2008 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2008.

Events

New books

Fiction

Genre fiction

Children and young people

Drama

  • Salvatore Antonio – In Gabriel's Kitchen
  • Howard Brenton – Never So Good
  • Mary Higgins Clark – Where Are You Now?
  • Paul Dwyer – The Bougainville Photoplay Project
  • Nicholas de Jongh – Plague Over England
  • Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels – The Broken Circle Breakdown featuring the cover-ups of Alabama
  • Ella Hickson – Eight
  • Sam Holcroft – Cockroach
  • Elaine Murphy – Little Gem
  • Lynn Nottage – Ruined
  • Tyler Perry – The Marriage Counselor
  • Taavi Vartia – Kaikkien aikojen Pertsa ja Kilu

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • The Academi – Encyclopaedia of Wales (Gwyddoniadur Cymru) (January)
  • Julie Andrews – Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (April 1)
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah – Experiments in Ethics
  • Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational (February 19)
  • Margaret Atwood – Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (October 1)
  • Mary Beard – Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
  • Dionne Brand – A Kind of Perfect Speech (Ralph Gustafson Lecture)
  • Augusten Burroughs – A Wolf at the Table (April 29)
  • Michael Chabon – Maps and Legends (May 1)
  • D. K. Chakrabarti – The Battle for Ancient India: An essay in the sociopolitics of Indian archaeology
  • Rob Christensen – The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
  • Sloane Crosley – I Was Told There'd Be Cake (April 1)
  • John Duignan – The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology (October 7)
  • Eminem – The Way I Am (October 21)
  • Richard Florida – Who's Your City? (March)
  • Raymond Geuss – Philosophy and Real Politics
  • Philip Hoare – Leviathan, or The Whale (September 16)
  • Jim Holt – Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
  • Chloe Hooper – The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
  • B. B. Lal – Rāma, His Historicity, Mandir, and Setu: Evidence of Literature, Archaeology, and Other Sciences
  • Thomas Cairns Livingstone – Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918
  • Minae Mizumura – The Fall of Language in the Age of English
  • Scholastique Mukasonga – La femme aux pieds nus (The Barefoot Woman)
  • Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel) – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (July 29)
  • Shuja Nawaz – Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
  • Frances Osborne – The Bolter: Idina Sackville
  • Chris Pash – The Last Whale
  • Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow – Last Lecture
  • Peter Rees – The Other ANZACs
  • David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames (June 3)
  • Tore Skeie – Alv Erlingsson: fortellingen om en adelsmanns undergang
  • Vaclav Smil – Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems
  • Chunghee Sarah Soh – The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan
  • Shreve Stockton - The Daily Coyote
  • Jane Straus – The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
  • Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (April)
  • Ronnie Thompson (pseudonym) – Screwed: The Truth About Life as a Prison Officer (January 24)
  • Bjørn Christian Tørrissen – One for the Road (January 31; translation of I pose og sekk!, 2005)
  • Barbara Walters – Audition: A Memoir (May 6)
  • Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself[10]
  • Meralda Warren and others – Mi Base side orn Pitcairn (My Favourite Place on Pitcairn, first book published in Pitkern creole)
  • Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger and Carolin Schneider (eds.) – Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon

Deaths

Margaret Truman
  • January 2 – George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish novelist and screenplay writer (born 1925)
  • January 3 – Henri Chopin, French poet (born 1922)[11]
  • January 11 – Nancy Phelan, Australian writer (born 1913)
  • January 13 – Patricia Verdugo, Chilean journalist and writer (born 1947)
  • January 16 – Hone Tuwhare, New Zealand poet (born 1922)
  • January 17 – Edward D. Hoch, American detective fiction writer (born 1930)
  • January 26
    • John Ardagh, Nyasaland-born English journalist and writer (born 1928)
    • Abraham Brumberg, American writer and editor (born 1926)
  • January 29 – Margaret Truman, American crime novelist and singer (born 1924)
  • January 30 – Miles Kington, Northern Irish-born English journalist and writer (born 1941)
Steve Gerber
Arthur C. Clarke
  • March 16 – Jonathan Williams, American poet (born 1929)
  • March 19
  • March 23 – E. A. Markham, Montserrat poet, writer and activist (born 1939)
  • April 3 – Andrew Crozier, English poet and scholar (born 1943)
  • April 7 – Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese writer and journalist (born 1915)
  • April 13 – Robert Greacen, Irish poet (born 1920)
  • April 17
  • April 18
    • Michael de Larrabeiti, English young-adult novelist and travel writer (born 1934)
    • William W. Warner, American biologist and Pulitzer Prize writer (born 1920)
  • May 1 – Elaine Dundy, American novelist, biographer and playwright (born 1921)
  • May 9 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish critic and writer (born 1940)
  • May 11 – Jeff Torrington, Scottish novelist (born 1935)
  • May 12 – Oakley Hall, American novelist (born 1920)
  • May 14 – Roy Heath, Guyanese novelist (born 1926)
  • May 15 – Muhyi al-Din Faris, Sudanese poet (born 1936)[15]
  • May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (born 1928)
  • May 22 – Robert Asprin, American science fiction writer (born 1946)[16][17]
  • May 23 – Alan Brien, English journalist and novelist (born 1925)
  • May 28 – Elinor Lyon, British children's writer (born 1921)
Chinghiz Aitmatov
  • June 2 – Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist (born 1909)
  • June 4 – Matthew Bruccoli, American biographer and scholar (born 1931)
  • June 5 – Angus Calder, British writer and scholar (born 1942)
  • June 8 – Peter Rühmkorf, German poet and writer (born 1929)
  • June 9 – Algis Budrys (John A. Sentry), American science fiction writer of Lithuanian origin (born 1931)[18]
  • June 10
    • Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer in Kyrgyz and Russian (born 1928)[19]
    • Eliot Asinof, American novelist and baseball writer (born 1919)[20]
  • June 16 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian novelist (born 1921)
  • June 18 – Tasha Tudor, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1915)
  • June 22 – Albert Cossery, Egyptian-born French novelist (born 1913)
  • June 24 – Ruth Cardoso, Brazilian anthropologist and writer (born 1930)
  • June 25 – Lyall Watson, South African scientist and new age writer (born 1939)
  • June 27 – Lenka Reinerová, Czech writer in German (born 1916)
Thomas M. Disch
  • July 1
    • Clay Felker, American magazine editor and journalist (born 1925)
    • Robert Harling, English typographer and novelist (born 1910)
  • July 2 – Simone Ortega, Spanish cookery writer (born 1919)
  • July 4
  • July 20 – Roger Wolcott Hall, American memoirist and novelist (born 1919)
  • July 27 – Bob Crampsey, Scottish writer (born 1930)
  • July 30 – Peter Coke, English playwright (born 1913)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
David Foster Wallace

Awards and honors

Australia

Canada

Sweden

United Kingdom

United States

Fiction: Mischa Berlinski, Laleh Khadivi, Manuel Muñoz, Benjamin Percy, Lysley Tenorio
Nonfiction: Donovan Hohn
Plays: Dael Orlandersmith
Poetry: Rick Hilles, Douglas Kearney, Julie Sheehan

Other

Notes

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

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See also

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