# 2023 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2023.

## Events

c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France.

### Anniversaries

* 100th anniversary of Time
* 100th anniversary of Weird Tales
* 100th anniversary of the publication of
** Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
** The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
** "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek (last installment)
** "The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft
** "What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft
** The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
** New Hampshire by Robert Frost
*** "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
** Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
** Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
** Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
** Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
** Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley

## 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. |
| Allegra Goodman | Sam | January 3 |
| Bret Easton Ellis | The Shards | January 17 |
| Annalee Newitz | The Terraformers | January 31 |
| Salman Rushdie | Victory City | February 7 |
| Rebecca Makkai | I Have Some Questions for You | February 21 |
| John Banville | The Lock-Up | April 6 |
| Dennis Lehane | Small Mercies | April 25 |
| Emily Henry | Happy Place | April 25 |
| Abraham Verghese | The Covenant of Water | May 2 |
| Gina Apostol | La Tercera | May 4 |
| Naoise Dolan | The Happy Couple | May 25 |
| Margaret Atwood | Fourteen Days | May 30 |
| Paul Goldberg | The Dissident | June 6 |
| David Connor | Oh God, the Sun Goes | August 1 |
| Ann Patchett | Tom Lake | August 1 |
| Mona Susan Power | A Council of Dolls | August 8 |
| John Manual Arias | Where There Was Fire | August 29 |
| Zadie Smith | The Fraud | September 5 |
| Stephen King | Holly | September 5 |
| Daniel Mason | North Woods | September 19 |
| Samantha Harvey | Orbital | November 2 |
| Christine Platt & Catherine Wigginton Greene | Rebecca, Not Becky | December 5 |

### Children and young adults

New children's and young adult books, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of Pub. |
| Marla Frazee | In Every Life | February 7 |
| Dan Santat | A First Time for Everything | February 28 |
| Peter Brown | The Wild Robot Escapes | April 7 |
| Carole Boston Weatherford | How Do You Spell Unfair? | April 11 |
| Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro | The Sun and the Star | May 2 |
| Brandy Colbert | The Eyes and the Impossible | May 29 |
| Jacqueline Wilson | The Best Sleepover in the World | August 17 |
| Jason Reynolds | Stuntboy, In-Between Time | August 29 |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Mama's Sleeping Scarf | September 5 |
| Brandy Colbert | The Blackwoods | October 3 |
| Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer | October 24 |

### Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Paul Auster | Bloodbath Nation | January 10 |
| Rick Rubin | The Creative Act | January 17 |
| David Graeber | Pirate Enlightenment | January 24 |
| Bernie Sanders | It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism | February 21 |
| Ron DeSantis | The Courage to Be Free | February 28 |
| Matthew Desmond | Poverty, by America | March 21 |
| David Grann | The Wager | April 18 |
| John Vaillant | Fire Weather: a true story from a hotter world | June 6 |
| Sarah Ogilvie | The Dictionary People | September 7 |
| Naomi Klein | Doppelganger | September 12 |
| Zeke Faux | Number Go Up | September 12 |
| Scott Shane | Flee North | September 19 |
| Michael Lewis | Going Infinite | October 3 |

### Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication :
| Author | Title | Date of pub. |
| Prince Harry | Spare | January 10 |
| Pamela Anderson | Love, Pamela | January 31 |
| Elliot Page | Pageboy | June 6 |
| Andrew Leland | The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight | July 18 |
| Walter Isaacson | Elon Musk | September 12 |
| Britney Spears | The Woman in Me | October 24 |
| Aaron Badgley | Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label | December 8 |

