Literature year 2007

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

22-25 March Leipzig Book Fair
10-14 October Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country Catalonia

Birthdays and memorial days

February 3: 100th birthday of James A. Michener , American writer († 1997)
February 18: 200th birthday of Sophie von La Roche , German writer († 1730)
February 21: 100th birthday of WH Auden , British writer († 1973)
February 27: 400th birthday of Christian Keimann , German poet († 1662)
April 22: 300th birthday of Henry Fielding , British writer († 1754)
September 18: 100th anniversary of the death of Ernest Blum , French writer (* 1836)
November 1: 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Jarry , French writer (* 1873)
November 1: 400th birthday of Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , German poet († 1658)
November 14: 100th birthday of Astrid Lindgren , Swedish writer († 2002)

New releases

Fiction

Amok game - Sebastian Fitzek
On the beach - Ian McEwan
Aurora (Alastair Reynolds) - Alastair Reynolds
Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
Beast (novel) - Ally Kennen
Encounter in Samarra - John O'Hara
Prey Time - Jack Ketchum
This side of the Van Allen Belt - Wolfgang Herrndorf

The thirteenth month - David Mitchell

Points of Honor - Louis Begley

The Erlkönig maneuver - Robert Löhr

Falling Man - Don DeLillo

Escape to Mars - Herbert W. Franke

The Secret of the Spirits of Craggyford - Eva Ibbotson

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Joanne K. Rowling

The House - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Way home (novel) - Harald Martenstein

Horus (novel) - Wolfgang Hohlbein

The dogs and the wolves - Irène Némirovsky

In the father's garden - Jan Siebelink

The Jakubiyān building - Ala al-Aswani

The boy in the striped pajamas - John Boyne

The Catalan - Noah Gordon

Noah's child - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

The gap - Doris Lessing

The State of the Country - Richard Ford

The client - Michael Connelly

The March (novel) - EL Doctorow

Metro 2033 (novel) - Dmitri Gluchowski

Millionaire (novel) - Tommy Jaud

The midday woman - Julia Franck

Mediocre homesickness - Wilhelm Genazino

The name of the world - Denis Johnson

The Revelation - Robert Schneider

The Assassin's Paradise - Peter Berling

Pacific exile - Michael Lentz

Agony (novel) - Stephen King

Robber hands - Finn-Ole Heinrich

Rome intensive - Feridun Zaimoglu

Fairground (novel) - Werner Bräunig

The terrifying master - Walter Moers

Slam (novel) - Nick Hornby

The Game of Kings - Rebecca Gablé

A family tree - Patrick Modiano

The Road (novel) - Cormac McCarthy

The Murderer's Hour - Stuart MacBride

The system - Karl Olsberg

Touchdown - John Grisham

Gun weather - Dietmar Dath

Dialogues with God - ancestors

Non-fiction

CIA: The full story - Tim Weiner
Born 1926/27 - Memories of the years under the swastika (anthology)
Jazz in New York in the Roaring Twenties - Hans-Jürgen Schaal (text) and Robert Nippoldt (illustrations)
Die Linke - "Texts" series of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , Vol. 40
Otto normal off-type. The rise of the minorities - Jürgen Kaube
Character assassination and media victims - Ed .: Christian Schertz and Thomas Schuler
Death will find you - Lawrence Wright

drama

Purgatory - Sofi Oksanen

Biographical reference work

Nuremberg Artist Lexicon - Manfred H. Grieb (Editor)

Died

0January 9 - Klaus Poche , German writer, screenwriter and illustrator (* 1927)
January 11 - Robert Anton Wilson , American bestselling author (* 1932)
January 27 - Charles L. Fontenay , American science fiction writer and artist (born 1917)
January 27 - Iva Hercíková , Czech writer and dramaturge (* 1935)
January 30 - Sidney Sheldon , American novelist and screenwriter (born 1917)
0February 6 - Lee Hoffman , American writer of science fiction and western novels (born 1932)
February 11 - Marianne Fredriksson , Swedish writer and journalist (* 1927)
February 17 - Jurga Ivanauskaitė , Lithuanian writer (* 1961)
February 17 - Jakov Lind , Austro-British writer, radio play author, film director and painter (* 1927)
February 22nd - Lothar-Günther Buchheim , German writer, painter, art collector and museum founder (* 1918)
February 25 - Jytte Borberg , Danish writer (* 1917)
April 11 - Kurt Vonnegut , American writer (born 1922)
0June 8 - Bogomil Rainow , Bulgarian writer (* 1919)
August 27 - Alberto de Lacerda , Portuguese poet (* 1928)
October 15 - Édouard Levé , French writer and photographer (* 1965)

