2022 deaths, sorted by date of death
Individual |
Background |
Date of Death |
Age |
Cause of Death |
Ref. |
Zheng Min |
Chinese poet |
January 3 |
101 |
|
[77] |
F. Sionil José |
Filipino novelist and journalist |
January 6 |
97 |
|
[78] |
Terry Teachout |
American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist |
January 13 |
65 |
|
[79][80] |
Ron Goulart |
American author of Groucho Marx mysteries |
January 14 |
89 |
Respiratory arrest |
[81] |
Thiago de Mello |
Brazilian poet and translator |
January 14 |
95 |
|
[82] |
André Leon Talley |
American fashion author, editor, and journalist |
January 18 |
73 |
Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 |
[83][84][85][86] |
Lani Forbes |
American young adult novelist` |
February 3 |
35 |
Neuroendocrine cancer |
[87] |
Ashley Bryan |
American writer and illustrator of children's books |
February 4 |
98 |
|
[88][89] |
Jason Epstein |
American editor and publisher |
February 4 |
93 |
Congestive heart failure |
[90] |
Kenta Nishimura |
Japanese novelist |
February 5 |
54 |
|
[91] |
Bruce Duffy |
American novelist |
February 10 |
70 |
Brain cancer |
[92] |
P. J. O'Rourke |
American political satirist and journalist |
February 15 |
74 |
Lung cancer |
[93] |
Jan Pieńkowski |
Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog) |
February 19 |
85 |
Complications of dementia |
[94] |
Shirley Hughes |
English writer and illustrator of children's books |
February 25 |
94 |
|
[95] |
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. |
American author, editor, and journalist |
March 8 |
86 |
Complications from Parkinson's disease |
[96] |
Maureen Howard |
American novelist, memoirist, and editor |
March 13 |
91 |
|
[97] |
Yuz Aleshkovsky |
Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter |
March 21 |
92 |
|
[98] (in Russian) |
Ted Mooney |
American novelist and journalist (Art in America) |
March 22 |
70 |
Heart disease |
[99] |
Richard Howard |
American poet, critic, and translator |
March 31 |
92 |
|
[100] |
David McKee |
English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard) |
April 6 |
87 |
|
[101] |
Jack Higgins |
British crime writer |
April 9 |
92 |
|
[102] |
Serhiy Dyachenko |
Ukrainian fantasy novelist |
May 5 |
77 |
|
[103] |
Patricia A. McKillip |
American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) |
May 6 |
74 |
|
[104] |
Kim Chi-ha |
South Korean poet and playwright |
May 8 |
81 |
|
[105] |
Peter Lamborn Wilson |
American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) |
May 22 |
76-77 |
|
[106] |
Morton L. Janklow |
American literary agent |
May 25 |
91 |
|
[107][108] |
Walter Abish |
Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories |
May 28 |
90 |
|
[109] |
Boris Pahor |
Slovenian writer (Necropolis) |
May 30 |
108 |
|
[110] |
George Lamming |
Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet |
June 4 |
94 |
|
[111] |
Duncan Hannah |
American visual artist and author |
June 11 |
69 |
Heart attack |
[112] |
A. B. Yehoshua |
Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright |
June 14 |
85 |
Cancer |
[113] |
Raffaele La Capria |
Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago) |
June 26 |
99 |
|
[114] |
Frank Moorhouse |
Australian novelist and screenwriter |
June 26 |
83 |
|
[115] |
Susie Steiner |
British crime novelist |
July 2 |
51 |
Brain cancer |
[116] |
Joan Lingard |
Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) |
July 12 |
90 |
|
[117] |
Stuart Woods |
American novelist (Chiefs) |
July 22 |
84 |
|
[2] |
Melissa Bank |
American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) |
August 2 |
61 |
Lung cancer |
[118] |
David McCullough |
American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) |
August 7 |
89 |
|
[119] |
Raymond Briggs |
English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) |
