2023 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2023.

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Events

c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France.^[1]

Anniversaries

• 100th anniversary of Time
• 100th anniversary of Weird Tales
• 100th anniversary of the publication of
  • Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
  • The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
  • "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek (last installment)
  • "The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • "What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • New Hampshire by Robert Frost
    • "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
  • Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
  • Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
  • Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
  • Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley

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.
Allegra Goodman	Sam	January 3	[2]
Bret Easton Ellis	The Shards	January 17	[3]
Annalee Newitz	The Terraformers	January 31	[4]
Salman Rushdie	Victory City	February 7	[5]
Rebecca Makkai	I Have Some Questions for You	February 21	[6]
John Banville	The Lock-Up	April 6	[7]
Dennis Lehane	Small Mercies	April 25	[8]
Emily Henry	Happy Place		[9]
Abraham Verghese	The Covenant of Water	May 2	[10]
Gina Apostol	La Tercera	May 4	[11]
Naoise Dolan	The Happy Couple	May 25	[12]
Margaret Atwood	Fourteen Days	May 30	[13]
Paul Goldberg	The Dissident	June 6	[14]
S. A. Cosby	All the Sinners Bleed	June 6	[15]
David Connor	Oh God, the Sun Goes	August 1	[16]
Ann Patchett	Tom Lake	August 1	[17]
Mona Susan Power	A Council of Dolls	August 8	[18][19]
John Manual Arias	Where There Was Fire	August 29	[20][21]
Zadie Smith	The Fraud	September 5	[22]
Stephen King	Holly	September 5	[23][24]
Daniel Mason	North Woods	September 19	[25]
Samantha Harvey	Orbital	November 2	[26]
Christine Platt & Catherine Wigginton Greene	Rebecca, Not Becky	December 5	[27]

Children and young adults

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

Author	Title	Date of Pub.	Ref.
Marla Frazee	In Every Life	February 7	[28]
Dan Santat	A First Time for Everything	February 28	[29]
Peter Brown	The Wild Robot Escapes	April 7	[30]
Carole Boston Weatherford	How Do You Spell Unfair?	April 11	[31]
Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro	The Sun and the Star	May 2
Brandy Colbert	The Eyes and the Impossible	May 29	[32]
Jacqueline Wilson	The Best Sleepover in the World	August 17
Jason Reynolds	Stuntboy, In-Between Time	August 29	[33]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Mama's Sleeping Scarf	September 5	[34]
Brandy Colbert	The Blackwoods	October 3	[35]
Jeff Kinney	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer	October 24	[36]

Poetry

Drama

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Paul Auster	Bloodbath Nation	January 10	[37]
Rick Rubin	The Creative Act	January 17	[38]
David Graeber	Pirate Enlightenment	January 24	[39]
Bernie Sanders	It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism	February 21	[40]
Ron DeSantis	The Courage to Be Free	February 28	[41]
Matthew Desmond	Poverty, by America	March 21	[42]
David Grann	The Wager	April 18	[43]
John Vaillant	Fire Weather: a true story from a hotter world	June 6	[44]
Sarah Ogilvie	The Dictionary People	September 7	[45]
Naomi Klein	Doppelganger	September 12	[46]
Zeke Faux	Number Go Up	September 12	[47]
Scott Shane	Flee North	September 19	[48]
Michael Lewis	Going Infinite	October 3	[49]

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication

Author	Title	Date of pub.	Ref.
Prince Harry	Spare	January 10	[50]
Pamela Anderson	Love, Pamela	January 31	[51]
Elliot Page	Pageboy	June 6	[52]
Andrew Leland	The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight	July 18	[53]
Walter Isaacson	Elon Musk	September 12	[54]
Britney Spears	The Woman in Me	October 24	[55]
Aaron Badgley	Dark Horse Records: The Story of George Harrison's Post-Beatles Record Label	December 8	[56]

Deaths

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• October
• November
• December

