# 2022 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.

## Events

* 1 January
** The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.
** A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.
* 5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.
* 11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.
* 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.
* 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.
* 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.
* 28 May – Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
* 2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood) and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.
* 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.
* 12 August – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.

### Anniversaries

* 200th anniversary of the death of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
* 150th anniversary of Publishers Weekly
* 150th Anniversary of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* 100th anniversary of the Newbery Medal
* 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Philip Larkin
* 100th anniversary of the publication of
** In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
** One of Ours by Willa Cather
** "The Problem of Thor Bridge" by Arthur Conan Doyle
** The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
** The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
** Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
*** "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
** Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
** Ulysses by James Joyce
** "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
** Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence
** Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
** "Celephaïs" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft
** The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
*** "The Garden Party"
** The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
** Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

## New books

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

### Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of Pub. |
| Jessamine Chan | The School for Good Mothers | January 4 |
| Noah Hawley | Anthem | January 4 |
| Nita Prose | The Maid | January 4 |
| Jabari Asim | Yonder | January 11 |
| Diane Chamberlain | The Last House On The Street | January 11 |
| Hanya Yanagihara | To Paradise | January 11 |
| May Nikki | Wahala | January 11 |
| Colleen Hoover | Reminders of Him | January 18 |
| Sequoia Nagamatsu | How High We Go In the Dark | January 18 |
| Weike Wang | Joan is Okay | January 18 |
| Blackburn Lizzie Damilola | Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? | January 18 |
| Isabel Allende | Violeta | January 25 |
| Tochi Onyebuchi | Goliath | January 25 |
| Marlon James | Moon Witch, Spider King | February 15 |
| Sheila Heti | Pure Colour | February 15 |
| Quan Barry | When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East | February 22 |
| Lucy Foley | The Paris Apartment | February 22 |
| Ashley Herring Blake | Delilah Green Doesn't Care | February 22 |
| Julie Otsuka | The Swimmers | February 22 |
| Rebecca Serle | One Italian Summer | March 1 |
| Simone St. James | The Book of Cold Cases | March 1 |
| Jennifer Egan | The Candy House | April 5 |
| Bonnie Garmus | Lessons in Chemistry | April 5 |
| Emily St. John Mandel | Sea of Tranquility | April 5 |
| Douglas Stuart | Young Mungo | April 5 |
| Lisa Hsiao Chen | Activities of Daily Living | April 12 |
| Holly Black | Book of Night | May 3 |
| Hernan Diaz | Trust | May 3 |
| Elif Batuman | Either/Or | May 24 |
| Akwaeke Emezi | You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty | May 24 |
| Nina LaCour | Yerba Buena | May 31 |
| Lydia Conklin | Rainbow, Rainbow | May 31 |
| Ottessa Moshfegh | Lapvona | June 21 |
| Gabrielle Zevin | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | July 5 |
| Amber Gill | Until I Met You | July 7 (UK) |
| Alexis Hall | Husband Material | August 2 |
| Tess Gunty | The Rabbit Hutch | August 2 |
| Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | August 4 (UK) |
| R. F. Kuang | Babel, or the Necessity of Violence | August 23 |
| Suzette Mayr | The Sleeping Car Porter | August 29 (Canada) |
| Simon Jimenez | The Spear Cuts Through Water | August 30 |
| Maggie O'Farrell | The Marriage Proposal | August 31 (UK) |
| Gayl Jones | The Birdcatcher | September 13 |
| Tamsyn Muir | Nona the Ninth | September 13 |
| Andrew Sean Greer | Less Is Lost | September 20 |
| Yiyun Li | The Book of Goose | September 20 |
| Celeste Ng | Our Missing Hearts | October 4 |
| Colleen Hoover | It Starts with Us | October 18 |
| George Saunders | Liberation Day: Stories | October 18 |
| Onyi Nwabineli | Someday, Maybe | November 1 |
| Tegan Nia Swanson | Things We Found When the Water Went Down | December 6 |

