2023 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2023.
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Events
c. July 1 – The public library at Borny, Metz, is among public buildings burned in the Nahel Merzouk protests in France.
Anniversaries
- 100th anniversary of Time
- 100th anniversary of Weird Tales
- 100th anniversary of the publication of
- Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
- The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
- "The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek (last installment)
- "The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Hypnos" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Memory" by H. P. Lovecraft
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
- Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
- Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
- "What the Moon Brings" by H. P. Lovecraft
- Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.
Fiction
| Author | Title | Date of Pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allegra Goodman | Sam | January 3 | |
| Bret Easton Ellis | The Shards | January 17 | |
| Annalee Newitz | The Terraformers | January 31 | |
| Salman Rushdie | Victory City | February 7 | |
| Rebecca Makkai | I Have Some Questions for You | February 21 | |
| John Banville | The Lock-Up | April 6 | |
| Dennis Lehane | Small Mercies | April 25 | |
| Emily Henry | Happy Place | ||
| Abraham Verghese | The Covenant of Water | May 2 | |
| Naoise Dolan | The Happy Couple | May 25 | |
| Margaret Atwood | Fourteen Days | May 30 | |
| Paul Goldberg | The Dissident | June 6 | |
| David Connor | Oh God, the Sun Goes | August 1 | |
| Ann Patchett | Tom Lake | August 1 | |
| Mona Susan Power | A Council of Dolls | August 8 | |
| Zadie Smith | The Fraud | September 5 | |
| Stephen King | Holly | September 5 | |
| Daniel Mason | North Woods | September 19 |
Children and young adults
Poetry
Drama
Nonfiction
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Auster | Bloodbath Nation | January 10 | |
| Rick Rubin | The Creative Act | January 17 | |
| David Graeber | Pirate Enlightenment | January 24 | |
| Bernie Sanders | It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism | February 21 | |
| Ron DeSantis | The Courage to Be Free | February 28 | |
| David Grann | The Wager | April 18 | |
| John Vaillant | Fire Weather: a true story from a hotter world | June 6 | |
| Sarah Ogilvie | The Dictionary People | September 7 | |
| Naomi Klein | Doppelganger | September 12 | |
| Zeke Faux | Number Go Up | September 12 | |
| Scott Shane | Flee North | September 19 | |
| Michael Lewis | Going Infinite | October 3 |
Biography and memoirs
| Author | Title | Date of pub. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Harry | Spare | January 10 | |
| Pamela Anderson | Love, Pamela | January 31 | |
| Elliot Page | Pageboy | June 6 | |
| Andrew Leland | The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight | July 18 | |
| Walter Isaacson | Elon Musk | September 12 | |
| Britney Spears | The Woman in Me | October 24 |
Deaths
| Individual | Background | Date of Death | Age | Cause of Death | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | |||||
| Lise Nørgaard | Danish journalist and writer (Matador) | January 1 | 105 | ||
| Edith Pearlman | American short story writer | January 1 | 86 | ||
| Suzy McKee Charnas | American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs") | January 2 | 83 | ||
| Catherine David | French-American literary critic and novelist | January 2 | 73 | ||
| Dumitru Radu Popescu | Romanian novelist and poet | January 2 | 87 | ||
| Mohamed Enani | Egyptian writer and translator | January 3 | 83 | ||
| Fay Weldon | British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright | January 4 | 91 | ||
