2014 in literature

none 2014 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus.2014-01-28 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/scholars-discover-new-poems-from-ancient-greek-poetess-sappho.html Scholars Discover New Poems from Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho The Daily Beast 2014-04-04 This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month.Quinn Annalisa https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/30/268732774/book-news-two-poems-by-greek-poet-sappho-discovered Book News: Two Poems By Greek Poet Sappho Discovered The Two-Way NPR 2014-01-30 2014-04-04http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1371516.ece New poems by Sappho TLS 2014-04-04http://newsappho.wordpress.com A discussion on the new Sappho papyrus New Sappho 2014-01-29 2014-04-04 January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins the 2014 edition of Canada Reads.https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/Joseph+Boydens+novel+Orenda+wins+CBCs+Canada+Reads/9587487/story.html Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins CBC's Canada Reads contest Edmonton Journal 2014-03-06 2014-03-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20140411231701/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/Joseph+Boydens+novel+Orenda+wins+CBCs+Canada+Reads/9587487/story.html 2014-04-11 dead April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10719259/Authors-campaign-against-ban-on-sending-books-to-prisoners.html Aime Williams Authors campaign against ban on sending books to prisoners The Daily Telegraph London 2014-04-24 2014-12-05 May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of Beowulf is first published.John Garth https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/22/jrr-tolkien-translation-beowulf-monsters JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf: bring on the monsters The Guardian London 2014-03-22 2014-04-28 (His essay "On Translating Beowulf had appeared in 1940). June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL.Isis burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul's libraries Rose Troup Buchanan Heather Saul 2015-02-25 2019-06-19 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-burns-thousands-of-rare-books-and-manuscripts-from-mosuls-libraries-10068408.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-burns-thousands-of-rare-books-and-manuscripts-from-mosuls-libraries-10068408.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent London November 25 – Discovery of a previously unknown copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (1623) in the public library at Saint-Omer in northern France is announced.Rory Mulholland Shakespeare First Folio discovered in French library https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/11252614/Shakespeare-First-Folio-discovered-in-French-library.html The Daily Telegraph 2014-11-25 2014-12-09 Anniversaries 28 January – On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/01/2014-books-year-ahead 2014 in books: turn over a new leaf The Guardian January 2014 2014-02-27 5 February – William Burroughs was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)Link http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/03/14_22.html?m=0 Silliman's Blog Ronsilliman.blogspot.com 2014-03-22 2014-04-28 2014-04-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20140429051246/http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/03/14_22.html?m=0 dead 21 February – Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday) 1 March – On this day 100 years ago, Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man) was born. 9 March – Charles Bukowski died 20 years ago today (1994).http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11718 Charles Bukowski Called it Splitsville 20 Years ago Pierrejoris.com 2014-04-28 10 March – On this day 50 years ago, John Updike receives the National Book Award for The Centaur.Begley Adam Updike 2014 HarperCollins (2014) 978-0061896453 265 Updike and Cheever had met fleetingly at literary events, such as the National Book Award on March 10, 1964, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, where Updike accepted the prize for The Centaur 31 March – 100th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz in 1914.http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11827 Octavio Paz, b. 100 Years ago today... Pierrejoris.com 2014-04-28Joel Whitney http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/poetry-and-action-octavio-paz-at-100 Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100 Dissent Magazine 2014-04-28 4 April – Marguerite Duras was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary) 14 April – On this day 75 years ago, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published. 16 April – Ralph Ellison dies on this date 20 years ago in 1994. (see March 1 above for Ellison links) 18 April – On this day 40 years ago (1974) the first printing of J. M. Coetzee's debut novel Dusklands appeared in hardback. Kannermeyer J. C. Michiel Heyns, translator J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing 2012 Scribe Publications 9781922070081 247 On 18 April 1974 the first printing of Dusklands appeared in hardback, with a press release by Randall praising the novel as "one of the most important works of literature to have been written in South Africa". The retail price was R4.80. 23 April – It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on 26 April). 26 April – The centenary of Bernard Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914).http://www.fsgworkinprogress.com/category/bernard-malamud-centenary/ Bernard Malamud Centenary | Work in Progress Fsgworkinprogress.com 2013-01-24 2014-04-28 May – The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.http://www.bartleby.com/br/140.html Gertrude Stein. 