This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2010.

Events[edit]

Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010

• February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.^[1]
  


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  April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released.^[2]
  


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  April 12 – The little-known author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press.^[2]
  


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  June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book.^[3]
  


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  July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation. As of May 2010, a total of 27 million copies have been sold worldwide.^[4][5] On July 27 Amazon says Larsson is first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.^[2]
  


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  August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared here since 2000 with Stephen King.^[2]
  


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  October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".


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  October 12 – Howard Jacobson wins the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question
  


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  November 9 – Johanna Skibsrud wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel The Sentimentalists.^[6]
  


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  November 16 – The 2010 Governor General's Awards are announced. Winners include Dianne Warren for English fiction, Kim Thúy for French fiction, Richard Greene for poetry and Robert Chafe for drama.^[7]
  


• November – Mark Twain's Autobiography is published (officially) 100 years after the author's death, the delay instructed by Twain himself. Unofficial copies had been published several times during the 20th century.


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  Book censorship in the Republic of Ireland by the state ceases as all prior bans expire.

New books[edit]

Fiction[edit]

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  Martin Amis – The Pregnant Widow (February 4)


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  Paul Auster – Sunset Park (November 9)


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  Paolo Bacigalupi – Ship Breaker (May 1)


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  Brunonia Barry – The Map of True Places
  


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  Robert Jackson Bennett – Mr. Shivers
  


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  Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier in America (April 20)


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  Eddie Chuculate – Cheyenne Madonna (June 20)


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  Robert Coover – Noir (March 4)


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  Michael Cunningham – By Nightfall (September 28)


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  Don DeLillo – Point Omega (February 2)


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  Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad (June 15)


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  Bret Easton Ellis – Imperial Bedrooms (June 15)


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  Joshua Ferris – The Unnamed (January 18)


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  Aminatta Forna – The Memory of Love
  


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  Jonathan Franzen – Freedom (August 31)


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  Matthew Gallaway – The Metropolis Case (November 8)


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  Seth Grahame-Smith – Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
  


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  Sara Gruen – Ape House (September 7)


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  Michel Houellebecq – The Map and the Territory (La Carte et le territoire, September 4)


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  Rabee Jaber – دروز بلغراد (Duruz Bilghrad: Hikayat Hanna Yaqub, The Druze of Belgrade: the history of Hanna Yaqub)


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  Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question (October 12)


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  Anjali Joseph – Saraswati Park (July 8)


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  Stacey Kade – The Ghost and The Goth (July 6)


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  Stephen King
  
  
  
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    Blockade Billy (April 20)
  
  
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    Full Dark, No Stars (November 9)
  
  
  
  


• Sca-Ji – Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi)
  


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  Nicole Krauss – Great House (October 12)


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  Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (May 10)


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  John Le Carre – Our Kind of Traitor (October 12)


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  Dennis Lehane – Moonlight Mile (November 2)


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  Tao Lin – Richard Yates (September 7)


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  Ian McEwan – Solar (March 30)


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  Jon McGregor – Even the Dogs^[8]
  


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  Yann Martel – Beatrice and Virgil (April 6)


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  Maaza Mengiste – Beneath the Lion's Gaze (January)


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  David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (June 29)


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  Martin Mosebach – What Was Before
  


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  Ben Myers – Richard: A Novel (October 1)


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  Chuck Palahniuk – Tell All (May 4)


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  Philip Pullman – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (May 20)


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  Lincoln Peirce – Big Nate: In a Class by Himself (March 23)


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  Philip Roth – Nemesis (October 5)


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  Amy Sackville – The Still Point (February 4)


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  Ashwin Sanghi – Chanakya's Chant
  


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  David Sedaris – Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (September 28)


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  Sarah Selecky – This Cake Is for the Party
  


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  Lola Shoneyin – The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (May)


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  Gary Shteyngart – Super Sad True Love Story (July 27)


