2022 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022.

Events

• 1 January
  • The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz,^[1] cookery writer Claudia Roden^[2] and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.^[3][4]
  • A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.^[5]
• 5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.^[6]
• 11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.^[7]
• 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.^[8]
• 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.^[9]
• 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.^[10]
• 28 May – Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
• 2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood)^[11] and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.^[12]
• 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.^[13]
• 12 August – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.^[14][15]

Anniversaries

• 200th anniversary of the death of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 150th anniversary of Publishers Weekly^[16]
• 150th Anniversary of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky^[17]
• 100th anniversary of the Newbery Medal^[18]
• 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Philip Larkin^[19]
• 100th anniversary of the publication of
  • In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • One of Ours by Willa Cather
  • "The Problem of Thor Bridge" by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
  • The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
  • Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence
  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • "Celephaïs" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
    • "The Garden Party"
  • The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
  • Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

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.	Ref.
Jessamine Chan	The School for Good Mothers	January 4	[20]
Noah Hawley	Anthem		[21]
Nita Prose	The Maid		[22]
Jabari Asim	Yonder	January 11	[21]
Diane Chamberlain	The Last House On The Street		[21]
Hanya Yanagihara	To Paradise		[23][24]
May Nikki	Wahala		[25]
Colleen Hoover	Reminders of Him	January 18	[26]
Sequoia Nagamatsu	How High We Go In the Dark		[26]
Weike Wang	Joan is Okay		[21]
Blackburn Lizzie Damilola	Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?		[27]
Isabel Allende	Violeta	January 25	[26]
Tochi Onyebuchi	Goliath		[28]
Marlon James	Moon Witch, Spider King	February 15	[24]
Sheila Heti	Pure Colour		[29]
Quan Barry	When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East	February 22	[24]
Lucy Foley	The Paris Apartment		[26]
Ashley Herring Blake	Delilah Green Doesn't Care		[26]
Julie Otsuka	The Swimmers		[30]
Rebecca Serle	One Italian Summer	March 1	[26][31]
Simone St. James	The Book of Cold Cases		[26]
Jennifer Egan	The Candy House	April 5	[32][24]
Bonnie Garmus	Lessons in Chemistry		[33]
Emily St. John Mandel	Sea of Tranquility		[34][26][24]
Douglas Stuart	Young Mungo		[35][24]
Lisa Hsiao Chen	Activities of Daily Living	April 12	[36]
Kimberly Brock	The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare	April 12	[37]
Holly Black	Book of Night	May 3	[26]
Hernan Diaz	Trust		[26]
Elif Batuman	Either/Or	May 24	[24]
Akwaeke Emezi	You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty		[31]
Nina LaCour	Yerba Buena	May 31	[38]
Lydia Conklin	Rainbow, Rainbow		[24]
Ottessa Moshfegh	Lapvona	June 21	[39]
Gabrielle Zevin	Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow	July 5	[22]
Amber Gill	Until I Met You	July 7 (UK)	[40]
Alexis Hall	Husband Material	August 2	[26]
Tess Gunty	The Rabbit Hutch		[33]
Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	August 4 (UK)	[41]
R. F. Kuang	Babel, or the Necessity of Violence	August 23	[42]
Suzette Mayr	The Sleeping Car Porter	August 29 (Canada)	[43]
Simon Jimenez	The Spear Cuts Through Water	August 30	[44]
Maggie O'Farrell	The Marriage Proposal	August 31 (UK)	[45][46]
Gayl Jones	The Birdcatcher	September 13	[47]
Tamsyn Muir	Nona the Ninth		[48]
Andrew Sean Greer	Less Is Lost	September 20	[49]
Yiyun Li	The Book of Goose		[50]
Celeste Ng	Our Missing Hearts	October 4	[33]
Colleen Hoover	It Starts with Us	October 18	[51]
George Saunders	Liberation Day: Stories		[52]
Onyi Nwabineli	Someday, Maybe	November 1	[53]
Tegan Nia Swanson	Things We Found When the Water Went Down	December 6	[54]

