2010 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2010.

Events

Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010

• February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.^[1]
• April 3 – First release of the Apple iPad electronic book reading device.^[2]
• April 12 – Little-known author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by tiny Bellevue Literary Press.^[2]
• June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book.^[3]
• July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation. As of May 2010, a total of 27 million copies have been sold worldwide.^[4][5] On July 27 Amazon says Larsson is first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.^[2]
• August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared here since 2000 with Stephen King.^[2]
• October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
• October 12 – Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
• November 9 – Johanna Skibsrud wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists.^[6]
• November 16 – The 2010 Governor General's Awards are announced. Winners include Dianne Warren for English fiction, Kim Thúy for French fiction, Richard Greene for poetry and Robert Chafe for drama.^[7]
• November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay instructed by Twain himself. Unofficial copies had been published several times during the 20th century.
• Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland by the state ceases as all prior bans expire.

New books

Deaths

• January 1
  • Bingo Gazingo, American performance poet (born 1924)
  • Billy Arjan Singh, Indian author (born 1917)
• January 2 – Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Indian poet (born 1913)
• January 3 – Isak Rogde, Norwegian translator (born 1947)
• January 4
  • Knox Burger, American editor, writer and agent (born 1922)
  • Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian and writer (born 1934)
• January 5 – Bernard Le Nail, French writer and historian (born 1946)
• January 6 – George Leonard, American writer and editor (born 1923)
• January 8 – Slavka Maneva, Macedonian writer and poet (born 1934)
• January 9 – Laura Chapman Hruska, American writer and editor (born 1935)
• January 11 – Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch biographer (born 1909)
• January 14 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (born 1916)
• January 16 – Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美), Japanese novelist (born 1926)
• January 17 – Erich Segal, American author and academic (born 1937)
• January 18 – Robert B. Parker, American detective writer (born 1932)
• January 19 – Vladimir Karpov, Soviet Russian writer (born 1922)
  

  Robert B. Parker
• January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever, Polish-born Israeli poet (born 1913)
• January 21 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953)
• January 26 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (born 1917)
• January 27
  • J. D. Salinger, American novelist (born 1919)
  • Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922)
• January 31
  • Kage Baker, American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1952)
  • Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine writer (born 1934)
• February 2
  • Rosa Lobato de Faria, Portuguese writer (born 1932)
  • Eustace Mullins, American writer, author and biographer (born 1923)
• February 5 – Peter Calvocoressi, Pakistani-born English historian and publisher (born 1912)
• February 6 – Robert Dana, American poet (born 1929)
• February 7 – William Tenn (Philip Klass), American science fiction writer (born 1920)
  

  Robert Dana
• February 8 – Wahei Tatematsu (立松和平), Japanese novelist (born 1947)
• February 10 – H. V. F. Winstone, English biographer and journalist (born 1926)
• February 11 – Colin Ward, English anarchist writer (born 1924)
• February 13 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (born 1936)
• February 14 – Dick Francis, Welsh novelist (born 1920)
• February 16 – Jim Harmon, American science fiction writer (born 1933)
• February 17 – Arnold Beichman, American writer (born 1913)
• February 23 – Mervyn Jones, English novelist and biographer (born 1922)
• February 27 – Carlos Montemayor, Mexican writer (born 1947)
• March 1 – Barry Hannah, American novelist and short story writer (born 1942)
• March 3 – Momo Kapor, Serbian writer (born 1937)
• March 9 – Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, São Tome poet (born 1926)
• March 10 – Truddi Chase, American autobiographical author (born c. 1935)
• March 11 – Matilde Elena López, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright (born 1919)
• March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (born 1920)
• March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, Indian poet and writer in Marathi (born 1918)
• March 15
  • Joseph Galdon, Filipino writer (born 1928)
  • Patricia Wrightson, Australian children's writer (born 1921)
• March 16 – Jane Sherman, American writer (born 1908)
• March 17 – Sid Fleischman, American children's writer (born 1920)
• March 18 – Amanda Castro, Honduran poet (born 1962)
• March 20 – Ai Ogawa, American poet (born 1947)
• March 21 – Susana, Lady Walton, Argentine writer (born 1926)
• March 24 – William Mayne, English children's novelist (born 1928)
• March 28 – Zofia Romanowiczowa, Polish writer and translator (born 1922)
• April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, American poet (born 1940)
• April 9
  • Hisashi Inoue (井上 ひさし), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1934)
  • Kerstin Thorvall, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist (born 1925)
• April 14 – Erika Burkart, Swiss German-language author (born 1922)
• April 16 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and activist (born 1921)
• April 20 – Myles Wilder, American television comedy writer (born 1933)
• April 23 – Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet (born 1929)
• April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (born 1928)
• April 28
  • Evelyn Cunningham, American journalist (born 1916)
  • Stefania Grodzieńska, Polish writer and actress (born 1914)
• May 1 – T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (born 1918)^[10]
• May 3
  • Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Moroccan philosopher and writer (born 1935)
  • Peter O'Donnell, English novelist (born 1920)
• May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1922)
• May 7
  • Rane Arroyo, American poet (cerebral hemorrhage, born 1954)^[11]
  • Anders Buraas, Norwegian journalist (born 1915)
• May 12 – Allan Manings, American television writer (born 1924)
• May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet (born 1930)
• June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
• June 19 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, critic and activist (born 1938)
• July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (born 1932)
• July 4 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927)
• July 9 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist and short story writer (born 1916)
• August 6 – Tony Judt, English historian (born 1948)
• August 9 – Juan Marichal, Spanish historian (born 1922)
• August 10 – Marie de Garis, Guernsey ethnographer and philologist (born 1910)
• August 12 – Laurence Gardner, English writer (born 1943)
• August 13 – Patrick Cauvin, French novelist (born 1932)
• August 14 – Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (born 1922)
• August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet (born 1926)
• August 17
  • Sir Frank Kermode, Manx-born literary critic (born 1919)
  • Ludvík Kundera, Czech writer and translator (born 1920)
  • Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (born 1920)
• August 18 – Efraim Sevela, Russian writer and screenwriter (born 1928)
• August 20 – David J. Weber, American historian and author (born 1940)
• August 21 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentine writer (born 1941)
• August 27
  • George Hitchcock, American poet (born 1914)
  • Ravindra Kelekar, Indian author and poet (born 1925)
• August 29 – A. C. Baantjer, Dutch author (born 1923)
• August 31 – Vance Bourjaily, American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1922)
• September 3 – Micky Burn, English writer and poet (born 1912)
• September 5
  • Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (born 1905)^[12]
  • Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (born 1936)
• September 7 – Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933)
• September 10 – Edwin Charles Tubb, English science fiction author (born 1919)
• September 11 – Fathi Osman, Egyptian author (born 1928)
• September 12 – Judith Merkle Riley, American author (born 1942)
• September 18 – James Bacon, American author (born 1914)
• September 20 – Jennifer Rardin, American author (born 1965)
• September 24 – Gilda O'Neill, English novelist and historian (born 1951)
• September 29 – Clifford B. Hicks, American writer and editor (born 1920)
• October 1 – Mikhail Roshchin, Russian playwright (born 1933)
• October 4 – Henrique de Senna Fernandes, Macanese author (born 1923)
• October 5
  • Alba Bouwer, South African writer in Afrikaans (born 1920)
  • Bernard Clavel, French writer (born 1923)
• October 11 – Claire Rayner, English author (born 1931)
• October 12 – Belva Plain, American novelist (born 1915)
• October 13 – Donald H. Tuck, Australian science fiction bibliographer (born 1922)
• October 20
  • Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-born English novelist (born 1925)
  • Robert Katz, American writer (born 1933)
  • Julian Roberts, English scholar and librarian (born 1930)
• October 21 – A. Ayyappan, Indian poet in Malayalam (born 1945)
• October 22 – Alí Chumacero, Mexican writer and poet (born 1918)
• October 23 – George Cain, American author (born 1943)
• October 24 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (born 1912)
• October 25 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (born 1922)
• October 29 – Bärbel Mohr, German author (born 1964)
• October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927)
• November 1 – Monica Johnson, American novelist (born 1946)
• November 3 – P. Lal, Indian writer (born 1929)
• November 4 – Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Filipino poet (born 1932)
• November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian author and poet (born 1943)
• November 8
  • Philip Carlo, American crime author (born 1949)
  • George Solomos, American poet and writer (born 1925)
• November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, Greek poet (born 1920)
• November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Spanish poet (born 1923)
• November 15
  • Edmond Amran El Maleh, Moroccan writer (born 1917)
  • Hugh Prather, American self-help author (born 1938)
• November 16 – Ragnhild Magerøy, Norwegian writer (born 1920)
• November 21 – Norris Church Mailer, American author (born 1949)
• November 25
  • Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (born 1930)
  • Yaroslav Pavulyak, Ukrainian poet (born 1948)
• November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (born 1937)
• December 5
  • David French, Canadian playwright (born 1939)
  • Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author (born 1919)
• December 6 – Martin Russ, American author (born 1931)
• December 7 – Elizabeth Edwards, American author (born 1949)
• December 14 – Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (born 1917)
• December 16 – A. T. Q. Stewart, Northern Irish historian and academic (born 1929)
• December 20 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (born 1949)^[13]
• December 24 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-born English children's writer (born 1926)

Awards

• Camões Prize: Ferreira Gullar
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Gerbrand Bakker, The Twin
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdo Khal, She Throws Sparks
• Nobel Prize in Literature: to Mario Vargas Llosa
• Petrarca-Preis: Pierre Michon, for his body of work

References

See also

• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• 2010 in Australian literature