2023 deaths, sorted by date of death

Individual	Background	Date of Death	Age	Cause of Death	Ref.
January
Lise Nørgaard	Danish journalist and writer (Matador)	January 1	105		[57]
Edith Pearlman	American short story writer	January 1	86		[58]
Suzy McKee Charnas	American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs")	January 2	83		[59]
Catherine David	French-American literary critic and novelist	January 2	73		[60]
Dumitru Radu Popescu	Romanian novelist and poet	January 2	87		[61]
Mohamed Enani	Egyptian writer and translator	January 3	83		[62]
Fay Weldon	British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright	January 4	91		[63]
Victoria de Stefano	Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist and philosopher	January 6	82		[64]
Russell Banks	American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter)	January 7	82	Cancer	[65]
Aleksey Slapovsky	Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2)	January 8	65	Pneumonia	[66]
Rehman Rahi	Indian poet, translator and literary critic	January 9	97		[67]
Charles Simic	Serbian-born American poet (The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems)	January 9	84	Complications from dementia	[68][69]
Sara Aboobacker	Indian novelist, short story writer and translator	January 10	86		[70]
Paul Johnson	British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity)	January 12	94		[71][72]
Claudio Willer	Brazilian poet, essayist and translator	January 13	82	Bladder cancer	[73]
Ronald Blythe	English writer and columnist	January 14	100		[74]
Gordana Kuić	Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans)	January 15	80		[75]
Gáspár Miklós Tamás	Hungarian philosopher and academic	January 15	74		[76]
Mousse Boulanger	Swiss writer and journalist	January 16	96		[77]
Luisa Josefina Hernández	Mexican writer, playwright and translator	January 16	94		[78]
Jonathan Raban	British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money)	January 17	80		[79][80]
Jacques Jarry	French linguist and archeologist	January 18			[81]
Claude Guillon	French writer and philosopher	January 19	70		[82]
Nilmani Phookan Jr	Indian poet	January 19	89		[83]
Grigorijus Kanovičius	Lithuanian writer	January 20	93		[84]
Paul LaFarge	American novelist, essayist and academic	January 20	52	Cancer	[85]
Nano Riantiarno	Indonesian playwright	January 20	73		[86]
Georges Banu	Romanian-born French writer	January 21	79		[87]
Pino Roveredo	Italian writer and theater director	January 21	68		[88]
Friedrich Weissensteiner	Austrian historian and writer	January 21	95		[89]
Ian Black	British journalist and author (Israel's Secret Wars)	January 22	69	complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration	[90]
Joseph Agassi	Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution)	January 23	95		[91]
Dmytro Pavlychko	Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat	January 29	93		[92]
K. V. Tirumalesh	Indian writer and poet	January 30	82		[93]
Linda Pastan	American poet	January 30	90		[94]
Cleonice Berardinelli	Brazilian academic and writer	January 31	106		[95]
Henrik Nordbrandt	Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist, and essayist	January 31	77		[96]
February
René Schérer	French philosopher	February 1	100		[97]
Alain Lacouchie	French poet and illustrator	February 3	76		[98]
Knut Borchardt	German historian	February 5	93		[99]
Renato Del Ponte	Italian essayist	February 5	78		[100]
Josep Maria Espinàs	Spanish writer ("Cant del Barça"), journalist and publisher	February 5	95		[101]
May Sayegh	Palestinian poet and political activist	February 5	82		[102]
Răzvan Theodorescu	Romanian historian and politician	February 6	83		[103]
Nicolò Mineo	Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist	February 6	89		[104]
Richard Kell	Irish poet, composer, and teacher	February 7	95		[105]
Leontii Voitovych	Ukrainian historian	February 7	71		[106]
Subimal Mishra	Indian novelist and short story writer	February 8	79		[107]
Agnès Laroche	French novelist and author	February 11	57		[108]
Lualhati Bautista	Filipino novelist (Dekada '70, 'GAPÔ, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?), screenwriter (Bulaklak sa City Jail) and activist	February 12	77		[109]
Robert Sauzet	French historian	February 12	95		[110]
Suzanne Sens	French author and educator	February 13	92		[111]
Giampiero Neri	Italian poet	February 15	95		[112]
Helen Fogwill Porter	Canadian poet, essayist and activist	February 16	92		[113]
Mario Vitti	Italian philologist	February 6	96		[114]
Richard Belzer	American actor, stand-up comedian, and author	February 19	78	Unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions	[115][116]
Daniel Roche	French historian	February 19	87		[117]
Michael S. Heiser	American biblical scholar and author	February 20	60	Pancreatic cancer	[118]
Philip Ziegler	British historian and biographer	February 22	93		[119]
