This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2010.
Events
February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.ABC:Wheeler Centre's Gala Night Of Storytelling, Feb 24, 2010 . Retrieved August 23, 2010 April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book. July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010. On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, December 12, 2010, The Washington Post. August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared there since 2000 with Stephen King. October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". October 12 – Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question November 9 – Johanna Skibsrud wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists. November 16 – The 2010 Governor General's Awards are announced. Winners include Dianne Warren for English fiction, Kim Thúy for French fiction, Richard Greene for poetry and Robert Chafe for drama."Regina's Dianne Warren wins Gov-Gen Award for 'Cool Water'". The Globe and Mail, November 16, 2010. November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay Twain ordered himself. Unofficial copies have been published several times in the 20th century. December 31 – Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland by the state temporarily ends, the 12-year limit on the most recent ban having expired. However, the law remains on the statute book and is later used again. unknown date – Orlando Figes posts pseudonymous reviews on the UK site of bookseller Amazon.com criticising books by two other British historians of Russia, Robert Service and Rachel Polonsky, whilst praising his own books among others.
New books Fiction Jokha al-Harthi – Sayidat al-Qamar (Ladies of the Moon, translated as Celestial Bodies) Martin Amis – The Pregnant Widow (February 4) Paul Auster – Sunset Park (November 9) Paolo Bacigalupi – Ship Breaker (May 1) Brunonia Barry – The Map of True Places Robert Jackson Bennett – Mr. Shivers Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier in America (April 20) Eddie Chuculate – Cheyenne Madonna (June 20) Ron Cooper – Purple Jesus Michael Cunningham – By Nightfall (September 28) Don DeLillo – Point Omega (February 2) Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad (June 15) Bret Easton Ellis – Imperial Bedrooms (June 15) Joshua Ferris – The Unnamed (January 18) Aminatta Forna – The Memory of Love Jonathan Franzen – Freedom (August 31) Cornelia Funke – RecklessHahn 2015, p. 215 Matthew Gallaway – The Metropolis Case (November 8) Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter Sara Gruen – Ape House (September 7) Margaret Peterson Haddix – Into the Gauntlet (August 31) Kristin Hannah – Winter Garden (February 2) Michel Houellebecq – The Map and the Territory (La Carte et le territoire, September 4) Rabee Jaber – دروز بلغراد (Duruz Bilghrad: Hikayat Hanna Yaqub, The Druze of Belgrade: the history of Hanna Yaqub) Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question (October 12) Anjali Joseph – Saraswati Park (July 8) Stacey Kade – The Ghost and The Goth (July 6) Philip Kerr – Field Grey Stephen King Blockade Billy (April 20) Full Dark, No Stars (November 9) Nicole Krauss – Great House (October 12) John le Carré – Our Kind of Traitor (October 12) Dennis Lehane – Moonlight Mile (November 2) Tao Lin – Richard Yates (September 7) Ian McEwan – Solar (March 30) Jon McGregor – Even the Dogs Yann Martel – Beatrice and Virgil (April 6) Maaza Mengiste – Beneath the Lion's Gaze (January) Davud Michie - The Magician of Lhasa David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (June 29) Martin Mosebach – What Was Before Anirban Mukherjee – Love, A Rather Bad Idea Ben Myers – Richard: A Novel (October 1) Chuck Palahniuk – Tell All (May 4) Philip Pullman – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (May 20) Lincoln Peirce – Big Nate: In a Class by Himself (March 23) Philip Roth – Nemesis (October 5) Amy Sackville – The Still Point (February 4) Ashwin Sanghi – Chanakya's Chant David Sedaris – Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (September 28) Sarah Selecky – This Cake Is for the Party Lola Shoneyin – The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (May) Gary Shteyngart – Super Sad True Love Story (July 27) Kim Thúy – Ru Mario Vargas Llosa – The Dream of the Celt (El sueño del celta) (November 3) Donald E. Westlake – Memory (April)
Children and young people David Almond The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon My Name is Mina Slog's DadHahn 2015, p. 21 Swati Avasthi – Split Chelsea M. Campbell – The Rise of Renegade X Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay (August 24) Diane Duane – A Wizard of Mars (April 12) John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (November 2010) Eva Ibbotson (died October 20) – One Dog and his Boy Matthew J. Kirby – The Clockwork Three (October 1) Gordon Korman – Framed Stephen Krensky – Mother's Day Surprise Laura Leiner Szent Johanna gimi 1 – Kezdet (Start, first in the St. Joan High School series of seven books) Szent Johanna gimi 2 – Együtt (Together) Szent Johanna gimi 3 – Egyedül (Alone) Wendy Mass – The Candymakers Pat Miller – Squirrel's New Year's Resolution Robert Muchamore – Brigands M. C. (May 6) Jim Murphy – THE CROSSING: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution Garth Nix – Lord Sunday (February) James Patterson – Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel (March 15) Jerry Pinkney (adaption) – Three Little Kittens Philip Reeve – A Web of Air (April 5) Rick Riordan The Lost Hero (October 12) The Red Pyramid Salman Rushdie – Luka and the Fire of Life (November 16) Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest (October 12) Charlotte Voake – Ginger and the Mystery Visitor Kiersten White – Paranormalcy (August 31) N.D. Wilson – The Chestnut King
