This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2000.
February – El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires.
February 13 – Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.
March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, the world's first mass-market electronic book.
September 26 – English writer and politician Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury and opens in the title role of his courtroom drama The Accused.
December 15 – In the landmark censorship case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs does not have the authority to make its own judgments about the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers but is permitted to confiscate only material that has specifically been ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.
Reed Arvin – The Will
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
Louis Auchincloss – Her Infinite Variety
Trezza Azzopardi – The Hiding Place
Iain M. Banks – Look to Windward
Russell Banks – The Angel on the Roof
Matt Beaumont – e
Raymond Benson – Doubleshot
Ben Bova – Jupiter
T. C. Boyle – A Friend of the Earth
Dan Brown – Angels & Demons
Jim Butcher – Storm Front
Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Tom Clancy – The Bear And The Dragon
Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark – Deck The Halls
Miriam Cooke – Hayati, My Life
Bernard Cornwell – Harlequin (also The Archer's Tale)
Patricia Cornwell – The Last Precinct
Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
August Derleth – The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
Ken Follett – Code to Zero
Jon Fosse – Morning and Evening
David S. Garnett – Bikini Planet
Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace
Myla Goldberg – Bee Season
Linda Grant – When I Lived in Modern Times
John Grisham – The Brethren
Mohsin Hamid – Moth Smoke
Joanne Harris – Blackberry Wine
Elisabeth Harvor – Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Joseph Heller – Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
Kazuo Ishiguro – When We Were Orphans
Elfriede Jelinek – Greed
Robert Jordan – Winter's Heart
Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer
Sophie Kinsella – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Andrus Kivirähk – Rehepapp ehk November ("Old Barny or November")
Joe R. Lansdale
The Bottoms
The Big Blow
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Indwelling
The Mark
Barry N. Malzberg – In the Stone House
Colleen McCullough – Morgan's Run
Alistair MacLeod – Island
Patrick Maher – Candid Confessions
Juliet Marillier – Son of the Shadows
George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords
Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness
Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎) – The Changeling (取り替え子 (チェンジリング, Torikae ko [Chenjiringu])
Daniel Olivas – The Courtship of María Rivera Peña
Robert B. Parker – Hugger Mugger
James Patterson – Roses are Red
Rosamunde Pilcher – Winter Solstice
Giuseppe Pontiggia – Nati due volte (Born Twice)
Terry Pratchett – The Truth
Mario Puzo – Omertà
Jean Raspail – Le Roi au-delà de la mer
Kathy Reichs – Deadly Decisions
Philip Roth – The Human Stain
Peter Ruber editor – Arkham's Masters of Horror
Jean-Jacques Schuhl – Ingrid Caven
Christina Schwarz – Drowning Ruth
Helen Simpson – Hey Yeah Right Get A Life
Michael Slade – Hangman
Gillian Slovo – Red Dust
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
Muriel Spark – Aiding and Abetting
Michael Stackpole
Dark Tide: Onslaught
Dark Tide: Ruin
Domenico Starnone – Via Gemito
Danielle Steel
The House On Hope Street
Journey
Kathy Tyers – Balance Point
Andrew Vachss – Dead and Gone
David Whiteland – Book of Pages
Children and young people
David Almond - Counting Stars
Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner (also Parvana, first in the Breadwinner series of four books)
Jamila Gavin – Coram Boy
Jim Murphy - BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America.
Beverley Naidoo – The Other Side of Truth
Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Jacqueline Wilson – Vicky Angel
David Auburn – Proof
Timothy Findley – Elizabeth Rex
Tanika Gupta – The Waiting Room
Dusty Hughes – Helpless
Joe Penhall – Blue/Orange
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 StojanovićZnak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)
Oblik (The Shape)
Tvoritelj (The Creator)
Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed.
Peter Ackroyd – London: A Biography
Martin Amis – Experience
Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: The Science of History
Michael Burleigh – The Third Reich: A New History
Gerina Dunwich – Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship
Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Charles Foster – Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues
Will Hutton – The World We're In
Lawrence Lessig – Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Roger Lowenstein – When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Sidney Poitier – The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Paul H. Ray – The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Diane Stanley - Michelangelo
Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee – Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Michael White – Leonardo: the First Scientist
Bruce Wilkinson – The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
The Beatles Anthology
January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914)
January 26
Kathleen Hale, English children's author and illustrator (born 1898)
A. E. van Vogt, Canadian American science fiction author (born 1912)
January 31 – Gil Kane, Latvian American comic book writer (born 1926)
February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922)
March 28 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (born 1905)
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)
May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist and playwright (born 1901)
August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921)
August 25 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (born 1901)
September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915)
September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist and critic (born 1932)
September 14 – Hwang Sun-won, Korean fiction writer (born 1915)
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)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian
Camões Prize: Autran Dourado
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell
Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, Drylands; Kim Scott, Benang
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost – tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows
Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, Dans ces bras-là
Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ingrid Caven
Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, Camille
Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes
Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, Diabolus in musica
Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
Rastko Petrović Award: Dejan Stojanović, Conversations ("Razgovori")
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature (first award): Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer
Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
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
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
Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, El alquimista impaciente
Viareggio Prize: Giorgio van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passato
Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward (1888) is set in this year.
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