2000 in literature

none 2000 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000. Events February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space.El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo Raquel San Martín http://www.lanacion.com.ar/979452-el-ateneo-grand-splendid-una-joya-entre-las-librerias-del-mundo La Nación Buenos Aires 17 January 2008 10 May 2015 es El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a jewel among the libraries of the world 14 October 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171014235249/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/979452-el-ateneo-grand-splendid-una-joya-entre-las-librerias-del-mundo dead February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12. March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book.Francesca de Châtel Robin Hunt Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail https://books.google.com/books?id=tpAtQB_TRxIC&pg=PA231 2 August 2004 Routledge 978-1-135-47609-0 231– September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, The Accused.Herald of Library Science https://books.google.com/books?id=MNXgAAAAMAAJ 2002 161 December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material specifically ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code. New books Fiction 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 Maeve Binchy – Scarlet Feather 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 K. Sello Duiker – Thirteen Cents Ken Follett – Code to Zero Jon Fosse – Morning and Evening (Morgon og kveld) (novella) 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 Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins The Indwelling The Mark Colleen McCullough – Morgan's Run Alistair MacLeod – Island Barry N. Malzberg – In the Stone House Juliet Marillier – Son of the Shadows George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness Mikael Niemi – Popular Music from Vittula (Populärmusik från Vittula) 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 Marjane Satrapi – Persepolis (graphic novel, first part) Jean-Jacques Schuhl – Ingrid Caven Christina Schwarz – Drowning RuthSimon Diane Drowning Ruth (Book Review) People October 16, 2000 54 16 58 https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-drowning-ruth-vol-54-no-16/ May 18, 2020 Helen Simpson – Hey Yeah Right Get A Life Michael Slade – Hangman Gillian Slovo – Red Dust Zadie Smith – White TeethClaire Squires Zadie Smith's White Teeth https://books.google.com/books?id=cga-I40AdQ4C&pg=PA94 26 June 2002 A&C Black 978-0-8264-5326-6 94 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 Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo) Chris Ware – Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (graphic novel) Edmund White – The Married Man Children and young people Lloyd Alexander – The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man David Almond – Counting Stars Margaret Beames – Oliver in the Garden Kirsten Boie – Wir Kinder aus dem Möwenweg (first in the Kinder aus dem Möwenweg series) Lauren Child Beware of the Storybook Wolves I Will Never Not Ever Eat a TomatoHahn 2015, p. 120 Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner (also Parvana, first in the Breadwinner series of four books)Hahn 2015, p. 184 Mem Fox – Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/13/reviews/000813.rv102120.html archive.nytimes.com 12 January 2022 Cornelia Funke – The Thief LordHahn 2015, p. 574 Jamila Gavin – Coram BoyHahn 2015, p. 223 Anthony Horowitz – StormbreakerHahn 2015, p. 289 Hwang Sun-mi – The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (마당을 나온 암탉, Sakyejul) Shirley Isherwood – Flora the Frog Gordon Korman – No More Dead Dogs Jim Murphy – BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed AmericaHahn 2015, p. 408 Beverley Naidoo – The Other Side of TruthHahn 2015, p. 410 Jerry Pinkney – Aesop's FablesThe Same Old Stories https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/19/reviews/001119.19wellst.html?scp=1&sq=aesops%2520fables&st=cse archive.nytimes.com 12 January 2022 Philip Pullman – The Amber SpyglassHis Dark Materials https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095938401 Oxford Reference 11 January 2022 en J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHahn 2015, p. 265 Lemony Snicket The Wide WindowOlson Danel 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7728-3 523 https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 en The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy Jacqueline Wilson – Vicky AngelVicky Angel https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/100/1005006/vicky-angel/9780440867807.html www.penguin.co.uk 28 March 2013 12 January 2022 en Drama David Auburn – Proof Timothy Findley – Elizabeth Rex Tanika Gupta – The Waiting Room Dusty Hughes – Helpless Joe Penhall – Blue/Orange Poetry 2000 in poetry 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 Stojanovićhttps://archive.org/details/OblikByDejanStojanovic Dejan Stojanović Internet Archive Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)Prosveta, Beograd.https://archive.org/details/ZnakINjegovaDecaByDejanStojanovic Znak i njegova deca Dejan Stojanović Internet Archive Oblik (The Shape)Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro. Tvoritelj (The Creator)Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd. Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed. Non-fiction Peter Ackroyd – London: A Biography Martin Amis – Experience The Beatles Anthology Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: The Science of History Michael Burleigh – The Third Reich: A New History Christian Cannuyer – Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile John Colapinto – As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girlhttps://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20angiert.html X + Y = Z movies2.nytimes.com Mary Craig – Blessings 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 John Bellamy Foster – Marx's Ecology Aileen Fox – Aileen: a Pioneering Archaeologist (autobiography) Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Lynda Gratton – Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose Taras Grescoe – Sacré BluesFaculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 2014-06-06. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17. Christina Hoff Sommers – The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Menhttps://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/books/books-of-the-times-boys-not-girls-as-society-s-victims.html BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000) Richard Bernstein The New York Times July 31, 2000 NYTimes.com Will Hutton – The World We're In Stephen King – On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 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 Arun Shourie – Harvesting Our Souls Paul H. Ray – The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World Lorna Sage – Bad Blood Diane Stanley – Michelangelo Patrick Tort – Darwin and the Science of EvolutionPatrick Tort Darwin et la science de l'évolution https://books.google.com/books?id=KBQhAQAAIAAJ 2000 Gallimard 978-2-07-053520-0 fr 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 Films In the Mood for Love - inspired by Liu Yichang's "Intersection" Deaths January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914)https://www.nytimes.com/library/books/010700obit-obrian.html Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85 Prial Frank J The New York Times 7 January 2000 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 cartoonist (born 1926) February 11 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (born 1927) February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922) March 28 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (born 1905)Obituary: Anthony Powell https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900733/Anthony-Powell.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110304175919/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900733/Anthony-Powell.html dead 4 March 2011 27 July 2017 The Telegraph Telegraph Media Group Limited 29 March 2000 April 3 – Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born 1946)Martin Douglas September 10, 2013 Terence McKenna, 53, dies; Patron of psychedelic drugs The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/09/us/terence-mckenna-53-dies-patron-of-psychedelic-drugs.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm 2012-09-12 April 13 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (born 1916) April 15 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (born 1925) Kelley Tina Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75 The New York Times April 16, 2000 https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/edward-gorey-eerie-illustrator-and-writer-75.html April 21 – Al Purdy, Canadian poet (born 1918) April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916)Harvey-Wood, Harriet 3 May 2000 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/03/guardianobituaries.books Penelope Fitzgerald The Guardian 24 January 2021 May 13 – Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (born 1938) May 16 – Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (born 1924) May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist and playwright (born 1901)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/758077.stm BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies 21 May 2000 news.bbc.co.uk 24 January 2021 July 14 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (born 1920) August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921) August 25 – Carl Barks, American comic book cartoonist (born 1901) September 2 – Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1902)2000-09-09 Curt Siodmak; Writer Created the 'Wolf Man' https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-09-me-18200-story.html 2021-01-19 Los Angeles Times en-US September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915) Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (born 1927) September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist and critic (born 1932)Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson https://books.google.com/books?id=WvTlZGqa8YAC&pg=PT4 25 March 2004 Penguin Books Limited 978-0-14-192033-7 4 September 14 – Hwang Sun-won, Korean fiction writer (born 1915) September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born 1924) September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913)https://biography.wales/article/s12-THOM-STU-1913 THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000), poet and clergyman M. Wynn Thomas Dictionary of Welsh Biography 26 August 2021 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)Thurber Jon Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer Los Angeles Times November 13, 2000 Los Angeles, CA B4 December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet (born 1917)Watkins, Mel Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83 https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/04/books/gwendolyn-brooks-whose-poetry-told-of-being-black-in-america-dies-at-83.html The New York Times December 4, 2000 September 13, 2012 Mel Watkins (American writer) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian Camões Prize: Autran Dourado Australia 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 Canada 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 ShadowsFaculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164206/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11313 2014-06-06 . Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17. France 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 Serbia Rastko Petrović Award: Dejan Stojanović, Conversations ("Razgovori")http://www.maticasrba.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=57&lang=lat Rastko: Dejan Stojanović. 2010-08-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20120310235810/http://www.maticasrba.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=57&lang=lat 2012-03-10 dead United Kingdom Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature (first award): Howard Jacobson, The Mighty Walzer Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Caine Prize for African Writing: Leila Aboulela, "The Museum" Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of TruthHahn 2015, p. 661 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 United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Quan Barry, 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, 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 Michael L. Printz Award for the "best book written for teens" (first award): Walter Dean Myers, Monster National Book Award for Fiction: Susan Sontag, In America National Book Critics Circle Award: Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Ha Jin, Waiting 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 Other Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi) Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Assia Djebar International 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 Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em External links Popular Books of 2000 at Goodreads Published 2000 Books at Goodreads 2000 Books at Goodreads Category:2000-related lists