Overview of the events of 2000 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000 .
New books [ edit ]
Fiction [ edit ]
Children and young people [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914 )[27]
January 26
January 31 – Gil Kane , Latvian-American comic book cartoonist (born 1926 )
February 11 – Bernardino Zapponi , Italian novelist (born 1927 )
February 12 – Charles M. Schulz , American cartoonist (born 1922 )
March 28 – Anthony Powell , English novelist (born 1905 )[28]
April 3 – Terence McKenna , American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born 1946 )[29]
April 13 – Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer (born 1916 )
April 15 – Edward Gorey , American illustrator and writer (born 1925 )[30]
April 21 – Al Purdy , Canadian poet (born 1918 )
April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald , English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916 )[31]
May 13 – Paul Bartel , American actor, writer and director (born 1938 )
May 16 – Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer (born 1924 )
May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland , English novelist and playwright (born 1901 )[32]
July 14 – William Roscoe Estep , American historian and educator (born 1920 )
August 3 – Michael Meyer , English translator and biographer (born 1921 )
August 25 – Carl Barks , American comic book cartoonist (born 1901 )
September 2 – Curt Siodmak , American novelist and screenwriter (born 1902 )[33]
September 3 – Jack Simmons , English historian (born 1915 )
September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury , English novelist and critic (born 1932 )[34]
September 14 – Hwang Sun-won , Korean fiction writer (born 1915 )
September 22 – Yehuda Amichai , Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born 1924 )
September 25 – R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (born 1913 )[35]
October 8 – Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born 1937 )
October 30 – Steve Allen , American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born 1921 )
November 2 – Robert Cormier , American young adult fiction writer (born 1925 )
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp , American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born 1907 )[36]
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks , African-American poet (born 1917 )[37]
Australia [ edit ]
United Kingdom [ edit ]
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature (first award): Howard Jacobson , The Mighty Walzer
Booker Prize : Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin
Caine Prize for African Writing : Leila Aboulela , "The Museum"
Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Beverley Naidoo , The Other Side of Truth [40]
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Zadie Smith , White Teeth
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Martin Amis , Experience
Cholmondeley Award : Alistair Elliot , Michael Hamburger , Adrian Henri , Carole Satyamurti
Eric Gregory Award : Eleanor Margolies , Antony Rowland , Antony Dunn , Karen Goodwin , Clare Pollard
Orange Prize for Fiction : Linda Grant , When I Lived in Modern Times
Samuel Johnson Prize : David Cairns , Berlioz: Volume 2
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Edwin Morgan
Whitbread Best Book Award : Matthew Kneale , English Passengers
United States [ edit ]
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize : Quan Barry , Asylum
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry : Eleanor Ross Taylor
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry : Corey Marks , "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton , "Broken Ground"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry : David Ferry , Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
Brittingham Prize in Poetry : Greg Rappleye , A Path Between Houses
Business Week Best Book of the Year : Roger Lowenstein , When Genius Failed
Compton Crook Award : Stephen L. Burns , Flesh and Silver
Edgar Award : Joe R. Lansdale , The Bottoms
Frost Medal : Anthony Hecht
Hugo Award : Vernor Vinge , A Deepness in the Sky
Michael L. Printz Award for the "best book written for teens" (first award): Walter Dean Myers , Monster
National Book Award for Fiction : Susan Sontag , In America
National Book Critics Circle Award : Ted Conover , Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Nebula Award : Greg Bear , Darwin's Radio
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Christopher Paul Curtis , Bud, Not Buddy
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction : Ha Jin , Waiting
Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Donald Margulies , Dinner With Friends
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Jhumpa Lahiri , Interpreter of Maladies
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : C.K. Williams , Repair
Wallace Stevens Award : Frank Bidart
Whiting Awards :
Fiction: Robert Cohen , Samantha Gillison , Lily King , John McManus , Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction: Andrew X. Pham
Plays: Kelly Stuart
Poetry: Albert Mobilio (poetry/fiction), James Thomas Stevens , Claude Wilkinson
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 .
References [ edit ]
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^ Francesca de Châtel; Robin Hunt (2 August 2004). Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail . Routledge. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-1-135-47609-0 .
^ Herald of Library Science . 2002. p. 161.
^ Simon, Diane (October 16, 2000). "Drowning Ruth (Book Review)" . People . 54 (16): 58. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .
^ Claire Squires (26 June 2002). Zadie Smith's White Teeth . A&C Black. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-8264-5326-6 .
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^ "Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!" . archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
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^ "The Same Old Stories" . archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^ "His Dark Materials" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 265
^ a b c Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 . Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3 .
^ "Vicky Angel" . www.penguin.co.uk . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^ "Dejan Stojanović" . Internet Archive .
^ Prosveta, Beograd.Stojanović, Dejan. "Znak i njegova deca" . Internet Archive .
^ Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro .
^ a b Narodna knjiga–Alfa , Beograd.
^ "X + Y = Z" . movies2.nytimes.com .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
^ Bernstein, Richard (July 31, 2000). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000)" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Patrick Tort (2000). Darwin et la science de l'évolution (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-053520-0 .
^ Prial, Frank J (7 January 2000). "Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85" . The New York Times .
^ "Obituary: Anthony Powell" . The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 March 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2017 .
^ Martin, Douglas (September 10, 2013). "Terence McKenna, 53, dies; Patron of psychedelic drugs" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2012-09-12 .
^ Kelley, Tina (April 16, 2000). "Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75" . The New York Times .
^ Harvey-Wood, Harriet (3 May 2000). "Penelope Fitzgerald" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 January 2021 .
^ "BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies" . news.bbc.co.uk . 21 May 2000. Retrieved 24 January 2021 .
^ "Curt Siodmak; Writer Created the 'Wolf Man' " . Los Angeles Times . 2000-09-09. Retrieved 2021-01-19 .
^ Mark Twain (25 March 2004). Pudd'nhead Wilson . Penguin Books Limited. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-14-192033-7 .
^ M. Wynn Thomas. "THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000), poet and clergyman" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . Retrieved 26 August 2021 .
^ Thurber, Jon (November 13, 2000). "Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, CA. p. B4.
^ Watkins, Mel (December 4, 2000). "Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83" . The New York Times . Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17.
^ "Rastko: Dejan Stojanović" . Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2010-08-28 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 661