Editing 2000 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''2000'''.
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==Events==
*February – The bookstore [[El Ateneo Grand Splendid]] takes over the ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in [[Buenos Aires]], converting it for use as retail space.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>{{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–}}</ref>
*[[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''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Herald of Library Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNXgAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|page=161}}</ref>
*[[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 (Canada)|Criminal Code]]''.

==New books==
===Fiction===
*[[Reed Arvin]] – ''The Will''
*[[Margaret Atwood]] – ''[[The Blind Assassin]]''
*[[Louis Auchincloss]] – ''[[Her Infinite Variety]]''
*[[Trezza Azzopardi]] – ''[[The Hiding Place (Azzopardi novel)|The Hiding Place]]''
*[[Iain M. Banks]] – ''[[Look to Windward]]''
*[[Russell Banks]] – ''[[The Angel on the Roof]]''
*[[Matt Beaumont]] – ''[[e (novel)|e]]''
*[[Maeve Binchy]] – ''[[Scarlet Feather]]''
*[[Raymond Benson]] – ''[[Doubleshot]]''
*[[Ben Bova]] – ''[[Jupiter (novel)|Jupiter]]''
*[[T. C. Boyle]] – ''[[A Friend of the Earth]]''
*[[Dan Brown]] – ''[[Angels & Demons]]''
*[[Jim Butcher]] – ''[[Storm Front (novel)|Storm Front]]''
*[[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] – ''[[True History of the Kelly Gang]]''
*[[Michael Chabon]] – ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay|The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel]]''
*[[Tom Clancy]] – ''[[The Bear and the Dragon]]''
*[[Mary Higgins Clark]] and [[Carol Higgins Clark]] – ''[[Deck the Halls (novel)|Deck The Halls]]''
*[[Miriam Cooke]] – ''Hayati, My Life''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]] – ''[[Harlequin (Cornwell novel)|Harlequin]]'' (also ''The Archer's Tale'')
*[[Patricia Cornwell]] – ''[[The Last Precinct (novel)|The Last Precinct]]''
*[[Mark Z. Danielewski]] – ''[[House of Leaves]]''
*[[August Derleth]] – ''[[The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition]]''
*[[K. Sello Duiker]] – ''[[Thirteen Cents]]''
*[[Ken Follett]] – ''[[Code to Zero]]''
*[[Jon Fosse]] – ''[[Morning and Evening]] (Morgon og kveld)'' (novella)
*[[David S. Garnett]] – ''[[Bikini Planet]]''
*[[Amitav Ghosh]] – ''[[The Glass Palace]]''
*[[Myla Goldberg]] – ''[[Bee Season]]''
*[[Linda Grant (novelist)|Linda Grant]] – ''[[When I Lived in Modern Times]]''
*[[John Grisham]] – ''[[The Brethren (Grisham novel)|The Brethren]]''
*[[Mohsin Hamid]] – ''[[Moth Smoke]]''
*[[Joanne Harris]] – ''[[Blackberry Wine]]''
*[[Elisabeth Harvor]] – ''Excessive Joy Injures the Heart''
*[[Joseph Heller]] – ''[[Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man]]''
*[[Kazuo Ishiguro]] – ''[[When We Were Orphans]]''
*[[Elfriede Jelinek]] – ''[[Greed (Jelinek novel)|Greed]]''
*[[Robert Jordan]] – ''[[Winter's Heart]]''
*[[Barbara Kingsolver]] – ''[[Prodigal Summer]]''
*[[Sophie Kinsella]] – ''[[The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic]]''
*[[Andrus Kivirähk]] – ''[[Rehepapp ehk November]]'' (Old Barny or November)
*[[Joe R. Lansdale]]
**''[[The Bottoms (novel)|The Bottoms]]''
**''[[The Big Blow (novel)|The Big Blow]]''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Prometheus Deception]]''
*[[Tim LaHaye]] and [[Jerry B. Jenkins]]
**''[[The Indwelling]]''
**''[[The Mark (novel)|The Mark]]''
*[[Colleen McCullough]] – ''[[Morgan's Run]]''
*[[Alistair MacLeod]] – ''[[Island (short story collection)|Island]]''
*[[Barry N. Malzberg]] – ''[[In the Stone House]]''
*[[Juliet Marillier]] – ''[[Son of the Shadows]]''
*[[George R. R. Martin]] – ''[[A Storm of Swords]]''
*[[Zakes Mda]] – ''The Heart of Redness''
*[[Mikael Niemi]] – ''[[Popular Music from Vittula]] (Populärmusik från Vittula)''
*[[Joyce Carol Oates]] – ''[[Blonde (novel)|Blonde]]''
*[[Kenzaburō Ōe]] (大江 健三郎) – ''[[The Changeling (Ōe novel)|The Changeling]]'' (取り替え子 (チェンジリング, Torikae ko [Chenjiringu])
*[[Daniel Olivas]] – ''The Courtship of María Rivera Peña''
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''Hugger Mugger''
*[[James Patterson]] – ''[[Roses are Red (novel)|Roses are Red]]''
*[[Rosamunde Pilcher]] – ''Winter Solstice''
*[[Giuseppe Pontiggia]] – ''Nati due volte'' (Born Twice)
*[[Terry Pratchett]] – ''[[The Truth (novel)|The Truth]]''
*[[Mario Puzo]] – ''[[Omertà]]''
*[[Jean Raspail]] – ''[[Le Roi au-delà de la mer]]''
*[[Kathy Reichs]] – ''[[Deadly Decisions]]''
*[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Human Stain]]''
*[[Peter Ruber]] editor – ''[[Arkham's Masters of Horror]]''
*[[Marjane Satrapi]] – ''[[Persepolis (comics)|Persepolis]]'' (graphic novel, first part)
*[[Jean-Jacques Schuhl]] – ''[[Ingrid Caven]]''
*[[Christina Schwarz]] – ''[[Drowning Ruth]]''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Simon |first1=Diane |title=Drowning Ruth (Book Review) |journal=People |date=October 16, 2000 |volume=54 |issue=16 |page=58 |url=https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-drowning-ruth-vol-54-no-16/ |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
*[[Helen Simpson (author)|Helen Simpson]] – ''Hey Yeah Right Get A Life''
*Michael Slade – ''[[Hangman (Slade)|Hangman]]''
*[[Gillian Slovo]] – ''[[Red Dust (2000)|Red Dust]]''
*[[Zadie Smith]] – ''[[White Teeth]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Claire Squires|title=Zadie Smith's White Teeth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cga-I40AdQ4C&pg=PA94|date=26 June 2002|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-5326-6|pages=94}}</ref>
*[[Muriel Spark]] – ''[[Aiding and Abetting (novel)|Aiding and Abetting]]''
*[[Michael Stackpole]]
**''[[Dark Tide: Onslaught]]''
**''[[Dark Tide: Ruin]]''
*[[Domenico Starnone]] – ''Via Gemito''
*[[Danielle Steel]]
** ''The House On Hope Street''
** ''Journey''
*[[Kathy Tyers]] – ''[[Balance Point]]''
*[[Andrew Vachss]] – ''[[Andrew Vachss#The Burke series|Dead and Gone]]''
*[[Mario Vargas Llosa]] – ''[[The Feast of the Goat]] (La fiesta del chivo)''
*[[Chris Ware]] – ''[[Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth]]'' (graphic novel)
*[[Edmund White]] – ''The Married Man''