### Children and young adults

New children's and young adult fiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Akshaya Raman | The Ivory Key | January 4 |
| Jacqueline Woodson | The Year We Learned to Fly | January 4 |
| Sue Lynn Tan | Daughter of the Moon Goddess | January 11 |
| Nnedi Okorafor | Akata Woman | January 18 |
| Eva Chen | I Am Golden | February 1 |
| Leanne Hall | The Gaps | February 8 |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Bitter | February 15 |
| V. E. Schwab | Gallant | March 1 |
| Sabaa Tahir | All My Rage | March 1 |
| Deborah Falaye | Blood Scion | March 8 |
| Kelly Barnhill | The Ogress and the Orphans | March 8 |
| Casey McQuiston | I Kissed Shara Wheeler | May 3 |
| Jen Ferguson | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | May 10 |
| Laura Kate Dale | Me and My Dysphoria Monster | August 18 |
| Aaron Reynolds | Creepy Crayon! | August 23 |
| Mo Willems | The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! | September 6 |
| John Boyne | All the Broken Places | September 15 |
| Malinda Lo | A Scatter of Light | October 4 |
| Liz Montague | Maybe an Artist | October 18 |
| Kim Spencer | Weird Rules to Follow | October 18 |
| Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde | October 25 |
| DeuxMoi & Jessica Goodman | Anon Pls. | November 8 |
| Ammaar Reshi/ChatGPT | Alice and Sparkle | December 4 |

### Poetry

* Ocean Vuong – Time Is a Mother (April 5, US)

### Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Imani Perry | South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation | January 25 |
| Daniel H. Pink | The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward | February 1 |
| Chuck Klosterman | The Nineties | February 8 |
| Alexandra Lange | Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall | June 14 |
| Ed Yong | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | June 21 |
| Elizabeth Alexander | The Trayvon Generation | June 28 |
| Patrick Radden Keefe | Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks | June 28 |
| Philip Rosenthal and Jenn Garbee | Somebody Feed Phil the Book | October 18 |
| Quentin Tarantino | Cinema Speculation | November 1 |
| Michelle Obama | The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times | November 15 |
| Oskar Lafontaine | Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung Europas | November 21 |
| Leila Philip | Beaverland | December 6 |
| Jessica Grose | Screaming on the Inside | December 6 |

### Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Manifesto: On Never Giving Up | January 18 |
| Laura Gao | Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American | March 8 |
| Elena Ferrante | In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing | March 15 |
| Maud Newton | Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation | March 29 |
| Hannah Gadsby | Ten Steps to Nanette | March 29 (Australia) |
| Delia Ephron | Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life | April 12 |
| Janelle Monáe | The Memory Librarian | April 19 |
| Viola Davis | Finding Me | April 26 |
| Jennette McCurdy | I'm Glad My Mom Died | August 9 |
| Yasmín Ramírez | ¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family | August 2 |

