# 2011 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2011.

## Events

* June 7 – Ransom Riggs publishes his young-adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which pins its narrative around a series of earlier private photographs he had collected. It remains top of The New York Times Children's Chapter Books list for 45 weeks and founds a series of five novels.
* July – J. K. Rowling ends her relationship with her long-standing agent Christopher Little and joins his rival, Neil Blair.
* September 24 – The first 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day takes place, the organization having been founded by Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion in March.
* November 12 – The Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library opens in Istanbul, Turkey.

## New books
### Fiction

* Chris Adrian – The Great Night
* David Almond – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
* Kevin Barry – City of Bohane
* Giannina Braschi – United States of Banana
* T. C. Boyle – When the Killing's Done
* Geraldine Brooks – Caleb's Crossing
* Kate Christensen – The Astral: A Novel
* Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
* E. L. Doctorow – All the Time in the World
* Steve Earle – I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
* Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
* Jeffrey Eugenides – The Marriage Plot
* Jonathan Evison – West of Here
* Robb Forman Dew – Being Polite to Hitler
* Charles Frazier – Nightwoods
* James Frey – The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
* Roxane Gay – Ayiti (short stories)
* Abdulrazak Gurnah – The Last Gift
* Benjamin Hale – The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
* Hallgrímur Helgason – Konan við 1000° (The Woman at 1000°)
* Ron Hansen – A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
* Chad Harbach – The Art of Fielding
* Philip Hensher – King of the Badgers
* Alan Hollinghurst – The Stranger's Child
* E. L. James – Fifty Shades of Grey
* Mat Johnson – Pym
* Stephen Kelman – Pigeon English
* Ben Lerner – Leaving the Atocha Station
* Merethe Lindstrøm – Days in the History of Silence (Dager i stillhetens historie)
* Javier Marías – Los enamoramientos (The Infatuations)
* Andrew Miller – Pure
* Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – 1Q84
* Téa Obreht – The Tiger's Wife
* Daniel Olivas – The Book of Want
* Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table
* Ann Patchett – State of Wonder
* Chuck Palahniuk – Damned
* Tom Perrotta – The Leftovers
* Arthur Phillips – The Tragedy of Arthur
* Nina Revoyr – Wingshooters
* Rodrigo Rey Rosa – Severina (novella)
* Karen Russell – Swamplandia!
* Stig Sæterbakken – Through the Night (Gjennom natten)
* John Sayles – A Moment in the Sun
* Faruk Šehić – Knjiga o Uni (Quiet Flows the Una)
* Dana Spiotta – Stone Arabia
* Colm Tóibín – The Empty Family
* Zlatko Topčić – The Final Word
* Donald Trump (with Jeffrey Robinson) – Trump Tower
* Juan Gabriel Vásquez – The Sound of Things Falling (El ruido de las cosas al caer)
* David Foster Wallace – The Pale King
* Daniel Woodrell – The Outlaw Album

### Children and young people

* David Almond – The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
* Kelley Armstrong – The Gathering
* Stéphane-Yves Barroux – Mr Leon's Paris
* Paula Bossio – El Lapiz (The Pencil, 2016)
* Carmen Agra Deedy (with Randall Wright) – The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
* Andy Griffiths – The 13-Storey Treehouse (first in the Treehouse series of seven books)
* Anthony Horowitz – Scorpia Rising
* Jon Klassen – I Want My Hat Back
* Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Rick Riordan, and Jude Watson – Vespers Rising
* Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked
* Patricia McKissack (with Leo and Diane Dillon) – Never Forgotten
* Courtney Allison Moulton – Angelfire
* Brandon Mull – Beyonders: A World Without Heroes
* Christopher Paolini – Inheritance
* Jerry Pinkney (adaptation) – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
* Catherine Rayner – Solomon Crocodile
* Rick Riordan
** The Throne of Fire
** The Son of Neptune
* Douglas Wood – Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World

### Poetry

See 2011 in poetry.
* Rae Armantrout – Money Shot (February)
* Billy Collins – Horoscopes for the Dead (April)
* Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – Meri Tasveer (Urdu, My Portrait)
* Susan Howe – That This (February)
* Alice Notley – Culture of One (March)
* Sarah Palin (edited by Michael Solomon) – I Hope Like Heck (June 21)
* Michael Palmer – Thread (May)
* Lee Wardlaw – Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

