2024 in literature

Anniversaries

• 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924.
• 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece.
• 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
• 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924.
• 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News.
• 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924.
• 5 October - José Donoso was born.
• 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto.
• 100th anniversary of the publication of
• *A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• *The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
• *The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
• *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

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Deaths

• January 22 - Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85
• January 24 - N. Scott Momaday, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.
• February 23 – Alan Brownjohn, English poet and novelist, 92
• March 22 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98
• April 2 - John Barth, American fiction writer, 93
• April 2 - Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
• April 4 - Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94
• April 27 - C. J. Sansom, British crime writer, 71
• April 27 - Joko Pinurbo, Indonesian poet, 61
• April 28 - Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate, 86
• April 30 - Paul Auster, American crime writer, 77
• May 4 - Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84
• May 13 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
• June 26 – Nathaniel Tarn, French-American poet, 95
• July 1 – Funso Aiyejina, Nigerian poet, short story writer, playwright and academic, 75
• July 1 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88
• July 28 - Edna O'Brien, Irish writer, 93
• September 15 – Elias Khoury, Lebanese writer, 76
• November 24 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British-American novelist, 91
• Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, poet and painter, 85
• December 4 – Chiung Yao, Taiwanese novelist, 86
• December 5 – Jacques Roubaud, French poet, writer, and mathematician, 92
• December 9 – Nikki Giovanni, American poet, 81
• December 17 – Michel del Castillo, French writer, 91

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