Irving Wardle	English theatre critic and playwright	February 23	93		[120]
Mihai Șora	Romanian philosopher, essayist and politician	February 25	106		[121]
Günther von Lojewski	German journalist, television presenter, and author	February 26	87		[122]
Amy Schwartz	American author and illustrator of children's books	February 26	68		[123][124]
Juan Muñoz Martín	Spanish children's author (El Barco de Vapor)	February 27	93		[125]
Javad Tabatabai	Iranian philosopher and political scientist	February 28	77		[126]
March
Anise Koltz	Luxembourgish author	March 1	94		[127]
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay	Indian novelist (Pandab Goenda)	March 3	81	Stroke	[128]
Christopher Fowler	British science fiction writer	March 3	69	Cancer	[129]
Kenzaburō Ōe	Japanese writer (1994 Nobel laureate in literature)	March 3	88	Natural causes	[130]
Yuri Zhukov	Russian historian	March 3	85		[131]
Judith Heumann	American disability rights activist and author	March 4	75		[132]
Matti Klinge	Finnish historian	March 5	86		[133]
Sylviane Telchid	Guadeloupean writer and translator	March 5	81	Complications from Alzheimer's disease	[134]
Ian Falconer	American author and illustrator of children's books (Olivia)	March 7	63		[135]
Salvador García-Bodaño	Spanish poet	March 7	87		[136]
Jitendra Nath Mohanty	Indian philosopher	March 7	95		[137]
Dhiruben Patel	Indian novelist, playwright and translator	March 10	96		[138]
John Jakes	American writer (North and South, The Kent Family Chronicles)	March 11	90		[139]
William G. Johnsson	Australian theologian and author	March 11	88		[140]
Michel Peyramaure	French writer	March 11	101		[141]
Isabel Colegate	British author (The Shooting Party) and literary agent	March 12	91		[142]
Karel Kaplan	Czech historian	March 12	94		[143]
Jaume Medina	Spanish philologist, translator and poet	March 12	73		[144]
Dragoslav Mihailović	Serbian academic and playwright	March 12	92		[145]
Momoko Kuroda	Japanese haiku poet and essayist	March 13	84	Brain hemorrhage	[146]
Richard Wagner	Romanian-born German novelist	March 14	70		[147]
Patrick French	British writer and historian (Tibet, Tibet, The World Is What It Is)	March 16	57	Cancer	[148]
Anna Sujatha Mathai	Indian poet	March 16	89		[149]
Jorge Edwards	Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat	March 17	91		[150]
Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie	Iraqi novelist (The Tattoo Mark)	March 20	83		[151]
Eric Brown	British science fiction writer	March 21	62	Sepsis	[152]
Harri Nykänen	Finnish crime writer	March 21	69		[153]
Howard Fergus	Montserratian author and historian	March 23	85		[154]
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim	Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet	March 23	98		[155]
Jean-Marie Apostolidès	Greek-French novelist, essayist, and theater director	March 24	79		[156]
María Kodama	Argentine writer and translator; wife of Jorge Luis Borges	March 26	86	Breast cancer	[157]
D. M. Thomas	British poet, translator and novelist (The Flute-Player, The White Hotel)	March 26	88		[158]
April
Rachel Pollack	American science fiction author, comic book writer, and activist	April 7	77		[159]
Anne Perry	British crime writer (The Cater Street Hangman)	April 10	84		[160]
Harold Kushner	American rabbi, author, and lecturer (When Bad Things Happen to Good People)	April 28	88		[161]
May
Andrew Delaplaine	American novelist and screenwriter (Meeting Spencer)	May 1	73	Stomach cancer	[162]
Gabrielle Carey	Australian novelist (Puberty Blues)	May 2	64		[163]
Henri Coulonges	French novelist and painter	May 4	86		[164]
Rafael Guillén	Spanish poet	May 4	90	Stroke	[165]
Haidar Haidar	Syrian novelist (The Desolate Time, A Feast for the Seaweeds, The Mirrors of Fire)	May 5	87		[166]
Bruce McCall	Canadian author and illustrator	May 5	87	Complications from Parkinson's disease	[167]
Philippe Sollers	French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini	May 5	86		[168]
Ingrid Arvidsson	Swedish poet, author, and diplomat	May 7	103		[169]
Vladimir Dybo	Russian linguist	May 7	92		[170]
Fred Siegel	American historian and conservative writer	May 7	78		[171]
Ronald Steel	American author and biographer (Walter Lippmann)	May 7	92		[172]
Samaresh Majumdar	Indian writer	May 8	79	Complications from COPD	[173]
Heather Armstrong	American blogger and author	May 9	47	Suicide	[174]
Josef Ehmer	Austrian historian	May 9	74		[175]
Wilferd Madelung	German-British author and scholar of Islamic history	May 9	92		[176]
Rosemary Crossley	Australian author	May 10	78		[177]
Ian Hacking	Canadian philosopher (The Taming of Chance, Rewriting the Soul, Mad Travelers)	May 10	87		[178]
Leon Comber	British military officer and author	May 11	101		[179]
Sibylle Lewitscharoff	German writer	May 13	69		[180]
Hassan Hallak	Lebanese historian and academic	May 15	77		[181]
Eugene Kozlovsky	Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director	May 15	76		[182]