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  Kim Thúy – Ru
  


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  Valerie Toranian – Pour en Finir avec la Femme (To Do Away with the Woman)


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  Mario Vargas Llosa – The Dream of the Celt (November 3)

Children and young people[edit]

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  David Almond
  
  
  
  • The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon
  
  
  • My Name is Mina
  
  
  • Slog's Dad
  
  
  
  


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  Swati Avasthi – Split
  


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  Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay (August 24)


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  Diane Duane – A Wizard of Mars (April 12)


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  John Flanagan – The Emperor of Nihon-Ja (November 2010)


• Stephen Krensky – Mother's Day Surprise
  


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  Matthew J. Kirby – The Clockwork Three (October 1)


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  Laura Leiner
  
  
  
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    Szent Johanna gimi 1 – Kezdet (Start, first in the St. Joan High School series of seven books)
  
  
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    Szent Johanna gimi 2 – Együtt (Together)
  
  
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    Szent Johanna gimi 3 – Egyedül (Alone)
  
  
  
  


• Pat Miller – Squirrel's New Year's Resolution
  


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  Robert Muchamore – Brigands M. C. (May 6)


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  Jim Murphy – THE CROSSING: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution
  


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  Garth Nix – Lord Sunday (February)


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  James Patterson – Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel (March 15)


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  Jerry Pinkney (adaption) – Three Little Kittens
  


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  Philip Reeve – A Web of Air (April 5)


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  Rick Riordan
  
  
  
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    The Lost Hero (October 12)
  
  
  • The Red Pyramid
  
  
  
  


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  Salman Rushdie – Luka and the Fire of Life (November 16)


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  Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest (October 12)


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  Kiersten White – Paranormalcy (August 31)


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  N.D. Wilson – The Chestnut King
  

Drama[edit]

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  Peter Handke – Storm Still
  


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  Sabrina Mahfouz – That Boy
  


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  Shahid Nadeem – Dara
  


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  Bruce Norris – Clybourne Park
  


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  Nina Raine – Tribes
  


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  Anya Reiss – Spur of the Moment
  


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  Alexis Stamatis – Dakrygona (Tear Gas)


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  Zlatko Topčić – I Don't Like Mondays
  


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  Laura Wade – Posh
  


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  David Williamson – Let the Sunshine
  

Poetry[edit]

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  Stephen Sondheim – Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981) (October 26)

See also 2010 in poetry.

Science fiction and fantasy[edit]

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  Jim Butcher – Changes (April 6)


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  Amish Tripathi – The Immortals of Meluha (February)
  

Non-fiction[edit]

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  Linda Vero Ban – What Does It Mean To Be Jewish?
  


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  Bill Bryson – At Home: A Short History of Private Life (May 27)


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  George W. Bush – Decision Points (November 9)


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  Hans Fredrik Dahl (ed.) – Norsk presses historie 1660–2010
  


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  Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (October 5)


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  Laura Hillenbrand – Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (November 16)


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  Joel Kotkin – The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050
  


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  David Lipsky – Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (April 13)


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  Nursultan Nazarbayev – The Way of Kazakhstan (May 18)


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  Sergio Rubin – El jesuita
  


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  Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman – Not Without Hope (March 2)


• Niki Segnit – The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
  


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  Jane Smiley – The Man Who Invented The Computer (December)


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  Jon Stewart – Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (September 21)


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  Darin Strauss – Half a Life (September 21)


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  Edmund de Waal – The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance
  


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  John Leigh Walters – A Very Capable Life^[9]
  


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  Alejandro Zambra – No Leer (Not to Read)

Deaths[edit]

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  January 1
  
  
  
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    Bingo Gazingo, American performance poet (born 1924)
  
  
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    Billy Arjan Singh, Indian author (born 1917)
  
  
  
  


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  January 2 – Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, Indian poet (born 1913)


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  January 3 – Isak Rogde, Norwegian translator (born 1947)


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  January 4
  
  
  
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    Knox Burger, American editor, writer and agent (born 1922)
  
  
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    Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian and writer (born 1934)
  
  
  
  


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  January 5 – Bernard Le Nail, French writer and historian (born 1946)


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  January 6 – George Leonard, American writer and editor (born 1923)


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  January 8 – Slavka Maneva, Macedonian writer and poet (born 1934)


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  January 9 – Laura Chapman Hruska, American writer and editor (born 1935)


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  January 11 – Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch biographer (born 1909)


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  January 14 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (born 1916)


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  January 16 – Takumi Shibano (柴野拓美), Japanese novelist (born 1926)


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  January 17 – Erich Segal, American author and academic (born 1937)


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  January 18 – Robert B. Parker, American detective writer (born 1932)


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  January 19 – Vladimir Karpov, Soviet Russian writer (born 1922)
  
  

  
  

  Robert B. Parker

  
  
  
  


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  January 20 – Abraham Sutzkever, Polish-born Israeli poet (born 1913)


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  January 21 – Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953)


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  January 26 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist (born 1917)


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  January 27
  
  
  
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    J. D. Salinger, American novelist (born 1919)
  
  
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    Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922)
  
  
  
  


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  January 31
  
  
  
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    Kage Baker, American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1952)
  
  
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    Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine writer (born 1934)
  
  
  
  


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  February 2
  
  
  
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    Rosa Lobato de Faria, Portuguese writer (born 1932)
  
  
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    Eustace Mullins, American writer, author and biographer (born 1923)
  
  
  
  


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  February 5 – Peter Calvocoressi, Pakistani-born English historian and publisher (born 1912)


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  February 6 – Robert Dana, American poet (born 1929)


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  February 7 – William Tenn (Philip Klass), American science fiction writer (born 1920)
  
  

  
  

  Robert Dana

  
  
  
  


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  February 8 – Wahei Tatematsu (立松和平), Japanese novelist (born 1947)


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  February 10 – H. V. F. Winstone, English biographer and journalist (born 1926)


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  February 11 – Colin Ward, English anarchist writer (born 1924)


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  February 13 – Lucille Clifton, American poet (born 1936)


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  February 14 – Dick Francis, Welsh novelist (born 1920)


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  February 16 – Jim Harmon, American science fiction writer (born 1933)


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  February 17 – Arnold Beichman, American writer (born 1913)


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  February 23 – Mervyn Jones, English novelist and biographer (born 1922)


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  February 27 – Carlos Montemayor, Mexican writer (born 1947)


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  March 1 – Barry Hannah, American novelist and short story writer (born 1942)


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  March 3 – Momo Kapor, Serbian writer (born 1937)


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  March 9 – Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, São Tome poet (born 1926)


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  March 10 – Truddi Chase, American autobiographical author (born c. 1935)


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  March 11 – Matilde Elena López, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright (born 1919)


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  March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (born 1920)


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  March 14 – Vinda Karandikar, Indian poet and writer in Marathi (born 1918)


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  March 15
  
  
  
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    Joseph Galdon, Filipino writer (born 1928)
  
  
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    Patricia Wrightson, Australian children's writer (born 1921)
  
  
  
  


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  March 16 – Jane Sherman, American writer (born 1908)


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  March 17 – Sid Fleischman, American children's writer (born 1920)


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  March 18 – Amanda Castro, Honduran poet (born 1962)


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  March 20 – Ai Ogawa, American poet (born 1947)


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  March 21 – Susana, Lady Walton, Argentine writer (born 1926)


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  March 24 – William Mayne, English children's novelist (born 1928)


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  March 28 – Zofia Romanowiczowa, Polish writer and translator (born 1922)


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  April 2 – Carolyn Rodgers, American poet (born 1940)


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  April 9
  
  
  
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    Hisashi Inoue (井上 ひさし), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1934)
  
