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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2020.

Events

April 14 – Bookshops are among the first few premises permitted to reopen on relaxation of restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.[1]
May 26–July 10 – J. K. Rowling releases her new fairy tale The Ickabog in free online instalments during restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[2]
June 25 – Louisa May Alcott's unfinished "Aunt Nellie's Story" (c.1849) is first published, in The Strand Magazine.[3]
July 31 – 2020 Booker Prize longlisted (later shortlisted) author Tsitsi Dangarembga is arrested in Zimbabwe as part of a government crackdown ahead of anti-corruption protests.[4]
August – The Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, purchases Das Große Stammbuch, an album amicorum compiled by diplomat Philipp Hainhofer, which the library's patron Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, tried but failed to acquire following Hainhofer's death in 1647.[5]
October 13 – A first issue first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sells at auction in the UK for £60,000[6] and a copy of Isaac Newton's The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in the 1729 English translation (the second to sell in recent weeks) for £24,000.[7]
October 14 – A Shakespeare First Folio sells at auction in New York City for $9.98M (£7.6M) (50% more than the previous copy auctioned in 2001).[8]
November 25 – Penguin Random House agrees to acquire rival publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for US$2.175 billion.[9]

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

Gil Adamson – Ridgerunner (May 12, Canada)[10]
Becky Albertalli – Love, Creekwood (June 30)[11]
André Alexis – The Night Piece (August 4)[12]
Marianne Apostolides – I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (April 7, Canada)[12]
John Banville – Snow (September 29, UK)
Simone de Beauvoir (died 1986) – Les Inséparables (written 1954, France)[13]
Deni Ellis Béchard – A Song from Faraway (April 7, Canada)[12]
Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half (June 2, US)[14]
David Bergen – Here the Dark (March 10, Canada)[12]
Chetan Bhagat – One Arranged Murder (India)[15]
Lisa Bird-Wilson – Probably Ruby (April 23, Canada)[12]
Christopher Bollen – A Beautiful Crime (January 28, US)[16]
Marjorie Celona – How a Woman Becomes a Lake (March 3, Canada)[12]
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle – Even As We Breathe (November 18)
Steven Conte – The Tolstoy Estate (September 2, Australia)
Diane Cook – The New Wilderness (July 30)
Eva Crocker – All I Ask (June 2, Canada)[12]
Farzana Doctor – Seven (August 1)[12]
Raphaël Enthoven – Le Temps gagné (Time Saved; August 19, France)[17]
William Gibson – Agency (January 21, Canada)[12]
John Gould – The End of Me (May 2, Canada)[10]
Aislinn Hunter – The Certainties (May 19, Canada)[12]
Clifford Jackman – The Braver Thing (May 12, Canada)[12]
Tim Wynne-Jones – War at the Snow White Motel and Other Stories (May 1, Canada)[10]
Kaie Kellough – Dominoes at the Crossroads (January 20, Canada)[12]
Thomas King – Obsidian (January 28, Canada)[12]
Karl Ove Knausgård – Morgenstjernen (September 18, Norway)[18]
Hervé Le Tellier – The Anomaly (L'anomalie) (August 20, France)
Kathy Lette – HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy (April 28, Australia)
Pasha Malla – Kill the Mall (May 12, Canada)[12]
Hilary Mantel – The Mirror and the Light (March 5, UK)[19]
Emily St. John Mandel – The Glass Hotel (March 24, Canada)[12]
Shani Mootoo – Polar Vortex (March 3, Canada)[12]
Maria Mutch – Molly Falls to Earth (April 28, Canada)[12]
Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet (March 31, UK)[20]
Katrina Onstad – Stay Where I Can See You (March 31, Canada)[12]
Ingrid Persaud – Love After Love (April 2, UK)[21]
Kate Pullinger – Forest Green (April 28, Canada)[12]
Lisa Robertson – The Baudelaire Fractal (January 21, Canada)[12]
Monique Roffey – The Mermaid of Black Conch (April 2, UK)[21]
Lydia Sandgren – Samlade verk[22]
Vivek Shraya – The Subtweet (April 7, Canada)[12]
Ali Smith – Summer (August 6, UK)
Cordelia Strube – Misconduct of the Heart (April 21, Canada)[12]
Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain (February 11, US)
Zoe Sugg and Amy McCulloch – The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow (October 29, UK)[23]
Brandon Taylor – Real Life (February 18)
Souvankham Thammavongsa – How to Pronounce Knife (April 7, Canada)[12]
Dianne Warren – The Diamond House (June 2, Canada)[12]
Terry Watada – The Mysterious Dreams of the Dead (March 15, Canada)[12]
Evan Winter – The Fires of Vengeance (July 14, Canada)[12]

