2026 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2026.

10 January – Eino Leino died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
12 January
- Jack London was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
- Agatha Christie died in 1976 (50th Anniversary).
13 January – Michael Bond was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
14 January – Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
19 January – Hans Sachs died in 1576 (450th Anniversary).
24 January – E. T. A. Hoffmann was born in 1776 (250th Anniversary).
25 January – Joseph Görres was born in 1776 (250th Anniversary).
3 February – Richard Yates was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
5 February – Madame de Sévigné was born in 1626 (400th Anniversary).
8 February – Neal Cassady was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
9 February – Larissa Reissner died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
16 February – Joseph Victor von Scheffel was born in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
20 February
- Richard Matheson was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
- Alfonso Sastre was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
22 February – Zitkala-Ša was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
24 February – Erich Loest was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
3 March – Sidney Lee died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
4 March – Léon-Paul Fargue was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
7 March – Tove Ditlevsen died in 1976 (50th Anniversary).
11 March – Louise d'Épinay was born in 1726 (300th Anniversary).
17 March – Siegfried Lenz was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
24 March – Dario Fo was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
27 March – Frank O'Hara was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
29 March – Johann Heinrich Voß died in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
31 March – John Fowles was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
1 April – Anne McCaffrey was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
6 April – Yehuda Bauer was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
13 April – Marja Kubašec died in 1976 (50th Anniversary).
14 April – Averroes was born in 1126 (900th Anniversary).
20 April – Dinah Craik was born in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
28 April – Harper Lee was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
1 May – Alexandros Panagoulis died in 1976 (50th Anniversary).
8 May – David Attenborough was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
15 May – Anthony and Peter Shaffer were born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
21 May
- Ronald Firbank died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
- Robert Creeley was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
3 June – Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
4 June – Ain Kaalep was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
8 June – George Sand died in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
19 June – Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
20 June – John Neal died in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
25 June – Ingeborg Bachmann was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
27 June – Harriet Martineau died in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
4 July – Thomas Jefferson died in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
12 July
- Max Jacob was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
- Gertrude Bell died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
18 July – Elizabeth Jennings was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
6 August – Elisabeth Beresford was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
14 August – René Goscinny was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
3 September – Alison Lurie was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
13 September – Sherwood Anderson was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
14 September – Michel Butor was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
22 September – Johann Peter Hebel died in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
15 October
- Michel Foucault was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
- Evan Hunter was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
1 November – Günter de Bruyn was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
5 November – John Berger was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
9 November – Hugh Leonard was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
11 November – Noah Gordon was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
15 November – Anna de Noailles was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
20 November – John Gardner was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
24 November – Carlo Collodi was born in 1826 (200th Anniversary).
25 November – Poul Anderson was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
12 December – Jean Richepin died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
22 December – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born in 1876 (150th Anniversary).
23 December – Robert Bly was born in 1926 (100th Anniversary).
29 December – Rainer Maria Rilke died in 1926 (100th Anniversary).

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Children's and young adults

New children's and young adult, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Rachel Hawkins	The Storm	January 6	^[1]
Gabriel Tallent	Crux	January 6	^[2]
Daniyal Mueenuddin	This Is Where the Serpent Lives	January 13	^[3]
Julian Barnes	Departure(s)	January 20	^[4]
Nina McConigley	How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder		^[5]
Jennette McCurdy	Half His Age		^[6]
Angela Tomaski	The Infamous Gilberts		^[7]
Rocket Shokai, illus. toi8	Scum of the Brave	January 23	^[8]
Patmeena Sabit	Good People	February 3	^[9]
Rebecca Novack	Murder Bimbo	February 10	^[10]

Poetry

New poetry, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Drama

New drama, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Carrie Gibson	The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas	January 6	^[11]
Jacob Soboroff	Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster	January 6	^[12]
C. Thi Nguyen	The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game	January 13	^[13]
Mark Braude	The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII	January 20	^[14]
Chuck Klosterman	Football		^[15]
Nicolas Niarchos	The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth		^[16]
Elliot Williams	Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial that Divided the Nation		^[17]
Brooke N. Newman	The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy^[a]	January 27	^[18]
Josh Shapiro	Where We Keep the Light: Stories from a Life of Service		^[19]
Heather Ann Thompson	Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage		^[17]
Cristina Rivera Garza	Autobiography of Cotton	February 3	^[20]
Julio Scherer Ibarra [es]	Ni venganza ni perdón	February 11	^[21]
Kate Brown	Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City	February 17	^[22]
Gavin Newsom	Young Man in a Hurry	February 24	^[23]
Michael Pollan	A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness	February 24	^[24]

Biography and memoir

New biography and memoir, sorted by date of publication
Author	Title	Date	Ref.
Russell Myers	William & Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story	February 26	^[25]

