2013 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2013.
Anniversaries
- 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- 28 November – Three unpublished works by J. D. Salinger (died 2010), including "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", are leaked onto the internet.[8]
- 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
Fiction
- 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
- Philip Kerr – A Man Without Breath
- 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
- 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
- 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
Non-fiction
- 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
- 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)