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The year 2000 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
- September 24 - The American Family Association begins a year-long attack on Robert Clark Young's novel, One of the Guys, in an attempt to persuade the U.S. Congress to defund the National Endowment for the Arts
New books
Fiction
- Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune
- Reed Arvin - The Will
- Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
- Louis Auchincloss - Her Infinite Variety
- Eleanor Ayer - Parallel Journeys
- Trezza Azzopardi - The Hiding Place
- Iain M. Banks - Look to Windward
- Matt Beaumont - e
- Raymond Benson - Doubleshot
- T. C. Boyle - A Friend of the Earth
- Ben Bova - Jupiter
- Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
- Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
- Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
- Tom Clancy - The Bear And The Dragon
- Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark - Deck The Halls
- Miriam Cooke - Hayati, My Life
- Bernard Cornwell - Harlequin (aka The Archer's Tale)
- Patricia Cornwell - The Last Precinct
- August Derleth - The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
- Ken Follett - Code to Zero
- Myla Goldberg - Bee Season
- Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
- John Grisham - The Brethren
- Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke
- Joanne Harris - Blackberry Wine
- Elisabeth Harvor - Excessive Joy Injures the Heart (Canada)
- David Holland - Murcheston: The Wolf's Tale
- Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
- Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
- Robert Ludlum - The Prometheus Deception
- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - The Indwelling and The Mark
- Barry N. Malzberg - In the Stone House
- Colleen McCullough - Morgan's Run
- Alistair MacLeod - Island
- Patrick Maher - Candid Confessions
- George R.R. Martin - A Storm of Swords
- Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde
- Robert B. Parker - Hugger Mugger
- James Patterson - Roses Are Red
- Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice
- Giuseppe Pontiggia - Nati due volte
- Terry Pratchett - The Truth
- Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
- Mario Puzo - Omertà
- Kathy Reichs - Deadly Decisions
- Philip Roth - The Human Stain
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Peter Ruber editor - Arkham's Masters of Horror
- Jean-Jacques Schuhl - Ingrid Caven
- Christina Schwarz - Drowning Ruth
- Michael Slade - Hangman
- Gillian Slovo - Red Dust
- Zadie Smith - White Teeth
- Muriel Spark - Aiding and Abetting
- Michael Stackpole - Dark Tide: Onslaught and Dark Tide: Ruin
- Domenico Starnone - Via Gemito
- Danielle Steel - The House On Hope Street and Journey
- Kathy Tyers - Balance Point
- Andrew Vachss - Dead and Gone
- Juliet Marillier - Son of the Shadows
Drama
Poetry
- Anne Carson - Men in the Off Hours
- Paul Celan - Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
- Fanny Howe - Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
- Pierre Labrie - À tout hasard
- Grazyna Miller - Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
- Owen Sheers - The Blue Book
Non-fiction
- The Beatles Anthology
- Peter Ackroyd - London: A Biography
- Gerina Dunwich - Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship
- Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Charles Foster - Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
- Lawrence Lessig - Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
- Roger Lowenstein - When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
- Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee - Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
- Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp - The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
Births
Deaths
- January 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction author
- January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
- February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
- March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
- April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
- August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
- September 7 - Malcolm Bradbury, 68, British novelist and critic (The History Man)
- October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
- November 2 - Robert Cormier, 75, young adult fiction writer
- November 8 - L. Sprague de Camp, 92, American sci-fi and fantasy author
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Stephen Gray, The Artist is a Thief
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: John Millett, Iceman
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, Mines
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Lucy Dougan, Memory Shell
- Miles Franklin Award: Tie: Thea Astley, Drylands; Kim Scott, Benang
Canada
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost - tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
- See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, Dans ces bras-là
- Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ingrid Caven
- Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, Camille
- Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes
- Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, Diabolus in musica
- Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Martin Amis, Experience
- Cholmondeley Award: Alistair Elliot, Michael Hamburger, Adrian Henri, Carole Satyamurti
- Eric Gregory Award: Eleanor Margolies, Antony Rowland, Antony Dunn, Karen Goodwin, Clare Pollard
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times
- Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Edwin Morgan
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to Quan Barry for Asylum
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Eleanor Ross Taylor
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Corey Marks, "Renunciation", and (separately) Christopher Patton, "Broken Ground"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, David Ferry for Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
- Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Greg Rappleye, A Path Between Houses
- Business Week Best Book of the Year: Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed
- Compton Crook Award: Stephen L. Burns, Flesh and Silver
- Frost Medal: Anthony Hecht
- Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
- Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
- Wallace Stevens Award: Frank Bidart
Other
- Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
- Premio Nadal: Lorenzo Silva, El alquimista impaciente
- Viareggio Prize: Giorgio van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passato
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