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2007 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2007.

Contents

Events

  • January 1 – Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (beginning in 1645 as Ordinari Post Tijdender), begins to be published online only.
  • March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of bookselling in the city.
  • April 26 – Polly Stenham's play That Face, written when the author was 19, premières at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
  • July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.
  • November 19 – First Kindle e-book reader released.
  • December 11 – Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

    • Fiction

  • Gilbert Adair – A Mysterious Affair of Style
  • Louis Begley – Matters of Honor
  • Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
  • Bob Burg and John D. Mann – The Go-Giver
  • Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  • Stewe Claeson – Tiro
  • Brock Clarke – An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
  • Bernard Cornwell – Sword Song
  • Jim Crace – The Pesthouse
  • Robert Crais – The Watchman
  • Don DeLillo – Falling Man
  • Junot Díaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End
  • Ge Fei (格非) – 山河入梦 (Shanhe Rumeng)
  • Helon Habila – Measuring Time
  • Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Don Hannah – Ragged Islands
  • Elizabeth Hay – Late Nights on Air
  • Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Hiromi Itō (伊藤 比呂美) – The Thorn-Puller: New Tales of the Sugamo Jizō (とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起, Toge-nuki: Shin Sugamo Jizō engi)
  • Denis Johnson – Tree of Smoke
  • Panos Karnezis – The Birthday Party
  • Andrus Kivirähk – Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu ("The Man Who Spoke Snakish")
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Alice Stories
  • Min Jin Lee – Free Food for Millionaires
  • Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach
  • Michael Ondaatje – Divisadero
  • Roma Tearne – Mosquito
  • Graham Swift – Tomorrow
  • M. G. Vassanji – The Assassin's Song
  • David Wong – John Dies at the End
  • Kirby Wright – Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle
  • Corrina Wycoff – O Street
  • Juli Zeh – Dark Matter

    • Children and young people

  • David Almond - My Dad's a Birdman
  • Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  • Libba Bray – The Sweet Far Thing
  • Suzanne Collins – Gregor and the Code of Claw (fifth and final book in the Underland Chronicles)
  • Charlie Higson
  • Double or Die (third book in the Young Bond series)
  • Hurricane Gold (fourth book in the Young Bond series)
  • Nick Hornby – Slam
  • D. J. MacHale – The Pilgrims of Rayne
  • Richelle Mead – Vampire Academy (first in the eponymous series of six books for reluctant readers)
  • Stephenie Meyer – Eclipse
  • China Miéville – Un Lun Dun
  • Robert Muchamore
  • The Fall (seventh book in the CHERUB series)
  • Mad Dogs (eighth book in the CHERUB series)
  • Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf
  • Garth Nix – Lady Friday (fifth book in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
  • Iona Opie - Mother Goose's Little Treasures
  • Jerry Pinkney (adapted from Brothers Grimm) - Little Red Riding Hood
  • J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 21, final book in the Harry Potter series)
  • Brian Selznick – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Hikaru Sugii (杉井 光) – Heaven's Memo Pad
  • Laura Wiess – Such A Pretty Girl
  • N. D. Wilson – 100 Cupboards (first book in the 100 Cupboards series)

    • Science fiction and fantasy

  • Joe Abercrombie – Before They Are Hanged (March 15, second of The First Law series)
  • Christopher Barzak – One For Sorrow (August 28)
  • Jim Butcher – White Night (April 3, Harry Dresden No. 9)
  • Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen's Union (May 1)
  • Hal Duncan – Ink (February 2, second in the The Book of All Hours series)
  • Warren Ellis – Crooked Little Vein (July 24)
  • Steven Erikson – Reaper's Gale (April 24, seventh in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
  • William Gibson – Spook Country (August 7)
  • Ed Greenwood – Dark Lord (September, First book in the Falconfar series)
  • Tanith Lee – Piratica III: The Family Sea (third in The Piratica Series)
  • Scott Lynch – Red Seas Under Red Skies (July 31, second in the Gentleman Bastard series)
  • Richard K. Morgan – Th1rte3n (June 26)
  • Ian McDonald – Brasyl (May 1)
  • Chuck Palahniuk – Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey (May 1)
  • Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – The Wheel of Darkness
  • Lucius Shepard – Softspoken (April 15)
  • Jeffrey Thomas – Deadstock (February 27)
  • Catherynne M. Valente – The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (October 30, second in the Orphan's Tales series)