## Deaths

* January
* February
* March
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* October
* November
* December
2023 deaths, sorted by date of death :
| Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death |
| January ||||||
| Lise Nørgaard | Danish journalist and writer (Matador) | January 1 | 105 | |
| Edith Pearlman | American short story writer | January 1 | 86 | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas | American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs") | January 2 | 83 | |
| Catherine David | French-American literary critic and novelist | January 2 | 73 | |
| Dumitru Radu Popescu | Romanian novelist and poet | January 2 | 87 | |
| Mohamed Enani | Egyptian writer and translator | January 3 | 83 | |
| Fay Weldon | British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright | January 4 | 91 | |
| Victoria de Stefano | Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist and philosopher | January 6 | 82 | |
| Russell Banks | American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter) | January 7 | 82 | Cancer |
| Aleksey Slapovsky | Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2) | January 8 | 65 | Pneumonia |
| Rehman Rahi | Indian poet, translator and literary critic | January 9 | 97 | |
| Charles Simic | Serbian-born American poet (The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems) | January 9 | 84 | Complications from dementia |
| Sara Aboobacker | Indian novelist, short story writer and translator | January 10 | 86 | |
| Paul Johnson | British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity) | January 12 | 94 | |
| Claudio Willer | Brazilian poet, essayist and translator | January 13 | 82 | Bladder cancer |
| Ronald Blythe | English writer and columnist | January 14 | 100 | |
| Gordana Kuić | Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans) | January 15 | 80 | |
| Gáspár Miklós Tamás | Hungarian philosopher and academic | January 15 | 74 | |
| Mousse Boulanger | Swiss writer and journalist | January 16 | 96 | |
| Luisa Josefina Hernández | Mexican writer, playwright and translator | January 16 | 94 | |
| Jonathan Raban | British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money) | January 17 | 80 | |
| Jacques Jarry | French linguist and archeologist | January 18 | | |
| Claude Guillon | French writer and philosopher | January 19 | 70 | |
| Nilmani Phookan Jr | Indian poet | January 19 | 89 | |
| Grigorijus Kanovičius | Lithuanian writer | January 20 | 93 | |
| Paul LaFarge | American novelist, essayist and academic | January 20 | 52 | Cancer |
| Nano Riantiarno | Indonesian playwright | January 20 | 73 | |
| Georges Banu | Romanian-born French writer | January 21 | 79 | |
| Pino Roveredo | Italian writer and theater director | January 21 | 68 | |
| Friedrich Weissensteiner | Austrian historian and writer | January 21 | 95 | |
| Ian Black | British journalist and author (Israel's Secret Wars) | January 22 | 69 | complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration |
| Joseph Agassi | Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution) | January 23 | 95 | |
| Dmytro Pavlychko | Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat | January 29 | 93 | |
| K. V. Tirumalesh | Indian writer and poet | January 30 | 82 | |
| Linda Pastan | American poet | January 30 | 90 | |
| Cleonice Berardinelli | Brazilian academic and writer | January 31 | 106 | |
| Henrik Nordbrandt | Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist, and essayist | January 31 | 77 | |
| February ||||||
| René Schérer | French philosopher | February 1 | 100 | |
| Alain Lacouchie | French poet and illustrator | February 3 | 76 | |
| Knut Borchardt | German historian | February 5 | 93 | |
| Renato Del Ponte | Italian essayist | February 5 | 78 | |
| Josep Maria Espinàs | Spanish writer ("Cant del Barça"), journalist and publisher | February 5 | 95 | |
| May Sayegh | Palestinian poet and political activist | February 5 | 82 | |
| Răzvan Theodorescu | Romanian historian and politician | February 6 | 83 | |
| Nicolò Mineo | Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist | February 6 | 89 | |
| Richard Kell | Irish poet, composer, and teacher | February 7 | 95 | |
| Leontii Voitovych | Ukrainian historian | February 7 | 71 | |
| Subimal Mishra | Indian novelist and short story writer | February 8 | 79 | |
| Agnès Laroche | French novelist and author | February 11 | 57 | |
| Lualhati Bautista | Filipino novelist (Dekada '70, 'GAPÔ, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?), screenwriter (Bulaklak sa City Jail) and activist | February 12 | 77 | |
| Robert Sauzet | French historian | February 12 | 95 | |
| Suzanne Sens | French author and educator | February 13 | 92 | |
| Giampiero Neri | Italian poet | February 15 | 95 | |
| Helen Fogwill Porter | Canadian poet, essayist and activist | February 16 | 92 | |
| Mario Vitti | Italian philologist | February 6 | 96 | |
| Richard Belzer | American actor, stand-up comedian, and author | February 19 | 78 | Unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions |
| Daniel Roche | French historian | February 19 | 87 | |
| Michael S. Heiser | American biblical scholar and author | February 20 | 60 | Pancreatic cancer |
