This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024.
Anniversaries 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary). 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary). 30 September – Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary). 5 October – José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary). 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).
100th anniversary of the publication of A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
New books Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction +New adult fiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of publicationRef.You Dreamed of EmpiresThe WomenThe Extinction of Irena ReyJamesThe MorningsideTable for TwoAll FoursClaire MessudThis Strange Eventful HistoryMay 14You Like It DarkerThe Man Who Saw SecondsParadeAkwaeke Emezi Little RotMarcus KliewerWe Used to Live HereVon Norden rollt ein DonnerKeanu Reeves and China MiévilleThe Book of ElsewhereJuly 23Stephen HarrisonThe Editors August 13Rachel KushnerCreation LakeSeptember 3Anna MontagueHow Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?October 22Louise PennyThe Grey WolfOctober 29Richard PriceLazarus ManNovember 12Yael van der WoudenThe Safekeep
Children and young adults +New nonfiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of publicationRef.Children of Anguish and AnarchyJordan Ifueko The Maid and the Crocodile August 13
Poetry
Drama
Nonfiction +New nonfiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of publicationRef.Avec les féesEvan FrissThe BookshopAugust 6John Grisham & Jim McCloskeyFramedOctober 8Muhammad Sarip & Nanda Puspita SheillaHistoripedia Kalimantan TimurJanuary 23
Biography and memoirs +New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of publicationRef.The House of Hidden MeaningsMutprobenKnife: Meditations After an Attempted MurderMelania
Deaths January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85 January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969. February 23 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist, 92 March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98 April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93 April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90 April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94 April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71 April 27 – Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61 April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86 April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77 May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84唐十郎さん死去、84歳...「泥人魚」「ベンガルの虎」アングラ小劇場運動を先導 May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92 June 26 – Nathaniel Tarn, French-American poet, 95 July 1 – Funso Aiyejina, Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright and academic, 75
July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88 July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93 September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76 November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91 Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, poet and painter, 85 December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86 December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92Le poète mathématicien Jacques Roubaud en 2014 dans “Télérama” : “L’Oulipo, c’était à la fois très sérieux et un peu dingue”. telerama.fr, 5 December 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024 (in French). December 9 – Nikki Giovanni, American poet, 81 December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91Mort de Michel del Castillo à 91 ans, écrire sur un champ de ruines. la-croix.com, 17 December 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024 (in French).
Awards +2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by awardAwardCategoryAuthorTitleRef. Amazon.ca First Novel Award And Then She Fell Attila Berki, "Alicia Elliott wins 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, June 7, 2024.Atlantic Book Awards Ann Connor Brimer Award The Words We Share Cassandra Drudi, "Michelle Porter, Jack Wong among Atlantic Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024. J. M. Abraham Poetry Award Soft Inheritance Thomas Head Raddall Award A Grandmother Begins the Story Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits Booker PrizeSamantha HarveyOrbital Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Richard Adams Carey The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire Danuta Gleed Literary AwardCocktailCassandra Drudi, "Lisa Alward wins 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, June 12th, 2024.Giller Prize Anne Michaels Held Brad Wheeler, "Anne Michaels wins the 2024 Giller Prize for her generations-spanning novel Held". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2024.Governor General's AwardsEnglish Fiction Jordan Abel Empty Spaces Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.English Non-Fiction Niigaan Sinclair Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous CentreEnglish Poetry Chimwemwe Undi Scientific MarvelEnglish Drama Caleigh Crow There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again CrowEnglish Children's Literature Li Charmaine Anne Crash LandingEnglish Children's Illustration Jean E. Pendziwol, Todd Stewart Skating Wild on an Inland SeaFrench to English Translation Katia Grubisic Nights Too Short to DanceFrench Fiction Steve Poutré Lait cru Léa Harvey, "Steve Poutré couronné aux prix littéraires du gouverneur général". Le Soleil, November 13, 2024.French Non-Fiction Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnelFrench Poetry Névé Dumas poème dégénéréFrench Drama Sarah Berthiaume