## Films

* Matilda the Musical

## Deaths

2022 deaths, sorted by date of death :
| Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
| Zheng Min | Chinese poet | January 3 | 101 | | |
| F. Sionil José | Filipino novelist and journalist | January 6 | 97 | | |
| Terry Teachout | American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist | January 13 | 65 | | |
| Ron Goulart | American author of Groucho Marx mysteries | January 14 | 89 | Respiratory arrest | |
| Thiago de Mello | Brazilian poet and translator | January 14 | 95 | | |
| André Leon Talley | American fashion author, editor, and journalist | January 18 | 73 | Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 | |
| Lani Forbes | American young adult novelist` | February 3 | 35 | Neuroendocrine cancer | |
| Ashley Bryan | American writer and illustrator of children's books | February 4 | 98 | | |
| Jason Epstein | American editor and publisher | February 4 | 93 | Congestive heart failure | |
| Kenta Nishimura | Japanese novelist | February 5 | 54 | | |
| Bruce Duffy | American novelist | February 10 | 70 | Brain cancer | |
| P. J. O'Rourke | American political satirist and journalist | February 15 | 74 | Lung cancer | |
| Jan Pieńkowski | Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog) | February 19 | 85 | Complications of dementia | |
| Shirley Hughes | English writer and illustrator of children's books | February 25 | 94 | | |
| Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. | American author, editor, and journalist | March 8 | 86 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | |
| Maureen Howard | American novelist, memoirist, and editor | March 13 | 91 | | |
| Yuz Aleshkovsky | Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter | March 21 | 92 | | (in Russian) |
| Ted Mooney | American novelist and journalist (Art in America) | March 22 | 70 | Heart disease | |
| Richard Howard | American poet, critic, and translator | March 31 | 92 | | |
| David McKee | English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard) | April 6 | 87 | | |
| Jack Higgins | British crime writer | April 9 | 92 | | |
| Serhiy Dyachenko | Ukrainian fantasy novelist | May 5 | 77 | | |
| Patricia A. McKillip | American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) | May 6 | 74 | | |
| Kim Chi-ha | South Korean poet and playwright | May 8 | 81 | | |
| Peter Lamborn Wilson | American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) | May 22 | 76-77 | | |
| Morton L. Janklow | American literary agent | May 25 | 91 | | |
| Walter Abish | Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories | May 28 | 90 | | |
| Boris Pahor | Slovenian writer (Necropolis) | May 30 | 108 | | |
| George Lamming | Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet | June 4 | 94 | | |
| Duncan Hannah | American visual artist and author | June 11 | 69 | Heart attack | |
| A. B. Yehoshua | Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright | June 14 | 85 | Cancer | |
| Raffaele La Capria | Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago) | June 26 | 99 | | |
| Frank Moorhouse | Australian novelist and screenwriter | June 26 | 83 | | |
| Susie Steiner | British crime novelist | July 2 | 51 | Brain cancer | |
| Joan Lingard | Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) | July 12 | 90 | | |
| Stuart Woods | American novelist (Chiefs) | July 22 | 84 | | |
| Melissa Bank | American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) | August 2 | 61 | Lung cancer | |
| David McCullough | American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) | August 7 | 89 | | |
| Raymond Briggs | English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) | August 9 | 88 | Pneumonia | |
| Nicholas Evans | English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter | August 9 | 72 | Heart attack | |
| Jean-Jacques Sempé | French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) | August 11 | 89 | | |
| Frederick Buechner | American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher | August 15 | 96 | | |
| Joseph Delaney | English author (Spook's) | August 16 | 77 | | |
| Hadrawi | Somali poet | August 18 | 78-79 | | |
| Michael Malone | American writer | August 19 | 80 | Pancreatic cancer | |
| Peter Straub | American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman) | September 4 | 79 | | |
| Mariella Mehr | Swiss novelist, playwright and poet | September 5 | 74 | | |
| Javier Marías | Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) | September 11 | 70 | Pneumonia | |
| Yadollah Royaee | Iranian poet | September 14 | 90 | | |
| Tibor Frank | Hungarian historian | September 15 | 74 | | |
| Saul Kripke | American philosopher and logician | September 15 | 81 | | |
| Hilary Mantel | British novelist (Wolf Hall) | September 22 | 70 | | |
| Knud Sørensen | Danish novelist, essayist and poet | September 26 | 94 | | |
| Marguerite Andersen | German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator | October 1 | 97 | | |
| Charles Fuller | American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign) | October 3 | 83 | | |
| Rebecca Godfrey | Canadian author | October 3 | 54 | Lung cancer | |
| David Huerta | Mexican poet | October 3 | 72 | | |
| Peter Robinson | British-born Canadian crime writer | October 4 | 72 | | |
| Temsüla Ao | Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head) | October 9 | 76 | | |
| Bruno Latour | French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern) | October 9 | 75 | Pancreatic cancer | |
| Thomas Cahill | American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization) | October 18 | 82 | | |
| John Jay Osborn Jr. | American writer (The Paper Chase) | October 19 | 77 | Squamous cell cancer | |
| Anton Donchev | Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter | October 20 | 92 | | |
| Leszek Engelking | Polish writer and translator | October 22 | 67 | | |
| Mike Davis | American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire) | October 25 | 76 | Cancer | |
| Julie Powell | American author (Julie & Julia) | October 25 | 49 | Cardiac arrest | |
| Gerald Stern | American poet, essayist, and educator | October 27 | 97 | | |
| Bahaa Taher | Egyptian novelist and short story writer | October 27 | 87 | | |
| Hava Pinhas-Cohen | Israeli writer and poet | October 29 | 67 | | |
| Gael Greene | American author | November 1 | 88 | | |
| Doris Grumbach | American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist | November 4 | 104 | | |
| Geoff Cochrane | New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer | November 14 | 71 | | |
| Marcus Sedgwick | British writer, illustrator and musician | November 15 | 54 | | |
| Joëlle Guillais | French writer | November 19 | 70 | Stroke | |
| Marijane Meaker | American writer (Spring Fire) | November 21 | 95 | Cardiac arrest | |
| Bernadette Mayer | American poet and writer | November 22 | 77 | | |
| Milovan Danojlić | Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic | November 23 | 85 | | |
| Christian Bobin | French author and poet | November 24 | 71 | | |
| Hans Magnus Enzensberger | German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil) | November 24 | 93 | | |
| Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh | Yemeni poet and essayist | November 28 | 85 | | |
| Ray Nelson | American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man) | November 30 | 91 | | |
| Dominique Lapierre | French author | December 4 | 91 | | |
| Claude Mossé | French historian | December 12 | 97 | | |
| Xi Xi | Chinese novelist and poet | December 18 | 85 | Heart failure | |
| Manfred Messerschmidt | German historian (Germany and the Second World War) | December 19 | 96 | | |
| Françoise Bourdin | French novelist | December 25 | 70 | | |
| Begoña Huertas | Spanish writer | December 25 | 57 | | |
| Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam | Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic | December 28 | 86 | | |
| Marion Meade | American biographer and novelist | December 29 | 88 | | |