| Philip Ziegler | British historian and biographer | February 22 | 93 | |
| Irving Wardle | English theatre critic and playwright | February 23 | 93 | |
| Mihai Șora | Romanian philosopher, essayist and politician | February 25 | 106 | |
| Günther von Lojewski | German journalist, television presenter, and author | February 26 | 87 | |
| Amy Schwartz | American author and illustrator of children's books | February 26 | 68 | |
| Juan Muñoz Martín | Spanish children's author (El Barco de Vapor) | February 27 | 93 | |
| Javad Tabatabai | Iranian philosopher and political scientist | February 28 | 77 | |
| March ||||||
| Anise Koltz | Luxembourgish author | March 1 | 94 | |
| Sasthipada Chattopadhyay | Indian novelist (Pandab Goenda) | March 3 | 81 | Stroke |
| Christopher Fowler | British science fiction writer | March 3 | 69 | Cancer |
| Kenzaburō Ōe | Japanese writer (1994 Nobel laureate in literature) | March 3 | 88 | Natural causes |
| Yuri Zhukov | Russian historian | March 3 | 85 | |
| Judith Heumann | American disability rights activist and author | March 4 | 75 | |
| Matti Klinge | Finnish historian | March 5 | 86 | |
| Sylviane Telchid | Guadeloupean writer and translator | March 5 | 81 | Complications from Alzheimer's disease |
| Ian Falconer | American author and illustrator of children's books (Olivia) | March 7 | 63 | |
| Salvador García-Bodaño | Spanish poet | March 7 | 87 | |
| Jitendra Nath Mohanty | Indian philosopher | March 7 | 95 | |
| Dhiruben Patel | Indian novelist, playwright and translator | March 10 | 96 | |
| John Jakes | American writer (North and South, The Kent Family Chronicles) | March 11 | 90 | |
| William G. Johnsson | Australian theologian and author | March 11 | 88 | |
| Michel Peyramaure | French writer | March 11 | 101 | |
| Isabel Colegate | British author (The Shooting Party) and literary agent | March 12 | 91 | |
| Karel Kaplan | Czech historian | March 12 | 94 | |
| Jaume Medina | Spanish philologist, translator and poet | March 12 | 73 | |
| Dragoslav Mihailović | Serbian academic and playwright | March 12 | 92 | |
| Momoko Kuroda | Japanese haiku poet and essayist | March 13 | 84 | Brain hemorrhage |
| Richard Wagner | Romanian-born German novelist | March 14 | 70 | |
| Patrick French | British writer and historian (Tibet, Tibet, The World Is What It Is) | March 16 | 57 | Cancer |
| Anna Sujatha Mathai | Indian poet | March 16 | 89 | |
| Jorge Edwards | Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat | March 17 | 91 | |
| Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie | Iraqi novelist (The Tattoo Mark) | March 20 | 83 | |
| Eric Brown | British science fiction writer | March 21 | 62 | Sepsis |
| Harri Nykänen | Finnish crime writer | March 21 | 69 | |
| Howard Fergus | Montserratian author and historian | March 23 | 85 | |
| Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim | Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet | March 23 | 98 | |
| Jean-Marie Apostolidès | Greek-French novelist, essayist, and theater director | March 24 | 79 | |
| María Kodama | Argentine writer and translator; wife of Jorge Luis Borges | March 26 | 86 | Breast cancer |
| D. M. Thomas | British poet, translator and novelist (The Flute-Player, The White Hotel) | March 26 | 88 | |
| April ||||||
| Rachel Pollack | American science fiction author, comic book writer, and activist | April 7 | 77 | |
| Anne Perry | British crime writer (The Cater Street Hangman) | April 10 | 84 | |
| Harold Kushner | American rabbi, author, and lecturer (When Bad Things Happen to Good People) | April 28 | 88 | |
| May ||||||
| Andrew Delaplaine | American novelist and screenwriter (Meeting Spencer) | May 1 | 73 | Stomach cancer |
| Gabrielle Carey | Australian novelist (Puberty Blues) | May 2 | 64 | |
| Henri Coulonges | French novelist and painter | May 4 | 86 | |
| Rafael Guillén | Spanish poet | May 4 | 90 | Stroke |
| Haidar Haidar | Syrian novelist (The Desolate Time, A Feast for the Seaweeds, The Mirrors of Fire) | May 5 | 87 | |
| Bruce McCall | Canadian author and illustrator | May 5 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease |
| Philippe Sollers | French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini | May 5 | 86 | |
| Ingrid Arvidsson | Swedish poet, author, and diplomat | May 7 | 103 | |
| Vladimir Dybo | Russian linguist | May 7 | 92 | |
| Fred Siegel | American historian and conservative writer | May 7 | 78 | |
| Ronald Steel | American author and biographer (Walter Lippmann) | May 7 | 92 | |
| Samaresh Majumdar | Indian writer | May 8 | 79 | Complications from COPD |
| Heather Armstrong | American blogger and author | May 9 | 47 | Suicide |
| Josef Ehmer | Austrian historian | May 9 | 74 | |
| Wilferd Madelung | German-British author and scholar of Islamic history | May 9 | 92 | |
| Rosemary Crossley | Australian author | May 10 | 78 | |
| Ian Hacking | Canadian philosopher (The Taming of Chance, Rewriting the Soul, Mad Travelers) | May 10 | 87 | |
| Leon Comber | British military officer and author | May 11 | 101 | |
| Sibylle Lewitscharoff | German writer | May 13 | 69 | |
| Hassan Hallak | Lebanese historian and academic | May 15 | 77 | |
| Eugene Kozlovsky | Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director | May 15 | 76 | |
