2000 in literature
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- The Farewell ( Buchheim ) - Lothar -Günther Buchheim
- Goodbye in Casablanca - Peter Zeindler
- When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The blind assassin - Margaret Atwood
- Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
- English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
- Ghost (novel) - John Banville
- God rides a bicycle - Maarten 't Hart
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
- The House - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- The heretic - Peter Berling
- Silent ( novel) - Frank Schätzing
- Learn lie - Frank Goosen
- With amazement and trembling - Amélie Nothomb
- Nothing (novel) - Janne Teller
- The red antelope - Henning Mankell
- Russian Disco - Wladimir Kaminer
- Shame ( Coetzee ) - JM Coetzee
- Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
- The Stars ' Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
- The Pristine - Robert Schneider
- The Vampyr (hollow leg ) - Wolfgang hollow leg
- The father game - Josef Haslinger
- The way to Vinland - Margaret Elphinstone
- The second memory - Ken Follett
- The second kingdom - Rebecca Gablé
- Alice Calaprice - The Expanded Quotable Einstein.
Died
- January 2: Patrick O'Brian, British writer ( born in 1914 )
- February 8: Angelika Mechtel, German writer ( b. 1943 )
- February 23: Albrecht Goes, German Protestant theologian and writer ( b. 1908 )
- FEBRUARY 25: Auguste Lechner, Austrian writer ( b. 1905 )
- April 13: Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer and journalist (* 1916)
- MAY 16: Andrzej Szczypiorski, Polish writer (* 1924)
- 9 June: Ernst Jandl, poet ( b. 1925 )
- 20 June: Karl Mickel, German poet, dramatist and essayist ( b. 1935 )
- July 7: Ruth Werner, writer (* 1907)
- August 18: Helmut Weiss, German writer (* 1913)
- September 22: Yehuda Amichai German -Israeli poet (* 1924)
- October 14th: Rudolf Schenda, folklorist and narrative researcher ( b. 1930 )
- NOVEMBER 5: Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat (* 1907)
- NOVEMBER 27: Eugen Helmle, German writer and literary translator (* 1927)
- December 4: Hans Carl Artmann, Austrian poet ( b. 1921 )
- December 8: Rolf Heyne, German publisher ( b. 1928 )