| Victoria de Stefano | Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist and philosopher | January 6 | 82 | ||
| Russell Banks | American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter) | January 7 | 82 | Cancer | |
| Aleksey Slapovsky | Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2) | January 8 | 65 | Pneumonia | |
| Rehman Rahi | Indian poet, translator and literary critic | January 9 | 97 | ||
| Charles Simic | Serbian-born American poet (The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems) | January 9 | 84 | Complications from dementia | |
| Sara Aboobacker | Indian novelist, short story writer and translator | January 10 | 86 | ||
| Paul Johnson | British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity) | January 12 | 94 | ||
| Claudio Willer | Brazilian poet, essayist and translator | January 13 | 82 | Bladder cancer | |
| Ronald Blythe | English writer and columnist | January 14 | 100 | ||
| Gordana Kuić | Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans) | January 15 | 80 | ||
| Gáspár Miklós Tamás | Hungarian philosopher and academic | January 15 | 74 | ||
| Mousse Boulanger | Swiss writer and journalist | January 16 | 96 | ||
| Luisa Josefina Hernández | Mexican writer, playwright and translator | January 16 | 94 | ||
| Jonathan Raban | British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money) | January 17 | 80 | ||
| Jacques Jarry | French linguist and archeologist | January 18 | |||
| Claude Guillon | French writer and philosopher | January 19 | 70 | ||
| Nilmani Phookan Jr | Indian poet | January 19 | 89 | ||
| Grigorijus Kanovičius | Lithuanian writer | January 20 | 93 | ||
| Paul LaFarge | American novelist, essayist and academic | January 20 | 52 | Cancer | |
| Nano Riantiarno | Indonesian playwright | January 20 | 73 | ||
| Georges Banu | Romanian-born French writer | January 21 | 79 | ||
| Pino Roveredo | Italian writer and theater director | January 21 | 68 | ||
| Friedrich Weissensteiner | Austrian historian and writer | January 21 | 95 | ||
| Ian Black | British journalist and author (Israel's Secret Wars) | January 22 | 69 | complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration | |
| Joseph Agassi | Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution) | January 23 | 95 | ||
| Dmytro Pavlychko | Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat | January 29 | 93 | ||
| K. V. Tirumalesh | Indian writer and poet | January 30 | 82 | ||
| Linda Pastan | American poet | January 30 | 90 | ||
| Cleonice Berardinelli | Brazilian academic and writer | January 31 | 106 | ||
| Henrik Nordbrandt | Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist, and essayist | January 31 | 77 | ||
| February | |||||
| René Schérer | French philosopher | February 1 | 100 | ||
| Alain Lacouchie | French poet and illustrator | February 3 | 76 | ||
| Knut Borchardt | German historian | February 5 | 93 | ||
| Renato Del Ponte | Italian essayist | February 5 | 78 | ||
| Josep Maria Espinàs | Spanish writer ("Cant del Barça"), journalist and publisher | February 5 | 95 | ||
| May Sayegh | Palestinian poet and political activist | February 5 | 82 | ||
| Răzvan Theodorescu | Romanian historian and politician | February 6 | 83 | ||
| Nicolò Mineo | Italian literary critic, literary historian and philologist | February 6 | 89 | ||
| Richard Kell | Irish poet, composer, and teacher | February 7 | 95 | ||
| Leontii Voitovych | Ukrainian historian | February 7 | 71 | ||
| Subimal Mishra | Indian novelist and short story writer | February 8 | 79 | ||
| Agnès Laroche | French novelist and author | February 11 | 57 | ||
| Lualhati Bautista | Filipino novelist (Dekada '70, 'GAPÔ, Bata, Bata... Pa'no Ka Ginawa?), screenwriter (Bulaklak sa City Jail) and activist | February 12 | 77 | ||