Children and young people

Raymond Antrobus – Can Bears Ski? (November 10, UK)
Sophie Blackall – If You Come to Earth (September 15)
Natasha Farrant – Voyage of the Sparrowhawk (September 3, UK)[21]
Jordan Ifueko – Raybearer (August 8)
Jeff Kinney
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End (October 27)
- Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure (August 4)
Struan Murray – Orphans of the Tide (February 20)[24][25]
J. K. Rowling – The Ickabog (November, UK, book publication)
Trung Le Nguyen – The Magic Fish (graphic novel)
Jacqueline Wilson – Love Frankie (August 20, UK)[26]

Poetry

Eavan Boland (died 2020) – The Historians (October 29, UK)[21]
Lana Del Rey – Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (September 29)
Carolyn Forché – In The Lateness of The World: Poems (March 10)
Srikanth Reddy – Underworld Lit (August 4)

Drama

Non-fiction

Emily Levesque – The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers[29]
Dara McAnulty – Diary of a Young Naturalist (May 21, UK)
James Nestor – Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (May 26)
Barack Obama - A Promised Land (November 17, US)[30]
Camilla Pang – Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships (March 12, UK)
Jay Parini – Borges and Me: An Encounter
Stuart Ritchie – Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth (July 21, UK)
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig – A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Peter Sloterdijk – Den Himmel zum Sprechen bringen (October 26, Germany)
Mary Trump – Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (August 11)

Biography and memoirs

Lee Lawrence – The Louder I Will Sing (September 17, UK)[21]

