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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2024.
Anniversaries
- 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).[1]
- 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.[2]
- 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
- 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
- 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
- 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
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Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
Children and young adults
Poetry
Drama
Nonfiction
Biography and memoirs
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Deaths
- January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85[22]
- January 24 – N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.[23]
- March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98[24]
- April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93[25]
- April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
- April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94[26]
- April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71[27]
- April 27 – Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61[28]
- April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86[29]
- April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77[30]
- May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84[31]
- May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
- July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88[32]
- July 28 – Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93[33]
- September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76[34]
- November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91[35]
- December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86[36]
- December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92[37]
- December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91[38]
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Notable new movies and TV series based on books
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Below are some of the most prominent film and television productions that premiered / were broadcast during 2024:
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