| Robert Sauzet | French historian | February 12 | 95 | ||
| Suzanne Sens | French author and educator | February 13 | 92 | ||
| Giampiero Neri | Italian poet | February 15 | 95 | ||
| Helen Fogwill Porter | Canadian poet, essayist and activist | February 16 | 92 | ||
| Mario Vitti | Italian philologist | February 6 | 96 | ||
| Richard Belzer | American actor, stand-up comedian, and author | February 19 | 78 | Unspecified circulatory and respiratory conditions | |
| Daniel Roche | French historian | February 19 | 87 | ||
| Michael S. Heiser | American biblical scholar and author | February 20 | 60 | Pancreatic cancer | |
| Philip Ziegler | British historian and biographer | February 22 | 93 | ||
| Irving Wardle | English theatre critic and playwright | February 23 | 93 | ||
| Mihai Șora | Romanian philosopher, essayist and politician | February 25 | 106 | ||
| Günther von Lojewski | German journalist, television presenter, and author | February 26 | 87 | ||
| Amy Schwartz | American author and illustrator of children's books | February 26 | 68 | ||
| Juan Muñoz Martín | Spanish children's author (El Barco de Vapor) | February 27 | 93 | ||
| Javad Tabatabai | Iranian philosopher and political scientist | February 28 | 77 | ||
| March | |||||
| Anise Koltz | Luxembourgish author | March 1 | 94 | ||
| Sasthipada Chattopadhyay | Indian novelist (Pandab Goenda) | March 3 | 81 | Stroke | |
| Christopher Fowler | British science fiction writer | March 3 | 69 | Cancer | |
| Kenzaburō Ōe | Japanese writer (1994 Nobel laureate in literature) | March 3 | 88 | Natural causes | |
| Yuri Zhukov | Russian historian | March 3 | 85 | ||
| Judith Heumann | American disability rights activist and author | March 4 | 75 | ||
| Matti Klinge | Finnish historian | March 5 | 86 | ||
| Sylviane Telchid | Guadeloupean writer and translator | March 5 | 81 | Complications from Alzheimer's disease | |
| Ian Falconer | American author and illustrator of children's books (Olivia) | March 7 | 63 | ||
| Salvador García-Bodaño | Spanish poet | March 7 | 87 | ||
| Jitendra Nath Mohanty | Indian philosopher | March 7 | 95 | ||
| Dhiruben Patel | Indian novelist, playwright and translator | March 10 | 96 | ||
| John Jakes | American writer (North and South, The Kent Family Chronicles) | March 11 | 90 | ||
| William G. Johnsson | Australian theologian and author | March 11 | 88 | ||
| Michel Peyramaure | French writer | March 11 | 101 | ||
| Isabel Colegate | British author (The Shooting Party) and literary agent | March 12 | 91 | ||
| Karel Kaplan | Czech historian | March 12 | 94 | ||
| Jaume Medina | Spanish philologist, translator and poet | March 12 | 73 | ||
| Dragoslav Mihailović | Serbian academic and playwright | March 12 | 92 | ||
| Momoko Kuroda | Japanese haiku poet and essayist | March 13 | 84 | Brain hemorrhage | |
| Richard Wagner | Romanian-born German novelist | March 14 | 70 | ||
| Patrick French | British writer and historian (Tibet, Tibet, The World Is What It Is) | March 16 | 57 | Cancer | |
| Anna Sujatha Mathai | Indian poet | March 16 | 89 | ||
| Jorge Edwards | Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat | March 17 | 91 | ||
| Abdul Rahman Majeed al-Rubaie | Iraqi novelist (The Tattoo Mark) | March 20 | 83 | ||
| Eric Brown | British science fiction writer | March 21 | 62 | Sepsis | |
| Harri Nykänen | Finnish crime writer | March 21 | 69 | ||
| Howard Fergus | Montserratian author and historian | March 23 | 85 | ||
| Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim | Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet | March 23 | 98 | ||
| Jean-Marie Apostolidès | Greek-French novelist, essayist, and theater director | March 24 | 79 | ||