Children and young adults

New children's and young adult fiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Akshaya Raman	The Ivory Key	January 4	[55]
Jacqueline Woodson	The Year We Learned to Fly		[56]
Sue Lynn Tan	Daughter of the Moon Goddess	January 11	[28]
Nnedi Okorafor	Akata Woman	January 18	[28]
Eva Chen	I Am Golden	February 1	[57]
Leanne Hall	The Gaps	February 8	[58]
Akwaeke Emezi	Bitter	February 15	[59]
V. E. Schwab	Gallant	March 1	[26]
Sabaa Tahir	All My Rage		[26]
Deborah Falaye	Blood Scion	March 8	[60]
Kelly Barnhill	The Ogress and the Orphans		[61]
Casey McQuiston	I Kissed Shara Wheeler	May 3	[26]
Jen Ferguson	The Summer of Bitter and Sweet	May 10	[62]
Laura Kate Dale	Me and My Dysphoria Monster	August 18	[63]
Aaron Reynolds	Creepy Crayon!	August 23	[64]
Mo Willems	The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!	September 6	[65]
John Boyne	All the Broken Places	September 15	[66]
Malinda Lo	A Scatter of Light	October 4	[67]
Liz Montague	Maybe an Artist	October 18	[68]
Kim Spencer	Weird Rules to Follow		[69]
Jeff Kinney	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde	October 25	[70]
DeuxMoi & Jessica Goodman	Anon Pls.	November 8	[71]
Ammaar Reshi/ChatGPT	Alice and Sparkle	December 4	[72]

Poetry

• Ocean Vuong – Time Is a Mother (April 5, US)^[73]

Drama

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Imani Perry	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation	January 25	[26][24]
Daniel H. Pink	The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward	February 1	[26]
Chuck Klosterman	The Nineties	February 8	[26]
Alexandra Lange	Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall	June 14	[74]
Ed Yong	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us	June 21	[75]
Elizabeth Alexander	The Trayvon Generation	June 28	[24]
Patrick Radden Keefe	Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks	June 28	[76]
Philip Rosenthal and Jenn Garbee	Somebody Feed Phil the Book	October 18	[77]
Quentin Tarantino	Cinema Speculation	November 1	[78]
Michelle Obama	The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times	November 15	[33]
Oskar Lafontaine	Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung Europas	November 21	[79]
Leila Philip	Beaverland	December 6	[80]
Jessica Grose	Screaming on the Inside	December 6	[81]

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Bernardine Evaristo	Manifesto: On Never Giving Up	January 18	[24]
Laura Gao	Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American	March 8	[82]
Elena Ferrante	In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing	March 15	[24]
Maud Newton	Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation	March 29	[26][24]
Hannah Gadsby	Ten Steps to Nanette	March 29 (Australia)	[83]
Delia Ephron	Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life	April 12	[24]
Janelle Monáe	The Memory Librarian	April 19	[31]
Viola Davis	Finding Me	April 26	[31]
Jennette McCurdy	I'm Glad My Mom Died	August 9	[33]
Yasmín Ramírez	¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family	August 2	[9]

