2010 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2010.

Events

February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened.

April 3 – First release of the Apple iPad electronic book reading device.

April 12 – Little-known author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel Tinkers (2009) published by tiny Bellevue Literary Press.

June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal in Literature and the Newbery Medal for the same book — The Graveyard Book.

July 27 – Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy becomes an international sensation. As of May 2010, a total of 27 million copies have been sold worldwide. On July 27 Amazon says Larsson is first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.

August 13 – Time magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover for his novel Freedom, the first time an author has appeared here since 2000 with Stephen King.

October 7 – The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

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