Literature year 2000

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Literary prizes

• Nobel Prize in Literature , Gao Xingjian

• Nebula Award

• 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

• Hugo Award

• 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

• Locus Award

• 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

• Kurd Laßwitz Prize

• 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

• Philip K. Dick Award

• 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

1. ^ National Book Foundation: National Book Awards - 2000. Retrieved October 16, 2011.