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Overview of the events of 2022 in literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
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Imani Perry | South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | January 25 | [25][23] |
Daniel H. Pink | The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward | February 1 | [25] |
Chuck Klosterman | The Nineties | February 8 | [25] |
Alexandra Lange | Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall | June 14 | [69] |
Ed Yong | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | June 21 | [70] |
Elizabeth Alexander | The Trayvon Generation | June 28 | [23] |
Patrick Radden Keefe | Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks | June 28 | [71] |
Philip Rosenthal and Jenn Garbee | Somebody Feed Phil the Book | October 18 | [72] |
Quentin Tarantino | Cinema Speculation | November 1 | [73] |
Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times | November 15 | [32] |
Oskar Lafontaine | Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung Europas | November 21 | [74] |
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
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Bernardine Evaristo | Manifesto: On Never Giving Up | January 18 | [23] |
Laura Gao | Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American | March 8 | [75] |
Elena Ferrante | In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing | March 15 | [23] |
Maud Newton | Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation | March 29 | [25][23] |
Hannah Gadsby | Ten Steps to Nanette | March 29 (Australia) | [76] |
Delia Ephron | Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life | April 12 | [23] |
Janelle Monáe | The Memory Librarian | April 19 | [30] |
Viola Davis | Finding Me | April 26 | [30] |
Jennette McCurdy | I'm Glad My Mom Died | August 9 | [32] |
Yasmín Ramírez | ¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family | August 2 | [9] |
Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
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Zheng Min | Chinese poet | January 3 | 101 | [77] | |
F. Sionil José | Filipino novelist and journalist | January 6 | 97 | [78] | |
Terry Teachout | American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist | January 13 | 65 | [79][80] | |
Ron Goulart | American author of Groucho Marx mysteries | January 14 | 89 | Respiratory arrest | [81] |
Thiago de Mello | Brazilian poet and translator | January 14 | 95 | [82] | |
André Leon Talley | American fashion author, editor, and journalist | January 18 | 73 | Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 | [83][84][85][86] |
Lani Forbes | American young adult novelist` | February 3 | 35 | Neuroendocrine cancer | [87] |
Ashley Bryan | American writer and illustrator of children's books | February 4 | 98 | [88][89] | |
Jason Epstein | American editor and publisher | February 4 | 93 | Congestive heart failure | [90] |
Kenta Nishimura | Japanese novelist | February 5 | 54 | [91] | |
Bruce Duffy | American novelist | February 10 | 70 | Brain cancer | [92] |
P. J. O'Rourke | American political satirist and journalist | February 15 | 74 | Lung cancer | [93] |
Jan Pieńkowski | Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog) | February 19 | 85 | Complications of dementia | [94] |
Shirley Hughes | English writer and illustrator of children's books | February 25 | 94 | [95] | |
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. | American author, editor, and journalist | March 8 | 86 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [96] |
Maureen Howard | American novelist, memoirist, and editor | March 13 | 91 | [97] | |
Yuz Aleshkovsky | Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter | March 21 | 92 | [98] (in Russian) | |
Ted Mooney | American novelist and journalist (Art in America) | March 22 | 70 | Heart disease | [99] |
Richard Howard | American poet, critic, and translator | March 31 | 92 | [100] | |
David McKee | English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard) | April 6 | 87 | [101] | |
Jack Higgins | British crime writer | April 9 | 92 | [102] | |
Serhiy Dyachenko | Ukrainian fantasy novelist | May 5 | 77 | [103] | |
Patricia A. McKillip | American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) | May 6 | 74 | [104] | |
Kim Chi-ha | South Korean poet and playwright | May 8 | 81 | [105] | |
Peter Lamborn Wilson | American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) | May 22 | 76-77 | [106] | |
Morton L. Janklow | American literary agent | May 25 | 91 | [107][108] | |
Walter Abish | Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories | May 28 | 90 | [109] | |
Boris Pahor | Slovenian writer (Necropolis) | May 30 | 108 | [110] | |
George Lamming | Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet | June 4 | 94 | [111] | |
Duncan Hannah | American visual artist and author | June 11 | 69 | Heart attack | [112] |
A. B. Yehoshua | Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright | June 14 | 85 | Cancer | [113] |
Raffaele La Capria | Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago) | June 26 | 99 | [114] | |
Frank Moorhouse | Australian novelist and screenwriter | June 26 | 83 | [115] | |