### Drama

* Richard Bean – One Man, Two Guvnors (adaptation)
* Alecky Blythe – London Road (musical verbatim theatre)
* Nick Dear – Frankenstein
* Vivienne Franzmann – Mogadishu
* Rodrigo García – Golgota Picnic
* Stephen Adly Guirgis – The Motherfucker with the Hat
* Sam Holcroft – Edgar and Annabel
* Stephen Karam – Sons of the Prophet
* Andrew Motion – Incoming
* Various authors – Sixty-Six Books

### Science fiction and fantasy

* Joe Abercrombie – The Heroes
* Daniel Abraham
** The Dragon's Path
** Leviathan Wakes (writing as James S. A. Corey, with Ty Franck)
* Ann Aguirre – Aftermath
* Greg Bear – Halo: Cryptum
* Lauren Beukes – Zoo City
* Jack Campbell – The Lost Frontier: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought
* Orson Scott Card – The Lost Gate
* Ernest Cline – Ready Player One
* Michael Crichton & Richard Preston – Micro
* Ian Douglas – Center of Gravity
* David Anthony Durham – The Sacred Band
* Greg Egan – The Clockwork Rocket
* William Giraldi – Busy Monsters
* Michael Grant — Plague
* Mira Grant – Deadline
* Lev Grossman – The Magician King
* Stephen Hunt – The Rise of the Iron Moon
* N. K. Jemisin – The Kingdom of Gods
* Stephen King — 11/22/63
* Sharon Lee & Steve Miller – Ghost Ship
* Pittacus Lore — The Power of Six
* George R. R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
* Jack McDevitt – Firebird
* China Miéville – Embassytown
* Andrew Miller – Pure
* Karen Miller – A Blight of Mages
* Richard K. Morgan – The Cold Commands
* Joseph Nassise – Eyes to See
* Terry Pratchett – Snuff
* Cherie Priest – Ganymede
* Hannu Rajaniemi – The Quantum Thief
* Brian Ruckley – The Edinburgh Dead
* Brandon Sanderson – The Alloy of Law
* John Scalzi – Fuzzy Nation
* Dan Simmons – Flashback
* Neal Stephenson – Reamde
* Charles Stross – Rule 34
* Michael Swanwick – Dancing with Bears
* Catherynne M. Valente – Deathless
* Vernor Vinge – The Children of the Sky
* Jo Walton – Among Others
* David Weber – How Firm a Foundation
* Robert Charles Wilson – Vortex
* Daniel Wilson – Robopocalypse
* Gene Wolfe – Home Fires

### Crime and Thrillers

* Jeff Abbott – Adrenaline
* Ace Atkins – The Ranger
* Kate Atkinson – Started Early, Took My Dog
* Steve Berry – The Jefferson Key
* James Lee Burke – Feast Day of Fools
* Lee Child – The Affair
* Edward Conlon – Red on Red
* Michael Connelly – The Fifth Witness
* John Connolly – The Burning Soul
* Jeffery Deaver – Carte Blanche
* Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee – Forbidden
* Ted Dekker – The Priest's Graveyard
* Ranj Dhaliwal – Daaku: The Gangster's Life
* Sue Grafton – V is for Vengeance
* John Grisham – The Litigators
* Morag Joss – Among the Missing
* Stuart M. Kaminsky – A Whisper to the Living
* Joe R. Lansdale
** Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella
** Devil Red
* Henning Mankell – The Troubled Man
* Jo Nesbø – The Snowman
* T. Jefferson Parker – The Border Lords
* George Pelecanos – The Cut
* Ralph Peters – The Officers' Club
* James Rollins – The Devil's Colony
* John Sandford – Buried Prey
* Marcus Sakey – The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
* Bernard J. Schaffer – Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes
* Duane Swierczynski – Fun and Games
* Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal
* Nicolaas Vergunst – Knot of Stone
* Ferdinand von Schirach – Der Fall Collini (The Collini Case)
* S. J. Watson – Before I Go to Sleep

### Non-fiction

* Peter Bergen – The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda
* Abhinav Bindra – A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
* Mark Bowden – Worm: The First Digital World War
* Frank Brady – Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
* Michael Bronski – A Queer History of the United States
* David Brooks – The Social Animal
* Brian Christian – The Most Human Human
* Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
* Joan Didion – Blue Nights
* Douglas Edwards – I'm Feeling Lucky
* T. J. English – The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge
* Ulrich Eberl – Life in 2050
* Tina Fey – Bossypants
* John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly - Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
* Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
* James Gleick – The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
* Brian Greene – The Hidden Reality
* Yuval Noah Harari – קיצור תולדות האנושות (Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)
* Matthew Hollis – Now All Roads Lead to France
* Louis Hyman – Debtor Nation
* Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz – I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović (Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović)
* Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
* David King – Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
* Joshua Knelman – Hot Art
* Lawrence M. Krauss – Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science
* B. B. Lal – Piecing Together – Memoirs of an Archaeologist
* Erik Larson – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
* Joseph Lelyveld – Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
* Steven Levy – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
* Charles C. Mann – 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
* Rajiv Malhotra – Breaking India
* David McCullough – The Greater Journey
* Ben Mezrich – Sex on the Moon
* Scott Miller – The President and the Assassin
* Errol Morris – Believing is Seeing
* Grant Morrison – Supergods
* Joyce Carol Oates – A Widow's Story
* Patton Oswalt – Zombie, Spaceship, Wasteland
* Dana Priest – Top Secret America
* Annie Proulx – Bird Cloud: A Memoir
* Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
* Sylvain Tesson – The Consolations of the Forest
* Sarah Vowell – Unfamiliar Fishes
* Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie – The Declaration of Independents
* Daniel Yergin – The Quest
* Mitchell Zuckoff – Lost in Shangri-La