Films

• Matilda the Musical

Deaths

2022 deaths, sorted by date of death

Individual	Background	Date of Death	Age	Cause of Death	Ref.
Zheng Min	Chinese poet	January 3	101		[84]
F. Sionil José	Filipino novelist and journalist	January 6	97		[85]
Terry Teachout	American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist	January 13	65		[86][87]
Ron Goulart	American author of Groucho Marx mysteries	January 14	89	Respiratory arrest	[88]
Thiago de Mello	Brazilian poet and translator	January 14	95		[89]
André Leon Talley	American fashion author, editor, and journalist	January 18	73	Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19	[90][91][92][93]
Lani Forbes	American young adult novelist`	February 3	35	Neuroendocrine cancer	[94]
Ashley Bryan	American writer and illustrator of children's books	February 4	98		[95][96]
Jason Epstein	American editor and publisher	February 4	93	Congestive heart failure	[97]
Kenta Nishimura	Japanese novelist	February 5	54		[98]
Bruce Duffy	American novelist	February 10	70	Brain cancer	[99]
P. J. O'Rourke	American political satirist and journalist	February 15	74	Lung cancer	[100]
Jan Pieńkowski	Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog)	February 19	85	Complications of dementia	[101]
Shirley Hughes	English writer and illustrator of children's books	February 25	94		[102]
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.	American author, editor, and journalist	March 8	86	Complications from Parkinson's disease	[103]
Maureen Howard	American novelist, memoirist, and editor	March 13	91		[104]
Yuz Aleshkovsky	Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter	March 21	92		[105] (in Russian)
Ted Mooney	American novelist and journalist (Art in America)	March 22	70	Heart disease	[106]
Richard Howard	American poet, critic, and translator	March 31	92		[107]
David McKee	English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard)	April 6	87		[108]
Jack Higgins	British crime writer	April 9	92		[109]
Serhiy Dyachenko	Ukrainian fantasy novelist	May 5	77		[110]
Patricia A. McKillip	American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)	May 6	74		[111]
Kim Chi-ha	South Korean poet and playwright	May 8	81		[112]
Peter Lamborn Wilson	American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone)	May 22	76-77		[113]
Morton L. Janklow	American literary agent	May 25	91		[114][115]
Walter Abish	Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories	May 28	90		[116]
Boris Pahor	Slovenian writer (Necropolis)	May 30	108		[117]
George Lamming	Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet	June 4	94		[118]
Duncan Hannah	American visual artist and author	June 11	69	Heart attack	[119]
A. B. Yehoshua	Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright	June 14	85	Cancer	[120]
Raffaele La Capria	Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago)	June 26	99		[121]
Frank Moorhouse	Australian novelist and screenwriter	June 26	83		[122]
Susie Steiner	British crime novelist	July 2	51	Brain cancer	[123]
Joan Lingard	Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series)	July 12	90		[124]
Stuart Woods	American novelist (Chiefs)	July 22	84		[2]
Melissa Bank	American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing)	August 2	61	Lung cancer	[125]
David McCullough	American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams)	August 7	89		[126]
Raymond Briggs	English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman)	August 9	88	Pneumonia	[127][128]
Nicholas Evans	English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter	August 9	72	Heart attack	[129]
Jean-Jacques Sempé	French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas)	August 11	89		[130]