| Inger Sandberg | Swedish children's author (The Little Ghost Godfrey, Lilla Anna and the Tall Uncle) | May 16 | 92 | |
| Martin Amis | British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow) | May 19 | 73 | Esophageal cancer |
| Pete Brown | English poet, lyricist ("I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room") and singer | May 19 | 82 | |
| Dževad Karahasan | Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher | May 19 | 70 | |
| Veno Taufer | Slovenian poet, translator and playwright | May 20 | 90 | |
| Antón Arrufat | Cuban writer and poet | May 21 | 87 | Bronchopneumonia |
| Erick Pohlhammer | Chilean poet | May 22 | 68 | Complications from a stroke |
| John Dunning | American novelist | May 23 | 81 | |
| Lin Wenyue | Taiwanese writer and translator | May 26 | 89 | |
| Govindray H. Nayak | Indian writer and academic | May 26 | 89 | |
| Anita Cornwell | American author and activist | May 27 | 99 | |
| Frédéric Barbier | French historian | May 28 | 70 | |
| Choi Il-nam | South Korean writer | May 28 | 90 | |
| Antonio Gala | Spanish poet, playwright and writer | May 28 | 92 | |
| Asad Gulzoda | Tajik poet and linguist | May 29 | 88 | |
| Ama Ata Aidoo | Ghanaian author and playwright (The Dilemma of a Ghost, Anowa) | May 31 | 81 | |
| Vellayani Arjunan | Indian literary scholar | May 31 | 90 | |
| June ||||||
| Ronald L. Baker | American folklorist | June 1 | 85 | |
| Byron Barton | American author and illustrator of children's books | June 3 | 92 | |
| Khalid Kishtainy | Iraqi writer and satirist | June 3 | 93 | |
| Mochtar Pabottingi | Indonesian writer | June 4 | 77 | Heart attack |
| Cormac McCarthy | American writer (Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road) | June 13 | 89 | |
| Robert Gottlieb | American author and editor | June 14 | 92 | |
| Micere Githae Mugo | Kenyan writer, activist and professor | June 20 | 80 | Cancer |
| July ||||||
| Ahn Junghyo | South Korean novelist and translator | July 1 | 81 | Cancer |
| Victoria Amelina | Ukrainian novelist | July 1 | 37 | Russian attack |
| Valeriano Bozal | Spanish historian and philosopher | July 2 | 82 | |
| Zé Celso | Brazilian playwright and stage director (Teatro Oficina) | July 6 | 86 | Injuries from a fire |
| Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ | Vietnamese poet | July 6 | 73 | |
| Mary Ann Hoberman | American author and poet | July 7 | 92 | |
| Ahmed Ilias | Bangladeshi poet | July 7 | 88 | |
| José Mattoso | Portuguese historian and medievalist | July 8 | 90 | |
| Adrian Tan | Singaporean novelist (The Teenage Textbook, The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer | July 8 | 57 | Cancer |
| Alain Besançon | French historian | July 9 | 91 | |
| Jean-Jacques Becker | French historian | July 10 | 95 | |
| Richard G. Hovannisian | American historian | July 10 | 90 | |
| Marga Minco | Dutch journalist and writer | July 10 | 103 | |
| Per Odensten | Swedish novelist and poet | July 10 | 84 | |
| Ahmadreza Ahmadi | Iranian poet and screenwriter | July 11 | 83 | |
| Milan Kundera | Czech-French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) | July 11 | 94 | |
| Colin Spencer | English writer and artist | July 13 | 89 | |
| Bernard Bachrach | American historian | July 14 | 84 | |
| Harry Frankfurt | American philosopher and author (On Bullshit, On Truth) | July 16 | 94 | congestive heart failure |
| Wasef Bakhtari | Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual | July 19 | 80 | |
| Silvana Lattmann | Italian-Swiss poet and author | July 19 | 104 | |
| Jaime Galarza Zavala | Ecuadorian writer | July 20 | 92 | lung disease |
| Malú Urriola | Chilean poet | July 21 | 56 | |
| Russell H. Greenan | American author (It Happened in Boston?) | July 22 | 97 | |
| Howard Adelman | Canadian philosopher and academic | July 23 | 85 | |
| Seiichi Morimura | Japanese novelist | July 24 | 90 | |
| Gérard Besson | Trinidadian writer and publisher | July 25 | 81 | |
| Shirish Kanekar | Indian writer and journalist | July 25 | 80 | |
| Eduardo Pitta | Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist | July 25 | 73 | |
| Lâm Quang Mỹ | Vietnamese-Polish poet | July 26 | 79 | |
| Keith Waldrop | American poet | July 27 | 90 | |
| Danila Comastri Montanari | Italian historical fiction novelist | July 28 | 74 | |
| Martin Walser | German writer (Runaway Horse, A Man in Love, Marriage in Philippsburg) | July 28 | 96 | |
| David Albahari | Serbian writer and translator | July 30 | 75 | |
| August ||||||
| Michela Murgia | Italian novelist and journalist | August 10 | 51 | Cancer |
| October ||||||
| Louise Meriwether | American novelist, journalist and activist | October 10 | 100 | |
| Louise Gluck | American poet (2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature) | October 13 | 80 | Cancer |
| November ||||||
| A. S. Byatt | English novelist (The Virgin in the Garden, Possession, Still Life) and critic | November 16 | 87 | |
| Eddie Linden | Scottish poet and publisher (Aquarius magazine) | November 19 | 88 | |
| Tim Dorsey | American novelist | November 26 | 62 | |
| John Nichols | American novelist | November 27 | 83 | |
| December ||||||
| Benjamin Zephaniah | British poet | December 7 | 65 | Brain tumour |

