This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008 .
Events January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature."February 29 – Belgian-born "Misha Defonseca" admits that her bestselling Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997) is a literary forgery .April – Signet Books announce they will cease to publish the American historical romance novelist Cassie Edwards after a dispute over plagiarism . April 25 – The first Twitter novel, Small Places by Nicholas Belardes, is launched.[1] May 7 –11 – The first Palestine Festival of Literature is held.June 15 – Gore Vidal , asked in a New York Times interview how he felt about the death of his rival William F. Buckley, Jr. , replies: "I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred."July – Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children Best of the Booker ". New books Fiction Aravind Adiga The White Tiger [2] Between the Assassinations (November 1) Uwem Akpan – Say You're One of Them Paul Auster – Man in the Dark Sebastian Barry – The Secret Scripture (September 29)Henry Bauchau – Le Boulevard périphérique [3] John Berger – From A to X Charles Bock – Beautiful Children (January 22)Roberto Bolaño – 2666: A Novel (November 11)Christopher Buckley – Supreme Courtship (September 3) Alastair Campbell – All in the Mind (October 30)Martín Caparrós – A quien corresponda Eleanor Catton – The Rehearsal Wendy Coakley-Thompson – Triptych (December 18)Robert Crais – Chasing Darkness Debra Dean – Confessions of a Falling Woman Klaus Ebner – Hominid (October 1) Ralph Ellison (posthumous, ed. John F. Callahan ) – Three Days Before the Shooting... Mathias Énard – Zone (August 15) Sebastian Faulks – Devil May Care (James Bond continuation novel)Keith Gessen – All the Sad Young Literary Men (April 10)Shanta Gokhale – Tyā varshī (Crowfall) Juan Goytisolo – Exiled from Almost Everywhere Paul Griffiths – let me tell you Lauren Groff – The Monsters of Templeton (February 5) Peter Handke – The Moravian Night (January 12, Germany)Johan Harstad – DARLAH Zoë Heller – The Believers (September 24)Aleksandar Hemon – The Lazarus Project (May 1)M. H. Herlong – The Great Wide Sea (October 2) Samantha Hunt – The Invention of Everything Else (February 7) Siri Hustvedt – The Sorrows of an American (April 1)Karl Iagnemma – The Expeditions (January 15)Robert Juan-Cantavella – El Dorado Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs (posthumous) – And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks 1945 )Christian Kracht – Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (September)László Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth (April 1) Paul Laurendeau – Femmes fantastiques Kelly Link – Pretty Monsters (October 2)David Lodge – Deaf Sentence (May 1)James McBride – Song Yet Sung (February 5)Joe McGinniss Jr. – The Delivery Man (January 15) Ronit Matalon – The Sound of Our Steps (Kol Tsa'adenu) Lydia Millet – How the Dead Dream (January 25)Toni Morrison – A Mercy (November 11) Nunoe Mura – GeGeGe no Nyōbō (ゲゲゲの女房) Joyce Carol Oates – My Sister, My Love (June 24) Sofi Oksanen – Puhdistus [4] Chuck Palahniuk – Snuff (May 20)Arturo Perez-Reverte – The Painter of Battles (January 8) Jodi Picoult – Change of Heart (March 4)José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Sueños urbanos Richard Price – Lush Life (March 4)Ruth Rendell – Portobello (November 20) Nina Revoyr – The Age of Dreaming Nathaniel Rich – The Mayor's Tongue (April 8) Marilynne Robinson – Home (September 2)Charlotte Roche – Feuchtgebiete (February 25) Mary Ann Rodman – Jimmy's Stars Philip Roth – Indignation (September 16)Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence (June 3) Will Self – The Butt Curtis Sittenfeld – American Wife (September 2)Sjón – Rökkurbýsnir [5] Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge (March 25)Tom Rob Smith – Child 44 Joan Thomas – Reading by Lightning David Turashvili – Flight from the USSR John Updike – The Widows of Eastwick (October 28)Tobias Wolff – Our Story Begins (March 25)Genre fiction Children and young people Drama Salvatore Antonio – In Gabriel's Kitchen Howard Brenton – Never So Good Mary Higgins Clark – Where Are You Now? Paul Dwyer – The Bougainville Photoplay Project Nicholas de Jongh – Plague Over England Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels – The Broken Circle Breakdown featuring the cover-ups of Alabama Ella Hickson – Eight Sam Holcroft – Cockroach Elaine Murphy – Little Gem Lynn Nottage – Ruined Tyler Perry – The Marriage Counselor Taavi Vartia – Kaikkien aikojen Pertsa ja Kilu Poetry Main article: 2008 in poetry