| María Kodama | Argentine writer and translator; wife of Jorge Luis Borges | March 26 | 86 | Breast cancer | |
| D. M. Thomas | British poet, translator and novelist (The Flute-Player, The White Hotel) | March 26 | 88 | ||
| April | |||||
| Rachel Pollack | American science fiction author, comic book writer, and activist | April 7 | 77 | ||
| Anne Perry | British crime writer (The Cater Street Hangman) | April 10 | 84 | ||
| Harold Kushner | American rabbi, author, and lecturer (When Bad Things Happen to Good People) | April 28 | 88 | ||
| May | |||||
| Andrew Delaplaine | American novelist and screenwriter (Meeting Spencer) | May 1 | 73 | Stomach cancer | |
| Gabrielle Carey | Australian novelist (Puberty Blues) | May 2 | 64 | ||
| Henri Coulonges | French novelist and painter | May 4 | 86 | ||
| Rafael Guillén | Spanish poet | May 4 | 90 | Stroke | |
| Haidar Haidar | Syrian novelist (The Desolate Time, A Feast for the Seaweeds, The Mirrors of Fire) | May 5 | 87 | ||
| Bruce McCall | Canadian author and illustrator | May 5 | 87 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | |
| Philippe Sollers | French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini | May 5 | 86 | ||
| Ingrid Arvidsson | Swedish poet, author, and diplomat | May 7 | 103 | ||
| Vladimir Dybo | Russian linguist | May 7 | 92 | ||
| Fred Siegel | American historian and conservative writer | May 7 | 78 | ||
| Ronald Steel | American author and biographer (Walter Lippmann) | May 7 | 92 | ||
| Samaresh Majumdar | Indian writer | May 8 | 79 | Complications from COPD | |
| Heather Armstrong | American blogger and author | May 9 | 47 | Suicide | |
| Josef Ehmer | Austrian historian | May 9 | 74 | ||
| Wilferd Madelung | German-British author and scholar of Islamic history | May 9 | 92 | ||
| Rosemary Crossley | Australian author | May 10 | 78 | ||
| Ian Hacking | Canadian philosopher (The Taming of Chance, Rewriting the Soul, Mad Travelers) | May 10 | 87 | ||
| Leon Comber | British military officer and author | May 11 | 101 | ||
| Sibylle Lewitscharoff | German writer | May 13 | 69 | ||
| Hassan Hallak | Lebanese historian and academic | May 15 | 77 | ||
| Eugene Kozlovsky | Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director | May 15 | 76 | ||
| Inger Sandberg | Swedish children's author (The Little Ghost Godfrey, Lilla Anna and the Tall Uncle) | May 16 | 92 | ||
| Martin Amis | British novelist (London Fields, Money, Time's Arrow) | May 19 | 73 | Esophageal cancer | |
| Pete Brown | English poet, lyricist ("I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room") and singer | May 19 | 82 | ||
| Dževad Karahasan | Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher | May 19 | 70 | ||
| Veno Taufer | Slovenian poet, translator and playwright | May 20 | 90 | ||
| Antón Arrufat | Cuban writer and poet | May 21 | 87 | Bronchopneumonia | |
| Erick Pohlhammer | Chilean poet | May 22 | 68 | Complications from a stroke | |
| John Dunning | American novelist | May 23 | 81 | ||
| Lin Wenyue | Taiwanese writer and translator | May 26 | 89 | ||
| Govindray H. Nayak | Indian writer and academic | May 26 | 89 | ||
| Anita Cornwell | American author and activist | May 27 | 99 | ||
| Frédéric Barbier | French historian | May 28 | 70 | ||
| Choi Il-nam | South Korean writer | May 28 | 90 | ||
| Antonio Gala | Spanish poet, playwright and writer | May 28 | 92 | ||
| Asad Gulzoda | Tajik poet and linguist | May 29 | 88 | ||
| Ama Ata Aidoo | Ghanaian author and playwright (The Dilemma of a Ghost, Anowa) | May 31 | 81 | ||
| Vellayani Arjunan | Indian literary scholar | May 31 | 90 | ||
| June | |||||
| Ronald L. Baker | American folklorist | June 1 | 85 | ||
| Byron Barton | American author and illustrator of children's books | June 3 | 92 | ||
| Khalid Kishtainy | Iraqi writer and satirist | June 3 | 93 | ||
