64]
March 13 – Edmund Capon , English-born Australian art historian, 78 (born 1940)[ 65]
March 15 – Rudi Krausmann , Austrian-born Australian playwright and poet, 85 (born 1933)[ 66]
April 1 – Vonda N. McIntyre , American science fiction writer, 70 (born 1948)[ 67]
April 29 – Les Murray , Australian poet, anthologist and critic, 80 (born 1938)[ 68]
May 14 – Daniel Vidart , Uruguayan anthropologist, writer, historian, and essayist, 98 (born 1920)[ 69]
May 19 – John Millett , Australian poet, reviewer and poetry editor, 98 (born 1921)[ 70]
May 22 – Judith Kerr , English writer and illustrator (born 1923)[ 71]
June 1 – Christobel Mattingley , Australian author of books for children and adults, 87 (born 1931)[ 72]
June 8 – Milan Asadurov , Bulgarian science fiction writer (born 1949)[ 73]
July 7 – Steve Cannon , American novelist ("Groove, Bang, and Jive Around"), playwright, and arts impresario (A Gathering of the Tribes ), 84 (born 1935)[ 74]
July 13 – Kerry Reed-Gilbert , Australian poet, author and champion of Indigenous writers, 62 (born 1956)[ 75]
July 17 – Andrea Camilleri , Italian novelist (Inspector Montalbano novels) and playwright, 93 (born 1925)[ 76]
July 18 – Luciano De Crescenzo , Italian writer and director, 90 (born 1928)[ 77]
July 21 – Ann Moyal , Australian historian, (born 1926)[ 78]
July 22 – Brigitte Kronauer , German novelist, 78[ 79]
August 5 – Toni Morrison , American novelist (Beloved , Song of Solomon , Tar Baby ), winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 88 (born 1931)[ 80]
September 1 – Barbara Probst Solomon , American author (born 1928)[ 81]
September 11 – Anne Rivers Siddons , American novelist, (The House Next Door ) and (Peachtree Road ), 83 (born 1936)[ 82]
September 13 – György Konrád , Hungarian novelist and political dissident, President of PEN International (1990–1993), 86 (born 1933)[ 83]
September 16 – Steve Dalachinsky , American poet, 72, (born 1946)[ 84]
September 23
October 6 – Ciaran Carson , Irish poet, 70 (born 1948)[ 87] [ 88]
October 12 – Alison Prince , English children's writer and biographer, 88[ 89]
October 14 – Harold Bloom , American literary critic and writer (The Anxiety of Influence , The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages ), 89 (born 1930 )[ 90]
October 30 – Beatrice Faust , Australian author and women's activist, 80 (born 1939 )[ 91]
November 5 – Ernest J. Gaines , American author (A Lesson Before Dying , The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , A Gathering of Old Men ), 86 (born 1933 )[ 92]
November 7 – Nabanita Dev Sen , Indian writer and academic, 79 (born 1938 )[ 93]
November 14 – Krystyna Boglar , Polish writer known mostly for her work for children and young adults (born 1931 )[ 94]
November 24 – Clive James , Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster and writer, 80 (born 1939 )[ 95]
December 29 – Alasdair Gray , Scottish author (Lanark ) and visual artist, 85 (born 1934 )[ 96]
December 30 – Sonny Mehta , Indian-born British and American publishing executive (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ), 76, (born 1942)[ 97]
Awards
The following list is arranged alphabetically :
Akutagawa Prize : Natsuko Imamura ;[ 98] Makoto Furukawa [ 99]
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award : Tommy Orange for There There
Baillie Gifford Prize : Hallie Rubenhold , The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Booker Prize : Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year : The Dirt Hole and its Variations by Charles L Dobbins.[ 100]
Caine Prize for African Writing : Lesley Nneka Arimah , "Skinned"
Camões Prize : Chico Buarque
Carnegie Medal : Elizabeth Acevedo for The Poet X
Costa Book Awards : Jack Fairweather , The Volunteer
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Carrianne Leung , That Time I Loved You
David Cohen Prize : Edna O'Brien
Desmond Elliott Prize : Claire Adam for Golden Child
European Book Prize : Jonathan Coe, Middle England and, Laurent Gaudé, Nous l’Europe, banquet des peuples
Folio Prize : Raymond Antrobus , The Perseverance
German Book Prize : Saša Stanišić , Herkunft
Goldsmiths Prize : Lucy Ellmann , Ducks, Newburyport
Gordon Burn Prize : David Keenan for For the Good Times [ 101]
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction : Joan Thomas , Five Wives
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction : Céline Huyghebaert , Le drap blanc
Governor General's Awards , other categories: See 2019 Governor General's Awards
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française :
Hugo Award for Best Novel : A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine [ 102]
International Booker Prize : Jokha Alharthi , Celestial Bodies [ 103]
International Dublin Literary Award : Emily Ruskovich , Idaho [ 104]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Hoda Barakat , The Night Mail
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction :
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award :
Lambda Literary Awards : Multiple categories; see 31st Lambda Literary Awards .
Legion of Honour , Chevalier: Michel Houellebecq
Miguel de Cervantes Prize : Joan Margarit [ 105]
Miles Franklin Award : Melissa Lucashenko , Too Much Lip [ 106]
National Biography Award (Australia): Behrouz Boochani , No Friend But the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison[ 107]
National Book Award for Fiction :
National Book Critics Circle Award :
Nike Award :
Nobel Prize in Literature : Peter Handke
Olof Palme Prize : John le Carré
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :
PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
Premio Planeta de Novela :
Premio Strega :
Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing :
Prix Goncourt : Jean-Paul Dubois , Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon [ 108]
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Richard Powers , The Overstory [ 109]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Queen's Birthday Honours (UK) James Dover Grant (Lee Child), CBE; Tim Hely Hutchinson , CBE; Bettany Hughes , OBE; Sarah Ann Waters , OBE;
RBC Taylor Prize : Kate Harris , Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Roads
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize :
SAARC Literary Award :
Scotiabank Giller Prize : Ian Williams , Reproduction
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings :
Walter Scott Prize : Robin Robertson , The Long Take [ 110]
Whiting Awards :
Fiction:
Nonfiction:
Plays:
Poetry:
See also
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