2022 deaths, sorted by date of death!Individual!Background!Date of Death!Age!Cause of Death!Ref. | Chinese poet | | 101 | | [79] |
F. Sionil José | Filipino novelist and journalist | | 97 | | [80] |
| American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist | | 65 | | [81] [82] |
| American author of Groucho Marx mysteries | | 89 | Respiratory arrest | [83] |
| Brazilian poet and translator | | 95 | | [84] |
| American fashion author, editor, and journalist | | 73 | Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 | [85] [86] [87] [88] |
| American young adult novelist` | | 35 | Neuroendocrine cancer | [89] |
| American writer and illustrator of children's books | | 98 | | [90] [91] |
| American editor and publisher | | 93 | Congestive heart failure | [92] |
| Japanese novelist | | 54 | | [93] |
| American novelist | | 70 | Brain cancer | [94] |
| American political satirist and journalist | | 74 | Lung cancer | [95] |
| Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog) | | 85 | Complications of dementia | [96] |
| English writer and illustrator of children's books | | 94 | | [97] |
| American author, editor, and journalist | | 86 | Complications from Parkinson's disease | [98] |
| American novelist, memoirist, and editor | | 91 | | [99] |
| Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter | | 92 | | [100] (in Russian) |
| American novelist and journalist (Art in America) | | 70 | Heart disease | [101] |
| American poet, critic, and translator | | 92 | | [102] |
| English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard) | | 87 | | [103] |
| British crime writer | | 92 | | [104] |
| Ukrainian fantasy novelist | | 77 | | [105] |
| American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) | | 74 | | [106] |
| South Korean poet and playwright | | 81 | | [107] |
| American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) | | 76-77 | | [108] |
| American literary agent | | 91 | | [109] [110] |
| Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories | | 90 | | [111] |
| Slovenian writer (Necropolis) | | 108 | | [112] |
| Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet | | 94 | | [113] |
| American visual artist and author | | 69 | Heart attack | [114] |
| Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright | | 85 | Cancer | [115] |
| Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago) | | 99 | | [116] |
| Australian novelist and screenwriter | | 83 | | [117] |
| British crime novelist | | 51 | Brain cancer | [118] |
| Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) | | 90 | | [119] |
| American novelist (Chiefs) | | 84 | | |
| American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) | | 61 | Lung cancer | [120] |
| American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) | | 89 | | [121] |
| English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) | | 88 | | [122] [123] |
| English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter | | 72 | | [124] |
| French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) | | 89 | | [125] |
Frederick Buechner | American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher | August 15 | 96 | | [126] [127] |
| English author (Spook's) | | 77 | | [128] |
Hadrawi | Somali poet | | 78-79 | | [129] |
| American writer | | 80 | Pancreatic cancer | [130] |
| American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman) | | 79 | | [131] |
Mariella Mehr | Swiss novelist, playwright and poet | | 74 | | [132] |
| Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) | | 70 | Pneumonia | [133] |
Yadollah Royaee | Iranian poet | | 90 | | [134] |
Tibor Frank | Hungarian historian | | 74 | | [135] |
Saul Kripke | American philosopher and logician | | 81 | | [136] |
| British novelist (Wolf Hall) | | 70 | | [137] [138] |
Knud Sørensen | Danish novelist, essayist and poet | | 94 | | [139] |
Marguerite Andersen | German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator | | 97 | | [140] |
Charles Fuller | American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign) | | 83 | | [141] |
Rebecca Godfrey | Canadian author | | 54 | Lung cancer | [142] |
David Huerta | Mexican poet | | 72 | | [143] |
| British-born Canadian crime writer | | 72 | | [144] |
| Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head) | | 76 | | [145] |
Bruno Latour | French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern) | | 75 | Pancreatic cancer | [146] |
| American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization) | | 82 | | [147] |
| American writer (The Paper Chase) | | 77 | Squamous cell cancer | [148] |
Anton Donchev | Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter | | 92 | | [149] |
Leszek Engelking | Polish writer and translator | | 67 | | [150] |
| American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire) | | 76 | Cancer | [151] |
| American author (Julie & Julia) | | 49 | Cardiac arrest | [152] |
Gerald Stern | American poet, essayist, and educator | | 97 | | [153] |