Deaths

Notable literary deaths in 2020, sorted by date of death
Date	Individual	Background	Age	Cause of death	Ref.
January 5	Sylvia Jukes Morris	British biographer	84		[31]
January 7	Elizabeth Wurtzel	American author (Prozac Nation)	52	Leptomeningeal disease as a complication of metastasized breast cancer	[32]
January 9	Chukwuemeka Ike	Nigerian writer	88		[33]
January 12	Sir Roger Scruton	English philosopher and writer	75	Cancer	[34]
January 16	Christopher Tolkien	British academic and editor, son of J. R. R. Tolkien	95		[35]
January 17	Charles Carrère	Senegalese poet	91		[36]
January 23	Armando Uribe	Chilean writer, National Prize for Literature winner (2004)	86		[37]
January 30	Jörn Donner	Finnish writer	86	Lung disease	[38]
January 31	Mary Higgins Clark	American best-selling author of suspense novels	92		[39]
February 3	George Steiner, FBA	Frenco-American literary critic and essayist (After Babel)	90		[40]
February 4	Kamau Brathwaite	Barbadian poet and academic	89		[41]
February 4	Alice Mayhew	American editor	87		[42]
February 12	Christie Blatchford	Canadian newspaper columnist, writer and broadcaster	68	Cancer	[43]
February 17	Charles Portis	American author (True Grit, Gringos)	86	Alzheimer's disease	[44]
February 21	Lisel Mueller	German-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet	96		[45]
February 22	Kiki Dimoula	Greek poet	88		[46]
February 24	Clive Cussler	American adventure novelist (Raise the Titanic!) and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)	88		[47]
February 25	Grace Edwards	American novelist and director of the Harlem Writers Guild	87		[48]
March 2	Barbara Neely	African-American myster writer	78		[49]
March 13	Yang Mu	Taiwanese poet and essayist	79		[50]
March 22	Richard Marek	American editor	86	Esophageal cancer	[51]
March 24	Terrence McNally	American playwright, and librettist	81	COVID-19	[52]
March 30	Tomie dePaola	American author and illustrator	86	Complications from surgery	[53]
April 1	Bruce Dawe	Australian poet	90		[54]
April 2	Patricia Bosworth	American biographer, and memoirist	86	COVID-19	[55]
April 6	Jean Little	Canadian children's fiction author	88		[56]
April 15	Rubem Fonseca	Brazilian writer	94		[57]
April 16	Luis Sepúlveda	Chilean author and journalist	70	COVID-19	[58]
April 25	Per Olov Enquist	Swedish author (The Visit of the Royal Physician)	85	Cancer	[59]
April 27	Eavan Boland	Irish poet	75	Stroke	[60]
April 29	Yahya Hassan	Danish poet and political activist	24		[61]
April 29	Maj Sjowall	Swedish crime criter	84		[62]
May 4	Michael McClure	American beat poet, playwright, and songwriter, who read at the Six Galley reading	87	Complications from a stroke	[63]
May 12	Carolyn Reidy	American publisher and head of Simon & Schuster	71	Heart attack	[64]
May 27	Larry Kramer	American playwright (The Normal Heart) and LGBT rights activist	84	Pneumonia	[65][66]
June 2	Hiber Conteris	Uruguayan literary critic	86
June 3	Bruce Jay Friedman	American humorist, novelist, and playwright	90		[67]
June 19	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	Spanish author (The Shadow of the Wind)	55	Colorectal cancer	[68]
June 28	Rudolfo Anaya	American author (Bless Me, Ultima), founder of Chicano literature	82		[69][70]
July 7	Elizabeth Harrower	Australian novelist	92		[71]
July 8	Brad Watson	American author	64		[72]
July 12	Joanna Cole	American author (The Magic School Bus)	75	Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	[73]
August 3	Shirley Ann Grau	American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (The Keepers of the House)	91	Complications from a Stroke	[74]
August 5	Eric Bentley	American theater critic	103		[75]
August 5	Pete Hamill	American journalist and author	85	Heart and kidney failure	[76]
August 10	Jacobo Langsner	Uruguayan screenwriter and playwright	93
August 24	Gail Sheehy	American journalist and author (Hillary's Choice)	83	Complications of pneumonia	[77]
August 28	Randall Kenan	American short story writer and author	57		[78]
September 1	Shanna Hogan	American true crime writer	37	Home accident	[79]
September 2	David Graeber	American anthropologist, activist, social critic, and author (Debt: The First 5000 Years)	59	Necrotic pancreatitis
September 12	Florence Howe	American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian, founder of Feminist Press	91	Complications from Parkinson's disease	[80]
September 14	Anne Stevenson	British-American poet and author	87	Heart failure
September 16	Stanley Crouch	American jazz critic, playwright, novelist, public intellectual, and essayist	74	COVID-19	[81]
September 17	Terry Goodkind	American science-fiction and fantasy writer	72		[82]
September 17	Winston Groom	American author (Forrest Gump)	77	Heart attack	[83]
September 23	Sir Harold Evans	British-American journalist and author (The American Century)	92	Congestive heart failure	[84][85]
September 23	Emyr Humphreys	Welsh-language writer	101		[86]
October 1	Derek Mahon	Irish poet and journalist	78		[87]
October 5	Ruth Klüger	Austrian-American author and academic	88		[88]
October 25	Diane Di Prima	American poet	86		[89]
October 26	Daniel Menaker	American editor at Random House and The New Yorker	79	Pancreatic cancer	[90]
October 27	Julia O'Faolain	Irish writer	88		[91]
October 31	Joan Bingham	American co-founder and executive director of Grove Atlantic	85	Pneumonia	[92]
November 4	Naomi Long Madgett	American poet laureate, founder of Lotus Press, and “the godmother of African-American poetry”	97		[93][94]
November 6	Luke Rhinehart	American novelist, screenwriter, and nonfiction writer	87		[95]
	Natan Zach	Israeli poet	89	Complications of Alzheimer's disease	[96]
	Mikhail Zhvanetsky	Soviet and Russian writer and satirist	86		[97]
November 9	Joan Drury	American writer, publisher, and indie bookseller	75		[98]
November 20	Jan Morris	British journalist	94		[99]
November 29	Ben Bova	American science fiction writer and magazine editor (Analog)	88	COVID-19-related pneumonia and a stroke	[100][101]
December 1	Miguel Algarín	Puerto Rican poet and founder of Nuyorican Poets Café	79	Sepsis	[102]
December 3	Alison Lurie	American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Foreign Affairs)	94		[103]
December 8	Anthony Veasna So	American short story writer	28	Accidental drug overdose	[104][105]
December 12	John le Carré	English author (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	89	Complications from a fall	[106]