===Children and young people===
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] – ''[[The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man]]''
*[[David Almond]] – ''[[Counting Stars (Almond book)|Counting Stars]]''
*[[Margaret Beames]] – ''[[Oliver in the Garden]]''
*[[Kirsten Boie]] – ''Wir Kinder aus dem Möwenweg'' (first in the ''Kinder aus dem Möwenweg'' series)
*[[Lauren Child]]
**''[[Beware of the Storybook Wolves]]''
**''[[Charlie and Lola|I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 120</ref>
*[[Deborah Ellis]] – ''[[The Breadwinner (novel)|The Breadwinner]]'' (also ''Parvana'', first in the Breadwinner series of four books)<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 184</ref>
*[[Mem Fox]] – ''[[Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild!]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/08/13/reviews/000813.rv102120.html |website=archive.nytimes.com |access-date=12 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Cornelia Funke]] – ''[[The Thief Lord]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 574</ref>
*[[Jamila Gavin]] – ''[[Coram Boy]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 223</ref>
*[[Anthony Horowitz]] – ''[[Stormbreaker]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 289</ref>
*[[Hwang Sun-mi]] – ''The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly'' (마당을 나온 암탉, ''Sakyejul'')
*Shirley Isherwood – ''[[Flora the Frog]]''
*[[Jim Murphy (author)|Jim Murphy]] – ''[[BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 408</ref>
*[[Beverley Naidoo]] – ''[[The Other Side of Truth]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 410</ref>
*[[Jerry Pinkney]] – ''[[Aesop's Fables (Pinkney book)|Aesop's Fables]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Same Old Stories |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/19/reviews/001119.19wellst.html?scp=1&sq=aesops%2520fables&st=cse |website=archive.nytimes.com |access-date=12 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Philip Pullman]] – ''[[The Amber Spyglass]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=His Dark Materials |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095938401 |website=Oxford Reference |access-date=11 January 2022 |language=en }}</ref>
*[[J. K. Rowling]] – ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 265</ref>
*[[Lemony Snicket]]
**''[[The Wide Window]]''<ref name=Snicket>{{cite book |last1=Olson |first1=Danel |title=21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7728-3 |page=523 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 |language=en}}</ref>
**''[[The Miserable Mill]]''<ref name=Snicket />
**''[[The Austere Academy]]''<ref name=Snicket />
*[[Jacqueline Wilson]] – ''[[Vicky Angel]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Vicky Angel |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/100/1005006/vicky-angel/9780440867807.html |website=www.penguin.co.uk |date=28 March 2013 |access-date=12 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

