2014 in literature explained

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014.

Events

• January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus.^[1] This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month.^{[2] [3] [4]}
• January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga.
• March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins the 2014 edition of Canada Reads.^[5]
• April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates.^[6]
• May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of Beowulf is first published.^[7] (His essay "On Translating Beowulf had appeared in 1940).
• June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL.^[8]
• November 25 – Discovery of a previously unknown copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays (1623) in the public library at Saint-Omer in northern France is announced.^[9]

Anniversaries

• 28 January – On this day 75 years ago, W. B. Yeats died in Menton, France.^[10]
• 5 February – William Burroughs was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)^[11]
• 21 February – Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday celebrated (may or may not be his birthday)^[10]
• 1 March – On this day 100 years ago, Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man) was born.^[10]
• 9 March – Charles Bukowski died 20 years ago today (1994).^[12]
• 10 March – On this day 50 years ago, John Updike receives the National Book Award for The Centaur.^[13]
• 31 March – 100th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet Octavio Paz in 1914.^{[14] [15]}
• 4 April – Marguerite Duras was born in 1914 (100th Anniversary)^[10]
• 14 April – On this day 75 years ago, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published.^[10]
• 16 April – Ralph Ellison dies on this date 20 years ago in 1994. (see March 1 above for Ellison links)
• 18 April – On this day 40 years ago (1974) the first printing of J. M. Coetzee's debut novel Dusklands appeared in hardback.^[16]
• 23 April – It is assumed that William Shakespeare was born on this day 450 years ago (because records show that he was baptised on 26 April).^[10]
• 26 April – The centenary of Bernard Malamud's birth (April 26, 1914).^[17]
• May – The 100th anniversary of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.^{[18] [19]}
• 16 June – This year's Bloomsday celebration will also mark the 100th anniversary of the publication (June 1914) of Joyce's Dubliners.^[20]
• 21 September – the 50th anniversary of the publication of Herzog by Saul Bellow, the second of his three National Book Award-winning novels.^[21]
• 7 July – Sir Walter Scott's debut novel, Waverley, was published (anonymously) 200 years ago today.^[10]
• 22 September – Alain-Fournier died in action in northern France 100 years ago today, just a year after the publication of his only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes.^[10]
• 27 October – Dylan Thomas was born a hundred years ago.^[10]
• 18 November – Margaret Atwood celebrates her 75th birthday today.^[10]
• 2 December – The Marquis de Sade died 200 years ago today.^[10]

New books

Fiction

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless stated otherwise.

• Belinda Alexandra – Sapphire Skies (Australia)
• Jacob M. Appel – Scouting for the Reaper (February 15)
• Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins (UK)
• Margaret Atwood – Stone Mattress – Nine Tales (September 16)
• Bandi – The Accusation (Korean language short stories, South Korea, May)
• Natalie Baszile – Queen Sugar (February 6)
• Pierce Brown – Red Rising (January 28)
• Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist (UK)
• Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See (May 6)
• Ceridwen Dovey – Only the Animals (April 23)
• David Grossman – A Horse Walks into a Bar: A novel (In original Hebrew as סוס אחד נכנס לְבָּר (Soos Echad Nechnas L'bar), Israel)
• John Hornor Jacobs – The Incorruptibles (UK)
• Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings (October 2)
• Stephen King
  • Mr. Mercedes (June 3)
  • Revival (November 11)
• Thomas King – The Back of the Turtle
• Paul Kingsnorth – The Wake (UK, April?)
• Herman Koch – Geachte heer M. (Dear Mr. M., Netherlands)
• Niviaq Korneliussen – Homo Sapienne (Greenland)
• Laila Lalami – The Moor's Account (September 9)
• S. E. Lister – Hideous Creatures (UK, May)
• Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule) – En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (translated as The End of Eddy, France, February)
• Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – Kintu (Ugandan-born author published in Kenya)
• Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven (Canada)
• Javier Marías – Así empieza lo malo (Thus Bad Begins, Spain)
• Sean Michaels – Us Conductors (Canada, April 8)
• Karen Miller – The Falcon Throne (September)
• Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (translation, August 12)
• Rick Riordan – The Blood of Olympus (October 7)
• Rudy Ruiz – Seven for the Revolution
• Samanta Schweblin – Distancia de rescate (translated as Fever Dream, Argentina)
• Roger Scruton – Notes from Underground (March 12)
• Akhil Sharma – Family Life
• Joss Sheldon – Involution & Evolution (August 4)
• Leïla Slimani – Dans le jardin de l'ogre (France)^[22]
• Ali Smith – How to Be Both (UK, August 28)
• Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows^[23]
• Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (Księgi Jakubowe) (Poland, October)
• Niall Williams – History of the Rain

