2000 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2000.

Events

• 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.

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
• 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 and 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 and 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 and Dark Tide: Ruin
• Domenico Starnone – Via Gemito
• Danielle Steel – The House On Hope Street and Journey
• Kathy Tyers – Balance Point
• Andrew Vachss – Dead and Gone
• David Whiteland – Book of Pages

Children and young people

• 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

Drama

• David Auburn – Proof
• Timothy Findley – Elizabeth Rex
• Dusty Hughes – Helpless
• Joe Penhall – Blue/Orange

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 Stojanović^[1]
  • Znak i njegova deca ("The Sign and Its Children")^[2]
  • Oblik ("The Shape")^[3]
  • Tvoritelj ("The Creator")^[4]
  • Krugovanje ("Circling"), 3rd ed.^[4]

Non-fiction

• 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^[5]
• 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

Deaths

• 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)
• 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)

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 Shadows^[6]

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")^[7]

United Kingdom

• 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

United States

• 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

Other

• 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

In literature

• Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward (1888) is set in this year.

References