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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000.

Events

  • February – The bookstore El Ateneo Grand Splendid takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space.{{cite news |title=El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo |first=Raquel |last=San Martín |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/979452-el-ateneo-grand-splendid-una-joya-entre-las-librerias-del-mundo |newspaper=La Nación |location=Buenos Aires |date=17 January 2008 |access-date=10 May 2015 |language=es |trans-title=El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a jewel among the libraries of the world |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014235249/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/979452-el-ateneo-grand-splendid-una-joya-entre-las-librerias-del-mundo |url-status=dead }}
  • February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz is published. Schulz died on February 12.
  • March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book.{{cite book|author1=Francesca de Châtel|author2=Robin Hunt|title=Retailisation: The Here, There and Everywhere of Retail|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpAtQB_TRxIC&pg=PA231|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-47609-0|pages=231–}}
  • September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, The Accused.{{cite book|title=Herald of Library Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNXgAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|page=161}}
  • December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material specifically ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.

New books

=Fiction=

=Children and young people=

=Drama=

=Poetry=

{{Main article|2000 in poetry}}

  • Anne Carson – Men in the Off Hours
  • Paul Celan – Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov)
  • Fanny Howe – Fanny Howe: Selected Poems
  • Pierre Labrie – À tout hasard
  • Grazyna Miller – Sull'onda del respiro (On the Wave of Breath)
  • Owen Sheers – The Blue Book
  • Dejan Stojanović{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/OblikByDejanStojanovic|title=Dejan Stojanović|work=Internet Archive}}
  • Znak i njegova deca (The Sign and Its Children)Prosveta, Beograd.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ZnakINjegovaDecaByDejanStojanovic |title=Znak i njegova deca |first=Dejan |last=Stojanović |work=Internet Archive}}
  • Oblik (The Shape)Gramatik, Podgorica, Montenegro.
  • Tvoritelj (The Creator)Narodna knjiga–Alfa, Beograd.
  • Krugovanje (Circling), 3rd ed.

=Non-fiction=

Films

Deaths

  • January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914){{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/books/010700obit-obrian.html |title=Patrick O'Brian, Whose 20 Sea Stories Won Him International Fame, Dies at 85 |last=Prial |first=Frank J |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 January 2000}}
  • January 26
  • Kathleen Hale, English children's author and illustrator (born 1898)
  • A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction author (born 1912)
  • January 31 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American comic book cartoonist (born 1926)
  • February 11 – Bernardino Zapponi, Italian novelist (born 1927)
  • February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922)
  • March 28 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (born 1905){{cite news|title=Obituary: Anthony Powell|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900733/Anthony-Powell.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304175919/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900733/Anthony-Powell.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2011|access-date=27 July 2017|work=The Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited|date=29 March 2000}}
  • April 3 – Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born 1946){{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=September 10, 2013 |title=Terence McKenna, 53, dies; Patron of psychedelic drugs |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/09/us/terence-mckenna-53-dies-patron-of-psychedelic-drugs.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=2012-09-12}}
  • April 13 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (born 1916)
  • April 15 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (born 1925){{cite news| last = Kelley| first = Tina| title = Edward Gorey, Eerie Illustrator And Writer, 75| newspaper = The New York Times| date = April 16, 2000| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/nyregion/edward-gorey-eerie-illustrator-and-writer-75.html }}
  • April 21 – Al Purdy, Canadian poet (born 1918)
  • April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916){{cite web|author=Harvey-Wood, Harriet|date=3 May 2000|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,216535,00.html|title=Penelope Fitzgerald|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • May 13 – Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (born 1938)
  • May 16 – Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (born 1924)
  • May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist and playwright (born 1901){{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/758077.stm|title=BBC News | UK | Barbara Cartland dies|date=21 May 2000|website=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=24 January 2021}}
  • July 14 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (born 1920)
  • August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921)
  • August 25 – Carl Barks, American comic book cartoonist (born 1901)
  • September 2 – Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1902){{Cite web|date=2000-09-09|title=Curt Siodmak; Writer Created the 'Wolf Man'|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-09-me-18200-story.html|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}
  • September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915)
  • Oldřich Daněk, Czech dramatist (born 1927)
  • September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist and critic (born 1932){{cite book|author=Mark Twain|title=Pudd'nhead Wilson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvTlZGqa8YAC&pg=PT4|date=25 March 2004|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-192033-7|pages=4}}
  • September 14 – Hwang Sun-won, Korean fiction writer (born 1915)
  • September 22 – Yehuda Amichai, Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born 1924)
  • September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913){{Cite web |url=https://biography.wales/article/s12-THOM-STU-1913|title=THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913-2000), poet and clergyman|author=M. Wynn Thomas|website= Dictionary of Welsh Biography|access-date=26 August 2021}}
  • October 8 – Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born 1937)
  • October 30 – Steve Allen, American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born 1921)
  • November 2 – Robert Cormier, American young adult fiction writer (born 1925)
  • November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born 1907){{cite news|last1=Thurber|first1=Jon|title=Obituaries; L. Sprague de Camp; Prolific Sci-Fi Writer|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 13, 2000|location=Los Angeles, CA|page=B4}}
  • December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet (born 1917){{cite news |author=Watkins, Mel |title= Gwendolyn Brooks, Whose Poetry Told of Being Black in America, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/04/books/gwendolyn-brooks-whose-poetry-told-of-being-black-in-america-dies-at-83.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 4, 2000 |access-date=September 13, 2012|author-link= Mel Watkins (American writer)}}

Awards

=Australia=

=Canada=

=France=

=Serbia=

  • Rastko Petrović Award: Dejan Stojanović, Conversations ("Razgovori"){{Cite web |url=http://www.maticasrba.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=57&lang=lat |title=Rastko: Dejan Stojanović. |access-date=2010-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310235810/http://www.maticasrba.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=57&lang=lat |archive-date=2012-03-10 |url-status=dead}}

=United Kingdom=

=United States=

:Fiction: Robert Cohen, Samantha Gillison, Lily King, John McManus, Colson Whitehead

:Nonfiction: Andrew X. Pham

:Plays: Kelly Stuart

:Poetry: Albert Mobilio (poetry/fiction), James Thomas Stevens, Claude Wilkinson

=Other=

Notes

  • {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

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