## Awards
### Adult

2022 literature awards, ordered alphabetically by award :
| Award | Category | Date awarded | Recipient(s) | Work | Date Published |
| America Award in Literature | America Award in Literature | | Gerhard Rühm | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Catherine Barnett | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Jo Ann Beard | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Aleshea Harris | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Sarah Manguso | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Joyelle McSweeney | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Susan Brind Morrow | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Doug Peacock | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Arts and Letters Awards in Literature | May | Adrian Nathan West | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Benjamin Hadley Danks Award | May | Martyna Majok | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award | May | Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus | |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Katherine Anne Porter Award | May | Lynne Tillman | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Morton Dauwen Zabel Award | May | Patricia Lockwood | Priestdaddy | |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Award of Merit for Poetry | May | Stephen Dobyns | — | — |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Rosenthal Family Foundation Award | May | Kirstin Valdez Quade | The Five Wounds | |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction | May | Jackie Polzin | Brood | |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation | May | Edith Grossman | Love in the Time of Cholera | |
| Andre Norton Award | Andre Norton Award | May 21 | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth | |
| Baillie Gifford Prize | Baillie Gifford Prize | Nov 17 | Katherine Rundell | Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne | |
| BBC National Short Story Award | BBC National Short Story Award | | Saba Sams | "Blue 4eva" | |
| Booker Prize | Booker Prize | Oct 17 | Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | |
| Booker Prize | International Booker Prize | May | Geetanjali Shree with Daisy Rockwell (trans.) | Tomb of Sand | |
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Dec 9 | Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry | RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning With RuPaul's Drag Race | |
| Bram Stoker Award | Best Novel (Horror) | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| British Book Awards | Author of the Year | May 23 | Marian Keyes | — | — |
| British Book Awards | Book of the Year | May 23 | Marcus Rashford with Carl Anka | You Are a Champion: How To Be the Best You Can Be | |
| British Book Awards | Fiction Book | May 23 | Meg Mason | Sorrow and Bliss | |
| British Book Awards | Début Book | May 23 | Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water | |
| British Book Awards | Crime & Thriller | May 23 | William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin | The Dark Remains | |
| Caine Prize for African Writing | Caine Prize for African Writing | Jul 18 | Idza Luhumyo | "Five Years Next Sunday" | |
| Carnegie Medal | Carnegie Medal | ~Jun 15 | Katya Balen | October, October | |
| Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | Dec 6 | Noor Naga | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | |
| Duff Cooper Prize | Duff Cooper Prize | March 2023 | Anna Keay | The Restless Republic | |
| Edgar Awards | Novel | Apr 28 | James Kestrel | Five Decembers | |
| Edgar Awards | Raven Award | Apr 28 | Lesa Holstine | — | — |
| Edgar Awards | Ellery Queen Award | Apr 28 | Juliet Grames | — | — |
| Edgar Awards | Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master | Apr 28 | Laurie R. King | — | — |
| Eugie Award | Eugie Award | Sep 4 | Sarah Pinsker | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | |
| European Book Prize | Novel | | Antonio Scurati | M. L'uomo della provvidenza | |
| Folio Prize | Folio Prize | | Colm Tóibín | The Magician | |
| Franz Kafka Prize | Franz Kafka Prize | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
| Giller Prize | Giller Prize | Nov 7 | Suzette Mayr | The Sleeping Car Porter | August 29 |
| Governor General's Awards | English Fiction | November 16 | Sheila Heti | Pure Colour | |
| Governor General's Awards | English Non-Fiction | November 16 | Eli Baxter | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | |
| Governor General's Awards | English Poetry | November 16 | Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | |
| Governor General's Awards | English Drama | November 16 | Dorothy Dittrich | The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key | |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Literature | November 16 | Jen Ferguson | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Illustration | November 16 | Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi | The Sour Cherry Tree | |
