2008 in literature

All you want to know about 2008 in literature

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Books

Literature

The Painter of Battles (January 8) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Delivery Man (January 15) by Joe McGinniss Jr.
The Expeditions (January 15) by Karl Iagnemma
Beautiful Children (January 22) by Charles Bock
How the Dead Dream (January 25) by Lydia Millet
Song Yet Sung (February 5) by James McBride
The Monsters of Templeton (February 5) by Lauren Groff
The Invention of Everything Else (February 7) by Samantha Hunt
Feuchtgebiete (February 25) by Charlotte Roche
Lush Life (March 4) by Richard Price
Change of Heart (March 4) by Jodi Picoult
Our Story Begins (March 25) by Tobias Wolff
The Sorrows of an American (April 1) by Siri Hustvedt
Unaccustomed Earth (April 1) by Jhumpa Lahiri
All the Sad Young Literary Men (April 10) by Keith Gessen
Deaf Sentence (May 1) by David Lodge
Snuff (May 20) by Chuck Palahniuk
The Enchantress of Florence (June 3) by Salman Rushdie
My Sister, My Love (June 24) by Joyce Carol Oates
Home (September 2) by Marilynne Robinson
American Wife (September 2) by Curtis Sittenfeld
Supreme Courtship (September 3) by Christopher Buckley
Indignation (September 16) by Philip Roth
Le violoncelliste sourd (September 29) by Francis Malka
Pretty Monsters (October 2) by Kelly Link
The Widows of Eastwick (October 28) by John Updike
A Mercy (November 11) by Toni Morrison
Ralph Ellison's posthumously published manuscript Three Days Before the Shooting, edited by John F. Callahan

Awards and honors

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Kate Christensen, The Great Man
Canada Reads - Paul Quarrington, King Leary
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

Deaths

January

Margaret Truman

January 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British author (Flashman)
January 3 - Henri Chopin, 85, French poet
January 11 - Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer
January 13 - Patricia Verdugo, 60, Chilean journalist and writer
January 16 - Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand poet
January 17 - Edward D. Hoch, 77, American pulp writer
January 26 - John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and writer
January 26 - Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor
January 29 - Margaret Truman, 83, American writer
January 30 - Miles Kington, 66, British journalist and writer

February

Steve Gerber

February 4 - Rose Hacker, 101, British writer and journalist
February 7 - Richard Altick, 92, American literary scholar
February 8 - Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery writer
February 10 - Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck)
February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French novelist
February 21 - Archie Hind, 80, British novelist
February 21 - Robin Moore, 82, American writer
February 22 - Stephen Marlowe, 79, American sci-fi and crime writer
February 28 - Suzanne Goodwin, 91, British novelist
February 28 - Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist
c. February 28 - Val Plumwood, 68, Australian philosopher

March

Arthur C. Clarke

March 3 - Maria Gabriela Llansol, 76, Portuguese writer
March 16 - Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet
March 19 - Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science-fiction writer and futurist
March 19 - Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian writer
March 23 - E. A. Markham, 68, Montserratian poet

April

Ludu Daw Amar

April 1 - Arturo Vivante, 84, Italian novelist
April 3 - Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet and editor
April 7 - Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese writer and journalist
April 13 - Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet
April 17 - Aimé Césaire, 94, French-Martinican poet
April 17 - Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian writer and editor
April 18 - Michael de Larrabeiti, 63, British novelist
April 18 - William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer

May

May 1 - Elaine Dundy, 86, American novelist
May 9 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish Journalist, novelist and critic
May 11 - Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist
May 12 - Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist
May 14 - Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese novelist
May 19 - Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright
May 23 - Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and novelist
May 28 - Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer

June

Chinghiz Aitmatov

June 2 - Ferenc Fejtő, 98, French-Hungarian historian and journalist
June 4 - Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American biographer and editor
June 5 - Angus Calder, 65, British writer and editor
June 8 - Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German poet
June 9 - Algis Budrys, 77, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer and editor
June 10 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyz writer
June 10 - Eliot Asinof, 88, American sportswriter
June 16 - Mario Rigoni Stern, 86, Italian novelist
June 18 - Tasha Tudor, 92, American children's writer and illustrator
June 22 - Albert Cossery, 94, French-Egyptian novelist
June 24 - Ruth Cardoso, 77, Brazilian anthropologist and writer
June 25 - Lyall Watson, 69, South African new age writer
June 27 - Lenka Reinerová, 92, Czech writer

July

Thomas M. Disch

July 1 - Clay Felker, 82, American magazine editor and journalist, founder of New York
July 1 - Robert Harling, 98, British typographer, editor and novelist
July 2 - Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish cookery writer
July 4 - Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author and poet.
July 4 - Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch novelist
July 27 - Bob Crampsey, 78, British writer
July 30 - Peter Coke, 95, British playwright

August

August 3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
August 7 - Simon Gray, 71, British playwright
August 9 - Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet
August 11 - George Furth, 75, American playwright
August 17 - Dave Freeman, 47, American travel writer
August 23 - John Russell, 89, British-American art critic
August 25 - Ahmed Faraz, 77, Pakistani poet
August 31 - Ken Campbell, 66, British novelist and playwright

September

September 5 - Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher
September 7 - Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American mystery writer
September 12 - David Foster Wallace, 46, American novelist
September 17 - James Crumley, 68, American crime writer
September 20 - Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, critic and literary historian
September 23 - William Woodruff, 92, British historian and autobiographer
September 29 - Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic

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2008 in literature

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