## Awards

2023 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award :
| Award | Category | Author | Title |
| Amazon.ca First Novel Award | Amazon.ca First Novel Award | Jasmine Sealy | The Island of Forgetting |
| Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award | Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Fiction | Julie Otsuka | The Swimmers |
| Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Nonfiction | Ed Yong | An Immense World |
| Baillie Gifford Prize | 2023 | John Vaillant | Fire Weather |
| Baillie Gifford Prize | Anniversary | James S. Shapiro | 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare |
| Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | Matthew F Jordan | Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn That Changed History |
| Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Kim Fu | Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century |
| Duff Cooper Prize | Duff Cooper Prize | Julian Jackson | France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain |
| Dylan Thomas Prize | Dylan Thomas Prize | Arinze Ifeakandu | God's Children Are Little Broken Things |
| Edgar Awards | Critical/Biographical Work | Martin Edwards | The Life of Crime |
| Edgar Awards | Fact Crime | Erika Krouse | Tell Me Everything |
| Edgar Awards | First Novel | Eli Cranor | Don't Know Tough |
| Edgar Awards | Juvenile | Marthe Jocelyn | Aggie Morton Mystery Queen |
| Edgar Awards | Novel | Danya Kukafka | Notes on an Execution |
| Edgar Awards | Paperback Original | Joe Hart | Or Else |
| Edgar Awards | Short Story | Gregory Fallis | "Red Flag" |
| Edgar Awards | Young Adult | June Hur | The Red Palace |
| Edgar Awards | Lilian Jackson Braun Award | Tamara Berry | Buried in a Good Book |
| Edgar Awards | Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mark Harrison | "Dogs in the Canyon" |
| Edgar Awards | Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award | B. R. Myers | A Dreadful Splendor |
| Edgar Awards | Sue Grafton Memorial Award | Louisa Luna | Hideout |
| Edgar Awards | Ellery Queen Award | The Strand Magazine | |
| Edgar Awards | Grand Master Award | Michael Connelly | |
| Edgar Awards | Grand Master Award | Joanne Fluke | |
| Edgar Awards | Raven Award | Crime Writers of Color | |
| Edgar Awards | Raven Award | Eddie Muller (Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation) | |
| Ezra Jack Keats Awards | Illustrator | Doug Salati | Hot Dog |
| Ezra Jack Keats Awards | Writer | Kari Percival | How To Say Hello to a Worm |
| Giller Prize | Giller Prize | Sarah Bernstein | Study for Obedience |
| Governor General's Awards | English Fiction | Anuja Varghese | Chrysalis |
| Governor General's Awards | English Non-Fiction | Kyo Maclear | Unearthing |
| Governor General's Awards | English Poetry | Hannah Green | Xanax Cowboy |
| Governor General's Awards | English Drama | Cliff Cardinal | As You Like It, A Radical Retelling |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Literature | Sarah Everett | The Probability of Everything |
| Governor General's Awards | English Children's Illustration | Jack Wong | When You Can Swim |
| Governor General's Awards | French to English Translation | Peter McCambridge | Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution |
| Governor General's Awards | French Fiction | Marie-Hélène Poitras | Galumpf |
| Governor General's Awards | French Non-Fiction | Philippe Bernier Arcand | Faux rebelles : Les dérives du politiquement incorrect |
| Governor General's Awards | French Poetry | Rita Mestokosho | Atikᵁ utei. Le cœur du caribou |
| Governor General's Awards | French Drama | Mathieu Gosselin | Gros gars |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's literature | Lou Beauchesne | Linoubliable |
| Governor General's Awards | French Children's illustration | Samuel Larochelle, Ève Patenaude | Le plus petit sauveur du monde |
| Governor General's Awards | English to French translation | Catherine Ego | Dans lʼombre du soleil: Réflexions sur la race et les récits |
| Griffin Poetry Prize | Best Poetry Book | Roger Reeves | Best Barbarian |
| Griffin Poetry Prize | Best First Poetry Book | Emily Riddle | The Big Melt |
| International Booker Prize | International Booker Prize | Georgi Gospodinov with Angela Rodel (translator) | Time Shelter |
| International Dublin Literary Award | International Dublin Literary Award | Katja Oskamp with Jo Heinrich (translator) | Marzahn, Mon Amour |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Fiction | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Nonfiction | Maria San Filippo | Appropriate Behavior |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Bisexual Poetry | Nicky Beer | Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Comics | Sas Milledge | Mamo |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Fiction | Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Memoir/Biography | Edgar Gomez | High-Risk Homosexual |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Poetry | Padraig Regan | Some Integrity |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Gay Romance | Kosoko Jackson | I'm So Not Over You |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Fiction | K-Ming Chang | Gods of Want |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Memoir/Biography | Kathryn Schulz | Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Poetry | Shelley Wong | As She Appears |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Lesbian Romance | Nan Campbell | The Rules of Forever |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Anthology | Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross | OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Children's | Wallace West | Mighty Red Riding Hood |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Drama | Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) | Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方 |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica | Alison Cochrun | Kiss Her Once For Me |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Middle Grade | Maulik Pancholy | Nikhil Out Loud |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Mystery | Hayley Scrivenor | Dirt Creek: A Novel |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Nonfiction | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Speculative Fiction | Lianyu Tan | The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Studies | Darieck Scott | Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics |
| Lambda Literary Awards | LGBTQ Young Adult | Sonora Reyes | The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Fiction | Cat Fitzpatrick | The Call-Out |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Nonfiction | Emma Grove | The Third Person |
| Lambda Literary Awards | Transgender Poetry | Kamden Ishmael Hilliard | MissSettl |
| Miles Franklin Award | Miles Franklin Award | Shankari Chandran | Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens |
| Nobel Prize in Literature | Nobel Prize in Literature | Jon Fosse | — |
| Orwell Prize | Political Fiction | Tom Crewe | The New Life |
| Orwell Prize | Political Writing | Peter Apps | Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen |
| PEN Literary Awards | Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award | Oscar Hokeah | Calling for a Blanket Dance |
| PEN Literary Awards | PEN/Open Book | Hafizah Augustus Geter | The Black Period |
| PEN Literary Awards | PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay | Judith Thurman | A Left-Handed Woman |
| PEN Literary Awards | PEN/Malamud Award | Edwidge Danticat | |
| PEN Literary Awards | Poetry in Translation | Daniel Borzutzky | The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez |
| PEN Literary Awards | PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize | Morgan Talty | Night of the Living Rez |
| Pulitzer Prize | Biography | Beverly Gage | G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century |
| Pulitzer Prize | Fiction | Hernan Diaz | Trust |
| Pulitzer Prize | Fiction | Barbara Kingsolver | Demon Copperhead |
| Pulitzer Prize | General Nonfiction | Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa | His Name Is George Floyd |
| Pulitzer Prize | History | Jefferson Cowie | Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power |
| Pulitzer Prize | Memoir or Autobiography | Hua Hsu | Stay True |
| Pulitzer Prize | Poetry | Carl Phillips | Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007–2020 |
| Royal Society Science Books Prize | Royal Society Science Books Prize | Ed Yong | An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Overall | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Drama | John Harvey | The Return |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Fiction | Jessica Au | Cold Enough for Snow |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Indigenous Writing | Lystra Rose | The Upwelling |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Nonfiction | Eda Gunaydin | Root & Branch |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | People's Choice | Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli | Astronomy: Sky Country |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Poetry | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Unpublished Manuscript | Mick Cummins | One Divine Night |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Young Adult | Kate Murray | We Who Hunt the Hollow |
| Walter Scott Prize | Walter Scott Prize | Lucy Caldwell | These Days |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | Kai Thomas | In the Upper Country |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Christina Sharpe | Ordinary Notes |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Dayne Ogilvie Prize | Anuja Varghese | Chrysalis |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize | Laisha Rosnau | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Matt Cohen Award | Helen Humphreys | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People | Kyo Maclear | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award | Anosh Irani | |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers | Zak Jones | "So Much More to Say" |
| Writers' Trust of Canada | RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers | Cooper Skjeie | "Scattered Oblations" |

