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Overview of the events of 2023 in literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2023.
c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France.[1]
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Author | Title | Date of Pub. | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Allegra Goodman | Sam | January 3 | [2] |
Bret Easton Ellis | The Shards | January 17 | [3] |
Annalee Newitz | The Terraformers | January 31 | [4] |
Salman Rushdie | Victory City | February 7 | [5] |
Rebecca Makkai | I Have Some Questions for You | February 21 | [6] |
John Banville | The Lock-Up | April 6 | [7] |
Dennis Lehane | Small Mercies | April 25 | [8] |
Emily Henry | Happy Place | [9] | |
Abraham Verghese | The Covenant of Water | May 2 | [10] |
Gina Apostol | La Tercera | May 4 | [11] |
Naoise Dolan | The Happy Couple | May 25 | [12] |
Margaret Atwood | Fourteen Days | May 30 | [13] |
Paul Goldberg | The Dissident | June 6 | [14] |
David Connor | Oh God, the Sun Goes | August 1 | [15] |
Ann Patchett | Tom Lake | August 1 | [16] |
Mona Susan Power | A Council of Dolls | August 8 | [17][18] |
John Manual Arias | Where There Was Fire | August 29 | [19][20] |
Zadie Smith | The Fraud | September 5 | [21] |
Stephen King | Holly | September 5 | [22][23] |
Daniel Mason | North Woods | September 19 | [24] |
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Paul Auster | Bloodbath Nation | January 10 | [25] |
Rick Rubin | The Creative Act | January 17 | [26] |
David Graeber | Pirate Enlightenment | January 24 | [27] |
Bernie Sanders | It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism | February 21 | [28] |
Ron DeSantis | The Courage to Be Free | February 28 | [29] |
David Grann | The Wager | April 18 | [30] |
John Vaillant | Fire Weather: a true story from a hotter world | June 6 | [31] |
Sarah Ogilvie | The Dictionary People | September 7 | [32] |
Naomi Klein | Doppelganger | September 12 | [33] |
Zeke Faux | Number Go Up | September 12 | [34] |
Scott Shane | Flee North | September 19 | [35] |
Michael Lewis | Going Infinite | October 3 | [36] |
Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Prince Harry | Spare | January 10 | [37] |
Pamela Anderson | Love, Pamela | January 31 | [38] |
Elliot Page | Pageboy | June 6 | [39] |
Andrew Leland | The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight | July 18 | [40] |
Walter Isaacson | Elon Musk | September 12 | [41] |
Britney Spears | The Woman in Me | October 24 | [42] |
Aaron Badgley | Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label | December 8 | [43] |
Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
January | |||||
Lise Nørgaard | Danish journalist and writer (Matador) | January 1 | 105 | [44] | |
Edith Pearlman | American short story writer | January 1 | 86 | [45] | |
Suzy McKee Charnas | American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs") | January 2 | 83 | [46] | |
Catherine David | French-American literary critic and novelist | January 2 | 73 | [47] | |
Dumitru Radu Popescu | Romanian novelist and poet | January 2 | 87 | [48] | |
Mohamed Enani | Egyptian writer and translator | January 3 | 83 | [49] | |
Fay Weldon | British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright | January 4 | 91 | [50] | |
Victoria de Stefano | Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist and philosopher | January 6 | 82 | [51] | |
Russell Banks | American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter) | January 7 | 82 | Cancer | [52] |
Aleksey Slapovsky | Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2) | January 8 | 65 | Pneumonia | [53] |
Rehman Rahi | Indian poet, translator and literary critic | January 9 | 97 | [54] | |
Charles Simic | Serbian-born American poet (The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems) | January 9 | 84 | Complications from dementia | [55][56] |
