2022 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022.
Events
- 1 January
- * The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.
- * A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.
- 5 January - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.
- 11 January - Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.
- 25 January - Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.
- 22 April - The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.
- 4 May - Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.
- 28 May - Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
- 2 June - British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.
- 15 June - Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.
- 12 August - Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.
Anniversaries
- 200th anniversary of the death of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 150th anniversary of Publishers Weekly
- 150th Anniversary of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 100th anniversary of the Newbery Medal
- 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Philip Larkin
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
- *In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- *One of Ours by Willa Cather
- *"The Problem of Thor Bridge" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- *The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
- *The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- *Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- **"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
- *Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- *Ulysses by James Joyce
- *"A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
- *Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence
- *Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- *"Celephaïs" by H. P. Lovecraft
- *"Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
- *"The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
- *"The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft
- *The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- **"The Garden Party"
- *The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
- *Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
New books
''Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.''Poetry
- Ocean Vuong – ''Time Is a Mother''