2017 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2017. Events March – Emulating Kerouac's On the Road, Ross Goodwin drives from New York to New Orleans with an artificial intelligence device in a laptop hooked up to various sensors, whose output it turns into words printed on rolls of thermal paper; the result is published unedited as 1 the Road in 2018. August – The Chinese crime novelist Liu Yongbiao is arrested and eventually sentenced to death for four murders committed 22 years before. August 30 – A hard disk drive containing unfinished work by the English comic fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett (died 2015) is crushed by a steamroller on his instructions. October 5 - The Swedish Academy announce that the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro. October – Tianjin Binhai Library opens in China. December – Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person" is published in The New Yorker and becomes a viral phenomenon online, with more than 2.6 million hits. Anniversaries Tercentenary of the Aberbaijani poet Molla Panah Vagif's birth in 1717 600th anniversary of the death of the Turkic mystical poet Imadaddin Nasimi in 1417 March 19 – Bicentenary of