| Mochtar Pabottingi | Indonesian writer | June 4 | 77 | Heart attack | |
| Cormac McCarthy | American writer (Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, No Country for Old Men, The Road) | June 13 | 89 | ||
| Robert Gottlieb | American author and editor | June 14 | 92 | ||
| Micere Githae Mugo | Kenyan writer, activist and professor | June 20 | 80 | Cancer | |
| July | |||||
| Ahn Junghyo | South Korean novelist and translator | July 1 | 81 | Cancer | |
| Victoria Amelina | Ukrainian novelist | July 1 | 37 | Russian attack | |
| Valeriano Bozal | Spanish historian and philosopher | July 2 | 82 | ||
| Zé Celso | Brazilian playwright and stage director (Teatro Oficina) | July 6 | 86 | Injuries from a fire | |
| Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ | Vietnamese poet | July 6 | 73 | ||
| Mary Ann Hoberman | American author and poet | July 7 | 92 | ||
| Ahmed Ilias | Bangladeshi poet | July 7 | 88 | ||
| José Mattoso | Portuguese historian and medievalist | July 8 | 90 | ||
| Adrian Tan | Singaporean novelist (The Teenage Textbook, The Teenage Workbook) and lawyer | July 8 | 57 | Cancer | |
| Alain Besançon | French historian | July 9 | 91 | ||
| Jean-Jacques Becker | French historian | July 10 | 95 | ||
| Richard G. Hovannisian | American historian | July 10 | 90 | ||
| Marga Minco | Dutch journalist and writer | July 10 | 103 | ||
| Per Odensten | Swedish novelist and poet | July 10 | 84 | ||
| Ahmadreza Ahmadi | Iranian poet and screenwriter | July 11 | 83 | ||
| Milan Kundera | Czech-French writer (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) | July 11 | 94 | ||
| Colin Spencer | English writer and artist | July 13 | 89 | ||
| Bernard Bachrach | American historian | July 14 | 84 | ||
| Harry Frankfurt | American philosopher and author (On Bullshit, On Truth) | July 16 | 94 | congestive heart failure | |
| Wasef Bakhtari | Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual | July 19 | 80 | ||
| Silvana Lattmann | Italian-Swiss poet and author | July 19 | 104 | ||
| Jaime Galarza Zavala | Ecuadorian writer | July 20 | 92 | lung disease | |
| Malú Urriola | Chilean poet | July 21 | 56 | ||
| Russell H. Greenan | American author (It Happened in Boston?) | July 22 | 97 | ||
| Howard Adelman | Canadian philosopher and academic | July 23 | 85 | ||
| Seiichi Morimura | Japanese novelist | July 24 | 90 | ||
| Gérard Besson | Trinidadian writer and publisher | July 25 | 81 | ||
| Shirish Kanekar | Indian writer and journalist | July 25 | 80 | ||
| Eduardo Pitta | Portuguese poet, fiction writer and essayist | July 25 | 73 | ||
| Lâm Quang Mỹ | Vietnamese-Polish poet | July 26 | 79 | ||
| Keith Waldrop | American poet | July 27 | 90 | ||
| Danila Comastri Montanari | Italian historical fiction novelist | July 28 | 74 | ||
| Martin Walser | German writer (Runaway Horse, A Man in Love, Marriage in Philippsburg) | July 28 | 96 | ||
| David Albahari | Serbian writer and translator | July 30 | 75 | ||
| August | |||||
| Michela Murgia | Italian novelist and journalist | August 10 | 51 | Cancer | |
| October | |||||
| Louise Meriwether | American novelist, journalist and activist | October 10 | 100 | ||
| Louise Gluck | American poet (2020 Nobel Laureate in Literature) | October 13 | 80 | Cancer | |
| November | |||||
| A. S. Byatt | English novelist (The Virgin in the Garden, Possession, Still Life) and critic | November 16 | 87 | ||
| Eddie Linden | Scottish poet and publisher (Aquarius magazine) | November 19 | 88 | ||
| Tim Dorsey | American novelist | November 26 | 62 | ||
| John Nichols | American novelist | November 27 | 83 | ||
| December | |||||
| Benjamin Zephaniah | British poet | December 7 | 65 | Brain tumour |
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