===Drama===
*[[David Auburn]] – ''[[Proof (play)|Proof]]''
*[[Timothy Findley]] – ''[[Elizabeth Rex]]''
*[[Tanika Gupta]] – ''The Waiting Room''
*[[Dusty Hughes (playwright)|Dusty Hughes]] – ''[[Helpless (play)|Helpless]]''
*[[Joe Penhall]] – ''[[Blue/Orange]]''

===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 (writer)|Dejan Stojanović]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/OblikByDejanStojanovic|title=Dejan Stojanović|work=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
**''Znak i njegova deca'' (The Sign and Its Children)<ref>Prosveta, Beograd.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/ZnakINjegovaDecaByDejanStojanovic |title=Znak i njegova deca |first=Dejan |last=Stojanović |work=Internet Archive}}</ref>
**''Oblik'' (The Shape)<ref>Gramatik, Podgorica, [[Montenegro]].</ref>
**''Tvoritelj'' (The Creator)<ref name=Nk>[[Narodna knjiga–Alfa]], Beograd.</ref>
**''Krugovanje'' (Circling), 3rd ed.<ref name=Nk/>

===Non-fiction===
*[[Peter Ackroyd]] – ''London: A Biography''
*[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[Experience (Martin Amis)|Experience]]''
*''[[The Beatles Anthology]]''
*[[Mark Buchanan]] – ''Ubiquity: The Science of History''
*[[Michael Burleigh]] – ''The Third Reich: A New History''
*[[Christian Cannuyer]] – ''[[Coptic Egypt: The Christians of the Nile]]''
*[[John Colapinto]] – ''[[As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://movies2.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20angiert.html|title=X + Y = Z|website=movies2.nytimes.com}}</ref>
*[[Mary Craig (writer)|Mary Craig]] – ''Blessings''
*[[Gerina Dunwich]] – ''Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship''
*[[Dave Eggers]] – ''[[A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]]''
*[[Charles Foster (writer)|Charles Foster]] – ''Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood''
*[[John Bellamy Foster]] – ''[[Karl Marx|Marx]]'s Ecology''
*[[Aileen Fox]] – ''Aileen: a Pioneering Archaeologist'' (autobiography)
*[[Malcolm Gladwell]] – ''[[The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference]]''
*[[Lynda Gratton]] – ''Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose''
*[[Taras Grescoe]] – ''[[Sacré Blues]]''<ref>Faculty of Arts, 2001, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 |date=2014-06-06}}</span>. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012–11–17.</ref>
*[[Christina Hoff Sommers]] – ''The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/books/books-of-the-times-boys-not-girls-as-society-s-victims.html|title=BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Boys, Not Girls, as Society's Victims (Published 2000)|first=Richard|last=Bernstein|work=The New York Times |date=July 31, 2000|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
*[[Will Hutton]] – ''The World We're In''
*[[Stephen King]] – ''[[On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft]]''
*[[Lawrence Lessig]] – ''[[Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace]]''
*[[Roger Lowenstein]] – ''[[When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management]]''
*[[Sidney Poitier]] – ''[[The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography]]''
*[[Arun Shourie]] – ''[[Harvesting Our Souls]]''
*[[Paul H. Ray]] – ''[[The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World]]''
*[[Lorna Sage]] – ''[[Bad Blood (Sage book)|Bad Blood]]''
*[[Diane Stanley]] – ''[[Michelangelo (Stanley book)|Michelangelo]]''
*[[Patrick Tort]] – ''[[Darwin and the Science of Evolution]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick Tort|title=Darwin et la science de l'évolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBQhAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gallimard|isbn=978-2-07-053520-0|language=fr}}</ref>
*[[Peter Ward (paleontologist)|Peter Ward]] and [[Donald Brownlee]] – ''[[Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe]]''
*[[Michael White (author)|Michael White]] – ''Leonardo: the First Scientist''
*[[Bruce Wilkinson]] – ''[[The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life]]''

