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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2007.

Events[edit]

January 1 – Post- och Inrikes Tidningar (Sweden), the world's oldest surviving newspaper (beginning in 1645 as Ordinari Post Tijdender), begins to be published online only.^[1]
March 5 – A car bomb explodes on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, the historic center of bookselling in the city.
April 26 – Polly Stenham's play That Face, written when the author was 19, premières at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.^[2]
November 19 – First Kindle e-book reader released.
December 11 – Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.^[3]

New books[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Dejan Stojanović, Ples vremena ("Dance of Time"), Konras, Beograd^[4]

Non-fiction[edit]

Peter Ackroyd – Thames: Sacred River
Andrea Cagan – Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
Wayne Federman, Marshall Terrill and Jackie Maravich – Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich
David Halberstam – The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Ian Halperin – Hollywood Undercover
Christopher Hitchens – God is not Great
A. J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically
Linda and Terry Jamison – Separated at Earth
Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
Anthony Lewis – Freedom for the Thought That We Hate
David McMillan – Escape
John Matteson – Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
Daisuke Miyao – Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること, Hashiru Koto ni Tsuite Kataru Toki ni Boku no Kataru Koto)
Bruce Serafin – Stardust^[5]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (born 1932)
January 27 – Herbert Reinecker, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (born 1914)
January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (born 1917)
February 16 – Sheridan Morley, English critic and biographer (born 1941)
March 30 – Michael Dibdin, British crime writer (born 1947)
April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American satirical novelist (born 1922)
May 8 – Philip R. Craig, American author and poet (born 1933)
June 3 – Suzanne Robert, French Canadian novelist (born 1948)
June 21 – Douglas Hill, Canadian science fiction author and reviewer (born 1935)
June 27 – Dragutin Tadijanović, Croatian poet (born 1905)
July 31 – Margaret Avison, Canadian poet (born 1918)
September 3 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (born 1908)
September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American novelist (born 1918)
September 16 – Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), American fantasy and historical novelist (born 1948)
November 10 – Norman Mailer, American novelist, journalist and playwright (born 1923)
November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist, dramatist and songwriter (born 1929)
November 19 – Magda Szabó, Hungarian novelist, dramatist and essayist (born 1917)
November 27 – Jane Rule, Canadian novelist (born 1931)

Awards[edit]

Australia[edit]

Canada[edit]

Canada Reads: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
Le Combat des livres: Denis Thériault, L'Iguane
Scotiabank Giller Prize: Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
Governor General's Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Governor General's Awards
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway^[6]
Dayne Ogilvie Prize: Michael V. Smith
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize: Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction: Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

United Kingdom[edit]

Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
Man Booker Prize: Anne Enright, The Gathering
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction: to Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

United States[edit]

Newbery Award for children's literature: Susan Patron, The Higher Power Of Lucky
Compton Crook Award: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2007 Lambda Literary Awards.
National Book Award for Fiction: to Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Everyman by Philip Roth
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: to The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Ben Fountain, Brad Kessler, Dalia Sofer
- Nonfiction: Carlo Rotella, Peter Trachtenberg, Jack Turner
- Plays: Sheila Callaghan, Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Poetry: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin

References[edit]

^ "World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Purely Digital". Newsmax Media. Associated Press. 6 February 2007. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
^ "'Harry Potter' tale is fastest-selling book in history". International Herald Tribune. 2007-07-23. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
^ "Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
^ Web page titled Ples Vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
^ Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/16/2012
^ Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012

[1] "World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Purely Digital". Newsmax Media. Associated Press. 6 February 2007. Retrieved 2011-05-12.

[2] "'Harry Potter' tale is fastest-selling book in history". International Herald Tribune. 2007-07-23. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21.

[3] "Pratchett funds Alzheimer's study". BBC News. March 13, 2008. Retrieved July 31, 2010.

[4] Web page titled Ples Vremena, Konras, Beograd, 2007, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive

[5] Faculty of Arts, March 20, 2009, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University Headlines (News Releases), Retrieved 11/16/2012

[wlu07-6] Faculty of Arts, 2007, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linden MacIntyre, Retrieved 11/16/2012

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2007 in literature

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Events[edit]

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Fiction[edit]

Children and young people[edit]

Science fiction and fantasy[edit]

Drama[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Awards[edit]

Australia[edit]

Canada[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

United States[edit]

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