# 2024 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.

## Anniversaries

* 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
* 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).
* 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
* 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
* 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
* 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
* 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
* 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).
* 100th anniversary of the publication of
** A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
** The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
** The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
** Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

## 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. |
| Álvaro Enrigue | You Dreamed of Empires | January 9 |
| Kristin Hannah | The Women | February 6 |
| Jennifer Croft | The Extinction of Irena Rey | March 5 |
| Percival Everett | James | March 19 |
| Téa Obreht | The Morningside | March 19 |
| Amor Towles | Table for Two | April 2 |
| Miranda July | All Fours | May 14 |
| Claire Messud | This Strange Eventful History | May 14 |
| Stephen King | You Like It Darker | May 21 |
| Rachel Cusk | Parade | June 6 |
| Akwaeke Emezi | Little Rot | June 18 |
| Keanu Reeves and China Miéville | The Book of Elsewhere | July 23 |
| Stephen Harrison | The Editors | August 13 |
| Rachel Kushner | Creation Lake | September 3 |
| Anna Montague | How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? | October 22 |
| Louise Penny | The Grey Wolf | October 29 |
| Richard Price | Lazarus Man | November 12 |

### Children and young adults

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
| Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Anguish and Anarchy | June 25 | |
| Jordan Ifueko | The Maid and the Crocodile | August 13 | |

### Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Sylvain Tesson | Avec les fées | January 10 |
| Evan Friss | The Bookshop | August 6 |
| John Grisham & Jim McCloskey | Framed | October 8 |
| Muhammad Sarip & Nanda Puspita Sheilla | Historipedia Kalimantan Timur | January 23 |

### Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| RuPaul | The House of Hidden Meanings | March 5 |
| Salman Rushdie | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder | April 16 |
| Melania Trump | Melania | October 8 |

## Deaths

* January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85
* January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.
* March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98
* April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93
* April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
* April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94
* April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71
* April 27 – Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61
* April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86
* April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77
* May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84
* May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
* July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88
* July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93
* September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76
* November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91
* December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86
* December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92
* December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91

