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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2012.

Events

• January 1 – Copyright restrictions on James Joyce's major works are lifted on the first day of the year.^[1]
• January 20 – British novelist Salman Rushdie cancels an appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, and four other writers leave the city after reading excerpts from The Satanic Verses, which is banned in the country.^[2]
• February – James Joyce's children's story The Cats of Copenhagen is published for the first time by Ithys Press in Dublin.^[3]
• March – The discovery is announced of a collection of fairy tales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth and locked away in a Regensburg archive for more than 150 years.^[4]
• April – While attending the London Book Fair, exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian uses red paint to smear a cross over his face and a copy of his banned book Beijing Coma and calls Chinese publishers a "mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party" after being "manhandled" while attempting to present the book to Liu Binjie at the fair.^[5]
• July – Jaime García Márquez tells his students that his brother Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian writer and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, suffers from dementia that has ended his writing career.^[6][7]
• September 27 – 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson^[8][9][10]
• September 28 – Sue Limb's parody of the Bloomsbury Group, Gloomsbury, begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K.
• October 24 – Boekenberg ("Book mountain") public library in Spijkenisse, Netherlands, designed by MVRDV, is opened.
• December – The discovery is announced of "The Tallow Candle", a previously unknown story by Hans Christian Andersen. It was found at the bottom of a box in Denmark in October.^[11]