Children and young people

• Chris Van Allsburg – The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie
• David Almond
  • A Song for Ella Grey
  • The Tightrope Walkers
• Connah Brecon – There's This Thing
• A. F. Harrold – The Imaginary
• John Hornor Jacobs – The Shibboleth
• J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – Harlem Hellfighters
• Katherine Rundell – Rooftoppers
• Jon Scieszka – Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (first in the Frank Einstein series of four books)
• R. A. Spratt – Friday Barnes
• Maggie Stiefvater – Blue Lily, Lily Blue (third book in The Raven Cycle, October 21)^[24]
• Zoe Sugg – Girl Online (UK, November 25)

Drama

• Mike Bartlett – King Charles III^[25]
• John Patrick Shanley – Outside Mullingar

Poetry

See also: 2014 in poetry.

• Rosemary Tonks (posthumous) – Bedouin of the London Evening (selected poetry and prose)

Non-fiction

• Leo Babauta – The Little Book of Contentment
• Alan Cumming – Not My Father's Son
• Lindsay David –
• Mark Felton – Zero Night
• Ruben Flores – Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States
• William H. Frey – Diversity Explosion
• Michael Gross – House of Outrageous Fortune
  • Christophe Guilluy – La France périphérique
• Madhu Kishwar – Modi, Muslims and Media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat
• Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
• Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott – Farmageddon
• Helen Macdonald – H is for Hawk (UK, July)
• Rajiv Malhotra – Indra's Net
• Lucy Mangan – Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory
• L. A. Paul – Transformative Experience
• Winifred Phillips – A Composer's Guide to Game Music
• Claudia Rankine –
• Roger Scruton
  • How to Be a Conservative (UK, September 11)
  • The Soul of the World
• Douglas Vakoch – Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
• Erik Voskuil – Before Mario

