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The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

New books

Fiction

  • Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
  • Reed Arvin - The Will
  • Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
  • Louis Auchincloss - Her Infinite Variety
  • Eleanor Ayer - Parallel Journeys
  • Trezza Azzopardi - The Hiding Place
  • Iain M. Banks - Look to Windward
  • Matt Beaumont - e
  • Raymond Benson - Doubleshot
  • T. C. Boyle - A Friend of the Earth
  • Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
  • Tom Clancy - The Bear And The Dragon
  • Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark - Deck The Halls
  • Miriam Cooke - Hayati, My Life
  • Bernard Cornwell - Harlequin (aka The Archer's Tale)
  • Patricia Cornwell - The Last Precinct
  • August Derleth - The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
  • Ken Follett - Code to Zero
  • Myla Goldberg - Bee Season
  • Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
  • John Grisham - The Brethren
  • Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke
  • Joanne Harris - Blackberry Wine
  • Elisabeth Harvor - Excessive Joy Injures the Heart (Canada)
  • David Holland -
  • Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
  • Robert Ludlum - The Prometheus Deception
  • Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - The Indwelling and The Mark
  • Barry N. Malzberg - In the Stone House
  • Colleen McCullough - Morgan's Run
  • Alistair MacLeod - Island
  • George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
  • Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
  • Robert B. Parker - Hugger Mugger
  • James Patterson - Roses Are Red
  • Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice
  • Giuseppe Pontiggia - Nati due volte
  • Terry Pratchett - The Truth
  • Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
  • Mario Puzo - Omertà
  • Kathy Reichs - Deadly Decisions
  • Philip Roth - The Human Stain
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Peter Ruber editor - Arkham's Masters of Horror
  • Jean-Jacques Schuhl - Ingrid Caven
  • Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
  • Michael Slade - Hangman
  • Gillian Slovo - Red Dust
  • Zadie Smith - White Teeth
  • Michael Stackpole - and
  • Domenico Starnone - Via Gemito
  • Danielle Steel - The House On Hope Street and Journey
  • Kathy Tyers - Balance Point
  • Andrew Vachss - Dead and Gone

    Drama

  • David Auburn - Proof
  • Timothy Findley - Elizabeth Rex
  • Dusty Hughes - Helpless

    Poetry

  • Anne Carson - Men in the Off Hours
  • Paul Celan - (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
  • Fanny Howe -
  • Pierre Labrie - À tout hasard
  • Grazyna Miller - Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
  • Owen Sheers - The Blue Book

    Non-fiction

  • The Beatles Anthology
  • Peter Ackroyd - London: A Biography
  • Gerina Dunwich -
  • Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • Charles Foster -
  • Lawrence Lessig - Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
  • Roger Lowenstein -
  • Sidney Poitier -
  • Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee -
  • Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp -

    Births

    Deaths

  • January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author
  • January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
  • February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
  • March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
  • April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
  • August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
  • September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British novelist and critic (The History Man)
  • October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
  • November 2 - Robert Cormier, 75, young adult fiction writer
  • November 8 - L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author

    Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian

    Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
  • Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell
  • Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, Drylands; Kim Scott, Benang

    Canada

  • Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost - tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
  • See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

    France

  • Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, Dans ces bras-là
  • Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ingrid Caven
  • Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, Camille
  • Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes
  • Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, Diabolus in musica
  • Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

    United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
  • 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

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for 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 for 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
  • Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
  • Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
  • Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
  • 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

    Other

  • Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
  • IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
  • Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, El alquimista impaciente
  • Viareggio Prize: Giorgio Van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passatoFurther Information

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