Literature year 2000
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Literary prizes
- Greg Bear , Darwin's Radio , The Darwin Virus , Category: Best Novel
- Linda Nagata , Goddesses , Category: Best Short Novel
- Walter Jon Williams , Daddy's World , Category: Best Narration
- Terry Bisson , macs , Category: Best Short Story
- David Howard & Robert Gordon , Galaxy Quest , Galaxy Quest - Planlos through space , Category: Best Screenplay
- Vernor Vinge , A Deepness in the Sky , a depth in the sky , Category: Best Novel
- Connie Willis , The Winds of Marble Arch , The Wind of Marble Arch , Category: Best Short Novel
- James Patrick Kelly , 10 16 to 1 , 10 16 to 1 , Category: Best Narration
- Michael Swanwick , Scherzo with Tyrannosaur , Category: Best Short Story
- Neal Stephenson , Cryptonomicon , Cryptonomicon , Category: Best SF Novel
- Joanne K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Paul Levinson , The Silk Code , Category: Best First Novel
- Dan Simmons , Orphans of the Helix , The Lost Children of the Helix , Category: Best Short Novel
- Stephen Baxter , Huddle , Category: Best Narration
- Greg Egan , Border Guards , Category: Best Narration
- Terry Bisson, macs , Category: Best Short Story
- Kim Stanley Robinson , The Martians , Category: Best Collection
- Robert Silverberg , Far Horizons , Category: Best Anthology
- Andreas Eschbach , Kelwitts Stern , Category: Best Novel
- Wolfgang Jeschke , Die Cusanische Acceleratio , Category: Best short story / short story
- Greg Egan, Qual, Category: Best Foreign Work
- Bernhard Kempen , Category: Best Translator
- Michael Marshall Smith , Only Forward , Stark, the dream detective
Booker Prize | Margaret Atwood : The Blind Assassin. |
Georg Büchner Prize | Volker Braun |
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize | Michael Turner : The Pornographer's Poem |
Danuta Gleed Literary Award | Mike Barnes : Aquarium |
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade | Assia Djebar |
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize | Georg Klein |
Journey Prize | Timothy Taylor : Doves of Townsend |
Prix Goncourt | Jean-Jacques Schuhl : Ingrid Caven. |
National Book Award |
Susan Sontag : In America. (Fiction) Nathaniel Philbrick : In the Heart of the Sea: The Whaler's Last Voyage Essex. (Nonfiction) Lucille Clifton : Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000. (Poetry) Gloria Whelan : stitch by stitch. (Young People's Literature) |
Toronto Book Awards | Camilla Gibb , Mouthing the Words |
New releases
- 69 - Ryu Murakami
- Farewell - Lothar-Günther Buchheim
- Farewell in Casablanca - Peter Zeindler
- Aline and the invention of love - Eveline Hasler
- When we were orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Awful End - Philip Ardagh
- The blind killer - Margaret Atwood
- The chronicler of the winds - Henning Mankell
- Three times life - Yasmina Reza
- English passengers - Matthew Kneale
- Ensel and Krete - Walter Moers
- Ghosts (novel) - John Banville
- God rides a bicycle - Maarten 't Hart
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Joanne K. Rowling
- The House - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- Henry the Hero - Roddy Doyle
- Nothing rages inside the earth - Jürg Federspiel
- Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson
- Jans must die - Anna Seghers
- The heretic - Peter Berling
- The long way to the west - Heinrich August Winkler
- Silent (novel) - Frank Schätzing
- Love marks, scarlet red - Feridun Zaimoglu
- Learn to lie - Frank Goosen
- With amazement and trembling - Amélie Nothomb
- Nothing (novel) - Janne Teller
- Ravelstein - Saul Bellow
- The red antelope - Henning Mankell
- Russian disco - Vladimir Kaminer
- Shame (novel) - JM Coetzee
- Black Angels - Michael Connelly
- The Eagle's Trail - Tony Hillerman
- Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
- The Stars' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
- The untouched - Robert Schneider
- The Vampyr (Hohlbein) - Wolfgang Hohlbein
- The father's game - Josef Haslinger
- The Road to Vinland - Margaret Elphinstone
- The second memory - Ken Follett
- The second kingdom - Rebecca Gablé
Died
- January 2 : Patrick O'Brian , British writer (* 1914 )
- February 4 : Henry Jaeger , German writer (* 1927 )
- February 8 : Angelika Mechtel , German writer (* 1943 )
- February 23 : Albrecht Goes , German writer and Protestant theologian (* 1908 )
- February 25 : Auguste Lechner , Austrian writer (* 1905 )
- April 11 : André Deutsch , British publisher (* 1917 )
- April 13 : Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer and publicist (* 1916 )
- May 14 : Karl Shapiro , American poet (* 1913 )
- May 16 : Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer (* 1924 )
- June 9 : Ernst Jandl , Austrian poet and writer (* 1925 )
- June 20 : Karl Mickel , German poet, playwright and essayist (* 1935 )
- July 2 : Margarete Kubelka , German writer (* 1923 )
- July 7 : Ruth Werner , German writer (* 1907 )
- August 18 : Helmut Weiß , German writer (* 1913 )
- September 22 : Jehuda Amichai , German-Israeli poet (* 1924 )
- October 14 : Rudolf Schenda , folklorist and narrative researcher (* 1930 )
- November 5 : Roger Peyrefitte , French writer and diplomat (* 1907 )
- November 6 : Lyon Sprague de Camp , American writer and editor (* 1907 )
- November 26th : Ralph Bates , British writer (* 1899 )
- November 27 : Malcolm Bradbury , British writer and literary scholar (* 1932 )
- November 27 : Eugen Helmlé , German writer and literary translator (* 1927 )
- December 4 : Hans Carl Artmann , Austrian poet (* 1921 )
- December 8 : Rolf Heyne , German publisher (* 1928 )
- December 30th : Louis-René des Forêts , French writer (* 1918 )
Individual evidence
- ^ National Book Foundation: National Book Awards - 2000. Retrieved October 16, 2011.