## 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 2023:
| Title | The book on which the movie/TV series is based | Type | Genre | Premiere date | Distribution company / original broadcasting network |
| One True Loves | "One True Loves" by Taylor Jenkins Reid | Movie | Melodrama, romantic film | April 7, 2023 | The Avenue |
| Beautiful Disaster | "Beautiful Disaster" by Jamie McGuire | Movie | Romantic drama | April 13, 2023 | Voltage films |
| Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story | Bridgerton series of books by Julia Quinn | TV series | Period drama, romantic drama | May 4, 2023 | Netflix |
| The Zone of Interest | "The Zone of Interest" by Martin Amis | Movie | Historical drama | May 19, 2023 | A24 |
| Firebrand | "Queen's Gambit" by Elizabeth Fremantle | Movie | Historical drama | May 21, 2023 | Prime Video |
| All of Us Strangers | "Strangers" by Taichi Yamada | Movie | Fantasy-romantic drama film | August 31, 2023 | Searchlight Pictures |
| Love at First Sight | "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight" by Jennifer E. Smith | Movie | Romantic comedy | September 15, 2023 | Netflix |
| The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" by Suzanne Collins | Movie | Action, Drama, Adventure | November 5, 2023 | Lionsgate |
| Leave the World Behind | "Leave the World Behind" by Rumaan Alam | Movie | Psychological thriller | December 8, 2023 | Netflix |
| Poor Things | "Poor Things" by Alasdair Gray | Movie | Fantasy, science fiction | December 8, 2023 | Searchlight Pictures, Disney+ |
| A Haunting in Venice | "Hallowe'en Party" by Agatha Christie | Movie | Detective film | December 11, 2023 | 20th Century Studios |