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Events
Books
Literature
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Children's and Young Adult fiction
Science Fiction and Fantasy
New drama
Poetry
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Non-fiction
Awards and honors
Deaths
January
- January 2 - George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British author (Flashman)
- January 3 - Henri Chopin, 85, French poet
- January 11 - Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer
- January 13 - Patricia Verdugo, 60, Chilean journalist and writer
- January 16 - Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand poet
- January 17 - Edward D. Hoch, 77, American pulp writer
- January 26 - John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and writer
- January 26 - Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor
- January 29 - Margaret Truman, 83, American writer
- January 30 - Miles Kington, 66, British journalist and writer
February
- February 4 - Rose Hacker, 101, British writer and journalist
- February 7 - Richard Altick, 92, American literary scholar
- February 8 - Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery writer
- February 10 - Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck)
- February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French novelist
- February 21 - Archie Hind, 80, British novelist
- February 21 - Robin Moore, 82, American writer
- February 22 - Stephen Marlowe, 79, American sci-fi and crime writer
- February 28 - Suzanne Goodwin, 91, British novelist
- February 28 - Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist
- c. February 28 - Val Plumwood, 68, Australian philosopher
March
- March 3 - Maria Gabriela Llansol, 76, Portuguese writer
- March 16 - Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet
- March 19 - Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science-fiction writer and futurist
- March 19 - Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian writer
- March 23 - E. A. Markham, 68, Montserratian poet
April
- April 1 - Arturo Vivante, 84, Italian novelist
- April 3 - Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet and editor
- April 7 - Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese writer and journalist
- April 13 - Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet
- April 17 - Aimé Césaire, 94, French-Martinican poet
- April 17 - Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian writer and editor
- April 18 - Michael de Larrabeiti, 63, British novelist
- April 18 - William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer
May
- May 1 - Elaine Dundy, 86, American novelist
- May 9 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish Journalist, novelist and critic
- May 11 - Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist
- May 12 - Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist
- May 14 - Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese novelist
- May 19 - Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright
- May 23 - Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and novelist
- May 28 - Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer
June
- June 2 - Ferenc Fejtő, 98, French-Hungarian historian and journalist
- June 4 - Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American biographer and editor
- June 5 - Angus Calder, 65, British writer and editor
- June 8 - Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German poet
- June 9 - Algis Budrys, 77, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer and editor
- June 10 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyz writer
- June 10 - Eliot Asinof, 88, American sportswriter
- June 16 - Mario Rigoni Stern, 86, Italian novelist
- June 18 - Tasha Tudor, 92, American children's writer and illustrator
- June 22 - Albert Cossery, 94, French-Egyptian novelist
- June 24 - Ruth Cardoso, 77, Brazilian anthropologist and writer
- June 25 - Lyall Watson, 69, South African new age writer
- June 27 - Lenka Reinerová, 92, Czech writer
July
- July 1 - Clay Felker, 82, American magazine editor and journalist, founder of New York
- July 1 - Robert Harling, 98, British typographer, editor and novelist
- July 2 - Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish cookery writer
- July 4 - Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author and poet, suicide.
- July 4 - Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch novelist
- July 27 - Bob Crampsey, 78, British writer
- July 30 - Peter Coke, 95, British playwright
August
- August 3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
- August 7 - Simon Gray, 71, British playwright
- August 9 - Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet
- August 11 - George Furth, 75, American playwright
- August 17 - Dave Freeman, 47, American travel writer
- August 23 - John Russell, 89, British-American art critic
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