## Deaths

* January 2 – Robert Trumble, Australian writer (born 1919)
* January 4
** Eva Strittmatter, German author and poet (born 1930)
** Dick King-Smith English children's writer (born 1922)
* January 10 – Joe Gores, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1931)
* January 11 – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian and author (born 1917)
* January 14 – Sun Axelsson, Swedish novelist (born 1935)
* January 15 – Romulus Linney, American playwright (born 1930)
* January 16 – R. F. Langley, English poet and diarist (born 1938)
* January 17 – Jean Dutourd, French novelist (born 1920)
* January 19 – Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American novelist and essayist (born 1930)
* January 20
** F. A. Nettelbeck, American poet (born 1950)
** Reynolds Price, American author (born 1933)
* January 22 – Park Wan-suh, South Korean novelist (born 1931)
* January 23 – Novica Tadić, Serbian poet (born 1949)
* January 24 – Anna Yablonskaya, Ukrainian playwright and poet (born 1981)
* January 25 – Vincent Cronin, English writer (born 1924)
* January 29
** Loreen Rice Lucas, Canadian author (born 1914)
** Hemayel Martina, Curaçaon poet (born 1990)
* January 30 – Hisaye Yamamoto, Japanese American author (born 1921)
* February 2 – Eric Nicol, Canadian author (born 1919)
* February 3 – Édouard Glissant, Martinique poet and critic writing in French (born 1928)
* February 5
** Charles E. Silberman, American author (born 1925)
** Martin Quigley Jr., American author and publisher (born 1917)
** Brian Jacques, English children's writer (born 1939)
* February 9 – David Sánchez Juliao, Colombian author and diplomat (born 1945)
* February 13 – Oakley Hall III, American playwright (born 1950)
* February 15 – Judith Binney, New Zealand author (born 1940)
* February 16
** Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (born 1930)
** Hans Joachim Alpers, German science fiction author (born 1943)
* February 17
** Perry Moore, American author (born 1971)
** Vivien Noakes, English biographer and critic (born 1937)
** James McLure, American playwright (born 1951)
* February 18 – Victor Martinez, US poet and novelist (born 1954)
* February 19 – Max Wilk, American playwright, screenwriter and author (born 1920)
* February 25
** Manny Fried, American playwright and actor (born 1913)
** Aminath Faiza, Maldivian poet and writer in the Dhivehi language (born 1924)
* February 26 – Arnošt Lustig, Czech author (born 1926)
* February 28 – Netiva Ben-Yehuda, Israeli author (born 1928)
* March 2 – Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic author (born 1925)
* March 3 – May Cutler, Canadian author and publisher (born 1923)
* March 5 – Alberto Granado, Argentine-born Cuban biochemist and writer (born 1922)
* March 8
** Iraj Afshar, Iranian bibliographer and historian (born 1925)
** Steven Kroll, American children's author (born 1941)
* March 9 – Doris Burn, American children's author and illustrator (born 1923)
* March 13 – Leo Steinberg, American art historian and critic (born 1920)
* March 14 – Giora Leshem, Israeli poet and publisher (born 1940)
* March 19 – Raymond Garlick, English-born Welsh poet and editor (born 1926)
* March 26 – Diana Wynne Jones, English children's fantasy novelist (born 1934)
* March 27 – H. R. F. Keating, English crime novelist (born 1926)
* April 2 – Paul Violi, American poet (born 1944)
* April 3 – Ulli Beier, German writer, editor and scholar (born 1922)
* April 4 – Craig Thomas, Welsh novelist (born 1942)
* April 6 – Thøger Birkeland, Danish children's writer (born 1922)
* April 10 – Stephen Watson, South African writer and critic in English (born 1954)
* April 12 – Sachin Bhowmick, Indian screenwriter (born 1930)
* April 14
** Rosihan Anwar, Indonesian journalist (born 1922)
** Patrick Cullinan, South African poet and biographer (born 1933)
* April 16 – William A. Rusher, American columnist and publisher (born 1923)
* April 17 – Bob Block, English comedy writer (born 1921)
* April 19 – Anne Blonstein, English poet (born 1958)
* April 20 – Madelyn Pugh, American screenwriter (born 1921)
* April 21 – W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), Welsh-language poet (born 1916)
* April 25 – Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (born 1917)
* April 29
** Abdul Hameed, Pakistani novelist (born 1928)
** Joanna Russ, American science fiction author (born 1937)
* April 30
** Richard Holmes, English military historian (born 1946)
** Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (born 1911)
* May 4 – Frans Sammut, Maltese writer (born 1945)
* May 5 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright, librettist and screenwriter (born 1917)
* May 9 – Newton Thornburg, American novelist (born 1929)
* May 10 – Patrick Galvin, Irish poet and dramatist (born 1927)
* May 11 – Reach Sambath, Cambodian journalist (born 1964)
* May 13
** Pam Gems, English playwright (born 1925)
** Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist (born 1925)
* May 14 – Birgitta Trotzig, Swedish novelist and poet (born 1929)
* May 15 – Martin Woodhouse, English novelist, screenwriter and inventor (born 1932)
* May 19 – William Kloefkorn, American poet (born 1932)
* May 21 – Pádraig Kennelly, Irish journalist, publisher and editor (born 1938)
* May 22 – Chidananda Dasgupta, Indian film critic (born 1921)
* May 23 – Roberto Sosa, Honduran poet (heart attack, born 1930)
* May 24 – Fănuș Neagu, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer (cancer, born 1932)
* May 25
** Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican painter and novelist (born 1917)
** Edwin Honig, American poet and translator (born 1919)
** Yannis Varveris, Greek poet, critic and translator (born 1955)
* May 30 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy (born 1942)
* June 4 – Curth Flatow, German dramatist and screenwriter (born 1920)
* June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (born 1923)
* June 10 – Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, English travel writer and novelist, (born 1915)
* June 13 – Burt Styler, American screenwriter (born 1925)
* June 18 – Cheryl B, American poet and spoken word artist (born 1972)
* June 21 – Robert Kroetsch, Canadian novelist and poet (car crash, born 1927)
* June 22 – Zbyněk Zeman, Czech historian (born 1928)
* June 29 – K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, writer and cultural critic (born 1904)
* July 7 – Olav Versto, Norwegian journalist and editor (drowning, born 1950)
* July 3 – Iain Blair (Emma Blair), Scottish romance novelist (born 1942)
* July 11 – Henry Carlisle, American translator, novelist and activist (born 1926)
* July 16 – Geraint Bowen, Welsh poet (born 1915)
* July 18 – Georgess McHargue, American author and poet (born 1941)
* July 20 – Blaize Clement, American mystery writer and psychologist (born 1932)
* July 22 – Ifti Nasim, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host (born 1946)
* July 27 – Agota Kristof, Hungarian novelist writing in French (born 1935)
* July 28 – Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak, Afghan journalist (killed in explosion, born c. 1958)
* July 30 – Pêr Denez, French Breton linguist and writer (born 1921)
* July 31 – Eliseo Alberto, Cuban-born Mexican novelist, essayist and journalist (born 1951)
* August 1 – Stan Barstow, English novelist (born 1928)
* August 3
** Simona Monyová, Czech novelist (murdered, born 1967)
** William Sleator, American science-fiction writer (born 1945)
* August 10 – Selwyn Griffith, Welsh poet (born 1928)
* August 15 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (born 1923)
* August 17 – Michel Mohrt, French writer (born 1914)
* August 26 – Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, American novelist (born 1940)
* August 27 – N. F. Simpson, English dramatist (born 1919)
* September 9
** Herbert Lomas, English poet (born 1924)
** Khairy Shalaby, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (born 1938)
* September 14 – Frank Parkin, Welsh sociologist and novelist (born 1931)
* September 22
** Cengiz Dağcı, Crimean Tatar novelist and poet writing in Turkish (born 1919)
** Margaret Ogola, Kenyan novelist (born 1958)
* September 23 – José Miguel Varas, Chilean writer (born 1928)
* September 26 – David Zelag Goodman, American screenwriter (born 1930)
* September 27
** David Croft, English television writer and producer (born 1922)
** Sara Douglass, Australian fantasy author (ovarian cancer, born 1957)
* September 29 – Hella Haasse, Dutch novelist (born 1918)
* October 4 – Vittorio Curtoni, Italian science fiction writer and translator (born 1949)
* October 10 – Uno Röndahl, Swedish writer (born 1924)
* October 11 – Ewald Osers, Czech translator and poet (born 1917)
* October 12 – Lowell H. Harrison, American historian (born 1922)
* October 15 – Earl McRae, Canadian journalist (born 1942)
* October 18
** Paul Everac, Romanian writer (born 1924)
** Friedrich Kittler, German literary scholar and media theorist (born 1943)
* October 19
** Kakkanadan, Indian Malayalam writer (born 1935)
** Bohdan Osadchuk, Ukrainian historian and journalist (born 1920)
* October 21
** Hikmet Bilâ, Turkish journalist and author (lung cancer, born 1954)
** Tone Pavček, Slovenian author and translator (born 1928)
* October 23
** Florence Parry Heide, American children's author (born 1919)
** Bogdan Zakrzewski, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature (born 1916)
* October 24 – Morio Kita (北 杜夫), Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist (born 1927)
* November 3
** H. G. Francis, German science fiction author (born 1936)
** Morris Philipson, American novelist and publisher (born 1926)
* November 21
** Arie van Deursen, Dutch historian (born 1931)
** Theodore Enslin, American poet (born 1925)
** Anne McCaffrey, American fantasy writer (born 1926)
* November 25 – Leonid Borodin, Russian novelist, journalist and Soviet dissident, (born 1938) (Russian)
* November 26 – Rashid Karim, Bangladeshi novelist (born 1925)
* November 30
** Ana Daniel, Portuguese poet (born 1928)
** Partap Sharma, Indian playwright (born 1939)
* December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, English journalist and commentator (esophageal cancer, born 1949)
* December 20 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (born 1926)
* December 23 – Tripuraneni Maharadhi, Indian screenwriter (born 1930)
* December 27 – Thinley Norbu, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher (born 1931)
* December 30 – Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet (born 1920)
* December 31
** Celia Dale, English fiction writer and book reviewer (born 1912
** Penny Jordan, English romantic novelist (born 1946)