1914. Tender Buttons: Bibliographic Record bartleby.comhttps://jacket2.org/reviews/twenty-two-tender-buttons Twenty-two on 'Tender Buttons' | Jacket2 16 June – This year's Bloomsday celebration will also mark the 100th anniversary of the publication (June 1914) of Joyce's Dubliners.Ernest Hemingway, born 115 years ago this month, had ways of making the world smaller and larger | The Kansas City Star 21 September – the 50th anniversary of the publication of Herzog by Saul Bellow, the second of his three National Book Award-winning novels.http://www.libraryofinspiration.com/lit_1960s_herzog.htm Li: Herzog libraryofinspiration.com 7 July – Sir Walter Scott's debut novel, Waverley, was published (anonymously) 200 years ago today. 22 September – Alain-Fournier died in action in northern France 100 years ago today, just a year after the publication of his only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes. 27 October – Dylan Thomas was born a hundred years ago. 18 November – Margaret Atwood celebrates her 75th birthday today. 2 December – The Marquis de Sade died 200 years ago today. New books Fiction Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless stated otherwise. Belinda Alexandra pl – Sapphire Skies (Australia) Jacob M. Appel – Scouting for the Reaper (February 15) Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins (UK) Margaret Atwood – Stone Mattress – Nine Tales (September 16) Bandi – The Accusation (Korean language short stories, South Korea, May) Natalie Baszile – Queen Sugar (February 6) Pierce Brown – Red Rising (January 28) Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist (UK) Rosa da Silva (Sigrid Shreeve) – Jabujicaba (UK) Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See (May 6) Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals (April 23) Elizabeth Dutton - Driftwood David Grossman – A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel (In original Hebrew as סוס אחד נכנס לְבָּר (Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar), Israel) John Hornor Jacobs – The Incorruptibles (UK) Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (October 2) Stephen King Mr. Mercedes (June 3) Revival (November 11) Thomas King – The Back of the Turtle Paul Kingsnorth – The Wake (UK, April?) Herman Koch – Geachte heer M. (Dear Mr. M., Netherlands) Niviaq Korneliussen – Homo Sapienne (Greenland) Laila Lalami – The Moor's Account (September 9) S. E. Lister – Hideous Creatures (UK, May) Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule) – En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (translated as The End of Eddy, France, February) Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – Kintu (Ugandan-born author published in Kenya) Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven (Canada) Javier Marías – Así empieza lo malo (Thus Bad Begins) it Così ha inizio il male (Spain) Sean Michaels – Us Conductors (Canada, April 8) Karen Miller – The Falcon Throne (September) Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (translation, August 12) Rick Riordan – The Blood of Olympus (October 7) Rudy Ruiz – Seven for the Revolution Samanta Schweblin – Distancia de rescate (translated as Fever Dream, Argentina) Roger Scruton – Notes from Underground (March 12) Akhil Sharma – Family Life Joss Sheldon – Involution & Evolution (August 4) Leïla Slimani – Dans le jardin de l'ogre (France)http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Folio/Folio/Dans-le-jardin-de-l-ogre Dans le jardin de l'ogre Gallimard 27 January 2021 Ali Smith – How to Be Both (UK, August 28) Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/miriam-toews-nudges-along-a-difficult-conversation/ Miriam Toews wrestles with suicide in her latest quest for narrative truth Brian Bethune Maclean's 11 October 2014 Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe) (Poland, October) Niall Williams – History of the Rain Ivan Baran – Enzolart (first book in The Black Books Cycle) Children and young people Chris Van Allsburg – The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie David Almond A Song for Ella Grey The Tightrope Walkers Connah Brecon – There's This Thing A. F. Harrold fr ja A・F・ハロルド – The Imaginary John Hornor Jacobs – The Shibboleth J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – Harlem Hellfighters Katherine Rundell – Rooftoppers Jon Scieszka – Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (first in the Frank Einstein series of four books) R. A. Spratt – Friday Barnes Maggie Stiefvater – Blue Lily, Lily Blue (third book in The Raven Cycle, October 21)Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Waterstones https://www.waterstones.com/book/blue-lily-lily-blue/maggie-stiefvater/9781407136639 www.waterstones.com 15 December 2016 Zoe Sugg – Girl Online (UK, November 25) Drama Mike Bartlett – King Charles IIIhttp://www.almeida.co.uk/whats-on/king-charles-iii King Charles III Almeida Theatre almeida.co.uk 27 January 2021 Rona Munro – The James Plays John Patrick Shanley – Outside Mullingar Poetry 2014 in poetry Rosemary Tonks (posthumous) – Bedouin of the London Evening (selected poetry and prose) Non-fiction Leo Babauta – The Little Book of Contentment Alan Cumming – Not My Father's Son Lindsay David – Australia: Boom to Bust Mark Felton – Zero Night Ruben Flores – Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States William H. Frey – Diversity Explosion Michael Gross – House of Outrageous Fortune Christophe Guilluy – La France périphérique Madhu Kishwar – Modi, Muslims and Media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott – Farmageddon Helen Macdonald – H is for Hawk (UK, July) Rajiv Malhotra – Indra's Net Lucy Mangan – Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience Winifred Phillips – A Composer's Guide to Game Music Claudia Rankine – Citizen: An American Lyric Roger Scruton How to Be a Conservative (UK, September 11) The Soul of the World Douglas Vakoch – Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication Erik Voskuil – Before Mario Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article, January 4 – Jean Metellus, Haitian neurologist, author, poet, and playwright (born 1937) January 14 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, 83 (born 1930) January 28 – Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer, 64 (born 1949) January 29 – Hashem Shabani, Iranian poet, 32, (hanged, born c. 1982) February 18 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian writer of short stories, 91 (born 1923)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/18/mavis-gallant Mavis Gallant obituary Christopher Hawtree the Guardian 18 February 2014 March 2 – Justin Kaplan, American writer, editor and biographer, 88 (born 1925)http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/03/justin-kaplan-biographer-of-whitman-and-twain-dies-at-88/ Justin Kaplan, Biographer of Whitman and Twain, Dies at 88 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog The Poetry Foundation 2014-06-17 March 18 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet, April 2 Glyn Jones, South African actor and screenwriter (born 1931) Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (born 1938) April 5 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer, 86 (born 1927)National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09. (With interview, acceptance speech by Matthiessen, and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_f_matthiessen.html 2008 National Book Award Winner, Fiction National Book Foundation 2009-01-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20090129130420/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_f_matthiessen.html 2009-01-29 dead Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86"", The New York Times, April 5, 2014. April 10 Doris Pilkington Garimara (Nugi Garimara), Aboriginal novelist, 77 (born 1937)https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/arts/doris-pilkington-garimara-novelist-is-dead-at-76.html?_r=1 Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76 The New York Times 21 April 2014 Martin Douglas Sue Townsend, English comic novelist and playwright, 68 (born 1946) April 15 – Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer, and children's writer (born 1928) April 17 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel laureate, 87 (born 1927)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/17/gabriel-garcia-marquez-dies Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87 April 20 – Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer, 77 (born 1936)https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Author+Alistair+MacLeod+dies/9757263/story.html Author Alistair MacLeod dies at 77, remembered as 'great writer and a great man' 2019-01-26 2018-10-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20181024232021/http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Author+Alistair+MacLeod+dies/9757263/story.html dead http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alistair-macleod-acclaimed-canadian-writer-dead-at-77-1.2616054 Alistair MacLeod, acclaimed Canadian writer, dead at 77 – Nova Scotia – CBC News Cbc.ca 2014-04-20 2014-04-28 April 24 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer, 92 (born 1921)Poet Tadeusz Rozewicz dies, aged 92 2014-04-24 http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/169109,Poet-Tadeusz-Rozewicz-dies-aged-92 Radio Poland 2016-07-11 2018-10-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20181024231610/http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/169109,Poet-Tadeusz-Rozewicz-dies-aged-92 dead May 6 – Farley Mowat, Canadian author and environmentalist, 92 (born 1921)https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/08/farley-mowat Farley Mowat obituary Parini Jay 8 May 2014 www.theguardian.com 9 May 2014 May 21 – Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet, 93 (born 1920) May 28 Maya Angelou, American author, poet and civil rights activist, 86 (born 1928)Link http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2014/05/blog-post_29.html?m=0 Silliman's Blog Ronsilliman.blogspot.com 2014-05-29 2014-06-17 Oscar Dystel, American paperback publisher, 101 (born 1912). June 19 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist, 90 (born 1924) June 22 – Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet, 67 (born 1947)Felix Dennis https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felix-dennis-publisher-who-started-out-working-on-oz-and-went-on-to-found-a-lucrative-magazine-publishing-empire-9557862.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felix-dennis-publisher-who-started-out-working-on-oz-and-went-on-to-found-a-lucrative-magazine-publishing-empire-9557862.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent London 2014-06-24 2014-06-24 June 23 – Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)Nancy Garden: The author whose novel Annie on My Mind was credited https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nancy-garden-the-author-whose-novel-annie-on-my-mind-was-credited-with-helping-gay-teenagers-feel-9603448.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nancy-garden-the-author-whose-novel-annie-on-my-mind-was-credited-with-helping-gay-teenagers-feel-9603448.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 14 February 2020 en 14 July 2014 June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish writer, 88 (born 1925)http://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/20140625/abci-maria-matute-201406251043.html ABC Muere la escritora Ana María Matute June 25, 2014 Sergi Doria June 29 – Dermot Healy, Irish poet, playwright, fiction writer and memoirist. 