2021 in literature

Summary

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021.

List of years in literature (table)
In poetry
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2021
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Events edit

New books edit

Fiction edit

New adult fiction, sorted by author's last name
Author Title Date of Pub. Ref.
Anuk Arudpragasam A Passage North July 13 [7]
S.A Cosby Razorblade Tears July 6 [8]
Rachel Cusk Second Place May 4 [9]
Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground March 25 [10]
Damon Galgut The Promise May [11]
Lauren Groff Matrix September 7 [12]
Jakob Guanzon Abundance March 2 [13]
Nathan Harris The Sweetness of Water June 15 [14]
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl June 1 [15]
Kazuo Ishiguro Klara and the Sun March 2 [16]
Stephen Graham Jones My Heart Is a Chainsaw August 31 [17]
Caroline Kepnes You Love Me April 6 [18]
Stephen King Billy Summers August 3 [19]
Stephen King Later March 2 [20]
John le Carré Silverview October 12 [21]
Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This February 16 [22]
Nadifa Mohamed The Fortune Men May 27 [23]
Jason Mott Hell of a Book June 28 [24]
Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water February 4 [25]
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Committed March 2 [26]
Anna North Outlawed January 5 [27]
Nnedi Okorafor Remote Control January 19 [28]
Helen Oyeyemi Peaces April 6 [29]
Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts February 2 [30]
Lindsay Pereira Gods and Ends March 22 [31]
Richard Powers Bewilderment September 21 [32]
Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You September 7 [33]
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr La plus secrète mémoire des hommes August 19 [34]
Maggie Shipstead Great Circle May 4 [35]
Michael Farris Smith Nick January 5 [36]
Wole Soyinka Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth September 28 [37]
Francis Spufford Light Perpetual May 18 [38]
Elizabeth Strout Oh William! October 19 [7]
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle September 14 [39]
Joy Williams Harrow September 14 [40]

Children and young adults edit

New books for children and young adults, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of Pub. Ref.
Joanna Ho Eyes That Kiss in the Corners January 5 [41][42]
Bassem Yousef and Catherine R. Daly The Magical Reality of Nadia [43]
Corey R. Tabor Mel Fell February 2 [44]
Carole Boston Weatherford Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre [45]
Rose Szabo What Big Teeth [46]
Philippa Dowding Firefly February 6
Angeline Boulley Firekeeper's Daughter March 16 [47]
Jory John Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear March 23 [48][49]
Matt Walsh Johnny the Walrus March 29 [50]
Andrea Wang Watercress March 30 [51]
Micha Archer Wonder Walkers [52]
Roshani Chokshi Aru Shah and the City of Gold April 6 [53]
Charlie Jane Anders Victories Greater Than Death April 13 [54]
Kyle Lukoff Too Bright to See April 20 [55]
Shawn Harris Have You Ever Seen a Flower? May 4 [56]
Dawn Quigley Jo Jo Makoons May 11 [57]
Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You [58]
Adiba Jaigirdar Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating May 25 [59]
Ashley Herring Blake Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea [60]
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé Ace of Spades June 1 [61]
Meghan Markle The Bench June 8 [62]
Joy Keller Frankenslime July 13 [63]
Crystal Frasier Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms August 10 [64]
Amber McBride Me (Moth) August 17 [65]
Jordan Ifueko Redemptor August 27 [66]
Ayana Gray Beasts of Prey September 28 [67]
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World October 12 [68]
J. K. Rowling The Christmas Pig
Donna Barba Higuera The Last Cuentista [69]
Naseem Hrab The Sour Cherry Tree October 15
Eoin Colfer The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve October 19 [70]
Rick Riordan Daughter of the Deep October 26 [71]
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot [72]
Roseanne A. Brown A Psalm of Storms and Silence November 2 [73]
Natasha Bowen Skin of the Sea [74]
Harmony Becker Himawari House November 9 [75]
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson The 1619 Project: Born on the Water November 16 [76]
Charlotte Sullivan Wild Love, Violet [77]
Mac Barnett What Is Love? December 28 [78]

Poetry edit

New poetry books, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Amanda Gorman The Hill We Climb: Poems March 30, US
Hannah Lowe The Kids September 16, US [10]
Amanda Gorman Call Us What We Carry December 7, US

Drama edit

Non-fiction edit

New nonfiction books, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Elizabeth Kolbert Under a White Sky February 9 [80]
Bill Gates How to Avoid a Climate Disaster February 16 [81]
Jordan Peterson Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life March 2 [82]
Julia Galef The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't April 13 [83]
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty April 13 [84]
Sasha Issenberg The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage June 1 [85]
Lawrence Wright The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid June 8 [86]
Michael Holding Why We Kneel, How We Rise June 24 [87]
Sam Kean The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science July 13 [88]
Sanjay Gupta World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One October 5 [89]
Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present November 2 [90]
Zoë Playdon The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial That Threatened to Upend the British Establishment November 11 [91]
Brené Brown Atlas of the Heart November 30 [92]

Biography and memoirs edit

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by last name
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Blake Bailey Philip Roth: The Biography May 26 [93]
Hunter Biden Beautiful Things April 6 [94]
Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods May 18
Walter Isaacson The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race March 9 [95]
Sinéad O'Connor Rememberings June 1 [96]
Nadia Owusu Aftershocks: A Memoir January 12 [97]
Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart April 20 [98]

Deaths edit

Deaths sorted by date of death
Individual Background Date of Death Age Cause of Death Ref.
Mary Catherine Bateson Daughter of Margaret Mead, American author and anthropologist January 2 81 Brain damage [99]
Eric Jerome Dickey American novelist January 3 59 Cancer [100]
Neil Sheehan American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author January 7 84 Complications from Parkinson's disease [101]
Christopher Little J. K. Rowling's literary agent January 7 79 Cancer [102][103]
Ved Mehta MacArthur Fellow, New Yorker writer, influential mentor,[104] and chronicler of India January 9 87 Complications from Parkinson's disease [105]
Vassilis Alexakis Greek-born French writer and translator January 11 77 [106]
Sharon Kay Penman American historian and novelist January 22 75 Pneumonia [107]
Martha Madrigal Mexican poet January 23 92 COVID-19 [citation needed]
Lars Norén Swedish playwright, novelist and poet January 26 77 COVID-19 [108]
Maria Guarnaschelli American cookbook editor February 6 79 Heart disease [109]
Jean-Claude Carrière French novelist, screenwriter and actor February 8 89 [110]
Lawrence Otis Graham American essayist and cultural critic February 19 59 [111]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti American beat poet, publisher, and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore February 22 101 Interstitial lung disease [112]
Enrique González Rojo, Jr. Mexican writer and philosopher March 5 92 [113]
N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat Indian poet March 6 84 [114]
Valentin Kurbatov Russian literary critic and writer March 6 81 [115]
Djibril Tamsir Niane Guinean writer and historian March 8 89 COVID-19 [116]
Norton Juster American writer March 8 91 Complication from a stroke [117]
Joan Walsh Anglund American poet and children's book author and illustrator March 9 95 Heart failure [118]
Robert Middlekauff American historian March 10 91 Complication from a stroke [119]
Nawal El Saadawi Egyptian feminist and writer March 21 89 [120]
Adam Zagajewski Polish poet March 21 75 [121]
Morris Dickstein American literary critic and cultural historian March 24 81 Complications from Parkinson's disease [122]
Beverly Cleary Children's book writer March 25 104 [123]
Larry McMurtry American storyteller March 25 84 [124]
Giancarlo DiTrapano Founder of Tyrant Books March 30 47 [125][126]
Arthur Kopit American playwright April 2 83 [127]
Denis Donoghue Irish academic and literary critic April 6 92 [128]
Vartan Gregorian Saved the New York Public Library April 15 87 [129]
Anthony Thwaite English poet and editor April 22 90 [130]
Pieter Aspe Belgian writer May 2 68 [131]
Jesús Hilario Tundidor Spanish poet May 2 85 [132]
Lucinda Franks Journalist and memoirist, first women to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting May 5 74 [133]
Kentaro Miura Japanese manga artist May 6 54 Acute aortic dissection [134]
Eric Carle American children's book writer and illustrator May 23 91 Kidney failure [135]
Dan Frank Editorial director of Pantheon Books May 24 67 [136]
Friederike Mayröcker Austrian poet and writer June 4 96 [137]
Richard Robinson Turned Scholastic into a major children's book publisher June 5 84 [138]
Janet Malcolm American journalist, biographer, and writer for The New Yorker June 16 86 Lung cancer [139]
Stephen Dunn American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet June 24 82 Complications from Parkinson's disease [140]
Elizabeth Martinez American author who jumpstarted the Chicana movement June 29 95 [141]
Athan Theoharis American historian July 3 84 Pneumonia [142]
Roberto Calasso Italian novelist, critic, scholar, and publisher July 28 80 [143]
Jean Breeze Jamaican dub poet and storyteller August 4 65 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [144]
Donald Kagan American historian August 6 89 [145]
Jill Murphy British children's author and illustrator August 18 72 Cancer [146]
James W. Loewen American sociologist and author August 19 79 Bladder cancer [147]
David Roberts American adventure writer August 20 78 [148]
Russ Kick American writer and ediot September 12 52 [149]
Charles W. Mills American philosopher September 20 70 Cancer [150]
Takao Saito Japanese manga artist September 24 84 Pancreatic cancer [151]
Gary Paulsen American author October 13 82 Cardiac arrest [152]
Máire Mhac an tSaoi Irish language scholar and poet October 16 99 [153]
Brendan Kennelly Irish poet October 17 85 [154]
Jerry Pinkney American children's book writer and illustrator October 20 81 Heart attack [155]
Raúl Rivero Cuban poet November 6 75 [156]
Sylvère Lotringer French literary critic and founder of Semiotexte(e) November 8 83 [157]
Jakucho Setouchi Japanese feminist writer November 9 99 Heart failure [158]
Petra Mayer American book editor November 13 46 Pulmonary embolism [159]
Etel Adnan Lebanese-American novelist November 14 96 [160]
Robert Bly American poet, translator, and author November 21 96 Complications of Alzheimer's disease [161]
Almudena Grandes Spanish novelist November 21 94 Cancer [162]
Andrew Vachss American crime writer November 23 79 Coronary artery disease [163]
Marie-Claire Blais Canadian writer November 30 82 [164]
Miroslav Zikmund Czech adventurer, travel writer and film director December 1 102 [165]
Greg Tate American journalist and cultural critic December 7 64 [166]
Anne Rice American author December 12 80 Complications from a stroke [167]
bell hooks American author and feminist December 15 69 Kidney failure [168][169][170]
Madhur Kapila Indian journalist, novelist, art critic, and reviewer of Hindi literature December 19 79 Cardiac arrest [171]
Myrna Manzanares Belizean writer and activist December 21 75 Complications from a stroke [172]
Joan Didion American author and memoirist December 23 87 Complications from Parkinson's disease [173]
Keri Hulme New Zealand writer (The Bone People) and poet December 25 74 Chronic medical issues [174]

Awards edit

2021 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award
Award Category Author Title Ref.
Akutagawa Prize Kotomi Li Higanbana ga saku shima
Mai Ishizawa Kai ni tsudzuku basho nite
Bunji Sunakawa Black Box
America Award in Literature Rosmarie Waldrop
Andre Norton Award Ursula Vernon A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Fiction James McBride Deacon King Kong
Nonfiction Vincent Brown Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive
Poetry Victoria Chang OBIT
Lifetime Achievement Samuel R. Delany
Arthur C. Clarke Award Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country [175]
Baillie Gifford Prize Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty [176]
BBC National Short Story Award Lucy Caldwell All the People Were Mean and Bad [177]
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Roy Schwartz Is Superman Circumcised? [178]
Booker Prize Booker Prize Damon Galgut The Promise [179]
International Booker Prize David Diop with Anna Moschovakis (trans.) At Night All Blood Is Black [180]
Bram Stoker Award BSA–Best (Horror) Novel Stephen Graham Jones My Heart is a Chainsaw [181]
British Book Awards Author of the Year Marian Keyes [182]
Book of the Year Marcus Rashford You Are a Champion: How To Be the Best You Can Be
Children's Book of the Year Phil Earle When The Sky Falls
Fiction Book of the Year Meg Mason Sorrow and Bliss
Crime & Thriller William McIlvanney; Ian Rankin The Dark Remains
Nonfiction Narrative Sathnam Sanghera Empireland
British Fantasy Award Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award) Alix E. Harrow The Once and Future Witches [183]
Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic
Novella P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout
Short Story Ida Keogh “Infinite Tea in the Demara Café”
Collection Charlotte Bond The Watcher in the Woods
Anthology Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora
Non-fiction Alison Peirse, ed. Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
Caine Prize for African Writing Meron Hadero "The Street Sweep" [184]
Camões Prize Paulina Chiziane [185]
Carl Zuckmayer Medal Nora Gomringer [186]
Carnegie Medal Jason Reynolds Look Both Ways [187]
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds [188]
Costa Book Awards Costa Book of the Year Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground [189]
Costa–Novel [189]
Costa–Biography John Preston Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell [189]
Costa–Children's Book Manjeet Mann The Crossing [189]
Costa–First Novel Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water [189]
Costa–Poetry Hannah Lowe The Kids [189]
Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jack Wang We Two Alone [190]
David Cohen Prize Colm Tóibín [191]
Desmond Elliott Prize A.K. Blakemore The Manningtree Witches
Dylan Thomas Prize Raven Leilani Luster [192]
Edgar Awards Best Novel Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line [193]
Raven Award Malice Domestic
Ellery Queen Award Reagan Arthur
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award Colette Bancroft "The Bite"
Mary Higgins Clark Elsa Hart The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
Sue Grafton Memorial Award Rosalie Knecht Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery
Grand Master Charlaine Harris
Jeffery Deaver
Eugie Award Elaine Cuyegkeng "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter"
European Book Prize European Book Prize (Novel) Christos Chomenidis Νίκη [194]
Folio Prize Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House [195]
Franz Kafka Prize Ivan Vyskočil [196]
Giller Prize Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise [197]
Goldsmiths Prize Isabel Waidner Sterling Karat Gold
Gordon Burn Prize Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America
Governor General's Awards Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Norma Dunning Tainna [198]
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction Sadiqa de Meijer alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
Governor General's Award for English-language drama Hannah Moscovitch Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry Tolu Oloruntoba The Junta of Happenstance
Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature Philippa Dowding Firefly
Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration David A. Robertson, Julie Flett On the Trapline
Governor General's Award for French to English translation Erín Moure This Radiant Life
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction Fanny Britt Faire les sucres [199]
Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction Serge Bouchard, Mark Fortier Du diesel dans les veines
Governor General's Award for French-language drama Mishka Lavigne Copeaux
Governor General's Award for French-language poetry Tania Langlais Pendant que Perceval tombait
Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature Jean-François Sénéchal Les Avenues
Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration Mario Brassard, Gérard DuBois À qui appartiennent les nuages ?
Governor General's Award for English to French translation Marie Frankland Poèmes 1938-1984
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française François-Henri Désérable Mon maître et mon vainqueur [200]
Holberg Prize Martha Nussbaum [201]
Hugo Award Best Novel Martha Wells Network Effect [202]
Best Novella Nghi Vo The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Best Novelette Sarah Pinsker "Two Truths and a Lie"
Best Short Story Ursula Vernon "Metal Like Blood in the Dark"
Lodestar Award Ursula Vernon A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Astounding Award Emily Tesh Silver in the Wood
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Fiction Percival Everett Telephone
Nonfiction Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Debut Rita Woods Remembrance
Poetry Rachel Eliza Griffiths Seeing the Body
International Dublin Literary Award Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive [203]
International Thriller Writers Award Best Hard Cover Novel S. A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland [204]
Best Paperback Original Novel John Marrs What Lies Between Us
e-Book Original Novel Jeff Buick A Killing Game
Best First Novel David Heska Wanbli Weiden Winter Counts
Best Young Adult Novel Andrea Contos Throwaway Girls
Best Short Story Alan Orloff "Rent Due"
Jerusalem Prize Julian Barnes [205]
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award Anakana Schofield BINA [206]
Miguel de Cervantes Prize Cristina Peri Rossi
Miles Franklin Award Amanda Lohrey The Labyrinth
National Biography Award Cassandra Pybus Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse
National Book Award National Book Award–Fiction Jason Mott Hell of a Book [207]
National Book Award–Nonfiction Tiya Miles All That She Carried [207]
National Book Award–Poetry Martín Espada Floaters [207]
National Book Award–Translated Literature Elisa Shua Dusapin with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.) Winter in Sokcho [207]
National Book Award–Young People's Literature Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club [207]
National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Critics–Fiction Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois [208]
National Book Critics–Nonfiction Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America [208]
National Book Critics–Biography Rebecca Donner All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days [209]
National Book Critics–Criticism Melissa Febos Girlhood [209]
Nebula Award Best Novel Martha Wells Network Effect [210]
Best Novella P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout
Best Novelette Sarah Pinsker "Two Truths and a Lie"
Best Short Story John Wiswell "Open House on Haunted Hill"
Newbery Medal Tae Keller When You Trap a Tiger
Nike Award Jury Award Zbigniew Rokita Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku
Audience Award
Nobel Prize in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah [211]
Orwell Prize Political Fiction Ali Smith Summer [212]
Political Writing Joshua Yaffa Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia [212]
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies [213]
Philip K. Dick Award Winner Kali Wallace Dead Space
Special Citation Lavie Tidhar The Escapement
Premio Planeta de Novela Carmen Mola La bestia
Premio Strega Prize Emanuele Trevi Due vite
Pritzker Literature Award Margaret MacMillan
Prix Femina Prix Femina Clara Dupont-Monod S'adapter [214]
Prix Femina étranger Ahmet Altan Hayat Hanım [215]
Prix Femina essai Annie Cohen-Solal Un étranger nommé Picasso
Prix Femina des lycéens Ananda Devi Le rire des déesses [216]
Prix Goncourt Mohamed Mbougar Sarr La plus secrète mémoire des hommes [217]
Prix Médicis Christine Angot Le Voyage dans l'Est [218]
Prix Renaudot Amélie Nothomb Premier sang [219]
Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman [220]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama Katori Hall The Hot Wing King
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction David Zucchino Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Pulitzer Prize for History Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Pulitzer Prize for Biography Les Payne and Tamara Payne The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureate Carol Ann Duffy
Bridges of Struga laureate Vladan Kreckovic
Walter Scott Prize Hilary Mantel The Mirror and the Light [221]
Whiting Awards Whiting Award for Fiction Claire Boyles [222]
Rita Bullwinkel
Megha Majumdar
Nana Nkweti
Women's Prize for Fiction Susanna Clarke Piranesi [223]
World Fantasy Award Novel Alaya Dawn Johnson Trouble the Saints
Novella Tochi Onyebuchi Riot Baby
Short Fiction Celeste Rita Baker "Glass Bottle Dancer"
Collection Aoko Matsuda Where the Wild Ladies Are
Writers' Trust of Canada Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Ronald Deibert Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society [224]
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Anna Ling Kaye "East City" [225]
Zehra Naqvi "The Knot of My Tongue"
Dayne Ogilvie Prize Jillian Christmas [226]
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Katherena Vermette The Strangers [227]
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Tomson Highway Permanent Astonishment
Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize Weyman Chan
Matt Cohen Award Frances Itani
Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People Linda Bailey
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award Cherie Dimaline
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Dan Breznitz Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World [228]
W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction Mark Treanor A Quiet Cadence: A Novel
Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award Yusef Komunyakaa

See also edit

References edit

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