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in literature" article,

• January 4 – Jean Metellus, Haitian neurologist, author, poet, and playwright (born 1937)
• January 14 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, 83 (born 1930)
• January 28 – Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, and geographer, 64 (born 1949)
• January 29 – Hashem Shabani, Iranian poet, 32, (hanged, born c. 1982)
• February 18 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian writer of short stories, 91 (born 1923)^[26]
• March 2 – Justin Kaplan, American writer, editor and biographer, 88 (born 1925)^[27]
• March 18 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian researcher and poet,
• April 2
  • Glyn Jones, South African actor and screenwriter (born 1931)
  • Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (born 1938)
• April 5 – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer, 86 (born 1927)^{[28] [29] [30]}
• April 10
  • Doris Pilkington Garimara (Nugi Garimara), Aboriginal novelist, 77 (born 1937)^[31]
  • Sue Townsend, English comic novelist and playwright, 68 (born 1946)
• April 15 – Rosemary Tonks, English poet, prose writer, and children's writer (born 1928)
• April 17 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel laureate, 87 (born 1927)^[32]
• April 20 – Alistair MacLeod, Canadian writer, 77 (born 1936)^{[33] [34]}
• April 24 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, dramatist and writer, 92 (born 1921)^[35]
• May 6 – Farley Mowat, Canadian author and environmentalist, 92 (born 1921)^[36]
• May 21 – Ruth Guimarães, Afro-Brazilian classicist, fiction writer and poet, 93 (born 1920)
• May 28
  • Maya Angelou, American author, poet and civil rights activist, 86 (born 1928)^[37]
  • Oscar Dystel, American paperback publisher, 101 (born 1912).
• June 19 – Josephine Pullein-Thompson, English children's novelist, 90 (born 1924)
• June 22 – Felix Dennis, English publisher and poet, 67 (born 1947)^[38]
• June 23 – Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)^[39]
• June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish writer, 88 (born 1925)^[40]
• June 29 – Dermot Healy, Irish poet, playwright, fiction writer and memoirist. 66 (born 1947)^[41]
• July 4 – C. J. Henderson, American author and critic, 62
• July 7 – Sheila K. McCullagh, English children's writer (born 1920)
• July 13 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 90 (born 1923)^[42]
• July 20 – Thomas Berger, American writer, 93 (born 1924)
• August 1 – Jan Roar Leikvoll, Norwegian novelist, 40 (brain tumour, born 1974)
• August 2
  • Billie Letts, American novelist, 73 (born 1938)
  • James Thompson, American-Finnish author, 49 (born 1964)
• September 4
  • Orunamamu, American-Canadian author, story-teller and educator, 93 (born 1921)
  • Edgar Steele, American lawyer and author, 69 (born 1945)
• September 21 – Linda Griffiths, Canadian playwright, 60 (born 1953)^[43]
• September 24 – Hugh C. Rae (Jessica Stirling, etc.), Scottish novelist, 79 (born 1935)
• September 28 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet and physician, 91 (born 1923)
• November 27 – P. D. James, English crime writer, 94 (born 1920)^[44]
• November 29 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet and writer, United States Poet Laureate, 80 (born 1934)^[45]
• November 30
  • Radwa Ashour, Egyptian writer and academic, 68 (born 1946)^[46]
  • Kent Haruf, American novelist, 71 (born 1943)^[47]
• December 3 – Vicente Leñero, Mexican writer and journalist, 81 (born 1933)^[48]
• December 12 – Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, 86 (born 1928)
• December 24 – Lee Israel, American biographer and literary forger, 75 (born 1939)

Awards

• Akutagawa Prize

Hiroko Oyamada for Japanese: Ana (Hole) and Tomoka Shibasaki for Japanese: Haru No Niwa (Spring Garden)

• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

• Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride^[49]

• Caine Prize for African Writing

Okwiri Oduor, "My Father's Head"

• Camões Prize

Alberto da Costa e Silva

• Costa Book of the Year

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald^[50]

• Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Paul Carlucci, The Secret Life of Fission^[51]

• Dayne Ogilvie Prize

Tamai Kobayashi^[52]

• Desmond Elliott Prize

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride^[53]

• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry^[54]

• Dylan Thomas Prize

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris^[55]

• European Book Prize

Pascale Hugues, Hannah's Dress, and Anthony Giddens, Turbulent and Mighty Continent

• Folio Prize

by George Saunders^[56]

• German Book Prize

Kruso by Lutz Seiler^[57]

• Goldsmiths Prize

How to Be Both by Ali Smith^[58]

• Gordon Burn Prize

The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth^[59]

• Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle^[60]

• Governor General's Award for French-language fiction

Andrée A. Michaud, Bondrée

• Governor General's Awards, other categories: See 2014 Governor General's Awards.
• Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

Adrien Bosc, for Constellation

• International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi^[61]

• International Dublin Literary Award

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

• Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride^[62]

• Lambda Literary Awards

Multiple categories; see 26th Lambda Literary Awards

• Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award

Steve Erickson

• Man Booker Prize

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan^[63]

• Miles Franklin Award

All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld^[64]