New books

Prose

Author	Book	Genre	Date
Reilly, MatthewMatthew Reilly	Scarecrow Returns	Crime/Thriller	01/03
Johnson, AdamAdam Johnson	The Orphan Master's Son	Literary	01/10
Hastings, MichaelMichael Hastings	The Operators	Non-fiction	01/10
Krauss, Lawrence M.Lawrence M. Krauss	A Universe from Nothing	Non-fiction	01/10
Levin, MarkMark Levin	Ameritopia	Non-fiction	01/17
Leonard, ElmoreElmore Leonard	Raylan	Crime/Thriller	01/17
Marcus, BenBen Marcus	The Flame Alphabet	Literary	01/17
Card, Orson ScottOrson Scott Card	Shadows in Flight	Sci-fi/Fantasy	01/17
Flynn, Michael F.Michael F. Flynn	In the Lion's Mouth	Sci-fi/Fantasy	01/17
Crais, RobertRobert Crais	Taken	Crime/Thriller	01/24
White, EdmundEdmund White	Jack Holmes and His Friend	Literary	01/24
Cain, SusanSusan Cain	Quiet	Non-fiction	01/24
Wilkinson, AlecAlec Wilkinson	The Ice Balloon	Non-fiction	01/24
Landay, WilliamWilliam Landay	Defending Jacob	Crime/Thriller	01/31
Knox, TomTom Knox	The Lost Goddess	Crime/Thriller	02/07
Flynn, VinceVince Flynn	Kill Shot	Crime/Thriller	02/07
Danforth, EmilyEmily Danforth	The Miseducation of Cameron Post	Bildungsroman	02/07
Chaon, DanDan Chaon	Stay Awake (book)	Short stories	02/07
George, AlexAlex George	A Good American	Literary	02/07
Boo, KatherineKatherine Boo	Behind the Beautiful Forevers	Non-fiction	02/07
Ahmed, SaladinSaladin Ahmed	Throne of the Crescent Moon	Sci-fi/Fantasy	02/07
Hobb, RobinRobin Hobb	City of Dragons	Sci-fi/Fantasy	02/07
Palmer, MichaelMichael Palmer	Oath of Office	Crime/Thriller	02/14
Wolman, DavidDavid Wolman	The End of Money	Non-fiction	02/14
Kracht, ChristianChristian Kracht	Imperium	Novel	02/16
Berenson, AlexAlex Berenson	The Shadow Patrol	Crime/Thriller	02/21
Pearl, MatthewMatthew Pearl	The Technologists	Crime/Thriller	02/21
Duhigg, CharlesCharles Duhigg	The Power of Habit	Non-fiction	02/28
Gessen, MashaMasha Gessen	The Man without a Face	Non-fiction	03/01
Anshaw, CarolCarol Anshaw	Carry the One	Literary	03/06
Lansdale, Joe R.Joe R. Lansdale	Edge of Dark Water	Crime/Thriller	03/12
Groff, LaurenLauren Groff	Arcadia	Literary	03/13
Levin, AdamAdam Levin	Hot Pink	Short stories	03/13
Lehrer, JonahJonah Lehrer	Imagine	Non-fiction	03/20
Barnaby, HannahHannah Barnaby	Wonder Show	Literary	03/20
Bell, TedTed Bell	Phantom	Crime/Thriller	03/20
Coben, HarlanHarlan Coben	Stay Close	Crime/Thriller	03/20
Shah, NeetaNeeta Shah	Bollywood Striptease	Literary	03/27
Maddow, RachelRachel Maddow	Drift	Non-fiction	03/27
Robinson, MarilynneMarilynne Robinson	When I Was a Child I Read Books	Non-fiction	03/27
Wambaugh, JosephJoseph Wambaugh	Harbor Nocturne	Crime/Thriller	04/03
Sigler, ScottScott Sigler	Nocturnal	Horror	04/03
Tyler, AnneAnne Tyler	The Beginner's Goodbye	Literary	04/03
Grisham, JohnJohn Grisham	Calico Joe	Crime/Thriller	04/10
Grahame-Smith, SethSeth Grahame-Smith	Unholy Night	Horror	04/10
Rash, RonRon Rash	The Cove	Literary	04/10
Kerr, PhilipPhilip Kerr	Prague Fatale	Crime/Thriller	04/17
Lind, MichaelMichael Lind	Land of Promise	Non-fiction	04/17
Wellington, DavidDavid Wellington	32 Fangs	Horror	04/24
Vann, DavidDavid Vann	Dirt	Literary	04/24
Atkins, AceAce Atkins	Lullaby	Crime/Thriller	05/01
Barron, LairdLaird Barron	The Croning	Horror	05/01
Bechdel, AlisonAlison Bechdel	Are You My Mother?	Memoir	05/01
Fountain, BenBen Fountain	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Literary	05/01
Mawer, SimonSimon Mawer	Trapeze	Literary	05/01
Irving, JohnJohn Irving	In One Person	Literary	05/08
Morrison, ToniToni Morrison	Home[12]	Literary	05/08
Sandford, JohnJohn Sandford	Stolen Prey	Crime/Thriller	05/15
Berry, SteveSteve Berry	The Columbus Affair	Crime/Thriller	05/15
Carey, PeterPeter Carey	The Chemistry of Tears	Literary	05/15
Robinson, JeremyJeremy Robinson	SecondWorld	Crime/Thriller	05/22
Rucka, GregGreg Rucka	Alpha	Crime/Thriller	05/22
Swain, JamesJames Swain	Dark Magic	Crime/Thriller	05/22
Wilson, F. PaulF. Paul Wilson	Nightworld	Horror	05/22
Ford, RichardRichard Ford	Canada	Literary	05/22
McCammon, Robert R.Robert R. McCammon	The Providence Rider	Crime/Thriller	05/31
Cussler, CliveClive Cussler & Graham Brown	The Storm	Crime/Thriller	06/05
Flynn, GillianGillian Flynn	Gone Girl	Crime/Thriller	06/05
Vargas Llosa, MarioMario Vargas Llosa	The Dream of the Celt	Literary	06/05
Child, LincolnLincoln Child	The Third Gate	Crime/Thriller	06/12
Haddon, MarkMark Haddon	The Red House	Literary	06/12
Pearson, RidleyRidley Pearson	The Risk Agent	Crime/Thriller	06/19
Rollins, JamesJames Rollins	Bloodline	Crime/Thriller	06/26
Burke, James LeeJames Lee Burke	Creole Belle	Crime/Thriller	07/17
Winters, Ben H.Ben H. Winters	The Last Policeman	Science fiction/Crime	07/12
Silva, DanielDaniel Silva	Fallen Angel	Crime/Thriller	07/17
Giffin, EmilyEmily Giffin	Where We Belong	Chick-Lit/Literary	07/24
Khanna, RoRo Khanna	Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future[13]	Non-fiction	07/24
Koontz, DeanDean Koontz	Odd Apocalypse	Horror	07/31
Thor, BradBrad Thor	Black List	Crime/Thriller	07/31
Ortberg, JohnJohn Ortberg	Who Is This Man?	Non-fiction	08/06
Child, LeeLee Child	A Wanted Man	Crime/Thriller	09/27
Rowling, J. K.J. K. Rowling	The Casual Vacancy	Literary	09/27
Lehane, DennisDennis Lehane	Live by Night	Crime/Thriller	10/02
Nesbø, JoJo Nesbø	Phantom	Crime/Thriller	10/02
Cronin, JustinJustin Cronin	The Twelve	Horror	10/16
DeMille, NelsonNelson DeMille	The Panther	Crime/Thriller	10/16
Grisham, JohnJohn Grisham	The Racketeer	Legal thriller	10/23
Appel, Jacob M.Jacob M. Appel	The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up	Literary	10/27
Sáenz, Benjamin AlireBenjamin Alire Sáenz	Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club	Literary	10/30
Connelly, MichaelMichael Connelly	The Black Box	Crime/Thriller	11/26
Helen Simpson	A Bunch of Fives	Short stories	05/03
Haidt, JonathanJonathan Haidt	The Righteous Mind	Non-fiction	04/02
Wilson, E. O.E. O. Wilson	The Social Conquest of Earth	Non-fiction	04/09
Gibbs, NancyNancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy	The President's Club	Non-fiction	04/19
Humes, EdwardEdward Humes	Garbology	Non-fiction	04/19
Bergen, PeterPeter Bergen	Manhunt	Non-fiction	05/01
Coll, SteveSteve Coll	Private Empire	Non-fiction	05/01
Caro, Robert A.Robert A. Caro	The Passage of Power	Non-fiction	05/01
Littlefield, WarrenWarren Littlefield & T. R. Pearson	Top of the Rock	Non-fiction	05/01
Mann, Thomas E.Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein	It's Even Worse Than It Looks[14]	Non-fiction	05/01
Appel, MartyMarty Appel	Pinstripe Empire	Non-fiction	05/08
Holland, TomTom Holland	In the Shadow of the Sword	Non-fiction	05/15
McLean, PatrishaPatrisha McLean	All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story	Non-fiction	05/15
Roberts, CallumCallum Roberts	The Ocean of Life	Non-fiction	05/22
Brinkley, DouglasDouglas Brinkley	Cronkite	Non-fiction	05/29
Obama, MichelleMichelle Obama	American Grown	Non-fiction	05/29
Beevor, AntonyAntony Beevor	The Second World War	Non-fiction	06/05
Stone, AlexAlex Stone	Fooling Houdini	Non-fiction	06/19
Shlaes, AmityAmity Shlaes	Coolidge	Non-fiction	06/26
Watson, PeterPeter Watson	The Great Divide	Non-fiction	06/26
Lemonick, Michael D.Michael D. Lemonick	Mirror Earth	Non-fiction	10/16
Byrne, DavidDavid Byrne	How Music Works	Non-fiction	9/12
Collins, GregorGregor Collins	The Accidental Caregiver	Non-fiction	08/18