Frederick Buechner	American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher	August 15	96		[131][132]
Joseph Delaney	English author (Spook's)	August 16	77		[133]
Hadrawi	Somali poet	August 18	78-79		[134]
Michael Malone	American writer	August 19	80	Pancreatic cancer	[135]
Peter Straub	American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman)	September 4	79		[136]
Mariella Mehr	Swiss novelist, playwright and poet	September 5	74		[137]
Javier Marías	Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me)	September 11	70	Pneumonia	[138]
Yadollah Royaee	Iranian poet	September 14	90		[139]
Tibor Frank	Hungarian historian	September 15	74		[140]
Saul Kripke	American philosopher and logician	September 15	81		[141]
Hilary Mantel	British novelist (Wolf Hall)	September 22	70		[142][143]
Knud Sørensen	Danish novelist, essayist and poet	September 26	94		[144]
Marguerite Andersen	German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator	October 1	97		[145]
Charles Fuller	American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign)	October 3	83		[146]
Rebecca Godfrey	Canadian author	October 3	54	Lung cancer	[147]
David Huerta	Mexican poet	October 3	72		[148]
Peter Robinson	British-born Canadian crime writer	October 4	72		[149]
Temsüla Ao	Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head)	October 9	76		[150]
Bruno Latour	French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern)	October 9	75	Pancreatic cancer	[151]
Thomas Cahill	American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization)	October 18	82		[152]
John Jay Osborn Jr.	American writer (The Paper Chase)	October 19	77	Squamous cell cancer	[153]
Anton Donchev	Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter	October 20	92		[154]
Leszek Engelking	Polish writer and translator	October 22	67		[155]
Mike Davis	American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire)	October 25	76	Cancer	[156]
Julie Powell	American author (Julie & Julia)	October 25	49	Cardiac arrest	[157]
Gerald Stern	American poet, essayist, and educator	October 27	97		[158]
Bahaa Taher	Egyptian novelist and short story writer	October 27	87		[159]
Hava Pinhas-Cohen	Israeli writer and poet	October 29	67		[160]
Gael Greene	American author	November 1	88		[161]
Doris Grumbach	American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist	November 4	104		[162]
Geoff Cochrane	New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer	November 14	71		[163]
Marcus Sedgwick	British writer, illustrator and musician	November 15	54		[164]
Joëlle Guillais	French writer	November 19	70	Stroke	[165]
Marijane Meaker	American writer (Spring Fire)	November 21	95	Cardiac arrest	[166]
Bernadette Mayer	American poet and writer	November 22	77		[167]
Milovan Danojlić	Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic	November 23	85		[168]
Christian Bobin	French author and poet	November 24	71		[169]
Hans Magnus Enzensberger	German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil)	November 24	93		[170]
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh	Yemeni poet and essayist	November 28	85		[171]
Ray Nelson	American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man)	November 30	91		[172]
Dominique Lapierre	French author	December 4	91		[173][174]
Claude Mossé	French historian	December 12	97		[175]
Xi Xi	Chinese novelist and poet	December 18	85	Heart failure	[176]
Manfred Messerschmidt	German historian (Germany and the Second World War)	December 19	96		[177]
Françoise Bourdin	French novelist	December 25	70		[178]
Begoña Huertas	Spanish writer	December 25	57		[179]
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam	Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic	December 28	86		[180]
Marion Meade	American biographer and novelist	December 29	88		[181]

