This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000 .
Events New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Anne Carson – Men in the Off Hours Paul Celan – Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov) Fanny Howe – Fanny Howe: Selected Poems Pierre Labrie – À tout hasard Grazyna Miller – Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath) Owen Sheers – The Blue Book Dejan Stojanović[6] Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)[7] Oblik (The Shape)[8] Tvoritelj (The Creator)[9] Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed.[9] Non-fiction Deaths January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914 ) January 26 January 31 – Gil Kane , Latvian American comic book cartoonist (born 1926 ) February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922 ) March 28 – Anthony Powell , English novelist (born 1905 )[14] April 13 – Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer (born 1916 ) April 15 – Edward Gorey , American illustrator and writer (born 1925 ) April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald , English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916 )[15] May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland , English novelist and playwright (born 1901 )[16] August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921 ) August 25 – Carl Barks , American comic book cartoonist (born 1901 ) September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915 ) September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury , English novelist and critic (born 1932 )[17] September 14 – Hwang Sun-won , Korean fiction writer (born 1915 ) September 22 – Yehuda Amichai , Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born 1924 ) October 8 – Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born 1937 ) October 30 – Steve Allen, American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born 1921 ) November 2 – Robert Cormier , American young adult fiction writer (born 1925 ) November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp , American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born 1907 )[18] December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African American poet (born 1917 ) Awards Australia Canada France Serbia Rastko Petrović Award: Dejan Stojanović, Conversations ("Razgovori")[20] United Kingdom Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature (first award): Howard Jacobson , The Mighty Walzer Booker Prize : Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin Caine Prize for African Writing: Leila Aboulela , "The Museum" Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Beverley Naidoo , The Other Side of Truth 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 Edgar Award : Joe R. Lansdale , The Bottoms Frost Medal : Anthony Hecht Hugo Award : Vernor Vinge , A Deepness in the Sky National Book Award for Fiction: to In America by Susan Sontag National Book Critics Circle Award : to Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Nebula Award : Greg Bear , Darwin's Radio Newbery Medal for children's literature : Christopher Paul Curtis , Bud, Not Buddy PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction : to Waiting by Ha Jin 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 Whiting Awards: Fiction: Robert Cohen, Samantha Gillison , Lily King, John McManus, Colson Whitehead Nonfiction: Andrew X. Pham Plays: Kelly Stuart Poetry: Albert Mobilio (poetry/fiction), James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson Other References ^ San Martín, Raquel (17 January 2008). "El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo" [El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a jewel among the libraries of the world]. La Nación (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 10 May 2015 . ^ Francesca de Châtel; Robin Hunt (2 August 2004). Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail . Routledge. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-1-135-47609-0 . ^ Herald of Library Science . 2002. p. 161. ^ Simon, Diane (October 16, 2000). "Drowning Ruth (Book Review)" . People . 54 (16): 58. Retrieved May 18, 2020 . ^ Claire Squires (26 June 2002). Zadie Smith's White Teeth . A&C Black. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-8264-5326-6 . ^ "Dejan Stojanović" . Internet Archive . ^ Prosveta, Beograd.Stojanović, Dejan. "Znak i njegova deca" . Internet Archive . ^ Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro . ^ a b Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd. ^ "X + Y = Z" . movies2.nytimes.com . ^ Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17. ^ Bernstein, Richard (July 31, 2000). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000)" – via NYTimes.com. ^ Patrick Tort (2000). Darwin et la science de l'évolution (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-053520-0 . ^ "Obituary: Anthony Powell" . The Telegraph . Telegraph Media Group Limited. 29 March 2000. Retrieved 27 July 2017 . ^ Harvey-Wood, Harriet (3 May 2000). "Penelope Fitzgerald" " . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 January 2021 . ^ "BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies" . news.bbc.co.uk . 21 May 2000. Retrieved 24 January 2021 . ^ Mark Twain (25 March 2004). Pudd'nhead Wilson . Penguin Books Limited. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-14-192033-7 . ^ Thurber, Jon (November 13, 2000). "Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer". Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles, CA. p. B4. ^ Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17. ^ "Rastko: Dejan Stojanović" . Archived from the original on 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2010-08-28 .
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