## Awards

* Nobel Prize in Literature: Tomas Tranströmer

### Australia

* Miles Franklin Award: Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance

### Canada

* Amazon.ca First Novel Award: David Bezmozgis, The Free World
* Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost
* Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Farzana Doctor; honours of distinction, Dani Couture, Matthew J. Trafford.
* Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2011 Governor General's Awards.
* Scotiabank Giller Prize: Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
* Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
* Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life and Times
* Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Wayne Johnston

### United Kingdom

* Man Booker Prize: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
* Caine Prize for African Writing: NoViolet Bulawayo, "Hitting Budapest"
* David Cohen Prize: Julian Barnes
* Orange Prize for Fiction: Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

### United States

* Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2011 Lambda Literary Awards.
* National Book Award for Fiction: to Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
* National Book Critics Circle Award: to Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
* PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
* Whiting Awards: Fiction: Scott Blackwood, Ryan Call, Daniel Orozco, Teddy Wayne; Nonfiction: Paul Clemens; Plays: Amy Herzog; Poetry: Don Mee Choi, Eduardo C. Corral, Shane McCrae, Kerri Webster

### Other

* Camões Prize: Manuel António Pina
* Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Stein
* European Book Prize: Maxim Leo, Red Love, and Anna Bikont, The Crime and the Silence
* International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Mohammed Achaari, The Arch and the Butterfly, and Raja'a Alem, The Doves' Necklace
* SAARC Literary Award: Ibrahim Waheed, Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar