2024 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2024.

Anniversaries

 * 30 January – Lloyd Alexander was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
 * 19 April – Lord Byron died of fever in Missolonghi, Greece (200th Anniversary).
 * 11 May – On this day 100 years ago, Robert Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for the book New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
 * 2 August – James Baldwin was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
 * 5 August – Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip was first published in the New York Daily News (100th Anniversary).
 * 30 September - Truman Capote was born in 1924 (100th Anniversary).
 * 5 October - José Donoso was born (100th Anniversary).
 * 15 October – Éditions du Sagittaire published André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto (100th Anniversary).


 * 100th anniversary of the publication of
 * A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
 * The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
 * The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
 * Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

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

Deaths

 * January 22 – Elke Erb, German author and poet, 85
 * January, 24 – N. Scott Momaday, american novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner in 1969.
 * March 22 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French children's book writer and illustrator, 98
 * April 2 – John Barth, American fiction writer, 93
 * April 2 – Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean novelist and playwright, 90
 * April 4 – Lynne Reid Banks, English novelist, 94
 * April 27 – C. J. Sansom, British crime writer (Shardlake series), 71
 * April 28 – Sir Vincent O'Sullivan, New Zealand writer, Poet Laureate (2013–2015), 86
 * April 30 – Paul Auster, American crime writer (The New York Trilogy), 77
 * May 4 – Jūrō Kara, Japanese playwright, 84
 * May 13 – Alice Munro, Canadian writer, 92
 * July 1 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer, 88