| Governor General's Awards | French to English Translation | November 16 | Judith Weisz Woodsworth | History of the Jews in Quebec | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Fiction | November 16 | Alain Farah | Mille secrets mille dangers | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Non-Fiction | November 16 | Sylveline Bourion | La Voie romaine | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Poetry | November 16 | Maya Cousineau Mollen | Enfants du lichen | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Drama | November 16 | David Paquet | Le poids des fourmis | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's literature | November 16 | Julie Champagne | Cancer ascendant Autruche | |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's illustration | November 16 | Nadine Robert and Qin Leng | Trèfle | |
| Governor General's Awards | English to French translation | November 16 | Mélissa Verreault | Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin | |
| Hugo Award | Best Novel | Sep 24 | Arkady Martine | A Desolation Called Peace | |
| Hugo Award | Best Novella | Sep 24 | Becky Chambers | A Psalm for the Wild-Built | |
| Hugo Award | Best Novelette | Sep 24 | Suzanne Palmer | "Bots of the Lost Ark" | |
| Hugo Award | Best Short Story | Sep 24 | Sarah Pinsker | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | |
| Hugo Award | Lodestar Award | Sep 24 | Naomi Novik | The Last Graduate | |
| Hugo Award | Astounding Award | Sep 24 | Shelley Parker-Chan | She Who Became the Sun | |
| International Dublin Literary Award | International Dublin Literary Award | | Alice Zeniter (translated by Frank Wynne) | The Art of Losing | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | Audiobook | Jun 5 | S. A. Cosby with Adam Lazarre-White (narrator) | Razorblade Tears | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | E-Book Original Novel | Jun 5 | E. J. Findorff | Blood Parish | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | First Novel | Jun 5 | Amanda Jayatissa | My Sweet Girl | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | Hardcover Novel | Jun 5 | S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | Paperback Original Novel | Jun 5 | Amanda Jayatissa | Bloodline | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | Short Story | Jun 5 | Scott Loring Sanders | "The Lemonade Stand" | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | Young Adult Novel | Jun 5 | Courtney Summers | The Project | |
| International Thriller Writer Award | ThrillMaster | Jun 5 | Frederick Forsyth | — | — |
| International Thriller Writer Award | ThrillMaster | Jun 5 | Diana Gabaldon | — | — |
| Lambda Literary Award | Anthology | Jun 13 | Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Bisexual Fiction | Jun 13 | Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Bisexual Nonfiction | Jun 13 | Aisha Sabatini Sloan | Borealis | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Bisexual Poetry | Jun 13 | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Children's | Jun 13 | JR Ford and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Drama | Jun 13 | R. Eric Thomas | Mrs. Harrison | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Erotica | Jun 13 | Samuel R. Delany | Big Joe | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Gay Fiction | Jun 13 | Brontez Purnell | 100 Boyfriends | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Gay Memoir or Biography | Jun 13 | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Gay Poetry | Jun 13 | John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Gay Romance | Jun 13 | Larry Benjamin | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Graphic Novel | Jun 13 | Lee Lai | Stone Fruit | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Lesbian Fiction | Jun 13 | Mia McKenzie | Skye Falling | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Lesbian Memoir or Biography | Jun 13 | Sophie Santos | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had) | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Lesbian Poetry | Jun 13 | Tamiko Beyer | Last Days | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Lesbian Romance | Jun 13 | Milena McKay | The Headmistress | |
| Lambda Literary Award | LGBTQ Studies | Jun 13 | Anna Lvovsky | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Mystery | Jun 13 | John Copenhaver | The Savage Kind | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Nonfiction | Jun 13 | Sarah Schulman | Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Speculative Fiction | Jun 13 | Cadwell Turnbull | No Gods, No Monsters | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Transgender Fiction | Jun 13 | Jeanne Thornton | Summer Fun | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Transgender Nonfiction | Jun 13 | Da’Shaun Harrison | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Transgender Poetry | Jun 13 | Mason J | Crossbones on My Life | |