Bahaa Taher | Egyptian novelist and short story writer | | 87 | | [154] |
Hava Pinhas-Cohen | Israeli writer and poet | | 67 | | [155] |
| American author | | 88 | | [156] |
| American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist | | 104 | | [157] |
Geoff Cochrane | New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer | | 71 | | [158] |
| British writer, illustrator and musician | | 54 | | [159] |
Joëlle Guillais | French writer | | 70 | Stroke | [160] |
Marijane Meaker | American writer (Spring Fire) | | 95 | Cardiac arrest | [161] |
Bernadette Mayer | American poet and writer | | 77 | | [162] |
Milovan Danojlić | Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic | | 85 | | [163] |
Christian Bobin | French author and poet | | 71 | | [164] |
| German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil) | | 93 | | [165] |
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh | Yemeni poet and essayist | | 85 | | [166] |
Ray Nelson | American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man) | | 91 | | [167] |
| French author | | 91 | | [168] [169] |
Claude Mossé | French historian | | 97 | | [170] |
| Chinese novelist and poet | | 85 | Heart failure | [171] |
Manfred Messerschmidt | German historian (Germany and the Second World War) | | 96 | | [172] |
Françoise Bourdin | French novelist | | 70 | | [173] |
Begoña Huertas | Spanish writer | December 25 | 57 | | [174] |
| Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic | | 86 | | [175] |
| American biographer and novelist | | 88 | | [176] | |
2022 literature awards, ordered alphabetically by award!Award!Category!Date awarded!Recipient(s)!Work!Date Published!Ref.America Award in Literature | | Gerhard Rühm | — | — | |
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Benjamin Hadley Danks Award | | — | — |
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award | | | | |
Katherine Anne Porter Award | | — | — | |
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award | | Priestdaddy | | |
Award of Merit for Poetry | | — | — | [177] [178] |
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award | | | | |
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction | | Brood | | |
Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation | | Love in the Time of Cholera | | |
Andre Norton Award | | | | | [179] |
Baillie Gifford Prize | | | Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne | | [180] |
BBC National Short Story Award | | | "" | | [181] |
Booker Prize | Booker Prize | | Shehan Karunatilaka | | | [182] |
International Booker Prize | | Geetanjali Shree with Daisy Rockwell (trans.) | Tomb of Sand | | [183] |
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year | | Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry | | | [184] |
Bram Stoker Award | | TBA | TBA | TBA | | |
British Book Awards | Author of the Year | | | — | — | [185] |
Book of the Year | Marcus Rashford with Carl Anka | | | |
Fiction Book | | Sorrow and Bliss | | [186] |
Début Book | | Open Water | | |
Crime & Thriller | , Ian Rankin | | | |
Caine Prize for African Writing | | | "Five Years Next Sunday" | | [187] |
Carnegie Medal | ~ | | October, October | | [188] |
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize | | | If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English | | [189] |
Duff Cooper Prize | | | | | [190] |
Edgar Awards | Novel | | | Five Decembers | | [191] |
Raven Award | | — | — | [192] |
Ellery Queen Award | | — | — | |
Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master | | — | — | |
Eugie Award | | | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | | [193] |
European Book Prize | Novel | | | M. L'uomo della provvidenza | | |
Folio Prize | | | | | |
Franz Kafka Prize | TBA | TBA | TBA | | |
Giller Prize | | | The Sleeping Car Porter | August 29 | [194] |
Governor General's Awards | English Fiction | November 16 | | Pure Colour | | [195] [196] |
English Non-Fiction | | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | |
English Poetry | | Shadow Blight | |
English Drama | | The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key | |
English Children's Literature | | The Summer of Bitter and Sweet | |
English Children's Illustration | and Nahid Kazemi | The Sour Cherry Tree | |
French to English Translation | | History of the Jews in Quebec | |
French Fiction | | Mille secrets mille dangers | | [197] |
French Non-Fiction | | La Voie romaine | |
French Poetry | | Enfants du lichen | |
French Drama | | Le poids des fourmis | |
French Children's literature | | Cancer ascendant Autruche | |
French Children's illustration | and Qin Leng | Trèfle | |
English to French translation | | Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin | |
Hugo Award | Best Novel | | | | | [198] |
Best Novella | | | |
Best Novelette | | "" | |
Best Short Story | | "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" | |
Lodestar Award | | | |
