2000 in literature

The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

 * February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
 * September 24 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, One of the Guys, in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts

Fiction

 * Jim Butcher - Storm Front
 * Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
 * 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
 * Matt Beaumont - e
 * Raymond Benson - Doubleshot
 * T. C. Boyle - A Friend of the Earth
 * Ben Bova - ''Jupiter
 * Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
 * 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 (aka 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
 * 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 (Canada)
 * Joseph Heller - Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
 * Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
 * Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
 * Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
 * 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
 * George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
 * Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
 * Robert B. Parker - Hugger Mugger
 * James Patterson - Roses are Red
 * Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice
 * Giuseppe Pontiggia - Nati due volte
 * Terry Pratchett - The Truth
 * Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
 * Mario Puzo - Omertà
 * Kathy Reichs - Deadly Decisions
 * Philip Roth - The Human Stain
 * J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Peter Ruber editor - Arkham's Masters of Horror
 * Jean-Jacques Schuhl - Ingrid Caven
 * Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
 * 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
 * Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
 * Juliet Marillier - Son of the Shadows

Drama

 * David Auburn - Proof
 * Timothy Findley - Elizabeth Rex
 * Dusty Hughes - Helpless

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:
 * Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children), Prosveta, Beograd
 * Oblik (The Shape), Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro
 * Tvoritelj (The Creator), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd
 * Krugovanje (Circling), Third Edition (poems added to the third edition), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd

Non-fiction

 * Peter Ackroyd - London: A Biography
 * Martin Amis - Experience
 * Mark Buchanan - Ubiquity: The Science of 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
 * 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
 * Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
 * Michael White - Leonardo: the First Scientist
 * Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp - The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
 * The Beatles Anthology

Deaths

 * January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author
 * January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
 * February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
 * March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
 * April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
 * August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
 * September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British novelist and critic (The History Man)
 * October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
 * November 2 - Robert Cormier, 75, young adult fiction writer
 * November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian

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.

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)

United Kingdom

 * 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
 * Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
 * Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
 * Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
 * 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

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