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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2000.

Events

February – El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore takes over the Teatro Gran Splendid in Buenos Aires.
February 13 – Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.
March 14 – Stephen King's novella Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, the world's first mass-market electronic book.
September 26 – English writer and politician Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury and opens in the title role of his courtroom drama The Accused.
December 15 – In the landmark censorship case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice), the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs does not have the authority to make its own judgments about the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers but is permitted to confiscate only material that has specifically been ruled by the courts to constitute an offence under the Canadian Criminal Code.

New books

Fiction

Reed Arvin – The Will
Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
Louis Auchincloss – Her Infinite Variety
Trezza Azzopardi – The Hiding Place
Iain M. Banks – Look to Windward
Russell Banks – The Angel on the Roof
Matt Beaumont – e
Raymond Benson – Doubleshot
Ben Bova – Jupiter
T. C. Boyle – A Friend of the Earth
Dan Brown – Angels and Demons
Jim Butcher – Storm Front
Peter Carey – True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Chabon – 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
Miriam Cooke – Hayati, My Life
Bernard Cornwell – Harlequin (aka The Archer's Tale)
Patricia Cornwell – The Last Precinct
Mark Z. Danielewski – House of Leaves
August Derleth – The Original Text Solar Pons Omnibus Edition
Ken Follett – Code to Zero
Jon Fosse – Morning and Evening
David S. Garnett – Bikini Planet
Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace
Myla Goldberg – Bee Season
Linda Grant – When I Lived in Modern Times
John Grisham – 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
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 and The Big Blow
Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins – The Indwelling and The Mark
Barry N. Malzberg – In the Stone House
Colleen McCullough – Morgan's Run
Alistair MacLeod – Island
Patrick Maher – Candid Confessions
George R. R. Martin – A Storm of Swords
Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness
Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
Daniel Olivas – The Courtship of María Rivera Peña
Robert B. Parker – Hugger Mugger
James Patterson – Roses are Red
Rosamunde Pilcher – Winter Solstice
Giuseppe Pontiggia – Nati due volte ("Born Twice")
Terry Pratchett – The Truth
Philip Pullman – The Amber Spyglass
Mario Puzo – Omertà
Jean Raspail – Le Roi au-delà de la mer
Kathy Reichs – Deadly Decisions
Philip Roth – The Human Stain
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Peter Ruber editor – Arkham's Masters of Horror
Jean-Jacques Schuhl – Ingrid Caven
Christina Schwarz – Drowning Ruth
Helen Simpson – Hey Yeah Right Get A Life
Michael Slade – Hangman
Gillian Slovo – Red Dust
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
Muriel Spark – Aiding and Abetting
Michael Stackpole – Dark Tide: Onslaught and Dark Tide: Ruin
Domenico Starnone – Via Gemito
Danielle Steel – The House On Hope Street and Journey
Kathy Tyers – Balance Point
Andrew Vachss – Dead and Gone
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat (La fiesta del chivo)
Juliet Marillier – Son of the Shadows

Drama

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^[1]
- Znak i njegova deca ("The Sign and Its Children")^[2]
- Oblik ("The Shape")^[3]
- Tvoritelj ("The Creator")^[4]
- Krugovanje ("Circling"), 3rd ed.^[4]

Non-fiction

Peter Ackroyd – London: A Biography
Martin Amis – Experience
Mark Buchanan – Ubiquity: The Science of History
Michael Burleigh – The Third Reich: A New History
Gerina Dunwich – Your Magickal Cat: Feline Magick, Lore, and Worship
Dave Eggers – A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Charles Foster – Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues^[5]
Will Hutton – The World We're In
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
Paul H. Ray – The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee – Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Michael White – Leonardo: the First Scientist
Bruce Wilkinson and David Kopp – The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
The Beatles Anthology

Deaths

January 2 – Patrick O'Brian (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (born 1914)
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 writer (born 1926)
February 12 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (born 1922)
March 28 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (born 1905)
April 13 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (born 1916)
April 15 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (born 1925)
April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet and biographer (born 1916)
May 21 – Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist and playwright (born 1901)
August 3 – Michael Meyer, English translator and biographer (born 1921)
August 25 – Carl Barks, American illustrator (born 1901)
September 3 – Jack Simmons, English historian (born 1915)
September 7 – Sir Malcolm Bradbury, English novelist and critic (born 1932)
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)

Awards

Other

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

In literature

Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward (1888) is set in this year.

References

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↑ Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
↑ Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
↑ Rastko: Dejan Stojanović.

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[5] Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Taras Grescoe. Retrieved 2012-11-17.

[6] Faculty of Arts, 2000, Edna Staebler Award. Wilfrid Laurier University. Previous winners: Wayson Choy. Retrieved 2012-11-17.

[7] Rastko: Dejan Stojanović.

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