    • Drama

  • Hassan Abdulrazzak – Baghdad Wedding
  • Bola Agbaje – Gone Too Far!
  • Jacob M. Appel – The Mistress of Wholesome
  • Sebastian Barry – The Pride of Parnell Street
  • Jon Fosse – I Am the Wind
  • Melissa James Gibson – Current Nobody
  • Lee Hall – The Pitmen Painters
  • David Henry Hwang – Yellow Face
  • Tracy Letts – August: Osage County
  • Caleb Lewis – Dogfall
  • Hannah Moscovitch – East of Berlin
  • Brendan O'Carroll – For the Love of Mrs. Brown
  • Aaron Sorkin – The Farnsworth Invention
  • Polly Stenham – That Face

    • Poetry

  • Dejan Stojanović, Ples vremena ("Dance of Time"), Konras, Beograd

    • Non-fiction

  • Peter Ackroyd – Thames: Sacred River
  • Andrea Cagan – Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
  • Wayne Federman, Marshall Terrill and Jackie Maravich – Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich
  • David Halberstam – The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
  • Ian Halperin – Hollywood Undercover
  • Christopher Hitchens – God is not Great
  • A. J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically
  • Linda and Terry Jamison – Separated at Earth
  • Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
  • Anthony Lewis – Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
  • David McMillan – Escape
  • John Matteson – Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
  • Daisuke Miyao – Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
  • Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto)
  • Bruce Serafin – Stardust

    • Deaths

  • January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (born 1932)
  • January 27 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1914)
  • January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (born 1917)
  • February 16 – Sheridan Morley, English critic and biographer (born 1941)
  • March 30 – Michael Dibdin, British crime writer (born 1947)
  • April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American satirical novelist (born 1922)
  • May 8 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (born 1933)
  • June 3 – Suzanne Robert, French Canadian novelist (born 1948)
  • June 21 – Douglas Hill, Canadian science fiction author and reviewer (born 1935)
  • June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (born 1905)
  • July 31 – Margaret Avison, Canadian poet (born 1918)
  • September 3 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (born 1908)
  • September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American novelist (born 1918)
  • September 16 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), American fantasy and historical novelist (born 1948)
  • November 10 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, journalist and playwright (born 1923)
  • November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist, dramatist and songwriter (born 1929)
  • November 19 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1917)
  • November 27 – Jane Rule, Canadian novelist (born 1931)
  • December 22 – Julien Gracq, French novelist (born 1910)

    • Awards

  • Nobel Prize in Literature: Doris Lessing
  • Europe Theatre Prize: Robert Lepage and Peter Zadek
  • Camões Prize: António Lobo Antunes

    • Australia

  • ALS Gold Medal: Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
  • Miles Franklin Award: Alexis Wright, Carpentaria
  • Patrick White Award: David Rowbotham

    • Canada

  • Canada Reads: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
  • Le Combat des livres: Denis Thériault, L'Iguane
  • Scotiabank Giller Prize: Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
  • Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Governor General's Awards
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway
  • Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Michael V. Smith
  • Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
  • Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

    • United Kingdom

  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
  • Man Booker Prize: Anne Enright, The Gathering
  • Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction: to Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    • United States

  • Newbery Award for children's literature: Susan Patron, The Higher Power Of Lucky
  • Compton Crook Award: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
  • Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Lambda Literary Awards.
  • National Book Award for Fiction: to Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
  • National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Everyman by Philip Roth
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Whiting Awards:
  • Fiction: Ben Fountain, Brad Kessler, Dalia Sofer
  • Nonfiction: Carlo Rotella, Peter Trachtenberg, Jack Turner
  • Plays: Sheila Callaghan, Tarell Alvin McCraney
  • Poetry: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin

    • References

    2007 in literature Wikipedia
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