2024 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024.
- 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).[1]
- 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.[2]
- 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
- 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
- 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
| 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] |
| Percival Everett | James | March 19 | |
| Téa Obreht | The Morningside | [5] | |
| Amor Towles | Table for Two | April 2 | |
| Miranda July | All Fours | May 14 | |
| Claire Messud | This Strange Eventful History | May 14 | [6] |
| Stephen King | You Like It Darker | May 21 | [7] |
| Rachel Cusk | Parade | June 6 | |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Little Rot | June 18 | |
| Markus Thielemann | Von Norden rollt ein Donner | July 11 | [8] |
| Keanu Reeves and China Miéville | The Book of Elsewhere | July 23 | [9] |
| Stephen Harrison | The Editors | August 13 | [10] |
| Rachel Kushner | Creation Lake | September 3 | [11] |
| Anna Montague | How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? | October 22 | [12] |
| Louise Penny | The Grey Wolf | October 29 | [13] |
| Richard Price | Lazarus Man | November 12 | [14] |
| Yael van der Wouden | The Safekeep | [15] |
Children and young adults
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Anguish and Anarchy | June 25 | [16] |
| Jordan Ifueko | The Maid and the Crocodile | August 13 |
Poetry
Drama
Nonfiction
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylvain Tesson | Avec les fées | January 10 | [17] |
| Evan Friss | The Bookshop | August 6 | [18] |
| John Grisham & Jim McCloskey | Framed | October 8 | [19] |
| Muhammad Sarip & Nanda Puspita Sheilla | Historipedia Kalimantan Timur | January 23 | [20] |
Biography and memoirs
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| RuPaul | The House of Hidden Meanings | March 5 | [21] |
| Salman Rushdie | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | April 16 | [22] |
| Melania Trump | Melania | October 8 | [23] |
Deaths
- January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85[24]
- January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.[25]
- February 23 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist, 92
- March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98[26]
- April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93[27]
- April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
- April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94[28]
- April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71[29]
- April 27 – Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61[30]
- April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86[31]
- April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77[32]
- May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84[33]
- May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
- June 26 – Nathaniel Tarn, French-American poet, 95[34]
- July 1 – Funso Aiyejina, Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright and academic, 75[35]
- July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88[36]
- July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93[37]
- September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76[38]
- November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91[39]
- Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, poet and painter, 85[40]
- December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86[41]
- December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92[42]
- December 9 – Nikki Giovanni, American poet, 81[43]
- December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91[44]
