2007 in literature
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The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.
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[edit] Events
- December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
[edit] Books
[edit] Literature
- Gilbert Adair - A Mysterious Affair of Style
- Louis Begley - Matters of Honor
- Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader
- Bob Burg and John D. Mann - The Go-Giver
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Bernard Cornwell - Sword Song
- Jim Crace - The Pesthouse
- Don DeLillo - Falling Man
- Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Joshua Ferris - Then We Came to the End
- Don Hannah - Ragged Islands
- Elizabeth Hay - Late Nights on Air
- Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Denis Johnson - Tree of Smoke
- Panos Karnezis - The Birthday Party
- Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires
- Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
- Francis Malka - Le jardinier de monsieur Chaos
- Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
- Graham Swift - Tomorrow
- M. G. Vassanji - The Assassin's Song
- Kirby Wright - Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle
- Jesse Lee Kercheval - The Alice Stories
[edit] Children's and young adult fiction
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Libba Bray - The Sweet Far Thing
- Suzanne Collins - Gregor and the Code of Claw (fifth and final book in the Underland Chronicles)
- Charlie Higson
- Double or Die (third book in the Young Bond series)
- Hurricane Gold (fourth book in the Young Bond series)
- D. J. MacHale - The Pilgrims of Rayne
- China Miéville - Un Lun Dun
- Robert Muchamore
- The Fall (Robert Muchamore novel) (seventh book in the CHERUB series)
- Mad Dogs (eighth book in the CHERUB series)
- Garth Nix - Lady Friday (fifth book in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 21) (final book in the Harry Potter series)
[edit] Science fiction and fantasy
- Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (March 15) (second of The First Law series)
- Christopher Barzak - One For Sorrow (August 28)
- Jim Butcher - White Night (April 3) (Harry Dresden #9)
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union (May 1)
- Hal Duncan - Ink (February 2) (second of The Book of All Hours)
- Warren Ellis - Crooked Little Vein (July 24)
- Steven Erikson - Reaper's Gale (April 24) (seventh in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
- William Gibson - Spook Country (August 7)
- Ed Greenwood - Dark Lord (September) (First book in the Falconfar series)
- Tanith Lee - Piratica III: The Family Seas (third in The Piratica Series)
- Scott Lynch - Red Seas Under Red Skies (July 31) (second in the Gentleman Bastard series)
- Richard K. Morgan - Th1rte3n (June 26)
- Ian McDonald - Brasyl (May 1)
- Chuck Palahniuk - Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey (May 1)
- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - The Wheel of Darkness
- Lucius Shepard - Softspoken (April 15)
- Jeffrey Thomas - Deadstock (February 27)
- Catherynne M. Valente - The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (October 30) (second in the Orphan's Tales series)
[edit] New drama
- Hassan Abdulrazzak - Baghdad Wedding
- Bola Agbaje - Gone Too Far!
- Jacob M. Appel - The Mistress of Wholesome
- Melissa James Gibson - Current Nobody
- David Henry Hwang - Yellowface
- Caleb Lewis - Dogfall
- Brendan O'Carroll - For the Love of Mrs. Brown
- Aaron Sorkin - The Farnsworth Invention
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction and biography
- Peter Ackroyd - Thames: Sacred River
- Andrea Cagan - Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
- David Halberstam - The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
- Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
- Ian Halperin - Hollywood Undercover
- David McMillan - ESCAPE
- MARAVICH (The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich)
- Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
- The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (September 2007)
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Australia
- Patrick White Award: David Rowbotham
- ALS Gold Medal: Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
- Miles Franklin Award: Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
[edit] Canada
- Canada Reads - Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
- Le Combat des livres - Denis Thériault, L'Iguane
- Scotiabank Giller Prize - Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
- 2007 Governor General's Awards
[edit] United States
- Compton Crook Award: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
- Whiting Writers' Awards:
- Poetry: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin
- Fiction: Ben Fountain, Brad Kessler, Dalia Sofer, Nina Marie Martínez, Patrick O’Keeffe
- Plays: Sheila Callaghan, Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Nonfiction: Carlo Rotella, Peter Trachtenberg, Jack Turner
[edit] United Kingdom
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
- Man Booker Prize: Anne Enright, The Gathering
[edit] Deaths
- Margaret Avison (b. 1918)
- Michael Dibdin (b. 1947)
- Douglas Hill (b. 1935)
- Madeleine L'Engle (b. 1918)
- Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
- Jane Rule (b. 1931)
- Sidney Sheldon (b. 1917)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)