Inger Sandberg	Swedish children's author (The Little Ghost Godfrey, Lilla Anna and the Tall Uncle)	May 16	92		[183]
Martin Amis	British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow)	May 19	73	Esophageal cancer	[184]
Pete Brown	English poet, lyricist ("I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room") and singer	May 19	82		[185]
Dževad Karahasan	Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher	May 19	70		[186]
Veno Taufer	Slovenian poet, translator and playwright	May 20	90		[187]
Antón Arrufat	Cuban writer and poet	May 21	87	Bronchopneumonia	[188]
Erick Pohlhammer	Chilean poet	May 22	68	Complications from a stroke	[189]
John Dunning	American novelist	May 23	81		[190]
Lin Wenyue	Taiwanese writer and translator	May 26	89		[191]
Govindray H. Nayak	Indian writer and academic	May 26	89		[192]
Anita Cornwell	American author and activist	May 27	99		[193]
Frédéric Barbier	French historian	May 28	70		[194]
Choi Il-nam	South Korean writer	May 28	90		[195]
Antonio Gala	Spanish poet, playwright and writer	May 28	92		[196]
Asad Gulzoda	Tajik poet and linguist	May 29	88		[197]
Ama Ata Aidoo	Ghanaian author and playwright (The Dilemma of a Ghost, Anowa)	May 31	81		[198]
Vellayani Arjunan	Indian literary scholar	May 31	90		[199]
June
Ronald L. Baker	American folklorist	June 1	85		[200]
Byron Barton	American author and illustrator of children's books	June 3	92		[201]
Khalid Kishtainy	Iraqi writer and satirist	June 3	93		[202]
Mochtar Pabottingi	Indonesian writer	June 4	77	Heart attack	[203]
Cormac McCarthy	American writer (Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road)	June 13	89		[204]
Robert Gottlieb	American author and editor	June 14	92		[205]
Micere Githae Mugo	Kenyan writer, activist and professor	June 20	80	Cancer	[206]
July
Ahn Junghyo	South Korean novelist and translator	July 1	81	Cancer	[207]
Victoria Amelina	Ukrainian novelist	July 1	37	Russian attack	[208]
Valeriano Bozal	Spanish historian and philosopher	July 2	82		[209]
Zé Celso	Brazilian playwright and stage director (Teatro Oficina)	July 6	86	Injuries from a fire	[210]
Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ	Vietnamese poet	July 6	73		[211]
Mary Ann Hoberman	American author and poet	July 7	92		[212]
Ahmed Ilias	Bangladeshi poet	July 7	88		[213]
José Mattoso	Portuguese historian and medievalist	July 8	90		[214]
Adrian Tan	Singaporean novelist (The Teenage Textbook, The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer	July 8	57	Cancer	[215]
Alain Besançon	French historian	July 9	91		[216]
Jean-Jacques Becker	French historian	July 10	95		[217]
Richard G. Hovannisian	American historian	July 10	90		[218]
Marga Minco	Dutch journalist and writer	July 10	103		[219]
Per Odensten	Swedish novelist and poet	July 10	84		[220]
Ahmadreza Ahmadi	Iranian poet and screenwriter	July 11	83		[221]
Milan Kundera	Czech-French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)	July 11	94		[222]
Colin Spencer	English writer and artist	July 13	89		[223]
Bernard Bachrach	American historian	July 14	84		[224]
Harry Frankfurt	American philosopher and author (On Bullshit, On Truth)	July 16	94	congestive heart failure	[225]
Wasef Bakhtari	Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual	July 19	80		[226]
Silvana Lattmann	Italian-Swiss poet and author	July 19	104		[227]
Jaime Galarza Zavala	Ecuadorian writer	July 20	92	lung disease	[228]
Malú Urriola	Chilean poet	July 21	56		[229]
Russell H. Greenan	American author (It Happened in Boston?)	July 22	97		[230]
Howard Adelman	Canadian philosopher and academic	July 23	85		[231]
Seiichi Morimura	Japanese novelist	July 24	90		[232]
Gérard Besson	Trinidadian writer and publisher	July 25	81		[233]
Shirish Kanekar	Indian writer and journalist	July 25	80		[234]
Eduardo Pitta	Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist	July 25	73		[235]
Lâm Quang Mỹ	Vietnamese-Polish poet	July 26	79		[236]
Keith Waldrop	American poet	July 27	90		[237]
Danila Comastri Montanari	Italian historical fiction novelist	July 28	74		[238]
Martin Walser	German writer (Runaway Horse, A Man in Love, Marriage in Philippsburg)	July 28	96		[239]
David Albahari	Serbian writer and translator	July 30	75		[240]
August
Michela Murgia	Italian novelist and journalist	August 10	51	Cancer	[241]
October
Louise Meriwether	American novelist, journalist and activist	October 10	100		[242]
Louise Gluck	American poet (2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature)	October 13	80	Cancer	[243]
November
A. S. Byatt	English novelist (The Virgin in the Garden, Possession, Still Life) and critic	November 16	87		[244]
Eddie Linden	Scottish poet and publisher (Aquarius magazine)	November 19	88		[245]
Tim Dorsey	American novelist	November 26	62		[246]
John Nichols	American novelist	November 27	83		[247]
December
Benjamin Zephaniah	British poet	December 7	65	Brain tumour	[248]