August 9 |
88 |
Pneumonia |
[120][121] |
Nicholas Evans |
English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter |
August 9 |
72 |
Heart attack |
[122] |
Jean-Jacques Sempé |
French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) |
August 11 |
89 |
|
[123] |
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 |
|
[124][125] |
Joseph Delaney |
English author (Spook's) |
August 16 |
77 |
|
[126] |
Hadrawi |
Somali poet |
August 18 |
78-79 |
|
[127] |
Michael Malone |
American writer |
August 19 |
80 |
Pancreatic cancer |
[128] |
Peter Straub |
American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman) |
September 4 |
79 |
|
[129] |
Mariella Mehr |
Swiss novelist, playwright and poet |
September 5 |
74 |
|
[130] |
Javier Marías |
Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) |
September 11 |
70 |
Pneumonia |
[131] |
Yadollah Royaee |
Iranian poet |
September 14 |
90 |
|
[132] |
Tibor Frank |
Hungarian historian |
September 15 |
74 |
|
[133] |
Saul Kripke |
American philosopher and logician |
September 15 |
81 |
|
[134] |
Hilary Mantel |
British novelist (Wolf Hall) |
September 22 |
70 |
|
[135][136] |
Knud Sørensen |
Danish novelist, essayist and poet |
September 26 |
94 |
|
[137] |
Marguerite Andersen |
German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator |
October 1 |
97 |
|
[138] |
Charles Fuller |
American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign) |
October 3 |
83 |
|
[139] |
Rebecca Godfrey |
Canadian author |
October 3 |
54 |
Lung cancer |
[140] |
David Huerta |
Mexican poet |
October 3 |
72 |
|
[141] |
Peter Robinson |
British-born Canadian crime writer |
October 4 |
72 |
|
[142] |
Temsüla Ao |
Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head) |
October 9 |
76 |
|
[143] |
Bruno Latour |
French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern) |
October 9 |
75 |
Pancreatic cancer |
[144] |
Thomas Cahill |
American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization) |
October 18 |
82 |
|
[145] |
John Jay Osborn Jr. |
American writer (The Paper Chase) |
October 19 |
77 |
Squamous cell cancer |
[146] |
Anton Donchev |
Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter |
October 20 |
92 |
|
[147] |
Leszek Engelking |
Polish writer and translator |
October 22 |
67 |
|
[148] |
Mike Davis |
American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire) |
October 25 |
76 |
Cancer |
[149] |
Julie Powell |
American author (Julie & Julia) |
October 25 |
49 |
Cardiac arrest |
[150] |
Gerald Stern |
American poet, essayist, and educator |
October 27 |
97 |
|
[151] |
Bahaa Taher |
Egyptian novelist and short story writer |
October 27 |
87 |
|
[152] |
Hava Pinhas-Cohen |
Israeli writer and poet |
October 29 |
67 |
|
[153] |
Gael Greene |
American author |
November 1 |
88 |
|
[154] |
Doris Grumbach |
American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist |
November 4 |
104 |
|
[155] |
Geoff Cochrane |
New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer |
November 14 |
71 |
|
[156] |
Marcus Sedgwick |
British writer, illustrator and musician |
November 15 |
54 |
|
[157] |
Joëlle Guillais |
French writer |
November 19 |
70 |
Stroke |
[158] |
Marijane Meaker |
American writer (Spring Fire) |
November 21 |
95 |
Cardiac arrest |
[159] |
Bernadette Mayer |
American poet and writer |
November 22 |
77 |
|
[160] |
Milovan Danojlić |
Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic |
November 23 |
85 |
|
[161] |
Christian Bobin |
French author and poet |
November 24 |
71 |
|
[162] |
Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil) |
November 24 |
93 |
|
[163] |
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh |
Yemeni poet and essayist |
November 28 |
85 |
|
[164] |
Ray Nelson |
American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man) |
November 30 |
