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January 1 – In the UK's 2008 New Year Honours List, Hanif Kureishi (CBE), Jenny Uglow (OBE), Peter Vansittart (OBE) and Debjani Chatterjee (MBE) are all rewarded for "services to literature." February 29 – Belgian-born "Misha Defonseca" admits that her bestselling Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997) is a literary forgery.
The following list ranks the number-one best selling fiction books, in the hardcover fiction category. [1]The most popular books of the year were The Appeal, by John Grisham and Change of Heart, by Jodi Picoult with respectively 5 and 3 weeks at the top.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (born 1940), better known with his pen name J. M. G. Le Clézio, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
Pages in category "2008 in literature" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
(1918–2008) Soviet Union: Russian "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature" [71] novel, essay, short story 1971: Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chile: Spanish "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams" [72] poetry 1972: Heinrich ...
Pages in category "2008 books" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .
Pages in category "2008 novels" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Azazeel (novel) B.