• National Biography Award

The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer by Alison Alexander^[65]

• National Book Award for Fiction

to Redeployment by Phil Klay^[66]

• Nobel Prize in Literature

to Patrick Modiano^[67]

• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt^[68]

• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri^{[69] [70]}

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows^[71]

• SAARC Literary Award

Tarannum Riyaz

• Samuel Johnson Prize

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald^[72]

• Scotiabank Giller Prize

Sean Michaels, Us Conductors^[73]

• Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings

Ko Un^[74]

• Walter Scott Prize

An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris^[75]

• Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award

Charles Simic^[76]

External links

• https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/01/2014-books-year-ahead
• Most popular 2014 book articles viewed on Wikipedia, with user comments on traffic jumps – The latest statistics can be found on Wikitop

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2014-01-28 . Scholars Discover New Poems from Ancient Greek Poetess Sappho . The Daily Beast . 2014-04-04.
2. Web site: Quinn . Annalisa . Book News: Two Poems By Greek Poet Sappho Discovered . The Two-Way . NPR . 2014-01-30 . 2014-04-04.
3. Web site: New poems by Sappho . TLS . 2014-04-04.
4. Web site: A discussion on the new Sappho papyrus . New Sappho . 2014-01-29 . 2014-04-04.
5. News: Joseph Boyden's novel The Orenda wins CBC's Canada Reads contest . . 2014-03-06 . 2014-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140411231701/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/Joseph+Boydens+novel+Orenda+wins+CBCs+Canada+Reads/9587487/story.html . 2014-04-11 . dead .
6. News: Authors campaign against ban on sending books to prisoners . Aime . Williams . . London . 2014-04-24 . 2014-12-05.
7. News: John . Garth . JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf: bring on the monsters . . London . 2014-03-22 . 2014-04-28.
8. News: Isis burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul's libraries . Rose Troup . Buchanan . Heather . Saul . 2015-02-25 . 2019-06-19 . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-burns-thousands-of-rare-books-and-manuscripts-from-mosuls-libraries-10068408.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . live . . London.
9. News: Rory . Mulholland . Shakespeare First Folio discovered in French library . The Daily Telegraph . 2014-11-25 . 2014-12-09.
10. News: 2014 in books: turn over a new leaf . The Guardian . January 2014 . 2014-02-27.
11. Web site: Link . Silliman's Blog . Ronsilliman.blogspot.com . 2014-03-22 . 2014-04-28.
12. Web site: Charles Bukowski Called it Splitsville 20 Years ago . Pierrejoris.com . 2014-04-28.
13. Book: Begley, Adam . Updike. 2014. HarperCollins (2014) . 978-0061896453 . 265 . Updike and Cheever had met fleetingly at literary events, such as the National Book Award on March 10, 1964, at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, where Updike accepted the prize for The Centaur.
14. Web site: Octavio Paz, b. 100 Years ago today... . Pierrejoris.com . 2014-04-28.
15. Web site: Joel Whitney . Poetry and Action: Octavio Paz at 100 . Dissent Magazine . 2014-04-28.
16. Book: Kannermeyer, J. C. . Michiel Heyns, translator . J. M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing . 2012 . Scribe Publications . 9781922070081 . 247 . On 18 April 1974 the first printing of Dusklands appeared in hardback, with a press release by Randall praising the novel as "one of the most important works of literature to have been written in South Africa". The retail price was R4.80..
17. Web site: Bernard Malamud Centenary | Work in Progress . Fsgworkinprogress.com . 2013-01-24 . 2014-04-28.
18. Web site: Gertrude Stein. 1914. Tender Buttons: Bibliographic Record . bartleby.com.
19. Web site: Twenty-two on 'Tender Buttons' | Jacket2.
20. http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-paul/article761264.html Ernest Hemingway, born 115 years ago this month, had ways of making the world smaller and larger
21. Web site: Li: Herzog . libraryofinspiration.com.
22. Web site: Dans le jardin de l'ogre. Gallimard. 27 January 2021.