Children and young adults

• John Green – The Fault in Our Stars
• Rick Riordan – The Mark of Athena

Drama

• Ayad Akhtar – Disgraced^[15]
• Alan Bennett
  • Cocktail Sticks
  • Hymn
  • People
• Monica Byrne – What Every Girl Should Know
• Lolita Chakrabarti – Red Velvet
• James Graham – This House
• Miho Mosulishvili – My Redbreast
• Suman Mukhopadhyay – Bisarjan
• Theresa Rebeck – Dead Accounts
• Anne Washburn – Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play

Poetry

See 2012 in poetry

• Paige Ackerson-Kiely – My Love Is a Dead Arctic Explorer
• Marilyn Buck – Inside/Out: Selected Poems
• Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – The Qat'aat o Rubaiyat of Zia Fatehabadi (quatrains, translation)
• Jack Gilbert – Collected Poems
• Paul Hoover – Desolation: Souvenir
• Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) – June Fourth Elegies (translation)
• Eileen Myles – Snow-Flake
• Lucia Perillo – On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
• D. A. Powell – Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
• W. G. Sebald – Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964–2001
• David Wagoner – After the Point of No Return
• Lew Welch – Ring of Bone: Collected Poems

Science fiction and fantasy

• Karl Schroeder – Ashes of Candesce (February 14)
• John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman – Hollow Earth
• Tobias Buckell – Arctic Rising (February 28)
• Tim Powers – Hide Me Among the Graves (March 13)
• Jon Courtenay Grimwood – The Outcast Blade (March 26)
• Robert J. Sawyer – Triggers (April 3)
• John Birmingham – Angels of Vengeance (April 10)
• Brian Evenson – Immobility (April 10)
• Brian Francis Slattery – Lost Everything (April 10)
• Mary Robinette Kowal – Glamour in Glass (April 10)
• Samuel R. Delany – Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders (April 17)
• Stephen King – The Wind Through the Keyhole (April 24)
• N. K. Jemisin – The Killing Moon (May 1)
• China Miéville – Railsea (May 15)
• Daniel Abraham – The King's Blood (May 22)
• Ian C. Esslemont – Orb, Sceptre, Throne (May 22)
• Mira Grant – Blackout (May 22)
• Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312 (May 22)
• Douglas Hulick – Sworn in Steel (June 5)
• Paul Melko – Broken Universe (June 5)
• Alastair Reynolds – Blue Remembered Earth (June 5)
• John Scalzi – Redshirts (June 5)
• Daniel H. Wilson – Amped (June 5)
• N. K. Jemisin – The Shadowed Sun (June 12)
• David Brin – Existence (June 19)
• Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter – The Long Earth (June 19)
• Daniel Abraham (writing as James S.A. Corey) – Caliban's War (June 26)
• Alex Bledsoe – Wake of the Bloody Angel (July 3)
• Charles Stross – The Apocalypse Codex (July 3)
• Rick Riordan – The Mark of Athena (October 2)
• Aaron Allston – Mercy Kill
• Hannu Rajaniemi – The Fractal Prince (September 4)
• Brent Weeks – The Blinding Knife (September 11)
• Steven Erikson – Forge of Darkness (September 18)
• Joe Abercrombie – Red Country (November 20)
• Jay Lake – Calamity of So Long a Life
• Michael Moorcock – The Whispering Swarm
• Gene Wolfe – The Land Across
• Troy Denning – Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse

Deaths

• January 19 – On Sarig, Israeli children's author (born 1926)
• January 23 – Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (born 1931)
• January 28 – Don Starkell, Canadian diarist and author (born 1932)
• January 29 – Damien Bona, American historian and journalist (born 1955)
• January 30 – Bill Wallace, American children's author and educator (born 1947)
• February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel laureate (born 1923)^[16]
• February 3 – John Christopher (Samuel Youd) English science fiction novelist (born 1922)
• February 4 – Irene McKinney, American poet (born 1939)^[17]
• February 4 – John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (born 1924)
• March 21 – Christine Brooke-Rose, Swiss-born English novelist and translator (born 1923)
• March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (born 1943)^[18]
• March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer (born 1929)^[19]
• March 28 – John Arden, English playwright (born 1930)^[20]
• April 2 – Sarah Dreher, American novelist and playwright (born 1937)^[21]
• April 7 – Miss Read (Dora Jesse Shafe), English novelist (born 1913)^[22]
• April 8 – Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American and political scientist (born 1921)
• April 17 – Leila Berg, English children's writer and activist (born 1917)^[23]
• April 26 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian publicist and writer (suicide, born 1957)^[24]
• May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author and illustrator (born 1928)^[25]
• May 12 – Walter Wink, American theologian and scholar (born 1935)
• May 15
  • Jean Craighead George, American novelist (born 1919)^[26]
  • Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928)^[27]
• May 26 – Leo Dillon, American children's author and illustrator (born 1933)
• June 5
  • Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction and fantasy author (born 1920)^[28]
  • Barry Unsworth, English writer of historical fiction (born 1930)^[29]
• July 28 – Carol Kendall, American children's writer (born 1917)^[30]
• July 30
  • Maeve Binchy, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (born 1939)^[31]
  • Héctor Tizón, Argentinian writer and diplomat (born 1929)^[32]
• July 31 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, playwright and political commentator (born 1925)
• August 2
  • Amos Hakham, Israeli biblical scholar (born 1921)^[33]
  • Sir John Keegan, English military historian and journalist (born 1934)^[34]
  • Gilbert Prouteau, French poet and film director (born 1917)^[35]
• August 4 – Henry Scholberg, American bibliographer (born 1921)
• August 11 – Heidi Holland, South African journalist and author (born 1947)
• August 22 – Nina Bawden, English novelist and children's writer (born 1925)^[36]
• September 6 – Horacio Vázquez-Rial, Argentine-born Spanish writer (cancer, born 1947)^[37]
• September 8 – Jon Tolaas, Norwegian poet and novelist (born 1939)^[38]
• September 10
  • Ernesto de la Peña, Mexican writer (born 1927)^[39]
  • Hans Joachim Störig, German writer, lexicographer and translator (born 1915)^[40]
• September 12 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (born 1946)^[41]
• September 14 – Louis Simpson, American poet (Alzheimer's disease, born 1923)^[42]
• September 15 – Fred Bodsworth, Canadian writer (born 1918)^[43]
• September 20
  • Robert G. Barrett, Australian author (cancer, born 1942)^[44]
  • Tereska Torrès, French writer (born 1920)^[45]
• September 22 – Irving Adler, American author, mathematician, and scientist (born 1913)^[46]
• 7 October – Ivo Michiels (Henri Paul René Ceuppens), Belgian writer in Flemish (born 1923)^[47]
• October 25 – Aude, Canadian novelist (born 1947)
• 29 October – J. Bernlef, Dutch writer (born 1937)^[48]
• 2 November – János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (born 1926)^[49]
• 19 November – Boris Strugatsky, Soviet Russian writer (pneumonia, born 1925)^[50]
• 20 November – Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)^[51]
• 22 November – Jan Trefulka, Czech writer and dissident (renal failure, born 1929)^[52]
• 6 December – Jan Carew, Guyanese novelist and playwright (born 1920)
• 28 December – Jayne Cortez, African-American poet (born 1934)
• 31 December – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian novelist and playwright (born 1938)

Awards

Mo Yan in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

• Camões Prize: Dalton Trevisan
• Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: Gene Wolfe^[53]
• Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Main award, Amber Dawn; honour of distinction, Mariko Tamaki.
• Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Joshua Knelman, Hot Art^[54]
• Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2012 Governor General's Awards.
• Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs^[55]
• Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2012 Lambda Literary Awards.
• Man Booker Prize: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Miles Franklin Award: Anna Funder, All That I Am.^[56][57]
• National Book Award for Fiction: to The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• National Book Critics Circle Award: to Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• Nobel Prize in Literature: Mo Yan^[58]
• Orange Prize for Fiction: to The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13
• Scotiabank Giller Prize: Will Ferguson, 419
• Whiting Awards:

Fiction: Alan Heathcock, Anthony Marra, Hanna Pylväinen

Nonfiction: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Plays: Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter, Mona Mansour, Meg Miroshnik

Poetry: Ciaran Berry, Atsuro Riley

• Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award: Nino Ricci
• 14 May – Martin Thomas wins the National Biography Award for his biography The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist which tells the story of a surveyor and self-taught anthropologist who became one of Australia's most significant early researchers of Aboriginal languages, culture and history.^[59]

See also

• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• 2012 in Australian literature

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External links

• Literary events in 2012 at The Guardian
• Books to watch out for in autumn 2012 at The Guardian