2000 in literature

See also: 1999 in literature, other events of 2000, 2001 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Business Week Best Book of the Year: Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed
• Finlandia Prize: Johanna Sinisalo Not Before Sunset (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi)
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost - tied with: David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Nicola Barker, Wide Open
• Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Gao Xingjian.
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times
• Prix Femina: Camille Laurens, Dans ces bras-là
• Prix Goncourt: Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Ingrid Caven
• Prix Décembre: Anthony Palou, Camille
• Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes
• Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Yann Apperry, Diabolus in musica
• Prix Médicis International: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: C.K. Williams, Repair
• Samuel Johnson Prize: David Cairns, Berlioz: Volume 2
• Viareggio Prize: Giorgio Van Straten, Il mio nome a memoria and Sandro Veronesi, La forza del passato
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Matthew Kneale, English Passengers