Susie Steiner | British crime novelist | July 2 | 51 | Brain cancer | [116] |
Joan Lingard | Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) | July 12 | 90 | [117] | |
Stuart Woods | American novelist (Chiefs) | July 22 | 84 | [2] | |
Melissa Bank | American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) | August 2 | 61 | Lung cancer | [118] |
David McCullough | American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) | August 7 | 89 | [119] | |
Raymond Briggs | English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) | August 9 | 88 | Pneumonia | [120][121] |
Nicholas Evans | English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter | August 9 | 72 | Heart attack | [122] |
Jean-Jacques Sempé | French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) | August 11 | 89 | [123] | |
Frederick Buechner | American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher | August 15 | 96 | [124][125] | |
Joseph Delaney | English author (Spook's) | August 16 | 77 | [126] | |
Hadrawi | Somali poet | August 18 | 78-79 | [127] | |
Michael Malone | American writer | August 19 | 80 | Pancreatic cancer | [128] |
Peter Straub | American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman) | September 4 | 79 | [129] | |
Mariella Mehr | Swiss novelist, playwright and poet | September 5 | 74 | [130] | |
Javier Marías | Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) | September 11 | 70 | Pneumonia | [131] |
Yadollah Royaee | Iranian poet | September 14 | 90 | [132] | |
Tibor Frank | Hungarian historian | September 15 | 74 | [133] | |
Saul Kripke | American philosopher and logician | September 15 | 81 | [134] | |
Hilary Mantel | British novelist (Wolf Hall) | September 22 | 70 | [135][136] | |
Knud Sørensen | Danish novelist, essayist and poet | September 26 | 94 | [137] | |
Marguerite Andersen | German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator | October 1 | 97 | [138] | |
Charles Fuller | American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign) | October 3 | 83 | [139] | |
Rebecca Godfrey | Canadian author | October 3 | 54 | Lung cancer | [140] |
David Huerta | Mexican poet | October 3 | 72 | [141] | |
Peter Robinson | British-born Canadian crime writer | October 4 | 72 | [142] | |
Temsüla Ao | Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head) | October 9 | 76 | [143] | |
Bruno Latour | French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern) | October 9 | 75 | Pancreatic cancer | [144] |
Thomas Cahill | American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization) | October 18 | 82 | [145] | |
John Jay Osborn Jr. | American writer (The Paper Chase) | October 19 | 77 | Squamous cell cancer | [146] |
Anton Donchev | Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter | October 20 | 92 | [147] | |
Leszek Engelking | Polish writer and translator | October 22 | 67 | [148] | |
Mike Davis | American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire) | October 25 | 76 | Cancer | [149] |
Julie Powell | American author (Julie & Julia) | October 25 | 49 | Cardiac arrest | [150] |
Gerald Stern | American poet, essayist, and educator | October 27 | 97 | [151] | |
Bahaa Taher | Egyptian novelist and short story writer | October 27 | 87 | [152] | |
Hava Pinhas-Cohen | Israeli writer and poet | October 29 | 67 | [153] | |
Gael Greene | American author | November 1 | 88 | [154] | |
Doris Grumbach | American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist | November 4 | 104 | [155] | |
Geoff Cochrane | New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer | November 14 | 71 | [156] | |
Marcus Sedgwick | British writer, illustrator and musician | November 15 | 54 | [157] | |
Joëlle Guillais | French writer | November 19 | 70 | Stroke | [158] |
Marijane Meaker | American writer (Spring Fire) | November 21 | 95 | Cardiac arrest | [159] |
Bernadette Mayer | American poet and writer | November 22 | 77 | [160] | |
Milovan Danojlić | Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic | November 23 | 85 | [161] | |
Christian Bobin | French author and poet | November 24 | 71 | [162] | |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger | German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil) | November 24 | 93 | [163] | |
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh | Yemeni poet and essayist | November 28 | 85 | [164] | |
Ray Nelson | American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man) | November 30 | 91 | [165] | |
Dominique Lapierre | French author | December 4 | 91 | [166][167] | |
Claude Mossé | French historian | December 12 | 97 | [168] | |
Xi Xi | Chinese novelist and poet | December 18 | 85 | Heart failure | [169] |
Manfred Messerschmidt | German historian (Germany and the Second World War) | December 19 | 96 | [170] | |
Françoise Bourdin | French novelist | December 25 | 70 | [171] | |
Begoña Huertas | Spanish writer | December 25 | 57 | [172] | |
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam | Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic | December 28 | 86 | [173] | |
Marion Meade | American biographer and novelist | December 29 | 88 | [174] |
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