2012 in literature
Overview of the events of 2012 in literature
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] January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from The Satanic Verses banned in the country .[ 2] February – James Joyce 's children's story The Cats of Copenhagen [ 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 Liu Binjie at the fair.[ 5]
July – Jaime García Márquez tells his students that his brother Gabriel García Márquez , the Colombian writer and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature , suffers from dementia , which has ended his writing career.[ 6] [ 7]
September 27 – The 50th anniversary of the publication of ecological text Silent Spring Rachel Carson is noted.[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] September 28 – Sue Limb 's parody of the Bloomsbury Group , Gloomsbury 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]
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New books
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
See 2012 in poetry
Science fiction and fantasy
Non-fiction
Deaths
January 3 – Josef Škvorecký , Czech-born novelist and publisher (born 1924 )[ 37] January 7 – Ibrahim Aslan , Egyptian journalist and author (born 1935 )January 19 – Shraga Gafni (On Sarig ), Israeli children's author (born 1926 )[ 38] January 23 – Maurice Meisner , American historian, author, and academic (born 1931 )[ 39] January 28 – Don Starkell , Canadian diarist and author (born 1932 )[ 40] 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 )[ 41] February 3 – John Christopher (Samuel Youd) English science fiction novelist (born 1922 )February 4 – Irene McKinney , American poet (born 1939 )[ 42] 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 )[ 43] March 27 – Adrienne Rich , American writer (born 1929 )[ 44] March 28 – John Arden , English playwright (born 1930 )[ 45] April 2 – Sarah Dreher , American novelist and playwright (born 1937 )[ 46] April 7 – Miss Read (Dora Jesse Shafe), English novelist (born 1913 )[ 47] April 8 – Janusz K. Zawodny , Polish-American and political scientist (born 1921 )April 17 – Leila Berg , English children's writer and activist (born 1917 )[ 48] April 26 – Ardian Klosi , Albanian publicist and writer (suicide, born 1957 )[ 49] May 8 – Maurice Sendak , American children's author and illustrator (born 1928 )[ 50] May 12 – Walter Wink , American theologian and scholar (born 1935 )May 15
May 26 – Leo Dillon , American children's author and illustrator (born 1933 )June 5
June 19 – Emili Teixidor , Catalan journalist and author (born 1933 )[ 55] June 23 – Marjorie Chibnall , medievalist, biographer and translator (born 1915 )July 28 – Carol Kendall , American children's writer (born 1917 )[ 56] July 30
July 31
August 2
August 4 – Henry Scholberg , American bibliographer (born 1921 )August 6 – Robert Hughes , Australian critic and historian (born 1938 )[ 64] August 11 – Heidi Holland , South African journalist and author (born 1947 )[ 65] August 22 – Nina Bawden , English novelist and children's writer (born 1925 )[ 66] September 6 – Horacio Vázquez-Rial , Argentine-born Spanish writer (cancer, born 1947 )[ 67] September 8 – Jon Tolaas , Norwegian poet and novelist (born 1939 )[ 68] September 10
September 12 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko , Russian poet (born 1946 )[ 71] September 14 – Louis Simpson , American poet (Alzheimer's disease, born 1923 )[ 72] September 15 – Fred Bodsworth , Canadian writer (born 1918 )[ 73] September 20
September 21 – Sven Hassel (Børge Pedersen), Danish novelist (born 1917 )[ 76] September 22 – Irving Adler , American author, mathematician, and scientist (born 1913 )[ 77] October 7 – Ivo Michiels (Henri Paul René Ceuppens), Belgian writer in Flemish (born 1923 )[ 78] October 21 – George McGovern , American politician and writer (born 1922 )[ 79] October 25 – Aude , Canadian novelist (born 1947 )[ 80] October 29 – J. Bernlef , Dutch writer (born 1937 )[ 81] November 2
November 19 – Boris Strugatsky , Soviet Russian writer (pneumonia, born 1925 )[ 84] November 20 – Ivan Kušan , Croatian writer (born 1933 )[ 85] November 22 – Jan Trefulka , Czech writer and dissident (renal failure, born 1929 )[ 86] December 1 – Ahmed Taib El Alj , Moroccan playwright (born 1928 )[ 87] December 4 – Vasily Belov , Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1932 )[ 88] December 6 – Jan Carew , Guyanese novelist, poet and dramatist (born 1920 )[ 89] December 16 – Fan Vavřincová , Czech screenwriter, novelist, and author (born 1917 )[ 90] December 28 – Jayne Cortez , African-American poet (born 1934 )[ 91] December 31 – Jovette Marchessault , Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1938 )[ 92]
Awards
Mo Yan in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature Caine Prize for African Writing : Babatunde Rotimi , "Bombay's Republic"Camões Prize : Dalton Trevisan Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Patrick Ness , A Monster Calls [ 93] Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award : Gene Wolfe [ 94] Dayne Ogilvie Prize : Main award, Amber Dawn ; honour of distinction, Mariko Tamaki .Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction : Joshua Knelman , Hot Art [ 95] 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 [ 96] International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Rabee Jaber , The Druze of Belgrade Lambda Literary Awards : Multiple categories; see 2012 Lambda Literary Awards .Man Booker Prize : Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel Miles Franklin Award : Anna Funder , All That I Am [ 97] [ 98] National Biography Award : The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist [ 99] National Book Award for Fiction : to The Round House Louise Erdrich National Book Critics Circle Award : to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain Nobel Prize in Literature : Mo Yan [ 100] Orange Prize for Fiction : to The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction : to The Buddha in the Attic 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 KhanScotiabank 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 978-0-19-871554-2
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