Astounding Award | | She Who Became the Sun | |
International Dublin Literary Award | | (translated by Frank Wynne) | | | [199] |
International Thriller Writer Award | Audiobook | | with Adam Lazarre-White (narrator) | Razorblade Tears | | [200] |
E-Book Original Novel | | Blood Parish | |
First Novel | | My Sweet Girl | |
Hardcover Novel | | Razorblade Tears | |
Paperback Original Novel | | Bloodline | |
Short Story | | "The Lemonade Stand" | |
Young Adult Novel | | The Project | |
ThrillMaster | Frederick Forsyth | — | — |
Diana Gabaldon | — | — |
Lambda Literary Award | Anthology | | | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | | [201] |
Bisexual Fiction | | We Want What We Want | |
Bisexual Nonfiction | | Borealis | |
Bisexual Poetry | Aurielle Marie | Gumbo Ya Ya | |
Children's | and Vanessa Ford | Calvin | |
Drama | | Mrs. Harrison | |
Erotica | | Big Joe | |
Gay Fiction | | 100 Boyfriends | |
Gay Memoir or Biography | | | |
Gay Poetry | | Punks: New & Selected Poems | |
Gay Romance | | Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts | |
Graphic Novel | | Stone Fruit | |
Lesbian Fiction | | Skye Falling | |
Lesbian Memoir or Biography | | The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had) | |
Lesbian Poetry | | Last Days | |
Lesbian Romance | | The Headmistress | |
LGBTQ Studies | | Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall | |
Mystery | | The Savage Kind | |
Nonfiction | | | |
Speculative Fiction | | No Gods, No Monsters | |
Transgender Fiction | | Summer Fun | |
Transgender Nonfiction | | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | |
Transgender Poetry | | Crossbones on My Life | |
Young Adult | | The Heartbreak Bakery | |
Miguel de Cervantes Prize | | | — | — | |
Miles Franklin Award | | | Bodies of Light | | |
Nobel Prize in Literature | | | — | — | [202] |
Premio Planeta de Novela | | | Lejos de Luisiana | November 4 | [203] [204] |
Premio Strega Prize | | | Spatriati | | |
Prix Goncourt | | Brigitte Giraud | Vivre vite | August 24 | [205] |
| Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry | | | Mama Phife Represents | | [206] |
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction | | The Prophets | |
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction | | Afterparties | |
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction | | Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought | |
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature | | A Symmetry | |
Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction | | | |
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry | | Punks: New & Selected Poems | |
Pulitzer Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | | | | | [207] |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama | | Fat Ham | |
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction | | | |
Pulitzer Prize for History | | Covered with Night | |
| Cuba: An American History | |
Pulitzer Prize for Biography | | Chasing Me to My Grave | |
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ReLit Awards | Novel | May 20 | Conor Kerr | Avenue of Champions | | [208] |
Short fiction | Sydney Hegele | The Pump | |
Poetry | Charlie Petch | Why I Was Late | |
Silvers-Dudley Prize | Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism | | | — | — | [209] [210] |
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Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism | | — | — |
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Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing | | — | — |
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Trillium Book Award | English Prose | | Ann Shin | The Last Exiles | | [211] |
English Poetry | Bardia Sinaee | Intruder | |
French Prose | Robert Marinier | Un conte de l’apocalypse | |
French Poetry | Chloé LaDuchesse | Exosquelette | |
Women's Prize for Fiction | | | | | [212] |
Writers' Trust of Canada | Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing | May 2 | Joanna Chiu | China Unbound: A New World Disorder | | [213] |
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers | June 6 | Teya Hollier | "Watching, Waiting" | — | [214] |
Patrick James Errington | "If Fire, Then Bird" | — |
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize | | Nicholas Herring | Some Hellish | | [215] |
Dayne Ogilvie Prize | Francesca Ekwuyasi | Butter Honey Pig Bread | |
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Dan Werb | The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure | |
Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize | Joseph Dandurand | — |
Matt Cohen Award | Candace Savage | — |
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People | Elise Gravel | — |
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award | Shani Mootoo | — |
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy | | John Lorinc | Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias | — | [216] | |