91 |
|
[165] |
Dominique Lapierre |
French author |
December 4 |
91 |
|
[166][167] |
Claude Mossé |
French historian |
December 12 |
97 |
|
[168] |
Xi Xi |
Chinese novelist and poet |
December 18 |
85 |
Heart failure |
[169] |
Manfred Messerschmidt |
German historian (Germany and the Second World War) |
December 19 |
96 |
|
[170] |
Françoise Bourdin |
French novelist |
December 25 |
70 |
|
[171] |
Begoña Huertas |
Spanish writer |
December 25 |
57 |
|
[172] |
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam |
Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic |
December 28 |
86 |
|
[173] |
Marion Meade |
American biographer and novelist |
December 29 |
88 |
|
[174] |
2022 literature awards, ordered alphabetically by award
Award |
Category |
Date awarded |
Recipient(s) |
Work |
Date Published |
Ref. |
America Award in Literature |
|
Gerhard Rühm |
— |
— |
|
American Academy of Arts and Letters |
Arts and Letters Awards in Literature |
May |
Catherine Barnett |
— |
— |
[175] |
Jo Ann Beard |
— |
— |
Aleshea Harris |
— |
— |
Sarah Manguso |
— |
— |
Joyelle McSweeney |
— |
— |
Susan Brind Morrow |
— |
— |
Doug Peacock |
— |
— |
Adrian Nathan West |
— |
— |
Benjamin Hadley Danks Award |
Martyna Majok |
— |
— |
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award |
Joshua Cohen |
The Netanyahus |
|
[176][175] |
Katherine Anne Porter Award |
Lynne Tillman |
— |
— |
[175] |
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award |
Patricia Lockwood |
Priestdaddy |
|
[175][176] |
Award of Merit for Poetry |
Stephen Dobyns |
— |
— |
[176][175] |
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award |
Kirstin Valdez Quade |
The Five Wounds |
|
[176][175] |
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction |
Jackie Polzin |
Brood |
|
[176][175] |
Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation |
Edith Grossman |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
|
[176][175] |
Andre Norton Award |
May 21 |
Darcie Little Badger |
A Snake Falls to Earth |
|
[177] |
Baillie Gifford Prize |
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|
Katherine Rundell |
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne |
|
[178] |
BBC National Short Story Award |
|
Saba Sams |
"Blue 4eva" |
|
[179] |
Booker Prize |
Booker Prize |
Oct 17 |
Shehan Karunatilaka |
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
|
[39] |
International Booker Prize |
May |
Geetanjali Shree with Daisy Rockwell (trans.) |
Tomb of Sand |
|
[180] |
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year |
Dec 9 |
Lindsay Bryde and Tommy Mayberry |
RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning With RuPaul's Drag Race |
|
[181] |
Bram Stoker Award |
Best Novel (Horror) |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
|
|
British Book Awards |
Author of the Year |
May 23 |
Marian Keyes |
— |
— |
[182] |
Book of the Year |
Marcus Rashford with Carl Anka |
You Are a Champion: How To Be the Best You Can Be |
|
|
Fiction Book |
Meg Mason |
Sorrow and Bliss |
|
[183] |
Début Book |
Caleb Azumah Nelson |
Open Water |
|
|
Crime & Thriller |
William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin |
The Dark Remains |
|
[183] |
Caine Prize for African Writing |
Jul 18 |
Idza Luhumyo |
"Five Years Next Sunday" |
|
[184] |
Carnegie Medal |
~Jun 15 |
Katya Balen |
October, October |
|
[185] |
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize |
Dec 6 |
Noor Naga |
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English |
|
[186] |
Duff Cooper Prize |
March 2023 |
Anna Keay |
The Restless Republic |
|
[187] |
Edgar Awards |
Novel |
Apr 28 |
James Kestrel |
Five Decembers |
|
[188] |
Raven Award |
Lesa Holstine |
— |
— |
[189][188] |
Ellery Queen Award |
Juliet Grames |
— |
— |
[189][188] |
Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master |