Awards

Adult

2022 literature awards, ordered alphabetically by award

Award	Category	Date awarded	Recipient(s)	Work	Date Published	Ref.
America Award in Literature			Gerhard Rühm	—	—
American Academy of Arts and Letters	Arts and Letters Awards in Literature	May	Catherine Barnett	—	—	[182]
			Jo Ann Beard	—	—
			Aleshea Harris	—	—
			Sarah Manguso	—	—
			Joyelle McSweeney	—	—
			Susan Brind Morrow	—	—
			Doug Peacock	—	—
			Adrian Nathan West	—	—
	Benjamin Hadley Danks Award		Martyna Majok	—	—
	Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award		Joshua Cohen	The Netanyahus		[183][182]
	Katherine Anne Porter Award		Lynne Tillman	—	—	[182]
	Morton Dauwen Zabel Award		Patricia Lockwood	Priestdaddy		[182][183]
	Award of Merit for Poetry		Stephen Dobyns	—	—	[183][182]
	Rosenthal Family Foundation Award		Kirstin Valdez Quade	The Five Wounds		[183][182]
	Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction		Jackie Polzin	Brood		[183][182]
	Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation		Edith Grossman	Love in the Time of Cholera		[183][182]
Andre Norton Award		May 21	Darcie Little Badger	A Snake Falls to Earth		[184]
Baillie Gifford Prize		Nov 17	Katherine Rundell	Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne		[185]
BBC National Short Story Award			Saba Sams	"Blue 4eva"		[186]
Booker Prize	Booker Prize	Oct 17	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida		[41]
	International Booker Prize	May	Geetanjali Shree with Daisy Rockwell (trans.)	Tomb of Sand		[187]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year		Dec 9	Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry	RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning With RuPaul's Drag Race		[188]
Bram Stoker Award	Best Novel (Horror)	TBA	TBA	TBA
British Book Awards	Author of the Year	May 23	Marian Keyes	—	—	[189]
	Book of the Year		Marcus Rashford with Carl Anka	You Are a Champion: How To Be the Best You Can Be
	Fiction Book		Meg Mason	Sorrow and Bliss		[190]
	Début Book		Caleb Azumah Nelson	Open Water
	Crime & Thriller		William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin	The Dark Remains		[190]
Caine Prize for African Writing		Jul 18	Idza Luhumyo	"Five Years Next Sunday"		[191]
Carnegie Medal		~Jun 15	Katya Balen	October, October		[192]
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize		Dec 6	Noor Naga	If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English		[193]
Duff Cooper Prize		March 2023	Anna Keay	The Restless Republic		[194]
Edgar Awards	Novel	Apr 28	James Kestrel	Five Decembers		[195]
	Raven Award		Lesa Holstine	—	—	[196][195]
	Ellery Queen Award		Juliet Grames	—	—	[196][195]
	Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master		Laurie R. King	—	—	[196][195]
Eugie Award		Sep 4	Sarah Pinsker	"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"		[197]
European Book Prize	Novel		Antonio Scurati	M. L'uomo della provvidenza
Folio Prize			Colm Tóibín	The Magician
Franz Kafka Prize		TBA	TBA	TBA
Giller Prize		Nov 7	Suzette Mayr	The Sleeping Car Porter	August 29	[198]
Governor General's Awards	English Fiction	November 16	Sheila Heti	Pure Colour		[199][200]
	English Non-Fiction		Eli Baxter	Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth
	English Poetry		Annick MacAskill	Shadow Blight
	English Drama		Dorothy Dittrich	The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key
	English Children's Literature		Jen Ferguson	The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
	English Children's Illustration		Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi	The Sour Cherry Tree
	French to English Translation		Judith Weisz Woodsworth	History of the Jews in Quebec
	French Fiction		Alain Farah	Mille secrets mille dangers		[201]
	French Non-Fiction		Sylveline Bourion	La Voie romaine
	French Poetry		Maya Cousineau Mollen	Enfants du lichen
	French Drama		David Paquet	Le poids des fourmis
	French Children's literature		Julie Champagne	Cancer ascendant Autruche
	French Children's illustration		Nadine Robert and Qin Leng	Trèfle
	English to French translation		Mélissa Verreault	Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin
Hugo Award	Best Novel	Sep 24	Arkady Martine	A Desolation Called Peace		[202]
	Best Novella		Becky Chambers	A Psalm for the Wild-Built
	Best Novelette		Suzanne Palmer	"Bots of the Lost Ark"
	Best Short Story		Sarah Pinsker	"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather"
	Lodestar Award		Naomi Novik	The Last Graduate
	Astounding Award		Shelley Parker-Chan	She Who Became the Sun
International Dublin Literary Award			Alice Zeniter (translated by Frank Wynne)	The Art of Losing		[203]
International Thriller Writer Award	Audiobook	Jun 5	S. A. Cosby with Adam Lazarre-White (narrator)	Razorblade Tears		[204]
	E-Book Original Novel		E. J. Findorff	Blood Parish
	First Novel		Amanda Jayatissa	My Sweet Girl
	Hardcover Novel		S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears
	Paperback Original Novel		Amanda Jayatissa	Bloodline
