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Overview of the events of 2011 in literature
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The year 2011 will involve some significant events and new books.
Books
Literature
- Colm Tóibín - The Empty Family (January 4)
- Robb Forman Dew - Being Polite to Hitler (January 6)
- Karen Russell - Swamplandia! (February 1)
- Benjamin Hale - The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (February 2)
- T.C. Boyle - When the Killing's Done (February 22)
- Téa Obreht - The Tiger's Wife (March 8)
- E. L. Doctorow - All the Time in the World (March 22)
- James Frey - The Final Testament of the Holy Bible (April 14)
- David Foster Wallace - The Pale King (April 15)
- Nicolaas Vergunst - Knot of Stone (April 25)
- Geraldine Brooks - Caleb's Crossing (May 3)
Non-fiction
- Annie Proulx - Bird Cloud: A Memoir (January 4)
- Louis Hyman - Debtor Nation (January 23)
- Joyce Carol Oates - A Widow's Story (February 15)
- Sarah Vowell - Unfamiliar Fishes (March 22)
- Joseph Lelyveld - Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India (March 29)
- Tina Fey - Bossypants (April 5)
- Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie - The Declaration of Independents
Poetry
See 2011 in poetry.
- Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (February)
- Susan Howe, That This (February)
- Alice Notley, Culture of One (March)
- Ralph Pordzik, Pretending to See Elephants, Lulu Press, 58 pages, ISBN 978-1-4457-5568-7 (Mar)
- Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
- Michael Palmer, Thread (May)
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Greg Bear - Halo: Cryptum (January 4)
- Orson Scott Card - The Lost Gate (January 4)
- Michael Grant — Plague (April 5)
Young Adult
- Cynthia Hand — Unearthly (January 4)
- Courtney Allison Moulton — Angelfire (February 15)
- Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson - Vespers Rising (April 5)
- Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed (April 5) (Spain release)
- Kelley Armstrong — The Gathering (April 12)
- K. A. Applegate - Re-release of Animorphs books
- The Invasion (May 1)
- The Visitor (May 1)
- Rick Riordan - The Throne of Fire (May 3)
Crime and Thriller
- Stuart M. Kaminsky - A Whisper to the Living (January 4)
- Ralph Peters - The Officers' Club (January 18)
- Wallace Stroby - Gone 'til November (January 19)
- Michael Connelly - The Fifth Witness (April 5)
Forthcoming
Literature
- Ann Patchett - State of Wonder (June 7)
- A. S. Byatt - Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (September 6)
- Craig Thompson - Habibi (September 20)
- Michael Ondaatje - The Cat's Table (October 4)
- Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot (October 11)
- Chuck Palahniuk - Damned (October 18)
- Scott Snyder - The Goodbye Suit
Non-fiction
- Stephen Sondheim - Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) (October 25)
- Jonathan Lethem - The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. (November 8)
Children's
- Brian Selznick - Wonderstruck (September)
Young Adult
- Josephine Angelini — Starcrossed - English release - (May 31)
- K. A. Applegate - Re-release of Animorphs books
- The Encounter (July)
- The Message (October)
- Rick Riordan – The Son of Neptune (October 4th)
- Christopher Paolini — Inheritance (November 8)
Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six (August 23)
- Stephen King — 11/22/63 (November 8)
Crime and Thriller
- Michael Connelly - The Drop (November 22)
Poetry
Deaths
- 2 January
- Hanna Kraan, 64, Dutch children's author
- Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer
- 4 January
- Eva Strittmatter, 80, German author and poet
- Dick King-Smith 88, British children's writer whose book The Sheep-Pig was adapted as a film Babe
- 10 January - Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter
- 11 January - Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author
- 14 January - Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist
- 15 January - Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright
- 16 January
- R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist
- Günther Feustel, 86, German author
- 17 January - Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist
- 19 January - Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist
- 20 January
- F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet
- Reynolds Price, 77, American author, whose novel Kate Vaiden won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986
- 22 January - Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist
- 23 January - Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet
- 24 January - Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright
- 25 January - Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer
- 27 January - Michael Van Rooy, 42, Canadian author
- 29 January
- Loreen Rice Lucas, 96, Canadian author
- Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet
- 30 January - Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, Japanese American author
- 2 February - Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian author
- 3 February - Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and critic
- 5 February
- Charles E. Silberman, 86, American author
- Martin Quigley, Jr.. 93, American publisher, author, spy
- Brian Jacques, 71, British children's writer
- 9 February - David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author, diplomat
- 13 February - Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright
- 15 February - Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand author
- 16 February
- Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright
- Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German science fiction author
- 17 February
- Perry Moore, 39, American author
- Vivien Noakes, 74, British biographer and critic
- James McLure, 59, American playwright
- 19 February - Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter, author
- 22 February - Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author
- 25 February
- Manny Fried, 97, American playwright, actor
- Aminath Faiza, 82, Maldivian Dhivehi language poet and author.
- 26 February - Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech author
- 28 February - Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author
References
- "The 39 Clues Book 11: Vespers Rising - Coming April 5, 2011". 39 Clues Official Website. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- "Exclusive first chapter: 'The Kane Chronicles, Book Two: The Throne of Fire'". USA Today. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
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- http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/brian-selznick-to-publish-new-book_b19472
- "The Son of Neptune". Rick Riordan Official Site. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/20/933570/author-duke-professor-reynolds.html