Laurie R. King |
— |
— |
[189][188] |
Eugie Award |
Sep 4 |
Sarah Pinsker |
"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" |
|
[190] |
European Book Prize |
Novel |
|
Antonio Scurati |
M. L'uomo della provvidenza |
|
|
Folio Prize |
|
Colm Tóibín |
The Magician |
|
|
Franz Kafka Prize |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
|
|
Giller Prize |
Nov 7 |
Suzette Mayr |
The Sleeping Car Porter |
August 29 |
[191] |
Governor General's Awards |
English Fiction |
November 16 |
Sheila Heti |
Pure Colour |
|
[192][193] |
English Non-Fiction |
Eli Baxter |
Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth |
|
English Poetry |
Annick MacAskill |
Shadow Blight |
|
English Drama |
Dorothy Dittrich |
The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key |
|
English Children's Literature |
Jen Ferguson |
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet |
|
English Children's Illustration |
Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi |
The Sour Cherry Tree |
|
French to English Translation |
Judith Weisz Woodsworth |
History of the Jews in Quebec |
|
French Fiction |
Alain Farah |
Mille secrets mille dangers |
|
[194] |
French Non-Fiction |
Sylveline Bourion |
La Voie romaine |
|
French Poetry |
Maya Cousineau Mollen |
Enfants du lichen |
|
French Drama |
David Paquet |
Le poids des fourmis |
|
French Children's literature |
Julie Champagne |
Cancer ascendant Autruche |
|
French Children's illustration |
Nadine Robert and Qin Leng |
Trèfle |
|
English to French translation |
Mélissa Verreault |
Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin |
|
Hugo Award |
Best Novel |
Sep 24 |
Arkady Martine |
A Desolation Called Peace |
|
[195] |
Best Novella |
Becky Chambers |
A Psalm for the Wild-Built |
|
Best Novelette |
Suzanne Palmer |
"Bots of the Lost Ark" |
|
Best Short Story |
Sarah Pinsker |
"Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" |
|
Lodestar Award |
Naomi Novik |
The Last Graduate |
|
Astounding Award |
Shelley Parker-Chan |
She Who Became the Sun |
|
International Dublin Literary Award |
|
Alice Zeniter
(translated by Frank Wynne) |
The Art of Losing |
|
[196] |
International Thriller Writer Award |
Audiobook |
Jun 5 |
S. A. Cosby with Adam Lazarre-White (narrator) |
Razorblade Tears |
|
[197] |
E-Book Original Novel |
E. J. Findorff |
Blood Parish |
|
First Novel |
Amanda Jayatissa |
My Sweet Girl |
|
Hardcover Novel |
S. A. Cosby |
Razorblade Tears |
|
Paperback Original Novel |
Amanda Jayatissa |
Bloodline |
|
Short Story |
Scott Loring Sanders |
"The Lemonade Stand" |
|
Young Adult Novel |
Courtney Summers |
The Project |
|
ThrillMaster |
Frederick Forsyth |
— |
— |
Diana Gabaldon |
— |
— |
Lambda Literary Award |
Anthology |
Jun 13 |
Briona Simone Jones |
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought |
|
[198] |
Bisexual Fiction |
Alix Ohlin |
We Want What We Want |
|
Bisexual Nonfiction |
Aisha Sabatini Sloan |
Borealis |
|
Bisexual Poetry |
Aurielle Marie |
Gumbo Ya Ya |
|
Children's |
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford |
Calvin |
|
Drama |
R. Eric Thomas |
Mrs. Harrison |
|
Erotica |
Samuel R. Delany |
Big Joe |
|
Gay Fiction |
Brontez Purnell |
100 Boyfriends |
|
Gay Memoir or Biography |
Brian Broome |
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir |
|
Gay Poetry |
John Keene |
Punks: New & Selected Poems |
|
Gay Romance |
Larry Benjamin |
Excellent Sons: A Love Story in Three Acts |
|
Graphic Novel |
Lee Lai |
Stone Fruit |
|
Lesbian Fiction |
Mia McKenzie |
Skye Falling |
|
Lesbian Memoir or Biography |
Sophie Santos |
The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) |
|
Lesbian Poetry |
Tamiko Beyer |
Last Days |
|
Lesbian Romance |
Milena McKay |
The Headmistress |
|
LGBTQ Studies |
Anna Lvovsky |
