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Everything about 2000 In Literature totally explainedThe 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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