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2021 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2021. Events *January 1 – British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne is appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to literature. *September 7 – A Radio-Canada article reveals that 5,000 books from 30 French-language school libraries in Southwestern Ontario were destroyed by the Conseil scolaire catholique Providence because they included racial stereotypes relating to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Although intended as a "gesture of reconciliation", the action meets with widespread condemnation. *October 6 – The National Assembly of France adopts new legislation mandating a minimum price on book deliveries to protect independent bookstores from e-commerce giants including Amazon and Fnac, who have circumvented a 2014 law banning the free delivery of books by offering discounted shipping at €0.01. New books Fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events Pre-1600 *153 BC – For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1. *45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year. *42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar. * 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor. * 404 – Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights. * 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euractiv
Euractiv (styled EURACTIV) is a pan-European news website specialised in EU policies, founded in 1999 by the French media publisher Christophe Leclercq. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Brussels,with further offices in Paris and Berlin. Its content is produced by about 50 journalists staffed in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia. EURACTIV's reporting focuses on the pre-legislative stage of EU decision-making, with up to 2,750 articles translated per year. In addition to EURACTIV's editorial team, the company has established partnerships with media outlets such as Der Tagesspiegel, Agencia EFE and Ouest-France. EURACTIV has diversified sources of funding, as the company seeks private and public revenues to run its business. In 2019, about a fifth of EURACTIV's income came from public sources, including the EU. Other sources of revenue are advertising and corporate sponsoring. Key ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silverview
''Silverview'' is a novel by British writer John le Carré, published posthumously on 12 October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick Cornwell. In the afterword, he noted that the process was "more like retouching a painting than completing a novel." He also speculated that his father refrained from publishing it sooner because it “does something that no other le Carré novel ever has. It shows a service fragmented: filled with its own political factions, not always kind to those it should cherish … and ultimately not sure, any more, that it can justify itself.” ''Silverview'' centres on a young bookseller, an enigmatic Polish immigrant, and a British agent hunting down a leak. At just over 200 pages, it is the shortest le Carré novel since ''A Murder of Quality'' in 1962. In 2021, Penguin Audio released an audiobook version, read by Toby Jones. Plot Julian Lawndsley has left a career in the financial sector in London to open a bookstore in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Later (novel)
''Later'' is a crime/ horror novel written by American author Stephen King, published on March 2, 2021 by Hard Case Crime. The book is available in paperback format with a limited hardcover release. The paperback edition features cover art by Paul Mann, and the limited hardcover features cover art by Gregory Manchess. The 7 hour audiobook is read by Seth Numrich. This is King's third published work with Hard Case Crime, following the release of ''The Colorado Kid'' and '' Joyland''. The story is told in first person perspective using Jamie Conklin as the protagonist, who has the ability to see the ghosts of dead people. The novel entered ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list at number two, in the week ending March 6, 2021. Story Set in the late 2000s and early 2010s, ''Later'' is narrated by its main character Jamie, a young boy living with his single mother, Tia, in New York City. Jamie has the ability to see and talk to the ghosts of dead people. These ghosts mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Summers
''Billy Summers'' is a crime novel written by American author Stephen King, published by Scribner on August 3, 2021. Plot Billy Summers is a 44-year-old hitman and former U.S. Marine sniper, who only accepts jobs killing truly evil men, but now he wants to retire from the assassin life altogether. Nick Majarian, a mobster whom Billy has worked for many times before, offers him one last job--one that pays $500,000 up front, and $1.5 million after it's done. Billy's target is Joel Allen, also a hitman, who was arrested for murdering a man who won a fortune off of him in a poker game. Allen has claimed to have valuable information that the police wants in order to make a plea deal, and apparently, someone, whom Nick can't name, doesn't want Allen talking, which is why Billy has been hired to take him out. The job requires Billy to spend some quiet time undercover as a resident in the small town of Midwood, where an office space has been rented out for his use. Billy's cover sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Love Me (novel)