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall |
|
Mystery |
John Copenhaver |
The Savage Kind |
|
Nonfiction |
Sarah Schulman |
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 |
|
Speculative Fiction |
Cadwell Turnbull |
No Gods, No Monsters |
|
Transgender Fiction |
Jeanne Thornton |
Summer Fun |
|
Transgender Nonfiction |
Da’Shaun Harrison |
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness |
|
Transgender Poetry |
Mason J |
Crossbones on My Life |
|
Young Adult |
A. R. Capetta |
The Heartbreak Bakery |
|
Miguel de Cervantes Prize |
|
Rafael Cadenas |
— |
— |
|
Miles Franklin Award |
|
Jennifer Down |
Bodies of Light |
|
|
Nobel Prize in Literature |
Oct 6 |
Annie Ernaux |
— |
— |
[199] |
Premio Planeta de Novela |
Oct 16 |
Luz Gabás |
Lejos de Luisiana |
November 4 |
[200][201] |
Premio Strega Prize |
|
Mario Desiati |
Spatriati |
|
|
Prix Goncourt |
Nov 3 |
Brigitte Giraud |
Vivre vite |
August 24 |
[202] |
Publishing Triangle |
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry |
May 11 |
Cheryl Boyce Taylor |
Mama Phife Represents |
|
[203] |
Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction |
Robert Jones Jr. |
The Prophets |
|
Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction |
Anthony Veasna So |
Afterparties |
|
Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction |
Briona Simone Jones |
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought |
|
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature |
Ari Banias |
A Symmetry |
|
Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction |
Brian Broome |
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir |
|
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry |
John Keene |
Punks: New & Selected Poems |
|
Pulitzer Prize |
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
|
Joshua Cohen |
The Netanyahus |
|
[204] |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
James Ijames |
Fat Ham |
|
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction |
Andrea Elliott |
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City |
|
Pulitzer Prize for History |
Nicole Eustace |
Covered with Night |
|
Ada Ferrer |
Cuba: An American History |
|
Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
Winfred Rembert |
Chasing Me to My Grave |
|
Erin I. Kelly |
ReLit Awards |
Novel |
May 20 |
Conor Kerr |
Avenue of Champions |
|
[205] |
Short fiction |
Sydney Hegele |
The Pump |
|
Poetry |
Charlie Petch |
Why I Was Late |
|
Silvers-Dudley Prize |
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism |
Jan 5 |
Elaine Blair |
— |
— |
[6][206] |
Merve Emre |
— |
— |
Becca Rothfeld |
— |
— |
Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism |
Alma Guillermoprieto |
— |
— |
Nesrine Malik |
— |
— |
Thomas Meaney |
— |
— |
Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing |
Vinson Cunningham |
— |
— |
Jason Farago |
— |
— |
Ingrid Rowland |
— |
— |
Trillium Book Award |
English Prose |
Jun 21 |
Ann Shin |
The Last Exiles |
|
[207] |
English Poetry |
Bardia Sinaee |
Intruder |
|
French Prose |
Robert Marinier |
Un conte de l’apocalypse |
|
French Poetry |
Chloé LaDuchesse |
Exosquelette |
|
Women's Prize for Fiction |
Jun 15 |
Ruth Ozeki |
The Book of Form and Emptiness |
|
[208] |
Writers' Trust of Canada |
Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing |
May 2 |
Joanna Chiu |
China Unbound: A New World Disorder |
|
[209] |
RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers |
June 6 |
Teya Hollier |
"Watching, Waiting" |
— |
[210] |
Patrick James Errington |
"If Fire, Then Bird" |
— |
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize |
Nov 2 |
Nicholas Herring |
Some Hellish |
|
[211] |
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 |
Nov 29 |
John Lorinc |
Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
— |
[212] |