2022 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2022.

Events

 * 1 January
 * The 2022 New Year Honours List in the UK includes novelist Anthony Horowitz, cookery writer Claudia Roden and publisher Peter Usborne, all of whom receive the CBE.
 * A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh enters the public domain in the United States.
 * 5 January – The Robert B. Silvers Foundation awards the inaugural Robert B. Silvers Prizes to recognize excellence in journalism, literary criticism, and arts writing.
 * 11 January – Maya Angelou becomes the first African-American woman to appear on a quarter-dollar coin in the United States.
 * 25 January – Colm Tóibín is named the new Laureate for Irish Fiction.
 * 22 April – The results of a survey carried out by Mayank Kejriwal and Akarsh Nagaraj at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, using AI, reveal evidence of gender bias in literature.
 * 4 May – Ram Nath Kovind becomes the first President of India to address a regional language literary event in the northeast when he attends the closing session of the annual conference of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Tamulpur, western Assam.
 * 28 May – Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona, designed by Suma Arquitectura, is formally inaugurated.
 * 2 June – British literary figures recognised in the 2022 Birthday Honours include novelists Ian Rankin (knighthood) and Salman Rushdie; the latter is made a Companion of Honour, along with illustrator Sir Quentin Blake.
 * 15 June – Opening of Shakespeare North in Prescot in northwest England, incorporating a replica early-17th century playhouse.
 * 12 August – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie is stabbed multiple times as he is about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States.

Anniversaries

 * 200th anniversary of the death of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * 150th anniversary of Publishers Weekly
 * 100th anniversary of the Newbery Medal
 * 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Philip Larkin
 * 100th anniversary of the publication of
 * In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
 * One of Ours by Willa Cather
 * "The Problem of Thor Bridge" by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
 * The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
 * Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
 * Ulysses by James Joyce
 * "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka
 * Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence
 * Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
 * "Celephaïs" by H. P. Lovecraft
 * "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft
 * "The Music of Erich Zann" by H. P. Lovecraft
 * "The Tomb" by H. P. Lovecraft
 * The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
 * "The Garden Party"
 * The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
 * Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf

New books
Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Poetry

 * Ocean Vuong – Time Is a Mother (April 5, US)

Films

 * Matilda the Musical