Sara Aboobacker | Indian novelist, short story writer and translator | January 10 | 86 | [57] | |
Paul Johnson | British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity) |
January 12 | 94 | [58][59] | |
Claudio Willer | Brazilian poet, essayist and translator | January 13 | 82 | Bladder cancer | [60] |
Ronald Blythe | English writer and columnist | January 14 | 100 | [61] | |
Gordana Kuić | Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans) | January 15 | 80 | [62] | |
Gáspár Miklós Tamás | Hungarian philosopher and academic | January 15 | 74 | [63] | |
Mousse Boulanger | Swiss writer and journalist | January 16 | 96 | [64] | |
Luisa Josefina Hernández | Mexican writer, playwright and translator | January 16 | 94 | [65] | |
Jonathan Raban | British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money) | January 17 | 80 | [66][67] | |
Jacques Jarry | French linguist and archeologist | January 18 | [68] | ||
Claude Guillon | French writer and philosopher | January 19 | 70 | [69] | |
Nilmani Phookan Jr | Indian poet | January 19 | 89 | [70] | |
Grigorijus Kanovičius | Lithuanian writer | January 20 | 93 | [71] | |
Paul LaFarge | American novelist, essayist and academic | January 20 | 52 | Cancer | [72] |
Nano Riantiarno | Indonesian playwright | January 20 | 73 | [73] | |
Georges Banu | Romanian-born French writer | January 21 | 79 | [74] | |
Pino Roveredo | Italian writer and theater director | January 21 | 68 | [75] | |
Friedrich Weissensteiner | Austrian historian and writer | January 21 | 95 | [76] | |
Ian Black | British journalist and author (Israel's Secret Wars) | January 22 | 69 | complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration | [77] |
Joseph Agassi | Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution) | January 23 | 95 | [78] | |
Dmytro Pavlychko | Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat | January 29 | 93 | [79] | |
K. V. Tirumalesh | Indian writer and poet | January 30 | 82 | [80] | |
Linda Pastan | American poet | January 30 | 90 | [81] | |
Cleonice Berardinelli | Brazilian academic and writer | January 31 | 106 | [82] | |
Henrik Nordbrandt | Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist, and essayist | January 31 | 77 | [83] | |
February | |||||
René Schérer | French philosopher | February 1 | 100 | [84] | |
Alain Lacouchie | French poet and illustrator | February 3 | 76 | [85] | |
Knut Borchardt | German historian | February 5 | 93 | [86] | |
Renato Del Ponte | Italian essayist | February 5 | 78 | [87] | |
Josep Maria Espinàs | Spanish writer ("Cant del Barça"), journalist and publisher | February 5 | 95 | [88] | |
May Sayegh | Palestinian poet and political activist | February 5 | 82 | [89] | |
Răzvan Theodorescu | Romanian historian and politician | February 6 | 83 | [90] | |
Nicolò Mineo | Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist | February 6 | 89 | [91] | |
Richard Kell | Irish poet, composer, and teacher | February 7 | 95 | [92] | |
Leontii Voitovych | Ukrainian historian | February 7 | 71 | [93] | |
Subimal Mishra | Indian novelist and short story writer | February 8 | 79 | [94] | |
Agnès Laroche | French novelist and author | February 11 | 57 | [95] | |
Lualhati Bautista | Filipino novelist (Dekada '70, 'GAPÔ, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?), screenwriter (Bulaklak sa City Jail) and activist | February 12 | 77 | [96] | |
Robert Sauzet | French historian | February 12 | 95 | [97] | |
Suzanne Sens | French author and educator | February 13 | 92 | [98] | |
Giampiero Neri | Italian poet | February 15 | 95 | [99] | |
Helen Fogwill Porter | Canadian poet, essayist and activist | February 16 | 92 | [100] | |
Mario Vitti | Italian philologist | February 6 | 96 | [101] | |
Richard Belzer | American actor, stand-up comedian, and author | February 19 | 78 | Unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions | [102][103] |