WollstonecraftFrench Children's literature Stéfani Meunier Une bulle en dehors du tempsFrench Children's illustration Ovila Fontaine, Charlotte Parent Le premier arbre de NoëlEnglish to French translation Éric Fontaine Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvageGriffin Poetry PrizeBest Poetry BookSelf-Portrait in the Zone of SilenceCassandra Drudi, "George McWhirter wins Griffin Poetry Prize for Homero Aridjis translation". Quill & Quire, June 6, 2024.Best First Poetry BookChoresCassandra Drudi, "Newfoundland poet Maggie Burton wins 2024 Griffin Canadian First Book Prize". Quill & Quire, May 29, 2024.Lambda Literary AwardsBisexual FictionNatural BeautyAthena Sobhan, "The 2024 Lambda Literary Awards - See the Complete List of Winners". People, June 12, 2024.Bisexual NonfictionCreep: Accusations and ConfessionsBisexual PoetryDesire MuseumComicsA Ghost in the HouseGay FictionFamily MealGay Memoir/BiographyTweakerworldGay PoetryTrace EvidenceGay RomanceWe Could Be So GoodLesbian FictionBiography of XLesbian Memoir/BiographyLesbian Love Story: A Memoir in ArchivesLesbian PoetryTeeterLesbian RomanceDance with MeLGBTQ Anthology, Niko Stratis2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing StudiesLGBTQ Children's, Sonia AlbertThe Apartment House on Poppy HillLGBTQ DramaFat HamLGBTQ+ Romance and EroticaA Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer StoriesLGBTQ Middle GradeDear MothmanLGBTQ MysteryA Calculated RiskLGBT NonfictionHi Honey, I'm Homo!LGBTQ PoetryThe Perfect BastardLGBTQ Speculative FictionI Keep My Exoskeletons to MyselfLGBTQ StudiesThe Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in HaitiLGBTQ Young AdultOnly This Beautiful MomentTransgender FictionWild GeeseTransgender Nonfiction, Toshio MeronekMiss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans RevolutionaryTransgender PoetryHood VacationsLeague of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award Xanax Cowboy "Hannah Green, Sandra Ridley and Bradley Peters win League of Canadian Poets prizes". CBC Books, May 1, 2024. Pat Lowther Award Vixen Raymond Souster Award Sonnets from a Cell Purdy Poetry PrizeSid MartyOldman’s River: New and Collected Poems Cassandra Drudi, "Sid Marty wins inaugural Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize". Quill & Quire, April 22, 2024.Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Patrick deWitt The Librarianist Cassandra Drudi, "Patrick deWitt wins 2024 Leacock Medal". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2024. Trillium Book Awards English Prose Nina Dunic The Clarion Cassandra Drudi, "Nina Dunic, A. Light Zachary among Trillium Book Award winners". Quill & Quire, June 20, 2024. English Poetry A. Light Zachary More Sure French Prose Nicolas Weinberg Vivre ou presque Writers' Trust of CanadaAtwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeSheung-KingBatshit Seven "Sheung-King, Martha Baillie among Writers' Trust literary prize winners". CBC Books, November 19, 2017.Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionMartha BaillieThere Is No BlueDayne Ogilvie PrizeAnthony OliveiraDayspringLatner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry PrizeRita WongMatt Cohen AwardMarie ClementsVicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young PeopleSara O'LearyWriters' Trust Engel/Findley AwardMadeleine ThienShaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingJohn VaillantFire Weather: The Making of a Beast"Vancouver author John Vaillant wins $25K Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing". CBC Books, May 8, 2024.Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyWendy H. WongWe, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital AgeBrad Wheeler, "Wendy H. Wong wins 2024 Balsillie Prize for her book We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age". The Globe and Mail, November 26, 2024. RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry Faith Paré "Selections from 'a fine African Head'" Cassandra Drudi, "Faith Paré, Nayani Jensen win 2024 Bronwen Wallace Award". Quill & Quire, June 3, 2024. RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction Nayani Jensen "Like Rabbits"
Notable new movies and TV series based on books
Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions that premiered / were broadcast during 2024: TitleThe book on which the movie/TV series is basedTypeGenre Premiere date Distribution company / original broadcasting networkOne Day"One Day" by David NichollsTV seriesRomantic dramaFebruary 8, 2024NetflixSpaceman"Spaceman of Bohemia" by Jaroslav KalfařMovieScience fiction, dramaFebruary 23, 2024NetflixDune: Part Two"Dune" by Frank HerbertMovieScience fiction, action, adventure, fantasyMarch 1, 2024Warner Bros. Films3 Body Problem"The Three-Body Problem" by Liu CixinTV series Drama, Science FictionMarch 21, 2024NetflixRonja, the Robber's Daughter "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" by Astrid LindgrenTV seriesAdventure, DramaMarch 28, 2024Netflix A Gentleman in Moscow"A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor TowlesTV seriesPeriod drama March 29, 2024Paramount+A Good Girl's Guide to Murder"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly JacksonTV seriesMystery, Drama, Suspense July 1, 2024BBC ThreeIt Ends with Us"It Ends with Us" by Colleen HooverMovieRomantic movieAugust 6, 2024Columbia filmsUglies"Uglies" by Scott WesterfeldMovieScience fiction, dystopian filmSeptember 13, 2024NetflixWicked"Wicked" by Gregory MaguireMovieFantasy, musicalNovember 3, 2024Universal PicturesPedro PáramoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoFilmDrama, magical realism7 September 2024Redrum Production, Woo Films; Netflix
References
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