Awards

2023 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award

Award	Category	Author	Title	Ref.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award		Jasmine Sealy	The Island of Forgetting	[249]
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award		Laurie Halse Anderson		[250]
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence	Fiction	Julie Otsuka	The Swimmers	[251]
	Nonfiction	Ed Yong	An Immense World	[251]
Baillie Gifford Prize	2023	John Vaillant	Fire Weather	[44]
	Anniversary	James S. Shapiro	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	[252]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year		Matthew F Jordan	Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn That Changed History	[253]
Danuta Gleed Literary Award		Kim Fu	Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century	[254]
Duff Cooper Prize		Julian Jackson	France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain	[255]
Dylan Thomas Prize		Arinze Ifeakandu	God's Children Are Little Broken Things	[256]
Edgar Awards	Critical/Biographical Work	Martin Edwards	The Life of Crime	[257]
	Fact Crime	Erika Krouse	Tell Me Everything	[257]
	First Novel	Eli Cranor	Don't Know Tough	[257]
	Juvenile	Marthe Jocelyn	Aggie Morton Mystery Queen	[257]
	Novel	Danya Kukafka	Notes on an Execution	[257]
	Paperback Original	Joe Hart	Or Else	[257]
	Short Story	Gregory Fallis	"Red Flag"	[257]
	Young Adult	June Hur	The Red Palace	[257]
	Lilian Jackson Braun Award	Tamara Berry	Buried in a Good Book	[258]
	Robert L. Fish Memorial Award	Mark Harrison	"Dogs in the Canyon"	[258]
	Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award	B. R. Myers	A Dreadful Splendor	[258]
	Sue Grafton Memorial Award	Louisa Luna	Hideout	[258]
	Ellery Queen Award	The Strand Magazine		[258]
	Grand Master Award	Michael Connelly		[258]
		Joanne Fluke		[258]
	Raven Award	Crime Writers of Color		[258]
		Eddie Muller (Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation)		[258]
Ezra Jack Keats Awards	Illustrator	Doug Salati	Hot Dog	[259]
	Writer	Kari Percival	How To Say Hello to a Worm	[259]
Giller Prize		Sarah Bernstein	Study for Obedience	[260]
Governor General's Awards	English Fiction	Anuja Varghese	Chrysalis	[261]
	English Non-Fiction	Kyo Maclear	Unearthing
	English Poetry	Hannah Green	Xanax Cowboy
	English Drama	Cliff Cardinal	As You Like It, A Radical Retelling
	English Children's Literature	Sarah Everett	The Probability of Everything
	English Children's Illustration	Jack Wong	When You Can Swim
	French to English Translation	Peter McCambridge	Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution
	French Fiction	Marie-Hélène Poitras	Galumpf	[262]
	French Non-Fiction	Philippe Bernier Arcand	Faux rebelles : Les dérives du politiquement incorrect
	French Poetry	Rita Mestokosho	Atikᵁ utei. Le cœur du caribou
	French Drama	Mathieu Gosselin	Gros gars
	French Children's literature	Lou Beauchesne	Linoubliable
	French Children's illustration	Samuel Larochelle, Ève Patenaude	Le plus petit sauveur du monde
	English to French translation	Catherine Ego	Dans lʼombre du soleil: Réflexions sur la race et les récits
Griffin Poetry Prize	Best Poetry Book	Roger Reeves	Best Barbarian	[263]
	Best First Poetry Book	Emily Riddle	The Big Melt
International Booker Prize		Georgi Gospodinov with Angela Rodel (translator)	Time Shelter	[264]
International Dublin Literary Award		Katja Oskamp with Jo Heinrich (translator)	Marzahn, Mon Amour	[265]
Lambda Literary Awards	Bisexual Fiction	Gwendolyn Kiste	Reluctant Immortals	[266]
	Bisexual Nonfiction	Maria San Filippo	Appropriate Behavior	[266]
	Bisexual Poetry	Nicky Beer	Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes	[267]
	Comics	Sas Milledge	Mamo	[267]
	Gay Fiction	Danny Ramadan	The Foghorn Echoes	[266]
	Gay Memoir/Biography	Edgar Gomez	High-Risk Homosexual	[266]
	Gay Poetry	Padraig Regan	Some Integrity	[267]
	Gay Romance	Kosoko Jackson	I'm So Not Over You	[267]
	Lesbian Fiction	K-Ming Chang	Gods of Want	[266]
	Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Kathryn Schulz	Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness	[266]
	Lesbian Poetry	Shelley Wong	As She Appears	[267]
	Lesbian Romance	Nan Campbell	The Rules of Forever	[267]
	LGBTQ Anthology	Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross	OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture	[267]
	LGBTQ Children's	Wallace West	Mighty Red Riding Hood	[266]
	LGBTQ Drama	Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)	Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方	[267]
	LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica	Alison Cochrun	Kiss Her Once For Me	[267]
	LGBTQ Middle Grade	Maulik Pancholy	Nikhil Out Loud	[266]
	LGBTQ Mystery	Hayley Scrivenor	Dirt Creek: A Novel	[267]
	LGBTQ Nonfiction	Hafizah Augustus Geter	The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin	[266]
	LGBTQ Speculative Fiction	Lianyu Tan	The Wicked and the Willing: An F/F Gothic Horror Vampire Novel	[267]
	LGBTQ Studies	Darieck Scott	Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics	[267]
	LGBTQ Young Adult	Sonora Reyes	The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School	[266]
	Transgender Fiction	Cat Fitzpatrick	The Call-Out	[266]
	Transgender Nonfiction	Emma Grove	The Third Person	[266]
	Transgender Poetry	Kamden Ishmael Hilliard	MissSettl	[267]
Miles Franklin Award		Shankari Chandran	Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens	[268]
Nobel Prize in Literature		Jon Fosse	—	[269]
Orwell Prize	Political Fiction	Tom Crewe	The New Life	[270]
	Political Writing	Peter Apps	Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen	[270]
PEN Literary Awards	Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award	Oscar Hokeah	Calling for a Blanket Dance	[271]
	PEN/Open Book	Hafizah Augustus Geter	The Black Period	[271]
	PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay	Judith Thurman	A Left-Handed Woman	[272]
	PEN/Malamud Award	Edwidge Danticat		[273]
	Poetry in Translation	Daniel Borzutzky	The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez	[272]
	PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize	Morgan Talty	Night of the Living Rez	[271]
Pulitzer Prize	Biography	Beverly Gage	G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century	[274]
	Fiction	Hernan Diaz	Trust	[274]
		Barbara Kingsolver	Demon Copperhead	[274]
	General Nonfiction	Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa	His Name Is George Floyd	[274]
	History	Jefferson Cowie	Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power	[274]
	Memoir or Autobiography	Hua Hsu	Stay True	[274]
	Poetry	Carl Phillips	Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007–2020	[274]
Royal Society Science Books Prize		Ed Yong	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us	[275]
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards	Overall	Jessica Au	Cold Enough for Snow	[276]
	Drama	John Harvey	The Return	[276]
	Fiction	Jessica Au	Cold Enough for Snow	[276]
	Indigenous Writing	Lystra Rose	The Upwelling	[276]
	Nonfiction	Eda Gunaydin	Root & Branch	[276]
	People's Choice	Karlie Noon and Krystal De Napoli	Astronomy: Sky Country	[276]
	Poetry	Gavin Yuan Gao	At the Altar of Touch	[276]
	Unpublished Manuscript	Mick Cummins	One Divine Night	[276]
	Young Adult	Kate Murray	We Who Hunt the Hollow	[276]
Walter Scott Prize		Lucy Caldwell	These Days	[277]
Writers' Trust of Canada	Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize	Kai Thomas	In the Upper Country	[278]
	Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction	Christina Sharpe	Ordinary Notes
	Dayne Ogilvie Prize	Anuja Varghese	Chrysalis
	Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize	Laisha Rosnau
	Matt Cohen Award	Helen Humphreys
	Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People	Kyo Maclear
	Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award	Anosh Irani
	RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers	Zak Jones	"So Much More to Say"	[279]
		Cooper Skjeie	"Scattered Oblations"