| Lambda Literary Award | Young Adult | Jun 13 | A. R. Capetta | The Heartbreak Bakery | |
| Miguel de Cervantes Prize | Miguel de Cervantes Prize | | Rafael Cadenas | — | — |
| Miles Franklin Award | Miles Franklin Award | | Jennifer Down | Bodies of Light | |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | Nobel Prize in Literature | Oct 6 | Annie Ernaux | — | — |
| Premio Planeta de Novela | Premio Planeta de Novela | Oct 16 | Luz Gabás | Lejos de Luisiana | November 4 |
| Premio Strega Prize | Premio Strega Prize | | Mario Desiati | Spatriati | |
| Prix Goncourt | Prix Goncourt | Nov 3 | Brigitte Giraud | Vivre vite | August 24 |
| Publishing Triangle | Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry | May 11 | Cheryl Boyce Taylor | Mama Phife Represents | |
| Publishing Triangle | Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction | May 11 | Robert Jones Jr. | The Prophets | |
| Publishing Triangle | Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction | May 11 | Anthony Veasna So | Afterparties | |
| Publishing Triangle | Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction | May 11 | Briona Simone Jones | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | |
| Publishing Triangle | Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature | May 11 | Ari Banias | A Symmetry | |
| Publishing Triangle | Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction | May 11 | Brian Broome | Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir | |
| Publishing Triangle | Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry | May 11 | John Keene | Punks: New & Selected Poems | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | | Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Drama | | James Ijames | Fat Ham | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction | | Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for History | | Nicole Eustace | Covered with Night | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for History | | Ada Ferrer | Cuba: An American History | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Biography | | Winfred Rembert | Chasing Me to My Grave | |
| Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Biography | | Erin I. Kelly | Chasing Me to My Grave | |
| ReLit Awards | Novel | May 20 | Conor Kerr | Avenue of Champions | |
| ReLit Awards | Short fiction | May 20 | Sydney Hegele | The Pump | |
| ReLit Awards | Poetry | May 20 | Charlie Petch | Why I Was Late | |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism | Jan 5 | Elaine Blair | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism | Jan 5 | Merve Emre | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism | Jan 5 | Becca Rothfeld | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism | Jan 5 | Alma Guillermoprieto | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism | Jan 5 | Nesrine Malik | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism | Jan 5 | Thomas Meaney | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing | Jan 5 | Vinson Cunningham | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing | Jan 5 | Jason Farago | — | — |
| Silvers-Dudley Prize | Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing | Jan 5 | Ingrid Rowland | — | — |
| Trillium Book Award | English Prose | Jun 21 | Ann Shin | The Last Exiles | |
| Trillium Book Award | English Poetry | Jun 21 | Bardia Sinaee | Intruder | |
| Trillium Book Award | French Prose | Jun 21 | Robert Marinier | Un conte de l’apocalypse | |
| Trillium Book Award | French Poetry | Jun 21 | Chloé LaDuchesse | Exosquelette | |
| Women's Prize for Fiction | Women's Prize for Fiction | Jun 15 | Ruth Ozeki | The Book of Form and Emptiness | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing | May 2 | Joanna Chiu | China Unbound: A New World Disorder | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers | June 6 | Teya Hollier | "Watching, Waiting" | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers | June 6 | Patrick James Errington | "If Fire, Then Bird" | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Nov 2 | Nicholas Herring | Some Hellish | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Dayne Ogilvie Prize | Nov 2 | Francesca Ekwuyasi | Butter Honey Pig Bread | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Nov 2 | Dan Werb | The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize | Nov 2 | Joseph Dandurand | Joseph Dandurand | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Matt Cohen Award | Nov 2 | Candace Savage | Candace Savage | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People | Nov 2 | Elise Gravel | Elise Gravel | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award | Nov 2 | Shani Mootoo | Shani Mootoo | — |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Balsillie Prize for Public Policy | Nov 29 | John Lorinc | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias | — |

### Children's, Teen, and Young Adult

| Award | Category | Date awarded | Recipient(s) | Work | Date Published |
| American Indian Youth Literature Award | Picture Book | Jan 24 | Daniel W. Vandever with Corey Begay (Illus.) | Herizon | |
| American Indian Youth Literature Award | Middle Grade Book | Jan 24 | Brian Young | Healer of the Water Monster | |
| American Indian Youth Literature Award | Young Adult Books | Jan 24 | Eric Gansworth | Apple (Skin to the Core) | |
| American Library Association | Caldecott Medal | Jan 24 | Andrea Wang with Jason Chin (Illus.) | Watercress | |
| American Library Association | Children's Literature Legacy Award | Jan 24 | Grace Lin | — | — |
| American Library Association | Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults | Jan 24 | Gail Jarrow | Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield | |
| American Library Association | Geisel Award | Jan 24 | Corey R. Tabor | Fox at Night | |
| American Library Association | Margaret Edwards Award | Jan 24 | A.S. King | — | — |
| American Library Association | Michael L. Printz Award | Jan 24 | Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | |
| American Library Association | Mildred L. Batchelder Award | Jan 24 | Sachiko Kashiwaba | Temple Alley Summer | |
| American Library Association | Newbery Medal | Jan 24 | Donna Barba Higuera | The Last Cuentista | |
| American Library Association | Odyssey Award | Jan 24 | C. G. Esperanza | Boogie Boogie, Y'all | |
| American Library Association | Pura Belpré Award, Author | Jan 24 | Donna Barba Higuera | The Last Cuentista | |
| American Library Association | Pura Belpré Award, Illustrator | Jan 24 | Raúl Gonzalez | ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge | |
| American Library Association | Pura Belpré Award, Young Adult | Jan 24 | Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe | |
| American Library Association | Schneider Family Book Award | Jan 24 | Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron (Illus.) | My City Speaks | |
| American Library Association | Sibert Medal | Jan 24 | Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk (Illus.) | The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art | |
| American Library Association | Stonewall Book Award, Children's / YA | Jan 24 | Kyle Lukoff | Too Bright to See | |
| American Library Association | Stonewall Book Award, Children's / YA | Jan 24 | Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | |
| American Library Association | Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement | Jan 24 | Nikki Grimes | — | — |
| American Library Association | William C. Morris Award | Jan 24 | Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | |
| Andre Norton Award | Andre Norton Award | May 21 | Darcie Little Badger | A Snake Falls to Earth | |
| Asian/Pacific American Award | Picture Book | Jan 24 | Andrea Wang and Jason Chin (Illus.) | Watercress | |
| Asian/Pacific American Award | Children's Literature | Jan 24 | Hena Khan | Amina's Song | |
| Asian/Pacific American Award | Young Adult Literature | Jan 24 | Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | |
| Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Picture Book | Jun 22 | Jason Reynolds with Jason Griffin (illus.) | Ain't Burned All the Bright | |
| Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Fiction and Poetry | Jun 22 | Sabaa Tahir | All My Rage | |
| Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Nonfiction | Jun 22 | Brandy Colbert | Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre | |
| Carnegie Medal | Carnegie Medal | ~Jun 15 | Katya Balen | October, October | |
| Coretta Scott King Book Award | Author | Jan 24 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | |
| Coretta Scott King Book Award | Illustrator | Jan 24 | Floyd Cooper | Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | |
| Ezra Jack Keats Book Award | Writer | March 8 | Paul Harbridge | Out Into the Big Wide Lake | |
| Ezra Jack Keats Book Award | Illustrator | March 8 | Gracey Zhang | Lala's Word | |
| Sydney Taylor Book Award | Picture Book | Jan 24 | Susan Kusel with Sean Rubin (Illus.) | The Passover Guest | |
| Sydney Taylor Book Award | Middle Grade | Jan 24 | Veera Hiranandani | How to Find What You're Not Looking For | |
| Sydney Taylor Book Award | Young Adult | Jan 24 | Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | |