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Children and young people
Non-fiction
- Thomas Berry – The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
- David Cairns – Berlioz: Volume 2, Servitude and Greatness 1832–1869
- Wayson Choy – Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
- The Dalai Lama – Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
- Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
- Laurence des Cars – Les Préraphaélites : Un modernisme à l'anglaise
- Freeman Dyson – The Sun, the Genome and the Internet
- Koenraad Elst – Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke – Paracelsus: Essential Readings.
- John Steele Gordon – The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653–2000
- Brian Greene – The Elegant Universe
- Deborah Harkness – John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
- Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster – The Century
- S.T. Joshi – Sixty Years of Arkham House
- Winona LaDuke – All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
- Bruce Lincoln – Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
- Jamie Oliver – The Naked Chef
- W. G. Sebald – Luftkrieg und Literatur (Air War and Literature, translated as On the Natural History of Destruction)
- David Southwell – Conspiracy Theories
- Dejan Stojanović – Razgovori (Conversations)[19]
- Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes[20]
- January 11 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)[21]
- January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
- February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)[22]
- February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)[23]
- February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)[24]
- February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)[25]
- March 4
- March 5 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)[27]
- March 8 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914)[28]
- March 13
- March 28 – Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945)
- April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911)[31]
- May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904)
- May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930)[32]
- May 27 – Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926)
- June 14 – J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
- July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)[33]
- July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
- September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)[34]
- October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
- October 19
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land[42]
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Timothy Mo, Renegade, or Halo2
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian
- Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh
- Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
- Samuel Johnson Prize (first award): Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
O. Classe (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Kiribati. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 153.
"Knut Hauge". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
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