Literary prizes

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Magdalena Sadlon ; Que Du Luu and Luo Lingyuan (sponsorship award)
Berlin Literature Prize : Ilija Trojanow
Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau : Björn Kern
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Udo Lindenberg
Clemens Brentano Prize : Clemens Meyer , When we were dreaming
German Book Prize : Julia Franck , Die Mittagsfrau
German Science Fiction Prize : Ulrike Nolte : The five souls of the ancestors
Ernst Toller Prize : Günter Grass
Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Nora Iuga
Georg Büchner Prize : Martin Mosebach
Heinrich Mann Prize : Karl Heinz Bohrer
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry : Nikola Madzirov , Halina Petrosanjak and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
Jakob Wassermann Prize : Robert Schindel
Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize : Andreas Reimann , ... and red wine rustles my soul south
Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Stefan Weidner
Joseph Breitbach Prize : FC Delius
Leonce and Lena Prize : Christian Schloyer
Kassel Literature Prize : FW Bernstein ; Philipp Tingler (sponsorship award)
Kleist Prize : Wilhelm Genazino
Mainz town clerk : Ilija Trojanow
Mara Cassens Prize : Larissa Boehning
Peter Huchel Prize : Oswald Egger , day and night are two years
Leipzig Book Fair Prize :
- Ingo Schulze (fiction)
- Saul Friedländer (non-fiction / essay writing)
- Swetlana Geier (translation)
Prize of the literary houses : Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Prize of the SWR best list : Hans Joachim Schädlich

International literary prizes

Hugo Award

Vernor Vinge , Rainbows End , Category: Best Novel
Robert Reed , A Billion Eves , Category: Best Short Novel
Ian McDonald , The Djinn's Wife , Category: Best Narration
Tim Pratt , Impossible Dreams , Category: Best Short Story

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Herbert W. Franke , On the track of the angel , Category: Best novel
Marcus Hammerschmitt , Canea Null , Category: Best short story / short story
Robert Charles Wilson , Spin , Spin , Category: Best Foreign Work
Volker Oldenburg , Category: Best Translator
Christian Pree for his bibliography of German science fiction stories and books, which is available for non-commercial use on the Internet, special price

Locus Award

Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End , Category: Best SF Novel
Ellen Kushner , The Privilege of the Sword , The Servant of the Sword , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
Terry Pratchett , Wintersmith , The Winter Blacksmith , Category: Best Children's Book
Naomi Novik , Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon / Throne of Jade / Black Powder , Drachenbrut / Drachenprinz / Drachenzorn , Category: Best first novel
Charles Stross , Missile Gap , Category: Best Short Novel
Cory Doctorow , When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth , Category: Best Narration
Neil Gaiman , How to Talk to Girls at Parties , Category: Best Short Story
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things , Category: Best Collection
Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology

Nebula Award

Michael Chabon , The Yiddish Policemen's Union , The Association of Yiddish Policemen , Category: Best Novel
Nancy Kress , Fountain of Age , Category: Best Short Novel
Ted Chiang , The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate , The Merchant at the Alchemist's Portal , Category: Best Story

Karen Joy Fowler , Always , Category: Best Short Story

Guillermo del Toro , Pan's Labyrinth , Pan's Labyrinth , Category: Best Screenplay

Philip K. Dick Award

M. John Harrison , Nova Swing , Nova

Antonio Feltrinelli Prize : Luigi Meneghello
Cervantes Prize : Juan Gelman
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Nathan Sellyn , Indigenous Beasts
David Cohen Prize : Derek Mahon
Erich Fried Prize : Peter Waterhouse
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Carol Windley , Home Schooling
Finlandia Prize : Hannu Väisänen , Toiset kengät
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Lutz Seiler
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Patrick Lane
Man Booker International Prize : Chinua Achebe
Man Booker Prize for Fiction : Anne Enright for The Gathering
Newbery Medal : Susan Patron , The Higher Power of Lucky
Nobel Prize for Literature : Doris Lessing
Austrian State Prize for European Literature : AL Kennedy
Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature: Amos Oz
Prix Femina Étranger : Edward St Aubyn , Le goût de la mère
Prix Goncourt : Gilles Leroy , Alabama Song
Pulitzer Prize :
- Novel: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Nonfiction book: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Rauris Literature Prize : Steffen Popp , Ohrberg or the way there , Robert Kleindienst (sponsorship prize)
Riverton Prize : Jørgen Gunnerud , Høstjakt
Scotiabank Giller Prize : Elizabeth Hay , Late Nights on Air
Trillium Book Award : Barbara Gowdy , Helpless