''You Love Me'' is a thriller novel by Caroline Kepnes, published in April 2021. It is the sequel to her 2016 novel, ''Hidden Bodies'', and third instalment of the ''You'' series. The novel debuted at number fifteen on ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list for the week ending April 10, 2021. Kepnes will publish another sequel, '' For You and You Only'', in 2023. Synopsis Following a major upheaval in his life, Joe Goldberg leaves Los Angeles for new pastures in the Pacific Northwest. When he meets the lovely Mary Kay DiMarco, Joe intensely falls for her. Ready to prove that he is a different man, Joe tries to court her without his usual obsessive acts. After securing a job in a new sleepy town and striving to prove an alternative method of making his next relationship work without meddling, he tries to find his happily ever after. But can Joe really prove that he is capable of change to find himself worthy of true love, or is he set to repeat history, dooming other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Heart Is A Chainsaw
''My Heart is a Chainsaw'' is a 2021 horror novel by Stephen Graham Jones and the first book in ''The Indian Lake Trilogy''. The book is the winner of the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. It received critical praise for its references to, and deconstruction of, the slasher film genre. Plot summary Two Dutch tourists are murdered at Indian Lake near the small town of Proofrock, Idaho. Their phone remains in the town canoe, unnoticed. Indian Lake is an artificial reservoir; the remains of a Christian church and other town buildings lie beneath its surface. Local legend tells the story of Stacey Graves, a young Indian girl who was accused of being a witch. Stacey cannot enter the waters of the lake because it is a Christian burial ground. Indian Lake abuts a national forest, which is being developed into a new neighborhood called Terra Nova by a group of wealthy businesspeople. High school senior Jennifer “Jade” Daniels has been abandoned by her mother and lives with her alco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klara And The Sun
''Klara and the Sun'' is the eighth novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published on 2 March 2021. It is a dystopian science fiction story. Set in the U.S. in an unspecified future, the book is told from the point of view of Klara, a solar-powered AF (Artificial Friend), who is chosen by Josie, a sickly child, to be her companion. The novel was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Plot The novel is set in a dystopian future in which some children are genetically engineered ("lifted") for enhanced academic ability. As schooling is provided entirely at home by on-screen tutors, opportunities for socialization are limited and parents who can afford it often buy their children androids as companions. The book is narrated by one such Artificial Friend (AF) called Klara. Although Klara is exceptionally intelligent and observant, her knowledge of the world is limited. From the window of the store in which she is for sale, Klara learns about the world o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sweetness Of Water
''The Sweetness of Water'' is the debut novel by American novelist Nathan Harris. It was published by Little, Brown and Company on June 15, 2021. It won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Summary ''The Sweetness of Water'' is set in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, during the final period of the Civil War. The story follows two Black brothers, Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, as they try to make money for their trek north to reunite with their mother. The novel also features a parallel narrative following the taboo romance between two gay male Confederate soldiers. Background After graduating from the University of Oregon, Nathan Harris moved to San Francisco. He worked a number of jobs, including food delivery for Postmates and legal assistant work for his mother who is an attorney. Between 2013 and 2015, Harris worked on writing a novel in the mornings and evenings between his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abundance (novel)
''Abundance'' is a 2021 novel by Jakob Guanzon about wealth inequality, and human worth. It is Guanzon's first novel. It covers concepts including inherited medical debt, poverty, food security, criminal justice system, and illegal drug trade.NPR review /ref>Twin Cities Pioneer Press review /ref> The novel was longlisted for the 2021 |
Matrix (Groff Novel)
''Matrix'' is a historical novel by Lauren Groff, published by Riverhead Books on September 7, 2021. Premise Groff's fourth novel, ''Matrix'' is about a "seventeen-year-old Marie de France... sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease." ''The Observer'' described it as "a strange and poetic piece of historical fiction set in a dreamlike abbey, the fictional biography of a 12th-century mystic." Within the novel, Marie, whom Groff writes as a lesbian, turns around the abbey's fortunes and treats it as a quasi-mystical female separatist "utopia". Reception ''Matrix'' received very favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 31 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. The novel debuted at number eleven on ''The New York Times'' fiction best-seller list for the week ending September 11, 2021. ''Publishers Weekly'', in its starred review, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promise (Galgut Novel)
''The Promise'' is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. It was published by Europa Editions in the US and by Chatto & Windus in the UK. The novel was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize, making Galgut the third South African to win the Prize. Plot ''The Promise'' is a family saga spanning four decades, each of which features a death in the family. It concerns the Afrikaner Swart family and their farm located outside Pretoria. The family consists of Manie, his wife Rachel, and their children Anton, Astrid, and Amor. In 1986, Rachel dies after a long illness. Before passing, she expresses her dying wish to Manie that their black domestic servant, Salome, be given ownership of the house in which she resides on the family's property. This promise, overheard by a young Amor, is made by Manie, but he claims no memory of having made it at the wake, and shows no intention of fulfilling it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |