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Overview of the events of 2024 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Children and young adults
[edit]Biography and memoirs
[edit]- January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85[21]
- January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.[22]
- March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98[23]
- April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93[24]
- April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
- April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94[25]
- April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71[26]
- April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86[27]
- April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77[28]
- May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84[29]
- May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
- July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88[30]
- July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93[31]
- September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76[32]
- November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91[33]
- December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86[34]
- December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92[35]
2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
| Award
|
Category
|
Author
|
Title
|
Ref.
|
| Amazon.ca First Novel Award
|
Alicia Elliott
|
And Then She Fell
|
[36]
|
| Atlantic Book Awards
|
Ann Connor Brimer Award
|
Jack Wong
|
The Words We Share
|
[37]
|
| J. M. Abraham Poetry Award
|
Fawn Parker
|
Soft Inheritance
|
| Thomas Head Raddall Award
|
Michelle Porter
|
A Grandmother Begins the Story
|
| Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize |
Ferdia Lennon |
Glorious Exploits |
[38]
|
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year |
Richard Adams Carey |
The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire |
[39]
|
| Danuta Gleed Literary Award
|
Lisa Alward
|
Cocktail
|
[40]
|
| Giller Prize
|
Anne Michaels
|
Held
|
[41]
|
| Governor General's Awards
|
English Fiction
|
Jordan Abel
|
Empty Spaces
|
[42]
|
| English Non-Fiction
|
Niigaan Sinclair
|
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
|
| English Poetry
|
Chimwemwe Undi
|
Scientific Marvel
|
| English Drama
|
Caleigh Crow
|
There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
|
| English Children's Literature
|
Li Charmaine Anne
|
Crash Landing
|
| English Children's Illustration
|
Jean E. Pendziwol, Todd Stewart
|
Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
|
| French to English Translation
|
Katia Grubisic
|
Nights Too Short to Dance
|
| French Fiction
|
Steve Poutré
|
Lait cru
|
[43]
|
| French Non-Fiction
|
Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau
|
Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
|
| French Poetry
|
Névé Dumas
|
poème dégénéré
|
| French Drama
|
Sarah Berthiaume
|
Wollstonecraft
|
| French Children's literature
|
Stéfani Meunier
|
Une bulle en dehors du temps
|
| French Children's illustration
|
Ovila Fontaine, Charlotte Parent
|
Le premier arbre de Noël
|
| English to French translation
|
Éric Fontaine
|
Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage
|
| Griffin Poetry Prize
|
Best Poetry Book
|
George McWhirter
|
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
|
[44]
|
| Best First Poetry Book
|
Maggie Burton
|
Chores
|
[45]
|
| Lambda Literary Awards
|
Bisexual Fiction
|
Ling Ling Huang
|
Natural Beauty
|
[46]
|
| Bisexual Nonfiction
|
Myriam Gurba
|
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
|
| Bisexual Poetry
|
Danielle Cadena Deulen
|
Desire Museum
|
| Comics
|
E. M. Carroll
|
A Ghost in the House
|
| Gay Fiction
|
Bryan Washington
|
Family Meal
|
| Gay Memoir/Biography
|
Jason Yamas
|
Tweakerworld
|
| Gay Poetry
|
Charif Shanahan
|
Trace Evidence
|
| Gay Romance
|
Cat Sebastian
|
We Could Be So Good
|
| Lesbian Fiction
|
Catherine Lacey
|
Biography of X
|
| Lesbian Memoir/Biography
|
Amelia Possanza
|
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives
|
| Lesbian Poetry
|
Kimberly Alidio
|
Teeter
|
| Lesbian Romance
|
Georgia Beers
|
Dance with Me
|
| LGBTQ Anthology
|
Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis
|
2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies
|
| LGBTQ Children's
|
Nina LaCour, Sonia Albert
|
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill
|
| LGBTQ Drama
|
James Ijames
|
Fat Ham
|
| LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica
|
laura q
|
A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories
|
| LGBTQ Middle Grade
|
Robin Gow
|
Dear Mothman
|
| LGBTQ Mystery
|
Cari Hunter
|
A Calculated Risk
|
| LGBT Nonfiction
|
Matt Baume
|
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
|
| LGBTQ Poetry
|
Quinn Carver Johnson
|
The Perfect Bastard
|
| LGBTQ Speculative Fiction
|
Marisa Crane
|
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
|
| LGBTQ Studies
|
Erin L. Durban
|
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
|
| LGBTQ Young Adult
|
Abdi Nazemian
|
Only This Beautiful Moment
|
| Transgender Fiction
|
Soula Emmanuel
|
Wild Geese
|
| Transgender Nonfiction
|
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek
|
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
|
| Transgender Poetry
|
Michael MJ Jones
|
Hood Vacations
|
| League of Canadian Poets
|
Gerald Lampert Award
|
Hannah Green
|
Xanax Cowboy
|
[47]
|
| Pat Lowther Award
|
Sandra Ridley
|
Vixen
|
| Raymond Souster Award
|
Bradley Peters
|
Sonnets from a Cell
|
| Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
|
Patrick deWitt
|
The Librarianist
|
[48]
|
| Trillium Book Awards
|
English Prose
|
Nina Dunic
|
The Clarion
|
[49]
|
| English Poetry
|
A. Light Zachary
|
More Sure
|
| French Prose
|
Nicolas Weinberg
|
Vivre ou presque
|
| Writers' Trust of Canada
|
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
|
Sheung-King
|
Batshit Seven
|
[50]
|
| Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
|
Martha Baillie
|
There Is No Blue
|
| Dayne Ogilvie Prize
|
Anthony Oliveira
|
Dayspring
|
| Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize
|
Rita Wong
|
|
| Matt Cohen Award
|
Marie Clements
|
|
| Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
|
Sara O'Leary
|
|
| Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
|
Madeleine Thien
|
|
| Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
|
John Vaillant
|
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast
|
[51]
|
| Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
|
TBA November 26
|
|
|
| RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry
|
Faith Paré
|
"Selections from 'a fine African Head'"
|
[52]
|
| RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction
|
Nayani Jensen
|
"Like Rabbits"
|
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