Awards

The following list is arranged alphabetically:

Akutagawa Prize: Haneko Takayama, Shuri no Uma (首里の馬)[107]
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift[108]
Baillie Gifford Prize:
Booker Prize: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain[109]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society by Gregory Forth.[110]
Caine Prize for African Writing: Irenosen Okojie, "Grace Jones"[111]
Camões Prize: Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva[112]
Carnegie Medal: Anthony McGowan, Lark
Costa Book Awards: Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch (novel prize and overall Book of the Year)
Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain
David Cohen Prize: not awarded this year
Desmond Elliott Prize: Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me[113]
Dylan Thomas Prize: Bryan Washington, Lot[114]
Edgar Award
European Book Prize: Pavol Rankov, Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy) and Kapka Kassabova, Border: a journey to the edge of Europe
Folio Prize: Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive[115]
German Book Prize: Anne Weber, Annette, ein Heldinnenepos[116]
Goldsmiths Prize: M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
Gordon Burn Prize: Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction: Michelle Good, Five Little Indians
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction: Sophie Létourneau, Chasse à l'homme
Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2020 Governor General's Awards
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française: Étienne de Montety, La grande épreuve
Hugo Award for Best Novel: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
International Booker Prize: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening translated by Michele Hutchison[117]
International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns, Milkman[118]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdelouahab Aissaoui, The Spartan Court
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction:
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography:
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award: Edna O'Brien, Girl (Faber and Faber)[119]
Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 32nd Lambda Literary Awards.
Legion of Honour, Chevalier:
Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Francisco Brines
Miles Franklin Award: Tara June Winch, The Yield[120]
National Biography Award:
National Book Award for Fiction: Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
National Book Critics Circle Award:
Newbery Medal: Jerry Craft, New Kid
Nike Award: Joanna Gierak-Onoszko: 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda
Nobel Prize in Literature: Louise Glück[121]
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
PEN Center USA Fiction Award:
Premio Planeta de Novela:
Premio Strega: Sandro Veronesi, Il colibrì[122]
Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing: David M. Glantz[123]
Prix Goncourt: Hervé Le Tellier, L'anomalie[124]
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys[125]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jericho Brown The Tradition[126]
Queen's Birthday Honours (UK)
RBC Taylor Prize: Mark Bourrie, Bush Runner
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Gil Adamson, Ridgerunner[127]
Russian Booker Prize:
SAARC Literary Award:
Scotiabank Giller Prize: Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife
Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings: Amir Or[128]
Walter Scott Prize: Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Narrow Land[129]
Whiting Awards:
- Drama: Will Arbery[130]
- Fiction: Andrea Lawlor,[131] Ling Ma,[132] and Genevieve Sly Crane[133]
- Nonfiction: Jaquira Díaz[134] and Jia Tolentino[135]
- Poetry: Aria Aber,[136] Dianely Antigua,[137] Jake Skeets,[138] and Genya Turovskaya[139]
Women's Prize for Fiction: Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet[140]
W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction: Ralph Peterson, Darkness at Chancellorsville[141]
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award: Durs Grünbein[142]

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