Overview of the events of 2014 in literature
Overview of the events of 2014 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014.
New books
Fiction
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless stated otherwise.
- Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies (Australia)
- Jacob M. Appel – Scouting for the Reaper (February 15)
- Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins (UK)
- Margaret Atwood – Stone Mattress – Nine Tales (September 16)
- Bandi – The Accusation (Korean language short stories, South Korea, May)
- Natalie Baszile – Queen Sugar (February 6)
- Pierce Brown – Red Rising (January 28)
- Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist (UK)
- Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See (May 6)
- Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals (April 23)
- David Grossman – A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel (In original Hebrew as סוס אחד נכנס לְבָּר (Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar), Israel)
- John Hornor Jacobs – The Incorruptibles (UK)
- Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (October 2)
- Stephen King
- Thomas King – The Back of the Turtle
- Paul Kingsnorth – The Wake (UK, April?)
- Herman Koch – Geachte heer M. (Dear Mr. M., Netherlands)
- Niviaq Korneliussen – Homo Sapienne (Greenland)
- Laila Lalami – The Moor's Account (September 9)
- S. E. Lister – Hideous Creatures (UK, May)
- Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule) – En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (translated as The End of Eddy, France, February)
- Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – Kintu (Ugandan-born author published in Kenya)
- Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven (Canada)
- Javier Marías – Así empieza lo malo (Thus Bad Begins, Spain)
- Sean Michaels – Us Conductors (Canada, April 8)
- Karen Miller – The Falcon Throne (September)
- Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (translation, August 12)
- Rick Riordan – The Blood of Olympus (October 7)
- Rudy Ruiz – Seven for the Revolution
- Samanta Schweblin – Distancia de rescate (translated as Fever Dream, Argentina)
- Roger Scruton – Notes from Underground (March 12)
- Akhil Sharma – Family Life
- Joss Sheldon – Involution & Evolution (August 4)
- Leïla Slimani – Dans le jardin de l'ogre (France)[22]
- Ali Smith – How to Be Both (UK, August 28)
- Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows[23]
- Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe) (Poland, October)
- Niall Williams – History of the Rain
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
- Rosemary Tonks (posthumous) – Bedouin of the London Evening (selected poetry and prose)
Non-fiction
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article,
- January 4 – Jean Metellus, Haitian neurologist, author, poet, and playwright (born 1937)
- January 14 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, 83 (born 1930)
- January 28 – Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer, 64 (born 1949)
- January 29 – Hashem Shabani, Iranian poet, 32, (hanged, born c. 1982)
- February 18 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian writer of short stories, 91 (born 1923)[26]
- March 2 – Justin Kaplan, American writer, editor and biographer, 88 (born 1925)[27]
- March 18 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet,
- April 2
- April 5 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer, 86 (born 1927)[28][29][30]
- April 10
- April 15 – Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer, and children's writer (born 1928)
- April 17 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel laureate, 87 (born 1927)[32]
- April 20 – Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer, 77 (born 1936)[33][34]
- April 24 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer, 92 (born 1921)[35]
- May 6 – Farley Mowat, Canadian author and environmentalist, 92 (born 1921)[36]
- May 21 – Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet, 93 (born 1920)
- May 28
- June 19 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist, 90 (born 1924)
- June 22 – Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet, 67 (born 1947)[38]
- June 23 – Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)[39]
- June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish writer, 88 (born 1925)[40]
- June 29 – Dermot Healy, Irish poet, playwright, fiction writer and memoirist. 66 (born 1947)[41]
- July 4 – C. J. Henderson, American author and critic, 62
- July 7 – Sheila K. McCullagh, English children's writer (born 1920)
- July 13 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 90 (born 1923)[42]
- July 20 – Thomas Berger, American writer, 93 (born 1924)
- August 1 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian novelist, 40 (brain tumour, born 1974)
- August 2
- September 4
- September 21 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian playwright, 60 (born 1953)[43]
- September 24 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist, 79 (born 1935)
- September 28 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and physician, 91 (born 1923)
- November 27 – P. D. James, English crime writer, 94 (born 1920)[44]
- November 29 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet and writer, United States Poet Laureate, 80 (born 1934)[45]
- November 30
- December 3 – Vicente Leñero, Mexican writer and journalist, 81 (born 1933)[48]
- December 12 – Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, 86 (born 1928)
- December 24 – Lee Israel, American biographer and literary forger, 75 (born 1939)
