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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2012.
Events
- January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year, 70 years having passed last year since his death.[1]
- banned in the country.[2]
- February – James Joyce's children's story The Cats of Copenhagen is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin.[3]
- March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by the historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years.[4]
- April – While attending the London Book Fair, the exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book Beijing Coma and calls Chinese publishers a "mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party", after being "manhandled" while attempting to present the book to Liu Binjie at the fair.[5]
- July – Jaime García Márquez tells his students that his brother
- September 27 – The 50th anniversary of the publication of ecological text Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is noted.[8][9][10]
- September 28 – Sue Limb's parody of the Bloomsbury Group, Gloomsbury, begins to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K.[11]
- October 24 – Boekenberg ("Book mountain"), a public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by MVRDV, is opened.
- December – The discovery is announced of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by Hans Christian Andersen found at the bottom of a box in Denmark in October.[12]
- unknown date
- Precious Timbuktu Manuscripts are evacuated under threat from Islamist rebels by Dr. Abdel Kader Haidara and Stephanie Diakité.[13]
- An underground library in Darayya is formed in the besieged Syrian city by students.[14]
New books
Fiction (literary)
- Saud Alsanousi – The Bamboo Stalk[15]
- Jacob M. Appel – The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (October 27)[16]
- Filippo Bologna – I pappagalli (The Parrots, satire, March)
- Peter Carey – The Chemistry of Tears (May 15)
- Dan Chaon – Stay Awake (short stories, February 7)
- Emily Danforth – The Miseducation of Cameron Post(Bildungsroman, February 2)
- Stephen Dau – The Book of Jonas (March 15)[17]
- Debra Dean – The Mirrored World
- Elena Ferrante – L'amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend, first of the Neapolitan Novels)[18]
- Richard Ford – Canada (May 22)
- Ben Fountain – Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (May 1)
- Emily Giffin – Where We Belong (July 24)
- Mark Haddon – The Red House (June 12)
- John Irving – In One Person (May 8)
- Howard Jacobson – Zoo Time
- Rosemary Johns – Black Box 149
- Adam Johnson – The Orphan Master's Son (January 10)
- Christian Kracht – Imperium (February 16)
- Torsten Krol – The Secret Book of Sacred Things
- Mario Vargas Llosa – The Dream of the Celt (English translation by Edith Grossman, June 5)[19]
- The Flame Alphabet(January 17)
- Toni Morrison – Home(May 8)[20]
- Alice Munro – Dear Life (short story collection)
- Chibundu Onuzo – The Spider King's Daughter
- Ron Rash – The Cove (April 10)
- J. K. Rowling – The Casual Vacancy (September 27)[21]
- Bill Peters – Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality (October 9)
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz – Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (October 30)
- Neeta Shah – Bollywood Striptease (March 27)[22]
- David Vann – Dirt (April 24)
- Richard Wagamese – Indian Horse[23]
Children and young people
- Claire Alexander – Back to Front and Upside Down![24]
- The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas
- Hannah Barnaby – Wonder Show (March 20)[25]
- Emily Gravett – Matilda's Cat
- John Green – The Fault in Our Stars[26]
- Jacqueline Harvey – Clementine Rose book series
- Jon Klassen – This is Not My Hat[27]
- Josh Lacey – The Dragonsitter
- Inga Moore – Captain Cat
- Rick Riordan – The Mark of Athena
- The Raven Boys (first book in The Raven Cycle)[28]
- Mary Sullivan – Dear Blue Sky
- Jacqueline Wilson – The Worst Thing About My Sister
Drama
- Ayad Akhtar – Disgraced[29]
- Alan Bennett
- Cocktail Sticks
- Hymn
- People
- Howard Brenton – 55 Days
- Monica Byrne – What Every Girl Should Know
- Lolita Chakrabarti – Red Velvet
- James Graham – This House
- Miho Mosulishvili – My Redbreast
- Bisarjan
- Theresa Rebeck – Dead Accounts
- Sam Shepard – Heartless
- Anne Washburn – Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
- Florian Zeller – Le Père
Poetry
See 2012 in poetry
- Paige Ackerson-Kiely – My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer
- Marilyn Buck – Inside/Out: Selected Poems
- Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi– The Qat'aat o Rubaiyat of Zia Fatehabadi (quatrains, translation)
- Jack Gilbert – Collected Poems
- Paul Hoover – Desolation: Souvenir
- Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) – June Fourth Elegies (translation)
- Eileen Myles – Snow-Flake
- Lucia Perillo – On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
- D. A. Powell – Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
- W. G. Sebald – Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964–2001
- David Wagoner – After the Point of No Return
- Lew Welch – Ring of Bone: Collected Poems
Science fiction and fantasy
- Joe Abercrombie – Red Country (November 20)
- Daniel Abraham
- The King's Blood (May 22)
- (writing as James S. A. Corey) – Caliban's War (June 26)
- Saladin Ahmed – Throne of the Crescent Moon (February 7)
- Mercy Kill
- Leigh Bardugo – Shadow and Bone
- John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman – Hollow Earth
- John Birmingham – Angels of Vengeance (April 10)
- Alex Bledsoe – Wake of the Bloody Angel (July 3)
- David Brin – Existence (June 19)
- Tobias Buckell – Arctic Rising (February 28)
- Orson Scott Card – Shadows in Flight (January 17)
- Samuel R. Delany – Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (April 17)
- Troy Denning – Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse
- Steven Erikson – Forge of Darkness (September 18)
- Ian C. Esslemont – Orb Sceptre Throne (May 22)
- Brian Evenson – Immobility (April 10)
- Michael F. Flynn– In the Lion's Mouth (January 17)
- Mira Grant– Blackout (May 22)
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood – The Outcast Blade (March 26)
- Robin Hobb – City of Dragons (February 7)
- Douglas Hulick – Sworn in Steel (June 5)
- N. K. Jemisin
- The Killing Moon (May 1)
- The Shadowed Sun (June 12)
- The Wind Through the Keyhole(April 24)
- Mary Robinette Kowal – Glamour in Glass (April 10)
- Jay Lake – Calamity of So Long a Life
- Sarah J. Maas – Throne of Glass
- Paul Melko – Broken Universe (June 5)
- China Miéville – Railsea (May 15)
- Michael Moorcock – The Whispering Swarm
- Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves (March 13)
- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – The Long Earth (June 19)
- Hannu Rajaniemi – The Fractal Prince (September 4)
- Alastair Reynolds – Blue Remembered Earth (June 5)
- Rick Riordan – The Mark of Athena (October 2)
- Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312 (May 22)
- Robert J. Sawyer – Triggers (April 3)
- John Scalzi – Redshirts (June 5)
- Karl Schroeder – Ashes of Candesce (February 14)
- Brian Francis Slattery – Lost Everything (April 10)
- The Apocalypse Codex(July 3)
- Brent Weeks – The Blinding Knife (September 11)
- Daniel H. Wilson – Amped (June 5)
- Ben H. Winters – The Last Policeman (July 12)
- Gene Wolfe – The Land Across
Crime, horror etc.
- Lullaby(May 1)
- Laird Barron – The Croning (May 1)
- Ted Bell – Phantom (March 20)
- Alex Berenson – The Shadow Patrol (February 21)
- Steve Berry – The Columbus Affair (May 15)
- James Lee Burke – Creole Belle (July 17)
- Lee Child – A Wanted Man (September 27)
- The Third Gate(June 12)
- Harlan Coben – Stay Close (March 20)
- Michael Connelly – The Black Box (November 26)
- Taken(January 24)
- Justin Cronin – The Twelve (October 16)
- The Storm(June 5)
- Nelson DeMille – The Panther (October 16)
- Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl (June 5)
- Vince Flynn – Kill Shot (February 7)
- Seth Grahame-Smith – Unholy Night (April 10)
- John Grisham
- Calico Joe (April 10)
- The Racketeer (legal thriller, October 23)
- Philip Kerr – Prague Fatale (April 17)
- Tom Knox – The Lost Goddess (February 7)
- Odd Apocalypse(July 31)
- William Landay – Defending Jacob (January 31)
- Joe R. Lansdale – Edge of Dark Water (March 12)
- Dennis Lehane – Live by Night (October 2)
- Raylan(January 17)
- Robert R. McCammon – The Providence Rider (May 31)
- Jo Nesbø – Phantom (October 2)
- Oath of Office(February 14)
- Ridley Pearson – The Risk Agent (June 19)
- Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow Returns (January 3)
- Jeremy Robinson – Second World (May 22)
- James Rollins – Bloodline (June 26)
- Greg Rucka – Alpha (May 22)
- John Sandford – Stolen Prey (May 15)
- Scott Sigler – Nocturnal (April 3)
- Daniel Silva – Fallen Angel (July 17)
- James Swain – Dark Magic (May 22)
- Brad Thor – Black List (July 31)
- Joseph Wambaugh –Harbor Nocturne (April 3)
- David Wellington – 32 Fangs (April 24)
- F. Paul Wilson – Nightworld (May 22)
Non-fiction
- Marty Appel – Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss (May 8)
- Alison Bechdel – Are You My Mother? (memoir, May 1)
- Antony Beevor – The Second World War (June 5)
- Katherine Boo – Behind the Beautiful Forevers (February 7)
- David Byrne – How Music Works (December 12)
- Gregor Collins – The Accidental Caregiver (August 18)
- Susan Cain – Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (January 24)
- Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit (February 28)
- Michael Hastings – The Operators (January 10)
- Lawrence M. Krauss – A Universe from Nothing (January 10)[30]
- Ameritopia (January 17)[31]
- George Megalogenis – The Australian Moment[32]
- Masha Gessen – The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (March 1)
- Dan Jones – The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England (UK)[33]
- Jonah Lehrer – Imagine (March 20)
- Rachel Maddow – Drift (March 27)
- Marilynne Robinson – When I Was a Child I Read Books (March 27)
- Michael Lind – Land of Promise (April 17)
- Jonathan Haidt – The Righteous Mind (April 2)
- E. O. Wilson – The Social Conquest of Earth (April 9)
- Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy – The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (April 19)
- Edward Humes – Garbology (book)|Garbology (April 19)
- Peter Bergen – Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden, from 9/11 to Abbottabad (May 1)
- Steve Coll – Private Empire (May 1)
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson(May 1)
- Warren Littlefield and T. R. Pearson – Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV (May 1)
- Norman J. Ornstein – It's Even Worse Than It Looks (May 1)[34]
- Tom Holland – In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (May 15)
- John MacCormick – 9 Algorithms That Changed the Future
- Patrisha McLean – All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story (May 15)
- Callum Roberts – The Ocean of Life (May 22)
- Douglas Brinkley – Cronkite (May 29)
- Michelle Obama – American Grown (May 29)
- Christoph Ransmayr – Atlas of an Anxious Man (Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes; Austria)[35]
- Worshipping False Gods
- Amity Shlaes – Coolidge (June 26)
- Peter Watson – The Great Divide (June 26)
- Alec Wilkinson – The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration (January 24)
- David Wolman – The End of Money (February 14)
- Ro Khanna – Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future (July 24)[36]
- Jim Holt – Why Does the World Exist? (July 16)
- Michael D. Lemonick – Mirror Earth(October 16)
- Helaine Olen – Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Deaths
- January 3 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-born novelist and publisher (born 1924)
- January 7 – Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian journalist and author (born 1935)
- January 19 – On Sarig, Israeli children's author (born 1926)
- January 23 – Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (born 1931)
- January 28 – Don Starkell, Canadian diarist and author (born 1932)
- January 29 – Damien Bona, American historian and journalist (born 1955)
- January 30 – Bill Wallace, American children's author and educator (born 1947)
- February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel laureate (born 1923)[37]
- February 3 – John Christopher (Samuel Youd) English science fiction novelist (born 1922)
- February 4 – Irene McKinney, American poet (born 1939)[38]
- February 4 – John Turner Sargent Sr., American publisher (born 1924)
- February 21 – Barney Rosset, American publisher (born 1922)
- March 21 – Christine Brooke-Rose, Swiss-born English novelist and translator (born 1923)
- March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (born 1943)[39]
- March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer (born 1929)[40]
- March 28 – John Arden, English playwright (born 1930)[41]
- April 2 – Sarah Dreher, American novelist and playwright (born 1937)[42]
- April 7 – Miss Read (Dora Jesse Shafe), English novelist (born 1913)[43]
- April 8 – Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American and political scientist (born 1921)
- April 17 – Leila Berg, English children's writer and activist (born 1917)[44]
- April 26 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian publicist and writer (suicide, born 1957)[45]
- May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (born 1928)[46]
- May 12 – Walter Wink, American theologian and scholar (born 1935)
- May 15
- Jean Craighead George, American novelist (born 1919)[47]
- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928)[48]
- Leo Dillon, American children's author and illustrator (born 1933)
- June 5
- Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction and fantasy author (born 1920)[49]
- Barry Unsworth, English writer of historical fiction (born 1930)[50]
- June 19 – Emili Teixidor, Catalan journalist and author (born 1933)[51]
- June 23 – Marjorie Chibnall, medievalist, biographer and translator (born 1915)
- July 28 – Carol Kendall, American children's writer (born 1917)[52]
- July 30
- Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (born 1939)[53]
- Héctor Tizón, Argentinian writer and diplomat (born 1929)[54]
- July 31
- Mollie Hunter, Scottish novelist and children's writer (born 1922)
- Gore Vidal, American novelist, playwright and political commentator (born 1925)
- August 2
- Amos Hakham, Israeli biblical scholar (born 1921)[55]
- Sir John Keegan, English military historian and journalist (born 1934)[56]
- Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and film director (born 1917)[57]
- August 4 – Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (born 1921)
- August 6 – Robert Hughes, Australian critic and historian (born 1938)[58]
- August 11 – Heidi Holland, South African journalist and author (born 1947)[59]
- August 22 – Nina Bawden, English novelist and children's writer (born 1925)[60]
- September 6 – Horacio Vázquez-Rial, Argentine-born Spanish writer (cancer, born 1947)[61]
- September 8 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and novelist (born 1939)[62]
- September 10
- Ernesto de la Peña, Mexican writer (born 1927)[63]
- Hans Joachim Störig, German writer, lexicographer and translator (born 1915)[64]
- September 12 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (born 1946)[65]
- September 14 – Louis Simpson, American poet (Alzheimer's disease, born 1923)[66]
- September 15 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian writer (born 1918)[67]
- September 20
- Robert G. Barrett, Australian author (cancer, born 1942)[68]
- Tereska Torrès, French writer (born 1920)[69]
- September 21 – Sven Hassel (Børge Pedersen), Danish novelist (born 1917)[70]
- September 22 – Irving Adler, American author, mathematician, and scientist (born 1913)[71]
- October 7 – Ivo Michiels (Henri Paul René Ceuppens), Belgian writer in Flemish (born 1923)[72]
- October 21 – George McGovern, American politician and writer (born 1922)[73]
- October 25 – Aude, Canadian novelist (born 1947)[74]
- October 29 – J. Bernlef, Dutch writer (born 1937)[75]
- November 2
- November 20 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)[79]
- November 22 – Jan Trefulka, Czech writer and dissident (renal failure, born 1929)[80]
- December 1 – Ahmed Taib El Alj, Moroccan playwright (born 1928)[81]
- December 4 – Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1932)[82]
- December 6 – Jan Carew, Guyanese novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1920)[83]
- December 16 – Fan Vavřincová, Czech screenwriter, novelist, and author (born 1917)[84]
- December 28 – Jayne Cortez, African-American poet (born 1934)[85]
- December 31 – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1938)[86]
Awards
- Babatunde Rotimi, "Bombay's Republic"
- Camões Prize: Dalton Trevisan
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls[87]
- Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: Gene Wolfe[88]
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Amber Dawn; honour of distinction, Mariko Tamaki.
- European Book Prize: Rolf Bauerdick, Madonna on the moon, and Luuk van Middelaar, Europe's passage
- Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2012 Governor General's Awards.
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
- International Dublin Literary Award: Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs[90]
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Rabee Jaber, The Druze of Belgrade
- 2012 Lambda Literary Awards.
- Man Booker Prize: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- Miles Franklin Award: Anna Funder, All That I Am.[91][92]
- National Biography Award: The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist[93]
- National Book Award for Fiction: to The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
- Nobel Prize in Literature: Mo Yan[94]
- Orange Prize for Fiction: to The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: John Agard
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13
- SAARC Literary Award: Fakrul Alam, Ayesha Zee Khan
- Scotiabank Giller Prize: Will Ferguson, 419
- Whiting Awards: Fiction: Alan Heathcock, Anthony Marra, Hanna Pylväinen; Nonfiction: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts; Plays: Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter, Mona Mansour, Meg Miroshnik; Poetry: Ciaran Berry, Atsuro Riley
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Nino Ricci
See also
Notes
- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.
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