==Films==
* [[In the Mood for Love]] - inspired by [[Liu Yichang]]'s "Intersection"

==Deaths==
*[[January 2]] – [[Patrick O'Brian]] (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[January 26]]
**[[Kathleen Hale]], English children's author and illustrator (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
**[[A. E. van Vogt]], Canadian-American science fiction author (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])
*[[January 31]] – [[Gil Kane]], Latvian-American comic book cartoonist (born [[1926 in literature|1926]])
*[[February 11]] – [[Bernardino Zapponi]], Italian novelist (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[February 12]] – [[Charles M. Schulz]], American cartoonist (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[March 28]] – [[Anthony Powell]], English novelist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Terence McKenna]], American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (born [[1946 in literature|1946]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[April 13]] – [[Giorgio Bassani]], Italian writer (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Edward Gorey]], American illustrator and writer (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
*[[April 21]] – [[Al Purdy]], Canadian poet (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[April 28]] – [[Penelope Fitzgerald]], English novelist, poet and biographer (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[May 13]] – [[Paul Bartel]], American actor, writer and director (born [[1938 in literature|1938]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Andrzej Szczypiorski]], Polish writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
*[[May 21]] – Dame [[Barbara Cartland]], English novelist and playwright (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/758077.stm|title=BBC News &#124; UK &#124; Barbara Cartland dies|date=21 May 2000|website=news.bbc.co.uk|access-date=24 January 2021}}</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[William Roscoe Estep]], American historian and educator (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])
*[[August 3]] – [[Michael Meyer (translator)|Michael Meyer]], English translator and biographer (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Carl Barks]], American comic book cartoonist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[September 2]] – [[Curt Siodmak]], American novelist and screenwriter (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[September 3]] – [[Jack Simmons (historian)|Jack Simmons]], English historian (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
**[[Oldřich Daněk]], Czech dramatist (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[September 7]] – Sir [[Malcolm Bradbury]], English novelist and critic (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[September 14]] – [[Hwang Sun-won]], Korean fiction writer (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[September 22]] – [[Yehuda Amichai]], Israeli Hebrew-language poet (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
*[[September 25]] – [[R. S. Thomas]], Welsh poet (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[October 8]] – [[Charlotte Lamb]] (Sheila Holland, Sheila Coates, etc.), English romantic novelist (born [[1937 in literature|1937]])
*[[October 30]] – [[Steve Allen]], American writer, television presenter and songwriter (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
*[[November 2]] – [[Robert Cormier]], American young adult fiction writer (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[November 6]] – [[L. Sprague de Camp]], American sci-fi, fantasy and science writer (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])<ref>{{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}}</ref>
*[[December 3]] – [[Gwendolyn Brooks]], African-American poet (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])<ref name="nytobit">{{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)}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Gao Xingjian]]
*[[Camões Prize]]: [[Autran Dourado]]

===Australia===
*[[The Australian/Vogel Literary Award]]: [[Stephen Gray (novelist)|Stephen Gray]], ''The Artist is a Thief''
*[[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: John Millett, ''Iceman''
*[[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Jennifer Maiden]], ''Mines''
*[[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Lucy Dougan]], ''Memory Shell''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: Tie: [[Thea Astley]], ''[[Drylands (novel)|Drylands]]''; [[Kim Scott]], ''[[Benang]]''

===Canada===
*[[Giller Prize|Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction]]: [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''[[Anil's Ghost]]'' – tied with: [[David Adams Richards]], ''[[Mercy Among the Children]]''
*See [[2000 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
*[[Edna Staebler Award]] for [[Creative Non-Fiction]]: [[Wayson Choy]], ''[[Paper Shadows]]''<ref>Faculty of Arts, 2000, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11313 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164206/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11313 |date=2014-06-06 }}</span>. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012–11–17.</ref>

