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 (knighthood) 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.
Fiction +New adult fiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of Pub.Ref.AnthemYonderTo ParadiseWahalaReminders of HimHow High We Go In the DarkJoan is OkayYinka, Where Is Your Huzband?VioletaTochi Onyebuchi GoliathMoon Witch, Spider KingPure ColourWhen I'm Gone, Look for Me in the EastDelilah Green Doesn't Care One Italian SummerLessons in ChemistrySea of TranquilityYoung MungoActivities of Daily LivingKimberly BrockThe Lost Book of Eleanor DareApril 12Book of NightTrustEither/OrYou Made a Fool of Death with Your BeautyYerba BuenaRainbow, RainbowLapvonaTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowUntil I Met You (UK)Husband Material (UK)Babel, or the Necessity of Violence (Canada)Brett Josef Grubisic, "Suzette Mayr's novel ‘The Sleeping Car Porter’ an artfully constructed story that moves, beguiles, and satisfies" . Toronto Star, September 26, 2022. (UK)Nona the NinthLess Is LostOur Missing HeartsIt Starts with Us Liberation Day: StoriesOnyi NwabineliSomeday, Maybe November 1Tegan Nia SwansonThings We Found When the Water Went DownDecember 6
Children and young adults +New children's and young adult fiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of pub.Ref.Daughter of the Moon GoddessAkata WomanI Am GoldenAkwaeke EmeziBitterGallantAll My Rage Blood Scion I Kissed Shara WheelerMe and My Dysphoria MonsterCreepy Crayon!John BoyneAll the Broken PlacesSeptember 15Maybe an ArtistWeird Rules to FollowDiary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper ÖverlödeDeuxMoi & Jessica GoodmanAnon Pls.November 8 Ammaar Reshi/ChatGPTAlice and Sparkle
Poetry Ocean Vuong – Time Is a Mother (April 5, US)
Drama
Nonfiction +New nonfiction, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of pub.Ref.South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationThe Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward The NinetiesAll the White Friends I Couldn't Keephttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673889/all-the-white-friends-i-couldnt-keep-by-andre-henry/Alexandra LangeMeet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the MallJune 14An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsRogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and CrooksPhilip Rosenthal and Jenn GarbeeSomebody Feed Phil the BookOctober 18Cinema Speculation Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung EuropasLeila PhilipBeaverlandDecember 6Jessica GroseScreaming on the InsideDecember 6
Biography and memoirs +New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publicationAuthorTitleDate of pub.Ref.Manifesto: On Never Giving UpMessy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-AmericanIn the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and WritingAncestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a ReconciliationTen Steps to Nanette (Australia)Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at LifeThe Memory LibrarianFinding MeI'm Glad My Mom DiedYasmín Ramírez¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My FamilyAugust 2
Films Matilda the Musical
Deaths +2022 deaths, sorted by date of deathIndividualBackgroundDate of deathAgeCause of deathRef.Chinese poet101F. Sionil JoséFilipino novelist and journalist97American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist65American author of Groucho Marx mysteries89Respiratory arrestBrazilian poet and translator95American fashion author, editor, and journalist73Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19American young adult novelist`35Neuroendocrine cancerAmerican writer and illustrator of children's books98American editor and publisher93Congestive heart failureJapanese novelist54American novelist70Brain cancerAmerican political satirist and journalist74Lung cancerPolish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog)85Complications of dementiaEnglish writer and illustrator of children's books94American author, editor, and journalist86Complications from Parkinson's diseaseAmerican novelist, memoirist, and editor91Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter92 (in Russian)American novelist and journalist (Art in America)70Heart diseaseAmerican poet, critic, and translator92English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard)87British crime writer92Ukrainian fantasy novelist77American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)74South Korean poet and playwright81American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone)76-77American literary agent91Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories90Slovenian writer (Necropolis)108Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet94American visual artist and author69Heart attackIsraeli novelist, essayist, and playwright85Cancer Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago)99Australian novelist and screenwriter83British crime novelist51Brain cancerScottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series)90American novelist (Chiefs)84American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing)61Lung cancerAmerican author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) 89English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) 88Pneumonia English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter 72Heart attack French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) 89Frederick BuechnerAmerican novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacherAugust 1596English author (Spook's)77HadrawiSomali poet78-79American writer80Pancreatic cancerAmerican writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman)79Mariella MehrSwiss novelist, playwright and poet74Schweizer Schriftstellerin Mariella Mehr gestorben Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me)70PneumoniaYadollah RoyaeeIranian poet90یدالله رویایی خالق شعر حجم درگذشت Tibor FrankHungarian historian74Elhunyt Frank Tibor Saul KripkeAmerican philosopher and logician81 British novelist (Wolf Hall)70Knud SørensenDanish novelist, essayist and poet94Danmarks ældste lyriker er død Marguerite AndersenGerman-born Canadian writer, poet and translator97La doyenne de la littérature Franco-ontarienne Marguerite Andersen s’est éteinte Charles FullerAmerican playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign)83Rebecca GodfreyCanadian author54Lung cancerDavid HuertaMexican poet72Muere el poeta mexicano David Huerta British-born Canadian crime writer72Temsüla Ao Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head)76Bruno LatourFrench philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern)75Pancreatic cancerMort de Bruno Latour, le philosophe qui a déconstruit la science American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization)82American writer (The Paper Chase)77Squamous cell cancerAnton DonchevBulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter92Почина големият писател Антон Дончев Leszek EngelkingPolish writer and translator67Leszek Engelking nie żyje. Był autorem m.in. przekładów T. S. Eliota i Kundery American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire)76CancerAmerican author (Julie & Julia)49Cardiac arrestGerald SternAmerican poet, essayist, and educator97Bahaa TaherEgyptian novelist and short story writer87Hava Pinhas-CohenIsraeli writer and poet67Elhunyt Hava Pinhas-Cohen izraeli költő American author 88American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist104Geoff CochraneNew Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer71British writer, illustrator and musician 54Joëlle GuillaisFrench writer70StrokeOrne. Joëlle Guillais, autrice de « La Berthe », est décédée Marijane MeakerAmerican writer (Spring Fire)95Cardiac arrestBernadette MayerAmerican poet and writer77Milovan DanojlićSerbian poet, essayist and literary critic85Preminuo književnik Milovan Danojlić Christian BobinFrench author and poet71Mort de Christian Bobin, “ermite du Creusot”, à l'âge de 71 ans German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil)93Abdulaziz Al-MaqalehYemeni poet and essayist85عاجل: وفاة الشاعر اليمني الكبير عبدالعزيز المقالح Ray NelsonAmerican science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man)91French author 91Claude MosséFrench historian97L’helléniste Claude Mossé est morte Manfred MesserschmidtGerman historian (Germany and the Second World War)96Die Wahrheit über die Wehrmacht Chinese novelist and poet85Heart failureFrançoise BourdinFrench novelist70Françoise Bourdin, romancière à succès, est morte Begoña HuertasSpanish writerDecember 2557Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic86Eminent scholar Padmasri Bhashyam Vijaya Sarathi passed away , Hindu Dayashankar, December 28, 2022.American biographer and novelist88
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