	Short Story		Scott Loring Sanders	"The Lemonade Stand"
	Young Adult Novel		Courtney Summers	The Project
	ThrillMaster		Frederick Forsyth	—	—
			Diana Gabaldon	—	—
Lambda Literary Award	Anthology	Jun 13	Briona Simone Jones	Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought		[205]
	Bisexual Fiction		Alix Ohlin	We Want What We Want
	Bisexual Nonfiction		Aisha Sabatini Sloan	Borealis
	Bisexual Poetry		Aurielle Marie	Gumbo Ya Ya
	Children's		JR Ford and Vanessa Ford	Calvin
	Drama		R. Eric Thomas	Mrs. Harrison
	Erotica		Samuel R. Delany	Big Joe
	Gay Fiction		Brontez Purnell	100 Boyfriends
	Gay Memoir or Biography		Brian Broome	Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
	Gay Poetry		John Keene	Punks: New & Selected Poems
	Gay Romance		Larry Benjamin	Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts
	Graphic Novel		Lee Lai	Stone Fruit
	Lesbian Fiction		Mia McKenzie	Skye Falling
	Lesbian Memoir or Biography		Sophie Santos	The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had)
	Lesbian Poetry		Tamiko Beyer	Last Days
	Lesbian Romance		Milena McKay	The Headmistress
	LGBTQ Studies		Anna Lvovsky	Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
	Mystery		John Copenhaver	The Savage Kind
	Nonfiction		Sarah Schulman	Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993
	Speculative Fiction		Cadwell Turnbull	No Gods, No Monsters
	Transgender Fiction		Jeanne Thornton	Summer Fun
	Transgender Nonfiction		Da’Shaun Harrison	Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
	Transgender Poetry		Mason J	Crossbones on My Life
	Young Adult		A. R. Capetta	The Heartbreak Bakery
Miguel de Cervantes Prize			Rafael Cadenas	—	—
Miles Franklin Award			Jennifer Down	Bodies of Light
Nobel Prize in Literature		Oct 6	Annie Ernaux	—	—	[206]
Premio Planeta de Novela		Oct 16	Luz Gabás	Lejos de Luisiana	November 4	[207][208]
Premio Strega Prize			Mario Desiati	Spatriati
Prix Goncourt		Nov 3	Brigitte Giraud	Vivre vite	August 24	[209]
Publishing Triangle	Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry	May 11	Cheryl Boyce Taylor	Mama Phife Represents		[210]
	Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction		Robert Jones Jr.	The Prophets
	Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction		Anthony Veasna So	Afterparties
	Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction		Briona Simone Jones	Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
	Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature		Ari Banias	A Symmetry
	Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction		Brian Broome	Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
	Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry		John Keene	Punks: New & Selected Poems
Pulitzer Prize	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction		Joshua Cohen	The Netanyahus		[211]
	Pulitzer Prize for Drama		James Ijames	Fat Ham
	Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction		Andrea Elliott	Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
	Pulitzer Prize for History		Nicole Eustace	Covered with Night
			Ada Ferrer	Cuba: An American History
	Pulitzer Prize for Biography		Winfred Rembert	Chasing Me to My Grave
			Erin I. Kelly
ReLit Awards	Novel	May 20	Conor Kerr	Avenue of Champions		[212]
	Short fiction		Sydney Hegele	The Pump
	Poetry		Charlie Petch	Why I Was Late
Silvers-Dudley Prize	Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism	Jan 5	Elaine Blair	—	—	[6][213]
			Merve Emre	—	—
			Becca Rothfeld	—	—
	Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism		Alma Guillermoprieto	—	—
			Nesrine Malik	—	—
			Thomas Meaney	—	—
	Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing		Vinson Cunningham	—	—
			Jason Farago	—	—
			Ingrid Rowland	—	—
Trillium Book Award	English Prose	Jun 21	Ann Shin	The Last Exiles		[214]
	English Poetry		Bardia Sinaee	Intruder
	French Prose		Robert Marinier	Un conte de l’apocalypse
	French Poetry		Chloé LaDuchesse	Exosquelette
Women's Prize for Fiction		Jun 15	Ruth Ozeki	The Book of Form and Emptiness		[215]
Writers' Trust of Canada	Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing	May 2	Joanna Chiu	China Unbound: A New World Disorder		[216]
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers	June 6	Teya Hollier	"Watching, Waiting"	—	[217]
			Patrick James Errington	"If Fire, Then Bird"	—
	Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Nov 2	Nicholas Herring	Some Hellish		[218]
	Dayne Ogilvie Prize		Francesca Ekwuyasi	Butter Honey Pig Bread
	Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction		Dan Werb	The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
	Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize		Joseph Dandurand		—
	Matt Cohen Award		Candace Savage		—
	Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People		Elise Gravel		—
	Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award		Shani Mootoo		—
	Balsillie Prize for Public Policy	Nov 29	John Lorinc	Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias	—	[219]