66 (born 1947)Death of writer Dermot Healy http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0630/627411-death-of-writer-dermot-healy/ RTÉ News 2014-06-30 2014-06-30 July 4 – C. J. Henderson, American author and critic, 62 July 7 – Sheila K. McCullagh, English children's writer (born 1920) July 13 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 90 (born 1923)http://www.channel24.co.za/News/Local/Nadine-Gordimer-has-died-20140714 SA novelist Nadine Gordimer dies Channel July 20 – Thomas Berger, American writer, 93 (born 1924) August 1 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian novelist, 40 (brain tumour, born 1974) August 2 Billie Letts, American novelist, 73 (born 1938) James Thompson, American-Finnish author, 49 (born 1964) September 4 Orunamamu, American-Canadian author, story-teller and educator, 93 (born 1921) Edgar Steele, American lawyer and author, 69 (born 1945) September 21 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian playwright, 60 (born 1953)"Linda Griffiths, actor and playwright, dead after battle with cancer". CBC News, 21 September 2014. September 24 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist, 79 (born 1935) September 28 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and physician, 91 (born 1923) November 27 – P. D. James, English crime writer, 94 (born 1920)Retrieved 28 November 2014. November 29 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet and writer, United States Poet Laureate, 80 (born 1934)Pulitzer-winning poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 years old November 30 Radwa Ashour, Egyptian writer and academic, 68 (born 1946)http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/18/116873/Books/Egyptian-writer-Radwa-Ashour-dies-at-.aspx Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour dies at 68 ahram.org.eg Kent Haruf, American novelist, 71 (born 1943)http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/284283581.html Publisher says novelist Kent Haruf dies at age 71 – StarTribune.com Star Tribune 2014-12-05 2014-12-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20141209031929/http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/284283581.html dead December 3 – Vicente Leñero, Mexican writer and journalist, 81 (born 1933)http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/in-english/2014/vicente-lenero-dies-98337.html El Universal – In English – Mexican writer Vicente Leñero dies at 81 3 December 2014 El Universal 5 December 2014 6 December 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141206072122/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/in-english/2014/vicente-lenero-dies-98337.html dead December 12 – Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, 86 (born 1928) December 24 – Lee Israel, American biographer and literary forger, 75 (born 1939) Awards Akutagawa Prize: Hiroko Oyamada for ja Ana (Hole) and Tomoka Shibasaki for ja Haru No Niwa (Spring Garden) Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBridehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27695363 Eimear McBride wins Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 4 June 2014 20 June 2014 Tim Masters BBC Caine Prize for African Writing: Okwiri Oduor, "My Father's Head" Camões Prize: Alberto da Costa e Silva Costa Book of the Year: H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldHelen Macdonald wins Costa Book of the Year 2014 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31009421 BBC News 30 January 2015 27 January 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Paul Carlucci, The Secret Life of Fission"Paul Carlucci wins Danuta Gleed Award". Quill & Quire, June 2, 2014. Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Tamai Kobayashi"Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, June 24, 2014. Desmond Elliott Prize: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBridehttp://www.desmondelliottprize.org/2014-prize-winner/ https://archive.today/20140725200849/http://www.desmondelliottprize.org/2014-prize-winner/ usurped 25 July 2014 The 2014 Prize | The Desmond Elliott Prize The Desmond Elliott Prize 3 July 2014 2 September 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature: Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistryhttps://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2014/01/18/indian-wins-south-asian-prize-for-literature/ Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature The Wall Street Journal Aditi Malhotra 18 January 2014 9 September 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua FerrisWroe Nicholas Joshua Ferris wins Dylan Thomas prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/nov/07/joshua-ferris-wins-dylan-thomas-prize The Guardian Guardian News and Media 13 November 2014 7 November 2014 European Book Prize: Pascale Hugues, Hannah's Dress, and Anthony Giddens, Turbulent and Mighty Continent Folio Prize: Tenth of December: Stories by George Saundershttp://www.thefolioprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Folio-Prize-winner-announcement-1.pdf Tenth of December by George Saunders wins inaugural Folio Prize 2014 Folio Prize 10 March 2014 21 June 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140311235715/http://www.thefolioprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Folio-Prize-winner-announcement-1.pdf 11 March 2014 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Jaron Lanier German Book Prize: Kruso by Lutz SeilerLutz Seiler Wins 2014 German Book Prize http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/10/lutz-seiler-wins-2014-german-book-prize/#.WFLOBv-nxoM Publishing Perspectives 15 December 2016 7 October 2014 Goldsmiths Prize: How to Be Both by Ali SmithAli Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30021863 BBC News 13 November 2014 13 November 2014 Gordon Burn Prize: The Wake by Paul KingsnorthMark Rylance-backed novel wins £5,000 literary prize https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29572691 BBC News 11 October 2014 10 October 2014 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle"Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014. Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Andrée A. Michaud, Bondrée Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2014 Governor General's Awards. Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Adrien Bosc, for Constellation International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawihttp://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=11954 Baghdad Writes! Pierrejoris.com 2014-06-17 International Dublin Literary Award: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBrideDoyle Martin Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/eimear-mcbride-wins-15-000-kerry-group-irish-novel-of-the-year-award-1.1812392 Irish Times 3 September 2014 28 May 2014 Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 26th Lambda Literary Awards Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award: Steve Erickson Man Booker Prize: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganMasters Tim Man Booker Prize: Richard Flanagan wins for wartime love story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29617292 BBC News 15 October 2014 14 October 2014 Miles Franklin Award: All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyldhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-26/evie-wyld-wins-mile-franklin-literary-award/5553536 Miles Franklin Literary Award: Author Evie Wyld wins for her book All The Birds Singing ABC News 27 June 2014 Adrian Raschella 2 January 2015 National Biography Award: The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer by Alison AlexanderBegley Patrick Alison Alexander wins National Biography Award for The Ambitions of Jane Franklin http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/alison-alexander-wins-national-biography-award-for-the-ambitions-of-jane-franklin-20140804-zza3e.html 27 June 2015 Sydney Morning Herald 4 August 2014 National Book Award for Fiction: to Redeployment by Phil KlayKell y Keith J. Phil Klay wins National Book Award for 'Redeployment' https://nypost.com/2014/11/20/phil-klay-wins-national-book-award-for-redeployment/ November 20, 2014 New York Post November 20, 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature: to Patrick Modianohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/10/09/patrick-modiano-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/ Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize in literature Ron Charles 9 October 2014 Washington Post PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartthttp://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Fiction The Pulitzer Prizes – Citation Pulitzer.org 2014-04-28 2016-01-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20160113032438/http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2014-Fiction dead Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: 3 Sections by Vijay SeshadriCitation reads: "for a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless."http://www.pulitzer.org/jurors/2014-Poetry The Pulitzer Prizes | Jurors Pulitzer.org 2014-04-28 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Miriam Toews, All My Puny SorrowsMedley Mark Miriam Toews wins Writers' Trust award for All My Puny Sorrows https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/miriam-toews-wins-writers-trust-award-for-all-my-puny-sorrows/article21442147/ The Globe and Mail 5 November 2014 4 November 2014 SAARC Literary Award: Tarannum Riyaz Samuel Johnson Prize: H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldClark Nick Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: Helen Macdonald wins with 'H is for Hawk' https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/samuel-johnson-prize-for-nonfiction-helen-macdonald-wins-with-h-is-for-hawk-9839212.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/samuel-johnson-prize-for-nonfiction-helen-macdonald-wins-with-h-is-for-hawk-9839212.html 2022-05-01 subscription The Independent Independent Print Limited 11 November 2014 4 November 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize: Sean Michaels, Us Conductors"Sean Michaels awarded Giller Prize for his book 'Us Conductors'". The Globe and Mail, November 10, 2014. Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings: Ko Unhttp://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/ko-un-is-the-winner-of-the-golden-wreath-2014/?lang=en https://web.archive.org/web/20140225174412/http://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/ko-un-is-the-winner-of-the-golden-wreath-2014/?lang=en dead 25 February 2014 Ko Un is the winner of the "Golden Wreath" 2014 21 February 2014 Struga Poetry Evenings 21 February 2014 Walter Scott Prize: An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harrishttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27837254 Robert Harris wins Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction BBC News BBC 13 June 2014 10 September 2014 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Charles Simichttp://coldfrontmag.com/charles-simic-wins-2014-zbigniew-herbert-international-literary-award/ Charles Simic wins 2014 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award 2019-03-12 2017-12-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034738/http://coldfrontmag.com/charles-simic-wins-2014-zbigniew-herbert-international-literary-award/ dead See also Literature Books Comics Children and Young Adult Literature Poetry Writing References 30em External links Most popular 2014 book articles viewed on Wikipedia, with user comments on traffic jumps – The latest statistics can be found on Wikitop Popular Books of 2014 at Goodreads Published 2014 Books at Goodreads 2014 Books at Goodreads Category:2014-related lists