Non-fiction The Academi – Encyclopaedia of Wales (Gwyddoniadur Cymru) (January) Julie Andrews – Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (April 1) Kwame Anthony Appiah – Experiments in Ethics Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational (February 19)Margaret Atwood – Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (October 1)Mary Beard – Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Dionne Brand – A Kind of Perfect Speech (Ralph Gustafson Lecture) Augusten Burroughs – A Wolf at the Table Michael Chabon – Maps and Legends D. K. Chakrabarti – The Battle for Ancient India: An essay in the sociopolitics of Indian archaeology Sloane Crosley – I Was Told There'd Be Cake (April 1)John Duignan – The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (October 7) Eminem – The Way I Am (October 21)Richard Florida – Who's Your City? (March)Raymond Geuss – Philosophy and Real Politics Philip Hoare – Leviathan, or The Whale (September 16) Chloe Hooper – The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island B. B. Lal – Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir, and Setu: Evidence of Literature, Archaeology, and Other Sciences Scholastique Mukasonga – La femme aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Woman) Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel ) – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (July 29)Shuja Nawaz – Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within Frances Osborne – The Bolter: Idina Sackville Chris Pash – The Last Whale Peter Rees – The Other ANZACs David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 3)Vaclav Smil – Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems Chunghee Sarah Soh – The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (April) Ronnie Thompson (pseudonym) – Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer (January 24) Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – One for the Road (January 31; translation of I pose og sekk! , 2005) Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir (May 6)Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself [6] Meralda Warren and others – Mi Base side orn Pitcairn (My Favourite Place on Pitcairn , first book published in Pitkern creole )Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger and Carolin Schneider (eds.) – Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon Jim Holt – Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes Thomas Cairns Livingstone – Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918 Deaths February 4 – Rose Hacker, English writer and journalist (born 1906 )February 7 – Richard Altick , American literary historian (born 1915 )February 8 – Phyllis A. Whitney , Japan-born American mystery writer (born 1903 )February 10 – Steve Gerber , American comic book writer (born 1947 )February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet , French novelist (born 1922 )[7] February 21 Archie Hind, Scottish novelist (born 1928 ) Robin Moore , American novelist and memoirist (born 1925 )February 22 – Stephen Marlowe , American science fiction and crime writer (born 1928 )February 28 – Julian Rathbone , English novelist (born 1935 )[8] February 29 – Val Plumwood (Val Routley), Australian philosopher (born 1939 )March 16 – Jonathan Williams , American poet (born 1929 )March 19 March 23 – E. A. Markham , Montserrat poet, writer and activist (born 1939 )April 3 – Andrew Crozier , English poet and scholar (born 1943 )April 7 – Ludu Daw Amar , Burmese writer and journalist (born 1915 )April 13 – Robert Greacen , Irish poet (born 1920 )April 17 April 18 May 1 – Elaine Dundy , American novelist, biographer and playwright (born 1921 )May 9 – Nuala O'Faolain , Irish critic and writer (born 1940 )May 11 – Jeff Torrington , Scottish novelist (born 1935 )May 12 – Oakley Hall , American novelist (born 1920 )May 14 – Roy Heath , Guyanese novelist (born 1926 )May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar , Indian playwright (born 1928 )May 23 – Alan Brien , English journalist and novelist (born 1925 )May 28 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (born 1921 )June 2 – Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist (born 1909 )June 4 – Matthew Bruccoli , American biographer and scholar (born 1931 )June 5 – Angus Calder , British writer and scholar (born 1942 )June 8 – Peter Rühmkorf, German poet and writer (born 1929 )June 9 – Algis Budrys (John A. Sentry), American science fiction writer of Lithuanian origin (born 1931 )June 10 Chinghiz Aitmatov , Kyrgyz writer in Kyrgyz and Russian (born 1928 )Eliot Asinof, American novelist and baseball writer (born 1919 ) June 16 – Mario Rigoni Stern , Italian novelist (born 1921 )June 18 – Tasha Tudor , American children's writer and illustrator (born 1915 )June 22 – Albert Cossery , Egyptian-born French novelist (born 1913 )June 24 – Ruth Cardoso , Brazilian anthropologist and writer (born 1930 )June 25 – Lyall Watson , South African scientist and new age writer (born 1939 )June 27 – Lenka Reinerová , Czech writer in German (born 1916 )September 5 – Robert Giroux , American editor and publisher (born 1914 )September 7 – Gregory Mcdonald , American mystery writer (born 1937 )September 12 – David Foster Wallace , American novelist (born 1962 )September 17 – James Crumley , American crime writer (born 1939 )September 20 – Duncan Glen , Scottish poet, critic and literary historian (born 1933 )September 23 – William Woodruff , English historian and autobiographer (born 1916 )September 24 – Bengt Anderberg, Swedish poet, novelist and children's writer (born 1920 )September 29 – Hayden Carruth , American poet and literary critic (born 1921 )October 4 – Peter Vansittart, English novelist and historical writer (born 1920 )October 14 – Barrington J. Bayley , English science fiction writer (born 1937 )October 26 – Tony Hillerman , American mystery writer (born 1925 )October 27 – Es'kia Mphahlele, South African writer in English (born 1919 )October 29 – William Wharton (Albert William Du Aime), American novelist (born 1925 )October 31 – Studs Terkel , American historian and broadcaster (born 1912 )November 4 – Michael Crichton, American writer and scholar (born 1942 )November 13 – Jules Archer , American historian and author (born 1915 )November 14 – Kristin Hunter , American author and academic (born 1931 )December 1 – Dorothy Sterling , American non-fiction writer for children and historian (born 1913 )[9] December 15 – Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian children's book author (born 1920 )[10] December 20 – Adrian Mitchell , English poet, playwright and fiction writer (born 1932 )December 24 – Harold Pinter, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1930 )[11] December 31 – Donald E. Westlake , American novelist (born 1933 )[12] Awards and honors Australia Canada United Kingdom United States Fiction: Mischa Berlinski , Laleh Khadivi, Manuel Muñoz, Benjamin Percy , Lysley Tenorio Nonfiction: Donovan Hohn Plays: Dael Orlandersmith Poetry: Rick Hilles, Douglas Kearney, Julie Sheehan References ^ Nicholas Belardes. "Twitter Novel: Small Places" . Nicholas Belardes . Retrieved January 26, 2021 . ^ Robins, Peter (August 9, 2008). "Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga" . The Telegraph . Retrieved October 16, 2008 . ^ Revue internationale Henry Bauchau n°1 - 2009: L'écriture à l'écoute 978-2-87463-139-9 .^ Sihvonen, Lauri (September 24, 2008). "Lauri Sihvonen on Sofi Oksanen's novel: A Body and a Blowfly" . FILI . Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2010 . ^ Steven P. Sondrup; Mark B. Sandberg; Thomas A. DuBois; Dan Ringgaard (December 15, 2017). Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes 978-90-272-6505-0 . ^ Faculty of Arts, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived June 6, 2014, at Archive-ItWilfrid Laurier University , Previous winners, Russell Wangersky, Retrieved 11/16/2012 ^ Douglas Johnson (February 19, 2008). "Alain Robbe-Grillet obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved April 23, 2010 . ^ Nick Coleman (March 4, 2008). "Julian Rathbone" . Guardian . Retrieved January 26, 2021 . ^ Staino, Rocco (January 5, 2009). "In Memoriam: Children's Authors and Illustrators Who Died in 2008" . School Library Journal the original on February 17, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2009 . ^ Hedeman, Anders (December 15, 2008). "Anne-Cath. Vestly er død" . Aftenposten the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved December 15, 2008 . ^ Billington, Michael (January 1, 2009). "Goodnight, sweet prince: Shakespearean farewell to Pinter" . The Guardian GMG . ISSN 0261-3077 . OCLC 60623878 . Archived from the original on March 26, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2011 . ^ The New York Times 2009-01-01.^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived December 8, 2012, at Archive.todayWilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases). Retrieved 11/27/2012 See also This article is copied from an
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