Daniel Roche | French historian | February 19 | 87 | [104] | |
Michael S. Heiser | American biblical scholar and author | February 20 | 60 | Pancreatic cancer | [105] |
Philip Ziegler | British historian and biographer | February 22 | 93 | [106] | |
Irving Wardle | English theatre critic and playwright | February 23 | 93 | [107] | |
Mihai Șora | Romanian philosopher, essayist and politician | February 25 | 106 | [108] | |
Günther von Lojewski | German journalist, television presenter, and author | February 26 | 87 | [109] | |
Amy Schwartz | American author and illustrator of children's books | February 26 | 68 | [110][111] | |
Juan Muñoz Martín | Spanish children's author (El Barco de Vapor) | February 27 | 93 | [112] | |
Javad Tabatabai | Iranian philosopher and political scientist | February 28 | 77 | [113] | |
March | |||||
Anise Koltz | Luxembourgish author | March 1 | 94 | [114] | |
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay | Indian novelist (Pandab Goenda) | March 3 | 81 | Stroke | [115] |
Christopher Fowler | British science fiction writer | March 3 | 69 | Cancer | [116] |
Kenzaburō Ōe | Japanese writer (1994 Nobel laureate in literature) | March 3 | 88 | Natural causes | [117] |
Yuri Zhukov | Russian historian | March 3 | 85 | [118] | |
Judith Heumann | American disability rights activist and author | March 4 | 75 | [119] | |
Matti Klinge | Finnish historian | March 5 | 86 | [120] | |
Sylviane Telchid | Guadeloupean writer and translator | March 5 | 81 | Complications from Alzheimer's disease | [121] |
Ian Falconer | American author and illustrator of children's books (Olivia) | March 7 | 63 | [122] | |
Salvador García-Bodaño | Spanish poet | March 7 | 87 | [123] | |
Jitendra Nath Mohanty | Indian philosopher | March 7 | 95 | [124] | |
Dhiruben Patel | Indian novelist, playwright and translator | March 10 | 96 | [125] | |
John Jakes | American writer (North and South, The Kent Family Chronicles) | March 11 | 90 | [126] | |
William G. Johnsson | Australian theologian and author | March 11 | 88 | [127] | |
Michel Peyramaure | French writer | March 11 | 101 | [128] | |
Isabel Colegate | British author (The Shooting Party) and literary agent | March 12 | 91 | [129] | |
Karel Kaplan | Czech historian | March 12 | 94 | [130] | |
Jaume Medina | Spanish philologist, translator and poet | March 12 | 73 | [131] | |
Dragoslav Mihailović | Serbian academic and playwright | March 12 | 92 | [132] | |
Momoko Kuroda | Japanese haiku poet and essayist | March 13 | 84 | Brain hemorrhage | [133] |
Richard Wagner | Romanian-born German novelist | March 14 | 70 | [134] | |
Patrick French | British writer and historian (Tibet, Tibet, The World Is What It Is) | March 16 | 57 | Cancer | [135] |
Anna Sujatha Mathai | Indian poet | March 16 | 89 | [136] | |
Jorge Edwards | Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat | March 17 | 91 | [137] | |
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie | Iraqi novelist (The Tattoo Mark) | March 20 | 83 | [138] | |
Eric Brown | British science fiction writer | March 21 | 62 | Sepsis | [139] |
Harri Nykänen | Finnish crime writer | March 21 | 69 | [140] | |
Howard Fergus | Montserratian author and historian | March 23 | 85 | [141] | |
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim | Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet | March 23 | 98 | [142] | |
Jean-Marie Apostolidès | Greek-French novelist, essayist, and theater director | March 24 | 79 | [143] | |
María Kodama | Argentine writer and translator; wife of Jorge Luis Borges | March 26 | 86 | Breast cancer | [144] |
D. M. Thomas | British poet, translator and novelist (The Flute-Player, The White Hotel) | March 26 | 88 | [145] | |
April | |||||
Rachel Pollack | American science fiction author, comic book writer, and activist | April 7 | 77 | [146] | |
Anne Perry | British crime writer (The Cater Street Hangman) | April 10 | 84 | [147] | |
Harold Kushner | American rabbi, author, and lecturer (When Bad Things Happen to Good People) | April 28 | 88 | [148] | |
May | |||||
Andrew Delaplaine | American novelist and screenwriter (Meeting Spencer) | May 1 | 73 | Stomach cancer | [149] |
Gabrielle Carey | Australian novelist (Puberty Blues) | May 2 | 64 | [150] | |
Henri Coulonges | French novelist and painter | May 4 | 86 | [151] | |
Rafael Guillén | Spanish poet | May 4 | 90 | Stroke | [152] |
Haidar Haidar | Syrian novelist (The Desolate Time, A Feast for the Seaweeds, The Mirrors of Fire) | May 5 | 87 | [153] | |
Bruce McCall | Canadian author and illustrator | May 5 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [154] |
Philippe Sollers | French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini | May 5 | 86 | [155] | |
Ingrid Arvidsson | Swedish poet, author, and diplomat | May 7 | 103 | [156] | |
Vladimir Dybo | Russian linguist | May 7 | 92 | [157] | |
Fred Siegel | American historian and conservative writer | May 7 | 78 | [158] | |
Ronald Steel | American author and biographer (Walter Lippmann) | May 7 | 92 | [159] | |
Samaresh Majumdar | Indian writer | May 8 | 79 | Complications from COPD | [160] |
Heather Armstrong | American blogger and author | May 9 | 47 | Suicide | [161] |
Josef Ehmer | Austrian historian | May 9 | 74 | [162] | |
Wilferd Madelung | German-British author and scholar of Islamic history | May 9 | 92 | [163] | |
Rosemary Crossley | Australian author | May 10 | 78 | [164] | |
Ian Hacking | Canadian philosopher (The Taming of Chance, Rewriting the Soul, Mad Travelers) | May 10 | 87 | [165] | |
Leon Comber | British military officer and author | May 11 | 101 | [166] | |
Sibylle Lewitscharoff | German writer | May 13 | 69 | [167] | |
Hassan Hallak | Lebanese historian and academic | May 15 | 77 | [168] | |
Eugene Kozlovsky | Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director | May 15 | 76 | [169] | |
Inger Sandberg | Swedish children's author (The Little Ghost Godfrey, Lilla Anna and the Tall Uncle) | May 16 | 92 | [170] | |
Martin Amis | British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow) | May 19 | 73 | Esophageal cancer | [171] |
Pete Brown | English poet, lyricist ("I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room") and singer | May 19 | 82 | [172] | |
Dževad Karahasan | Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher | May 19 | 70 | [173] | |
Veno Taufer | Slovenian poet, translator and playwright | May 20 | 90 | [174] | |
Antón Arrufat | Cuban writer and poet | May 21 | 87 | Bronchopneumonia | [175] |
Erick Pohlhammer | Chilean poet | May 22 | 68 | Complications from a stroke | [176] |
John Dunning | American novelist | May 23 | 81 | [177] | |
Lin Wenyue | Taiwanese writer and translator | May 26 | 89 | [178] | |
Govindray H. Nayak | Indian writer and academic | May 26 | 89 | [179] | |
Anita Cornwell | American author and activist | May 27 | 99 | [180] | |
Frédéric Barbier | French historian | May 28 | 70 | [181] | |
Choi Il-nam | South Korean writer | May 28 | 90 | [182] | |
Antonio Gala | Spanish poet, playwright and writer | May 28 | 92 | [183] | |
Asad Gulzoda | Tajik poet and linguist | May 29 | 88 | [184] | |
Ama Ata Aidoo | Ghanaian author and playwright (The Dilemma of a Ghost, Anowa) | May 31 | 81 | [185] | |
Vellayani Arjunan | Indian literary scholar | May 31 | 90 | [186] | |
June | |||||
Ronald L. Baker | American folklorist | June 1 | 85 | [187] | |
Byron Barton | American author and illustrator of children's books | June 3 | 92 | [188] | |
Khalid Kishtainy | Iraqi writer and satirist | June 3 | 93 | [189] | |
Mochtar Pabottingi | Indonesian writer | June 4 | 77 | Heart attack | [190] |
Cormac McCarthy | American writer (Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road) | June 13 | 89 | [191] | |
Robert Gottlieb | American author and editor | June 14 | 92 | [192] | |
Micere Githae Mugo | Kenyan writer, activist and professor | June 20 | 80 | Cancer | [193] |
July | |||||
Ahn Junghyo | South Korean novelist and translator | July 1 | 81 | Cancer | [194] |
Victoria Amelina | Ukrainian novelist | July 1 | 37 | Russian attack | [195] |
Valeriano Bozal | Spanish historian and philosopher | July 2 | 82 | [196] | |
Zé Celso | Brazilian playwright and stage director (Teatro Oficina) | July 6 | 86 | Injuries from a fire | [197] |
Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ | Vietnamese poet | July 6 | 73 | [198] | |
Mary Ann Hoberman | American author and poet | July 7 | 92 | [199] | |
Ahmed Ilias | Bangladeshi poet | July 7 | 88 | [200] | |
José Mattoso | Portuguese historian and medievalist | July 8 | 90 | [201] | |
Adrian Tan | Singaporean novelist (The Teenage Textbook, The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer | July 8 | 57 | Cancer | [202] |
Alain Besançon | French historian | July 9 | 91 | [203] | |
Jean-Jacques Becker | French historian | July 10 | 95 | [204] | |
Richard G. Hovannisian | American historian | July 10 | 90 | [205] | |
Marga Minco | Dutch journalist and writer | July 10 | 103 | [206] | |
Per Odensten | Swedish novelist and poet | July 10 | 84 | [207] | |
Ahmadreza Ahmadi | Iranian poet and screenwriter | July 11 | 83 | [208] | |
Milan Kundera | Czech-French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) | July 11 | 94 | [209] | |
Colin Spencer | English writer and artist | July 13 | 89 | [210] | |
Bernard Bachrach | American historian | July 14 | 84 | [211] | |
Harry Frankfurt | American philosopher and author (On Bullshit, On Truth) | July 16 | 94 | congestive heart failure | [212] |
Wasef Bakhtari | Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual | July 19 | 80 | [213] | |
Silvana Lattmann | Italian-Swiss poet and author | July 19 | 104 | [214] | |
Jaime Galarza Zavala | Ecuadorian writer | July 20 | 92 | lung disease | [215] |
Malú Urriola | Chilean poet | July 21 | 56 | [216] | |
Russell H. Greenan | American author (It Happened in Boston?) | July 22 | 97 | [217] | |
Howard Adelman | Canadian philosopher and academic | July 23 | 85 | [218] | |
Seiichi Morimura | Japanese novelist | July 24 | 90 | [219] | |
Gérard Besson | Trinidadian writer and publisher | July 25 | 81 | [220] | |
Shirish Kanekar | Indian writer and journalist | July 25 | 80 | [221] | |
Eduardo Pitta | Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist | July 25 | 73 | [222] | |
Lâm Quang Mỹ | Vietnamese-Polish poet | July 26 | 79 | [223] | |
Keith Waldrop | American poet | July 27 | 90 | [224] | |
Danila Comastri Montanari | Italian historical fiction novelist | July 28 | 74 | [225] | |
Martin Walser | German writer (Runaway Horse, A Man in Love, Marriage in Philippsburg) | July 28 | 96 | [226] | |
David Albahari | Serbian writer and translator | July 30 | 75 | [227] | |
August | |||||
Michela Murgia | Italian novelist and journalist | August 10 | 51 | Cancer | [228] |
October | |||||
Louise Meriwether | American novelist, journalist and activist | October 10 | 100 | [229] | |
Louise Gluck | American poet (2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature) | October 13 | 80 | Cancer | [230] |
November | |||||
A. S. Byatt | English novelist (The Virgin in the Garden, Possession, Still Life) and critic | November 16 | 87 | [231] | |
Eddie Linden | Scottish poet and publisher (Aquarius magazine) | November 19 | 88 | [232] | |
Tim Dorsey | American novelist | November 26 | 62 | [233] | |
John Nichols | American novelist | November 27 | 83 | [234] | |
December | |||||
Benjamin Zephaniah | British poet | December 7 | 65 | Brain tumour | [235] |
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