Events
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- February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.[1]
- April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released.[2]
- April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press.[2]
- June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book.[3]
- July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010.[4][5] On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.[2]
- August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared there since 2000 with Stephen King.[2]
- October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
- October 12 – Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
- November 9 – Johanna Skibsrud wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists.[6]
- November 16 – The 2010 Governor General's Awards are announced. Winners include Dianne Warren for English fiction, Kim Thúy for French fiction, Richard Greene for poetry and Robert Chafe for drama.[7]
- November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay Twain ordered himself. Unofficial copies have been published several times in the 20th century.[8]
- December 31 – Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland by the state temporarily ends, the 12-year limit on the most recent ban having expired.[9] However, the law remains on the statute book and is later used again.[10]
- unknown date – Orlando Figes posts pseudonymous reviews on the UK site of bookseller Amazon.com criticising books by two other British historians of Russia, Robert Service and Rachel Polonsky, whilst praising his own books among others.[11]