Individual	Background	Date of death	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
Brian Doyle	Canadian writer	January 1	90		^[26]
James Grauerholz	American writer and book editor	January 1	73	Complications of pneumonia	^[27]
Sukumar Barua	Bangladeshi poet	January 2	87		^[28]
Franz Herre	German biographer	January 3	99		^[29]
Renée Good	American writer and poet	January 7	37	Shot by law enforcement	^[30]^[31]
Astrid Roemer	Surinamese-Dutch writer	January 8	78		^[32]
Kjersti Scheen	Norwegian writer and illustrator	January 8	82		^[33]
Frank J. Frost	American scholar and writer	January 9	96		^[34]
Erich von Däniken	Swiss author	January 10	90		^[35]
Karl Riha	German poet, writer and literary scholar	January 10	90		^[36]
Scott Adams	American author and cartoonist	January 13	68	Cancer	^[37]
Kim Sin-yong	South Korean poet and writer	January 15	80		^[38]
Hermann Peter Piwitt	German writer	January 15	90		^[39]
James Petras	American sociologist and political writer	January 17	89		^[40]
Alan Musgrave	New Zealand philosopher and essayist	January 20	85		^[41]
Allan Chapman	British historian of science and author	January 21	79		^[42]
Kalin Terziyski	Bulgarian poet and writer	January 22	55		^[43]
Roland Huntford	British biographer	January 23	98		^[44]
David Abulafia	British historian and author	January 24	76		^[45]
Michael Parenti	American non-fiction writer	January 24	92		^[46]
Marie Rouanet	French Occitan writer	January 25	89		^[47]
Mark Tully	British journalist and writer	January 25	90		^[48]
Sia Figiel	Samoan poet and writer	January 26	59		^[49]
James Sallis	American writer, poet and biographer	January 27	81		^[50]
Gloria Wade-Gayles	African-American academic and non-fiction writer	January 27	88		^[51]
Vénus Khoury-Ghata	Lebanese-French poet and writer	January 28	88		^[52]
Graham E. Fuller	American political analyst and author	January 29	89	Heart problems	^[53]
Diana Ferrus	South African poet and storyteller	January 30	72		^[54]
X. J. Kennedy	American poet, author and editor	January 30	96		^[55]
Rita Süssmuth	German politician and non-fiction writer	February 1	88		^[56]
Gabor Boritt	American historian and author	February 2	86		^[57]
Miroslav Košuta	Slovene poet, playwright and translator		89		^[58]
Teresa de Lauretis	Italian academic, feminist and author		87		^[59]
Myra MacPherson	American author, biographer and journalist		91		^[60]
Allan Massie	Scottish writer and literary reviewer	February 3	87	Cancer	^[61]
Fernand Ouellette	Canadian Quebecois poet, writer and essayist	February 3	95		^[62]
Thuraya Qabil	Saudi Arabian poet and journalist	February 4	85		^[63]
Zohar Shavit	Israeli scholar, author and translator	February 4	74		^[64]
Jeffrey Carver	American science fiction author	February 6	76		^[65]
Lina Brockdorff	Maltese writer, playwright and radio broadcaster	February 10	95		^[66]
Biodun Jeyifo	Nigerian literary critic, cultural theorist and essayist	February 11	80		^[67]
Cees Nooteboom	Dutch poet and writer	February 11	92		^[68]
Roy Medvedev	Russian studies scholar and political writer	February 13	100		^[69]
Susan George	American-French political and social scientist and writer	February 14	91		^[70]
Michael Silverblatt	American literary critic and broadcaster	February 14	73		^[71]
Pol Greisch	Luxembourgian dramatist and writer	February 15	95		^[72]
Thomas De Koninck	Canadian philosopher and author	February 16	91		^[73]
Dmitry Bavilsky	Russian writer, literary critic and journalist	February 17	57		^[74]
Anna dePeyster	British and Australian journalist and novelist	February 17	81		^[75]
Svein Jarvoll	Norwegian poet, writer, translator and essayist	February 18	79		^[76]
Lee Hye-gyeong	South Korean writer	February 20	65		^[77]
Sankar	Indian writer	February 20	92	Age-related health problems	^[78]
Dan Simmons	American science fiction and horror writer	February 21	77	Complications from a stroke	^[79]
Ali Babachahi	Iranian poet, writer, and literary critic	February 23	83		^[80]
Coleman Barks	American poet and interpreter of Rumi		88		^[81]
Glaudi Barsotti	French Occitan writer and journalist		92		^[82]
Andrej Medved	Slovenian poet, editor and translator		79		^[83]
Gregorio Morán	Spanish journalist and writer		79		^[84]
Nina Gabrielyan	Russian poet, writer, and poetry translator	February 24	72		^[85]