Notable new movies and TV series based on books

Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions that premiered / were broadcast during 2023:

Title	The book on which the movie/TV series is based	Type	Genre	Premiere date	Distribution company / original broadcasting network
One True Loves	"One True Loves" by Taylor Jenkins Reid	Movie	Melodrama, romantic film	April 7, 2023	The Avenue
Beautiful Disaster	"Beautiful Disaster" by Jamie McGuire	Movie	Romantic drama	April 13, 2023	Voltage films
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story	Bridgerton series of books by Julia Quinn	TV series	Period drama, romantic drama	May 4, 2023	Netflix
The Zone of Interest	"The Zone of Interest" by Martin Amis	Movie	Historical drama	May 19, 2023	A24
Firebrand	"Queen's Gambit" by Elizabeth Fremantle	Movie	Historical drama	May 21, 2023	Prime Video
All of Us Strangers	"Strangers" by Taichi Yamada	Movie	Fantasy-romantic drama film	August 31, 2023	Searchlight Pictures
Love at First Sight	"The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight" by Jennifer E. Smith	Movie	Romantic comedy	September 15, 2023	Netflix
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" by Suzanne Collins	Movie	Action, Drama, Adventure	November 5, 2023	Lionsgate
Leave the World Behind	"Leave the World Behind" by Rumaan Alam	Movie	Psychological thriller	December 8, 2023	Netflix
Poor Things	"Poor Things" by Alasdair Gray	Movie	Fantasy, science fiction	December 8, 2023	Searchlight Pictures, Disney+
A Haunting in Venice	"Hallowe'en Party" by Agatha Christie	Movie	Detective film	December 11, 2023	20th Century Studios

See also