Science fiction and fantasy Jim Butcher – Changes (April 6) Amish Tripathi – The Immortals of Meluha (February)
Drama Peter Handke – Storm Still Sabrina Mahfouz – That Boy Bruce Norris – Clybourne Park Nina Raine – Tribes Christoph Ransmayr – Odysseus, Verbrecher Anya Reiss – Spur of the Moment Alexis Stamatis – Dakrygona (Tear Gas) Zlatko Topčić – I Don't Like Mondays Laura Wade – Posh David Williamson – Let the Sunshine
Non-fiction Linda Vero Ban – What Does It Mean To Be Jewish? William J. Bruce III - Penholder Bill Bryson – At Home: A Short History of Private Life (May 27) George W. Bush – Decision Points (November 9) Donovan Campbell – Joker One Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.) – Norsk presses historie 1660–2010 Paul Drexler – In Search of My Father Jay Feinman – Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (October 5) Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (November 16) James Horn – A Kingdom Strange Joel Kotkin – The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 David Lipsky – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (April 13) Nursultan Nazarbayev – The Way of Kazakhstan (May 18) Sergio Rubin – El jesuita Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman Not Without Hope (March 2) Niki Segnit – The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook Jane Smiley – The Man Who Invented The Computer (December) Jon Stewart – Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (September 21) Darin Strauss – Half a Life (September 21) Valerie Toranian – Pour en Finir avec la Femme (To Do Away with the Woman) Edmund de Waal – The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance John Leigh Walters – A Very Capable LifeFaculty of Arts, November 10, 2010, Edna Staebler Award , Wilfrid Laurier University, Headlines (Campus Updates), Retrieved 11/16/2012 Alejandro Zambra – No Leer (Not to Read)
Poetry
Stephen Sondheim – Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) (October 26)
Deaths
January 1 Bingo Gazingo, American performance poet (born 1924) Billy Arjan Singh, Indian author (born 1917) January 2 – Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Indian poet (born 1913) January 3 Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (born 1928) Isak Rogde, Norwegian translator (born 1947) January 4 Knox Burger, American editor, writer and agent (born 1922) Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian and writer (born 1934) January 5 – Bernard Le Nail, French writer and historian (born 1946) January 6 – George Leonard, American writer and editor (born 1923) January 8 Tony Halme, Finnish athlete, politician, writer and entertainer (born 1963) Slavka Maneva, Macedonian writer and poet (born 1934) January 9 – Laura Chapman Hruska, American writer and editor (born 1935) January 11 – Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch biographer (born 1909) January 14 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (born 1916) January 16 – Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美), Japanese novelist (born 1926) January 17 – Erich Segal, American author and academic (born 1937) January 18 – Robert B. Parker, American detective writer (born 1932) January 19 – Vladimir Karpov, Soviet Russian writer (born 1922) January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever, Polish-born Israeli poet (born 1913) January 21 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953) January 26 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (born 1917) January 27 J. D. Salinger, American novelist (born 1919) Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922) January 31 Kage Baker, American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1952) Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine writer (born 1934) February 2 Rosa Lobato de Faria, Portuguese writer (born 1932) Eustace Mullins, American writer, author and biographer (born 1923) February 5 – Peter Calvocoressi, Pakistani-born English historian and publisher (born 1912) February 6 – Robert Dana, American poet (born 1929) February 7 – William Tenn (Philip Klass), American science fiction writer (born 1920) February 8 – Wahei Tatematsu (立松和平), Japanese novelist (born 1947) February 10 – H. V. F. Winstone, English biographer and journalist (born 1926) February 11 – Colin Ward, English anarchist writer (born 1924) February 13 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (born 1936) February 14 – Dick Francis, Welsh novelist (born 1920) February 16 – Jim Harmon, American science fiction writer (born 1933) February 17 – Arnold Beichman, American writer (born 1913)Podhoretz, John. Commentary, February 18, 2010. Archived from the original. February 23 – Mervyn Jones, English novelist and biographer (born 1922)Geoffrey Goodman Obituary, The Guardian, 26 February 2010 February 27 – Carlos Montemayor, Mexican writer (born 1947) March 1 – Barry Hannah, American novelist and short story writer (born 1942)Obituary The New York Times. March 3, 2010. page A27. March 3 – Momo Kapor, Serbian writer (born 1937) March 9 – Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, São Tome poet (born 1926) March 10 – Truddi Chase, American autobiographical author (born c. 1935) March 11 – Matilde Elena López, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright (born 1919) March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (born 1920) March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, Indian poet and writer in Marathi (born 1918) March 15 Joseph Galdon, Filipino priest, academic and writer (born 1928) Patricia Wrightson, Australian children's writer (born 1921) March 16 – Jane Sherman, American writer (born 1908) March 17 – Sid Fleischman, American children's writer (born 1920)