Children's, Teen, and Young Adult

Award	Category	Date awarded	Recipient(s)	Work	Date Published	Ref.
American Indian Youth Literature Award	Picture Book	Jan 24	Daniel W. Vandever with Corey Begay (Illus.)	Herizon		[220]
	Middle Grade Book		Brian Young	Healer of the Water Monster
	Young Adult Books		Eric Gansworth	Apple (Skin to the Core)
American Library Association	Caldecott Medal	Jan 24	Andrea Wang with Jason Chin (Illus.)	Watercress		[221][222][220]
	Children's Literature Legacy Award		Grace Lin	—	—	[221][220][222]
	Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults		Gail Jarrow	Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield		[220]
	Geisel Award		Corey R. Tabor	Fox at Night		[220]
	Margaret Edwards Award		A.S. King	—	—	[220]
	Michael L. Printz Award		Angeline Boulley	Firekeeper's Daughter		[221][222][220]
	Mildred L. Batchelder Award		Sachiko Kashiwaba	Temple Alley Summer		[220]
	Newbery Medal		Donna Barba Higuera	The Last Cuentista		[221][222][220]
	Odyssey Award		C. G. Esperanza	Boogie Boogie, Y'all		[220]
	Pura Belpré Award, Author		Donna Barba Higuera	The Last Cuentista		[220]
	Pura Belpré Award, Illustrator		Raúl Gonzalez	¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge
	Pura Belpré Award, Young Adult		Raquel Vasquez Gilliland	How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
	Schneider Family Book Award		Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron (Illus.)	My City Speaks		[220]
	Sibert Medal		Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk (Illus.)	The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art		[220]
	Stonewall Book Award, Children's / YA		Kyle Lukoff	Too Bright to See		[220]
			Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club		[220]
	Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement		Nikki Grimes	—	—	[221][222][220]
	William C. Morris Award		Angeline Boulley	Firekeeper's Daughter		[220]
Andre Norton Award		May 21	Darcie Little Badger	A Snake Falls to Earth
Asian/Pacific American Award	Picture Book	Jan 24	Andrea Wang and Jason Chin (Illus.)	Watercress		[220]
	Children's Literature		Hena Khan	Amina's Song
	Young Adult Literature		Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award	Picture Book	Jun 22	Jason Reynolds with Jason Griffin (illus.)	Ain't Burned All the Bright		[223]
	Fiction and Poetry		Sabaa Tahir	All My Rage
	Nonfiction		Brandy Colbert	Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Carnegie Medal		~Jun 15	Katya Balen	October, October		[192]
Coretta Scott King Book Award	Author	Jan 24	Carole Boston Weatherford	Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre		[222][220]
	Illustrator		Floyd Cooper			[222][220]
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award	Writer	March 8	Paul Harbridge	Out Into the Big Wide Lake		[224]
	Illustrator		Gracey Zhang	Lala's Word
Sydney Taylor Book Award	Picture Book	Jan 24	Susan Kusel with Sean Rubin (Illus.)	The Passover Guest		[220]
	Middle Grade		Veera Hiranandani	How to Find What You're Not Looking For
	Young Adult		Aden Polydoros	The City Beautiful

See also