Ann Godoff	American editor and publisher		76	Complications from bone cancer	^[86]
Jeremy Larner	American author and poet		88	Parkinson's disease and lymphoma	^[87]
William E. Connolly	American political theorist and author	February 25	88		^[88]
Rob Grant	English comedy writer and television producer	February 25	70		^[89]
T. K. Oommen	Indian sociologist and non-fiction writer	February 26	88		^[90]
Jeelani Bano	Indian writer	March 1	89		^[91]
Mark Bittner	American writer		74	Heart attack	^[92]
Jacopo Camagni	Italian illustrator and comics artist		48	Complications from heart surgery	^[93]
Jahanara Arzu	Bangladeshi poet	March 2	93		^[94]
Nikolay Kolyada	Russian writer, playwright, playwriting teacher and director		68		^[95]
Hélène Mouchard-Zay	French academic and writer		85		^[96]
David "Diamond Dave" Whitaker	American poet and activist		88		^[97]
Unni-Lise Jonsmoen	Norwegian illustrator and children's writer	March 3	89		^[98]
Peter Schneider	German writer (Berlin Now)	March 3	85	Cancer	^[99]
Ahmed Ibrahim Darwish	Egyptian writer and poet	March 4	83		^[100]
Maurice J. Freedman	American librarian, president of the American Library Association (2002–2003)	March 5	86		^[101]
António Lobo Antunes	Portuguese writer	March 5	83		^[102]
Gerda Antti	Swedish writer	March 6	96		^[103]
Francisco Fernández Carvajal	Spanish priest and writer		88		^[104]
Eigra Lewis Roberts	Welsh writer, playwright, and poet		86		^[105]
Franco Vito Gaiezza	Italian musician and writer		66	Heart attack	^[106]
Lutfiya al-Dulaimi	Iraqi writer and women's rights activist	March 8	87		^[107]
Maricla Boggio	Italian writer		88		^[108]
Curzia Ferrari	Italian writer		96		^[109]
Walid Khalidi	Palestinian historian and non-fiction writer		100		^[110]
B. Wongar	Serbian-Australian writer		94		^[111]
Umberto Allemandi	Italian publisher	March 9	88		^[112]
Patricia Clarke	Australian writer, historian and journalist	March 9	99		^[113]
Alfredo Bryce Echenique	Peruvian writer (A World for Julius)	March 10	87		^[114]
Michael Hague	American illustrator (The Hobbit, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)		77		^[115]
Alojz Ihan	Slovenian immunologist, poet, and essayist		64		^[116]
Lloyd Jones	Welsh poet, novelist and photographer		74		^[117]
Fumiko Takeshita	Japanese novelist		69		^[118]
Paul R. Ehrlich	American biologist, environmentalist, and author (The Population Bomb)	March 13	93		^[119]
John M. Perkins	American Christian preacher, civil rights activist, and author	March 13	95		^[120]
Jürgen Habermas	German philosopher and social theorist	March 14	96		^[121]
Len Deighton	British spy novelist and illustrator (The IPCRESS File, An Expensive Place to Die, XPD).	March 15	97		^[122]^[123]
William C. Dietz	American science fiction writer (Halo: The Flood)	March 15	80		^[124]
Sam Kieth	American comic book artist and writer (The Maxx, Zero Girl)		63	Complications from Lewy Body dementia	^[125]
Bjørn Nilsen	Norwegian poet, journalist and television producer	March 16	91		^[126]
Aníbal Cristobo	Argentine poet	March 17	54		^[127]
Abd Alghani Abu Alazm [ar]	Moroccan writer	March 18	83		^[128]
Ted Booth	British poet	March 20	87		^[129]
Božo Koprivica	Serbian essayist, dramatic adviser, and literary critic		75		^[130]
Calvin Tomkins	American author and art critic (The New Yorker),		100	Stroke	^[131]
Hermann Huppen	Belgian comic book creator (Jeremiah)	March 22	87		^[132]
Peter Stead	Welsh writer	March 23	83		^[133]
Tracy Kidder	American writer (The Soul of a New Machine, Mountains Beyond Mountains), Pulitzer Prize winner (1982)	March 24	80	Lung cancer	^[134]
Alexander Kluge	German writer, philosopher, and film director	March 25	94		^[135]
Tordis Ørjasæter	Norwegian literary critic	March 25	99		^[136]
Mario Adorf	German actor and writer	April 8	95		^[137]
Desmond Morris	English zoologist, ethologist and author	April 19	98		^[138]
David Malouf	Australian poet and writer	April 22	92		^[139]
Volker Hage	German journalist, literary critic, biographer and novelist	April 29	76		^[140]

2026 in literature

New books

Children's and young adults

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Poetry

Drama

Nonfiction

Biography and memoir

Deaths

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