  
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    Kerstin Thorvall, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist (born 1925)
  
  
  
  


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  April 14 – Erika Burkart, Swiss German-language author (born 1922)


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  April 16 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and activist (born 1921)


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  April 20 – Myles Wilder, American television comedy writer (born 1933)


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  April 23 – Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet (born 1929)


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  April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist (born 1928)


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  April 28
  
  
  
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    Evelyn Cunningham, American journalist (born 1916)
  
  
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    Stefania Grodzieńska, Polish writer and actress (born 1914)
  
  
  
  


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  May 1 – T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (born 1918)^[10]
  


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  May 3
  
  
  
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    Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, Moroccan philosopher and writer (born 1935)
  
  
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    Peter O'Donnell, English novelist (born 1920)
  
  
  
  


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  May 6 – Hoàng Cầm, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1922)


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  May 7
  
  
  
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    Rane Arroyo, American poet (cerebral hemorrhage, born 1954)^[11]
    
  
  
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    Anders Buraas, Norwegian journalist (born 1915)
  
  
  
  


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  May 12 – Allan Manings, American television writer (born 1924)


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  May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet (born 1930)


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  June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)


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  June 19 – Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, critic and activist (born 1938)


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  July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, English novelist (born 1932)


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  July 4 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927)


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  July 9 – Jessica Anderson, Australian novelist and short story writer (born 1916)


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  August 6 – Tony Judt, English historian (born 1948)


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  August 9 – Juan Marichal, Spanish historian (born 1922)


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  August 10 – Marie de Garis, Guernsey ethnographer and philologist (born 1910)


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  August 12 – Laurence Gardner, English writer (born 1943)


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  August 13 – Patrick Cauvin, French novelist (born 1932)


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  August 14 – Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (born 1922)


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  August 16 – Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet (born 1926)


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  August 17
  
  
  
  • Sir Frank Kermode, Manx-born literary critic (born 1919)
  
  
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    Ludvík Kundera, Czech writer and translator (born 1920)
  
  
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    Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (born 1920)
  
  
  
  


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  August 18 – Efraim Sevela, Russian writer and screenwriter (born 1928)


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  August 20 – David J. Weber, American historian and author (born 1940)


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  August 21 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentine writer (born 1941)


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  August 27
  
  
  
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    George Hitchcock, American poet (born 1914)
  
  
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    Ravindra Kelekar, Indian author and poet (born 1925)
  
  
  
  


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  August 29 – A. C. Baantjer, Dutch author (born 1923)


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  August 31 – Vance Bourjaily, American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1922)


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  September 3 – Micky Burn, English writer and poet (born 1912)


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  September 5
  
  
  
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    Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (born 1905)^[12]
    
  
  
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    Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (born 1936)
  
  
  
  


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  September 7 – Barbara Holland, American author (born 1933)


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  September 10 – Edwin Charles Tubb, English science fiction author (born 1919)


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  September 11 – Fathi Osman, Egyptian author (born 1928)


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  September 12 – Judith Merkle Riley, American author (born 1942)


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  September 18 – James Bacon, American author (born 1914)


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  September 20 – Jennifer Rardin, American author (born 1965)


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  September 24 – Gilda O'Neill, English novelist and historian (born 1951)


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  September 29 – Clifford B. Hicks, American writer and editor (born 1920)


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  October 1 – Mikhail Roshchin, Russian playwright (born 1933)


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  October 4 – Henrique de Senna Fernandes, Macanese author (born 1923)


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  October 5
  
  
  
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    Alba Bouwer, South African writer in Afrikaans (born 1920)
  
  
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    Bernard Clavel, French writer (born 1923)
  
  
  
  


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  October 11 – Claire Rayner, English author (born 1931)


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  October 12 – Belva Plain, American novelist (born 1915)


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  October 13 – Donald H. Tuck, Australian science fiction bibliographer (born 1922)