23. Miriam Toews wrestles with suicide in her latest quest for narrative truth. Brian . Bethune . Maclean's. 11 October 2014.
24. Web site: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Waterstones . www.waterstones.com . 15 December 2016.
25. Web site: King Charles III . . almeida.co.uk . 27 January 2021.
26. Web site: Mavis Gallant obituary . Christopher Hawtree . the Guardian. 18 February 2014 .
27. Web site: Justin Kaplan, Biographer of Whitman and Twain, Dies at 88 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog . The Poetry Foundation . 2014-06-17.
28. [National Book Foundation]
29. Web site: 2008 National Book Award Winner, Fiction . National Book Foundation . 2009-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090129130420/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_f_matthiessen.html . 2009-01-29 . dead .
30. [Christopher Lehmann-Haupt|Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher]
31. News: Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76. The New York Times. 21 April 2014. Martin. Douglas.
32. News: Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87.
33. News: Author Alistair MacLeod dies at 77, remembered as 'great writer and a great man' . 2019-01-26 . 2018-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181024232021/http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Author+Alistair+MacLeod+dies/9757263/story.html . dead .
34. News: Alistair MacLeod, acclaimed Canadian writer, dead at 77 – Nova Scotia – CBC News . Cbc.ca . 2014-04-20 . 2014-04-28.
35. Web site: Poet Tadeusz Rozewicz dies, aged 92 . 2014-04-24 . . 2016-07-11 . 2018-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181024231610/http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/169109,Poet-Tadeusz-Rozewicz-dies-aged-92 . dead .
36. Web site: Farley Mowat obituary . Parini . Jay . 8 May 2014 . www.theguardian,com . 9 May 2014.
37. Web site: Link . Silliman's Blog . Ronsilliman.blogspot.com . 2014-05-29 . 2014-06-17.
38. News: Felix Dennis . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felix-dennis-publisher-who-started-out-working-on-oz-and-went-on-to-found-a-lucrative-magazine-publishing-empire-9557862.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . live . . London . 2014-06-24 . 2014-06-24.
39. Web site: Nancy Garden: The author whose novel Annie on My Mind was credited . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nancy-garden-the-author-whose-novel-annie-on-my-mind-was-credited-with-helping-gay-teenagers-feel-9603448.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . live . The Independent . 14 February 2020 . en . 14 July 2014.
40. Web site: Muere la escritora Ana María Matute . . June 25, 2014 . Sergi Doria.
41. News: Death of writer Dermot Healy . . 2014-06-30 . 2014-06-30.
42. Web site: SA novelist Nadine Gordimer dies . Channel.
43. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/linda-griffiths-actor-and-playwright-dead-after-battle-with-cancer-1.2773224 "Linda Griffiths, actor and playwright, dead after battle with cancer"
44. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/international/p-d-james-mystery-novelist-known-as-queen-of-crime-dies-at-94.html?emc=edit_au_20141127&nl=afternoonupdatenlid=62297817&_r=0 Retrieved 28 November 2014.
45. http://theweek.com/article/index/272779/pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate-mark-strand-dies-at-80-years-old Pulitzer-winning poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 years old
46. Web site: Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour dies at 68 . ahram.org.eg.
47. Web site: Publisher says novelist Kent Haruf dies at age 71 – StarTribune.com . Star Tribune.
48. Web site: El Universal – In English – Mexican writer Vicente Leñero dies at 81 . 3 December 2014 . El Universal . 5 December 2014 . 6 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141206072122/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/in-english/2014/vicente-lenero-dies-98337.html . dead .
49. Web site: Eimear McBride wins Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction . 4 June 2014 . 20 June 2014 . Tim Masters . BBC.
50. Web site: Helen Macdonald wins Costa Book of the Year 2014 . . 30 January 2015 . 27 January 2015.
51. http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2014/06/02/paul-carlucci-wins-danuta-gleed-award/ "Paul Carlucci wins Danuta Gleed Award"
52. http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2014/06/24/tamai-kobayashi-wins-2014-dayne-ogilvie-prize-for-lgbt-emerging-writers/ "Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers"
53. Web site: The 2014 Prize | The Desmond Elliott Prize . https://archive.today/20140725200849/http://www.desmondelliottprize.org/2014-prize-winner/ . dead . 25 July 2014 . The Desmond Elliott Prize . 3 July 2014 . 2 September 2014 .
54. Web site: Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature . . Aditi Malhotra . 18 January 2014 . 9 September 2014.
55. Web site: Wroe . Nicholas . Joshua Ferris wins Dylan Thomas prize . . . 13 November 2014 . 7 November 2014.
56. Web site: Tenth of December by George Saunders wins inaugural Folio Prize 2014 . Folio Prize . 10 March 2014 . 21 June 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140311235715/http://www.thefolioprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Folio-Prize-winner-announcement-1.pdf . 11 March 2014 .
57. Web site: Lutz Seiler Wins 2014 German Book Prize . Publishing Perspectives . 15 December 2016 . 7 October 2014.
58. Web site: Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both . . 13 November 2014 . 13 November 2014.
59. Web site: Mark Rylance-backed novel wins £5,000 literary prize . . 11 October 2014 . 10 October 2014.
60. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/thomas-king-wins-governor-generals-award-for-fiction/article21636001/ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction"
61. Web site: Baghdad Writes! . Pierrejoris.com . 2014-06-17.
62. Web site: Doyle . Martin . Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award . . 3 September 2014 . 28 May 2014.
63. Web site: Masters . Tim . Man Booker Prize: Richard Flanagan wins for wartime love story . . 15 October 2014 . 14 October 2014.
64. Web site: Miles Franklin Literary Award: Author Evie Wyld wins for her book All The Birds Singing . ABC News . 27 June 2014 . Adrian Raschella . 2 January 2015.
65. News: Begley . Patrick . Alison Alexander wins National Biography Award for The Ambitions of Jane Franklin . 27 June 2015 . Sydney Morning Herald . 4 August 2014.
66. News: Kell y. Keith J. . Phil Klay wins National Book Award for 'Redeployment' . November 20, 2014 . New York Post . November 20, 2014.
67. News: Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize in literature . Ron Charles . 9 October 2014 . Washington Post.
68. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes – Citation . Pulitzer.org . 2014-04-28.
69. Citation reads: "for a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless."
70. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes | Jurors . Pulitzer.org . 2014-04-28.
71. Web site: Medley . Mark . Miriam Toews wins Writers' Trust award for All My Puny Sorrows . . 5 November 2014 . 4 November 2014.
72. Web site: Clark . Nick . Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: Helen Macdonald wins with 'H is for Hawk' . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/samuel-johnson-prize-for-nonfiction-helen-macdonald-wins-with-h-is-for-hawk-9839212.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . . Independent Print Limited . 11 November 2014 . 4 November 2014.
73. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/michaels-awarded-giller-prize-for-his-book-us-conductors/article21529902/ "Sean Michaels awarded Giller Prize for his book 'Us Conductors'"
74. News: Ko Un is the winner of the "Golden Wreath" 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140225174412/http://www.strugapoetryevenings.com/ko-un-is-the-winner-of-the-golden-wreath-2014/?lang=en . dead . 25 February 2014 . 21 February 2014 . Struga Poetry Evenings . 21 February 2014 .
75. News: Robert Harris wins Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction . BBC News . BBC. 13 June 2014 . 10 September 2014.
76. Web site: Charles Simic wins 2014 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award . 2019-03-12 . 2017-12-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034738/http://coldfrontmag.com/charles-simic-wins-2014-zbigniew-herbert-international-literary-award/ . dead .