===France===
*[[Prix Femina]]: [[Camille Laurens]], ''Dans ces bras-là''
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Jean-Jacques Schuhl]], ''Ingrid Caven''
*[[Prix Décembre]]: [[Anthony Palou]], ''Camille''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Armelle Lebras-Chopard]], ''Le zoo des philosophes''
*[[Prix Médicis]] Non-Fiction: [[Yann Apperry]], ''Diabolus in musica''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''[[Anil's Ghost]]''

===Serbia===
*[[Rastko Petrović Award]]: [[Dejan Stojanović]], ''Conversations'' ("Razgovori")<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===United Kingdom===
*[[Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize]] for comic literature (first award): [[Howard Jacobson]], ''The Mighty Walzer''
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Margaret Atwood]], ''[[The Blind Assassin]]''
*[[Caine Prize for African Writing]]: [[Leila Aboulela]], "The Museum"
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Beverley Naidoo]], ''[[The Other Side of Truth]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 661</ref>
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Zadie Smith]], ''[[White Teeth]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Martin Amis]], ''[[Experience (book)|Experience]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Alistair Elliot]], [[Michael Hamburger]], [[Adrian Henri]], [[Carole Satyamurti]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Eleanor Margolies]], [[Antony Rowland]], [[Antony Dunn]], [[Karen Goodwin]], [[Clare Pollard]]
*[[Orange Prize for Fiction]]: [[Linda Grant (novelist)|Linda Grant]], ''When I Lived in Modern Times''
*[[Samuel Johnson Prize]]: [[David Cairns (writer)|David Cairns]], ''Berlioz: Volume 2''
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Edwin Morgan (poet)|Edwin Morgan]]
*[[2000 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[Matthew Kneale]], ''[[English Passengers]]''

===United States===
*[[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Quan Barry]], ''Asylum''
*[[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Eleanor Ross Taylor]]
*[[Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry]]: [[Corey Marks]], "Renunciation", and (separately) [[Christopher D. Patton|Christopher Patton]], "Broken Ground"
*[[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]: [[David Ferry (poet)|David Ferry]], ''Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations''
*[[Brittingham Prize in Poetry]]: [[Greg Rappleye]], ''A Path Between Houses''
*[[Business Week Best Book of the Year]]: [[Roger Lowenstein]], ''When Genius Failed''
*[[Compton Crook Award]]: [[Stephen L. Burns]], ''Flesh and Silver''
*[[Edgar Award]]: [[Joe R. Lansdale]], ''[[The Bottoms (novel)|The Bottoms]]''
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[Anthony Hecht]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Vernor Vinge]], ''[[A Deepness in the Sky]]''
*[[Michael L. Printz Award]] for the "best book written for teens" (first award): [[Walter Dean Myers]], ''[[Monster (Myers novel)|Monster]]''
*[[National Book Award for Fiction]]: [[Susan Sontag]], ''[[In America (novel)|In America]]''
*[[National Book Critics Circle Award]]: [[Ted Conover]], ''[[Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Greg Bear]], ''[[Darwin's Radio]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Christopher Paul Curtis]], ''[[Bud, Not Buddy]]''
*[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]]: [[Ha Jin]], ''[[Waiting (novel)|Waiting]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Donald Margulies]], ''[[Dinner With Friends]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], ''[[Interpreter of Maladies]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[C.K. Williams]], ''Repair''
*[[Wallace Stevens Award]]: [[Frank Bidart]]
*[[Whiting Awards]]:
:Fiction: [[Robert Cohen (novelist)|Robert Cohen]], [[Samantha Gillison]], [[Lily King]], [[John McManus (author)|John McManus]], [[Colson Whitehead]]
:Nonfiction: [[Andrew X. Pham]]
:Plays: [[Kelly Stuart]]
:Poetry: [[Albert Mobilio]] (poetry/fiction), [[James Thomas Stevens]], [[Claude Wilkinson]]

===Other===
*[[Finlandia Prize]]: [[Johanna Sinisalo]] ''Not Before Sunset'' (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
*[[International Dublin Literary Award]]: [[Nicola Barker]], ''[[Wide Open (novel)|Wide Open]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Lorenzo Silva]], ''El alquimista impaciente''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Giorgio van Straten]], ''Il mio nome a memoria'' and [[Sandro Veronesi (writer)|Sandro Veronesi]], ''La forza del passato''

==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}}

==References==
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