## Awards

2024 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award :
| Award | Category | Author | Title |
| Amazon.ca First Novel Award | Amazon.ca First Novel Award | Alicia Elliott | And Then She Fell |
| Atlantic Book Awards | Ann Connor Brimer Award | Jack Wong | The Words We Share |
| Atlantic Book Awards | J. M. Abraham Poetry Award | Fawn Parker | Soft Inheritance |
| Atlantic Book Awards | Thomas Head Raddall Award | Michelle Porter | A Grandmother Begins the Story |
| Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize | Ferdia Lennon | Glorious Exploits |
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Richard Adams Carey | The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire |
| Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Lisa Alward | Cocktail |
| Giller Prize | Giller Prize | Anne Michaels | Held |
| Governor General's Awards | English Fiction | Jordan Abel | Empty Spaces |
| Governor General's Awards | English Non-Fiction | Niigaan Sinclair | Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre |
| Governor General's Awards | English Poetry | Chimwemwe Undi | Scientific Marvel |
| Governor General's Awards | English Drama | Caleigh Crow | There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Literature | Li Charmaine Anne | Crash Landing |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Illustration | Jean E. Pendziwol, Todd Stewart | Skating Wild on an Inland Sea |
| Governor General's Awards | French to English Translation | Katia Grubisic | Nights Too Short to Dance |
| Governor General's Awards | French Fiction | Steve Poutré | Lait cru |
| Governor General's Awards | French Non-Fiction | Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau | Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel |
| Governor General's Awards | French Poetry | Névé Dumas | poème dégénéré |
| Governor General's Awards | French Drama | Sarah Berthiaume | Wollstonecraft |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's literature | Stéfani Meunier | Une bulle en dehors du temps |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's illustration | Ovila Fontaine, Charlotte Parent | Le premier arbre de Noël |
| Governor General's Awards | English to French translation | Éric Fontaine | Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage |
| Griffin Poetry Prize | Best Poetry Book | George McWhirter | Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence |
| Griffin Poetry Prize | Best First Poetry Book | Maggie Burton | Chores |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Fiction | Ling Ling Huang | Natural Beauty |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Nonfiction | Myriam Gurba | Creep: Accusations and Confessions |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Poetry | Danielle Cadena Deulen | Desire Museum |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Comics | E. M. Carroll | A Ghost in the House |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Fiction | Bryan Washington | Family Meal |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Memoir/Biography | Jason Yamas | Tweakerworld |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Poetry | Charif Shanahan | Trace Evidence |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Romance | Cat Sebastian | We Could Be So Good |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Fiction | Catherine Lacey | Biography of X |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Amelia Possanza | Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Poetry | Kimberly Alidio | Teeter |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Romance | Georgia Beers | Dance with Me |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Anthology | Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis | 2 Trans 2 Furious: An extremely serious journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Children's | Nina LaCour, Sonia Albert | The Apartment House on Poppy Hill |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Drama | James Ijames | Fat Ham |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | laura q | A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Middle Grade | Robin Gow | Dear Mothman |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Mystery | Cari Hunter | A Calculated Risk |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBT Nonfiction | Matt Baume | Hi Honey, I'm Homo! |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Poetry | Quinn Carver Johnson | The Perfect Bastard |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Marisa Crane | I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Studies | Erin L. Durban | The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Young Adult | Abdi Nazemian | Only This Beautiful Moment |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Fiction | Soula Emmanuel | Wild Geese |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Nonfiction | Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Toshio Meronek | Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Poetry | Michael MJ Jones | Hood Vacations |
| League of Canadian Poets | Gerald Lampert Award | Hannah Green | Xanax Cowboy |
| League of Canadian Poets | Pat Lowther Award | Sandra Ridley | Vixen |
| League of Canadian Poets | Raymond Souster Award | Bradley Peters | Sonnets from a Cell |
| Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour | Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour | Patrick deWitt | The Librarianist |
| Trillium Book Awards | English Prose | Nina Dunic | The Clarion |
| Trillium Book Awards | English Poetry | A. Light Zachary | More Sure |
| Trillium Book Awards | French Prose | Nicolas Weinberg | Vivre ou presque |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Sheung-King | Batshit Seven |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Martha Baillie | There Is No Blue |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Dayne Ogilvie Prize | Anthony Oliveira | Dayspring |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize | Rita Wong | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Matt Cohen Award | Marie Clements | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People | Sara O'Leary | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award | Madeleine Thien | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing | John Vaillant | Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Balsillie Prize for Public Policy | TBA November 26 | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Poetry | Faith Paré | "Selections from 'a fine African Head'" |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Short Fiction | Nayani Jensen | "Like Rabbits" |

## Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions that premiered / were broadcast during 2024:
| Title | The book on which the movie/TV series is based | Type | Genre | Premiere date | Distribution company / original broadcasting network |
| One Day | "One Day" by David Nicholls | TV series | Romantic drama | February 8, 2024 | Netflix |
| Spaceman | "Spaceman of Bohemia" by Jaroslav Kalfař | Movie | Science fiction, drama | February 23, 2024 | Netflix |
| Dune: Part Two | "Dune" by Frank Herbert | Movie | Science fiction, action, adventure, fantasy | March 1, 2024 | Warner Bros. Films |
| 3 Body Problem | "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin | TV series | Drama, Science Fiction | March 21, 2024 | Netflix |
| Ronja, the Robber's Daughter | "Ronja, the Robber's Daughter" by Astrid Lindgren | TV series | Adventure, Drama | March 28, 2024 | Netflix |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | "A Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles | TV series | Period drama | March 29, 2024 | Paramount+ |
| A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson | TV series | Mystery, Drama, Suspense | July 1, 2024 | BBC Three |
| It Ends with Us | "It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover | Movie | Romantic movie | August 6, 2024 | Columbia films |
| Uglies | "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld | Movie | Science fiction, dystopian film | September 13, 2024 | Netflix |
| Wicked | "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire | Movie | Fantasy, musical | November 3, 2024 | Universal Pictures |