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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

New books[]

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[]

Main article: 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 Stojanović:
    • Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children), Prosveta, Beograd[1]
    • Oblik (The Shape), Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro[2]
    • Tvoritelj (The Creator), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd[3]
    • Krugovanje (Circling), Third Edition (poems added to the third edition), Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd[4]

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

Births[]

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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[]

Australia[]

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)[5]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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

References[]

  1. ↑ Web page titled Znak i njegova deca by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ Web page titled [1], Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Web page titled [2], Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
  4. ↑ Web page titled [3], Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
  5. ↑ Web page titled Rastko Dejan Stojanović
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