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  October 20
  
  
  
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    Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-born English novelist (born 1925)
  
  
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    Robert Katz, American writer (born 1933)
  
  
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    Julian Roberts, English scholar and librarian (born 1930)
  
  
  
  


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  October 21 – A. Ayyappan, Indian poet in Malayalam (born 1945)


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  October 22 – Alí Chumacero, Mexican writer and poet (born 1918)


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  October 23 – George Cain, American author (born 1943)


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  October 24 – Joseph Stein, American playwright (born 1912)


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  October 25 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet (born 1922)


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  October 29 – Bärbel Mohr, German author (born 1964)


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  October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927)


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  November 1 – Monica Johnson, American novelist (born 1946)


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  November 3 – P. Lal, Indian writer (born 1929)


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  November 4 – Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Filipino poet (born 1932)


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  November 5 – Adrian Păunescu, Romanian author and poet (born 1943)


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  November 8
  
  
  
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    Philip Carlo, American crime author (born 1949)
  
  
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    George Solomos, American poet and writer (born 1925)
  
  
  
  


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  November 9 – Ektor Kaknavatos, Greek poet (born 1920)


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  November 11 – Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Spanish poet (born 1923)


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  November 15
  
  
  
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    Edmond Amran El Maleh, Moroccan writer (born 1917)
  
  
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    Hugh Prather, American self-help author (born 1938)
  
  
  
  


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  November 16 – Ragnhild Magerøy, Norwegian writer (born 1920)


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  November 21 – Norris Church Mailer, American author (born 1949)


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  November 25
  
  
  
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    Alfred Balk, American journalist and author (born 1930)
  
  
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    Yaroslav Pavulyak, Ukrainian poet (born 1948)
  
  
  
  


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  November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (born 1937)


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  December 5
  
  
  
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    David French, Canadian playwright (born 1939)
  
  
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    Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech author (born 1919)
  
  
  
  


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  December 6 – Martin Russ, American author (born 1931)


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  December 7 – Elizabeth Edwards, American author (born 1949)


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  December 14 – Ruth Park, New Zealand children's writer (born 1917)


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  December 16 – A. T. Q. Stewart, Northern Irish historian and academic (born 1929)


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  December 20 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (born 1949)^[13]
  


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  December 24 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-born English children's writer (born 1926)

Awards[edit]

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  Nobel Prize in Literature: to Mario Vargas Llosa
  

Australia[edit]

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  Miles Franklin Award: Peter Temple, Truth
  

Canada[edit]

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  Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Nancy Jo Cullen; honours of distinction, Lisa Foad, George K. Ilsley.


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  Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life^[9]
  


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  Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Governor General's Awards.


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  Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
  


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  Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Emma Donoghue, Room
  


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  Scotiabank Giller Prize: Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists
  


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  Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Miriam Toews
  

United Kingdom[edit]

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  Man Booker Prize: to The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
  


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  Orange Prize for Fiction: to The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  

United States[edit]

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  Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2010 Lambda Literary Awards.


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  National Book Award for Fiction: to Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
  


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  National Book Critics Circle Award: to A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  


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  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to War Dances by Sherman Alexie
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to Tinkers by Paul Harding
  


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  Whiting Awards: Fiction: Michael Dahlie, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Lydia Peelle; Nonfiction: Elif Batuman, Amy Leach, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh; Plays: David Adjmi; Poetry: Matt Donovan, Jane Springer, L.B. Thompson
  

Other[edit]

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  Camões Prize: Ferreira Gullar
  


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  International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Gerbrand Bakker, The Twin
  


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  International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Abdo Khal, She Throws Sparks
  


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  Petrarca-Preis: Pierre Michon, for his body of work
  


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  SAARC Literary Award: Abhi Subedi, Hamid Mir, Mark Tully, Ju
  

References[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of literary awards


• List of poetry awards


• 2010 in Australian literature