1991 IN LITERATURE

The year '1991 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ Douglas Coupland publishes the novel '', popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.

New books

★ Martin Amis - ''Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense''

★ Jeffrey Archer - ''As the Crow Flies''

★ Clive Barker - ''Imajica''

★ Pat Barker - ''Regeneration''

★ Louis Begley - ''Wartime Lies''

★ A. S. Byatt - ''

★ Tom Clancy - ''The Sum of All Fears''

★ Mary Higgins Clark - ''Loves Music, Loves to Dance''

★ Hugh Cook - ''The Werewolf and the Wormlord''

★ Paul Cornell - ''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - ''The Pixilated Peeress''

★ Don DeLillo - ''Mao II''

★ Terrance Dicks - ''

★ Stephen R. Donaldson - ''The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story''

★ Stephen R. Donaldson - ''The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge''

★ Roddy Doyle - ''The Van''

★ Bret Easton Ellis - ''American Psycho''

★ Jostein Gaarder - ''Sophie's World (Sofies verden)''

★ John Gardner - ''The Man from Barbarossa

★ David Gates - ''Jernigan''

★ Ann Granger - ''Say It With Poison''

★ John Grisham - ''The Firm''

★ Josephine Hart - ''Damage''

★ Mark Jacobson - ''Gojiro''

★ John le Carré - ''The Secret Pilgrim''

★ Morgan Llywelyn - ''Druids''

★ James A. Michener - ''Mexico''

★ Rohinton Mistry - ''Such a Long Journey''

★ John Peel - ''

★ Marge Piercy - ''He, She and It''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Reaper Man''

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★ ''Witches Abroad''

★ Alexandra Ripley - ''Scarlett''

★ Nigel Robinson - ''

★ Bernice Rubens - ''A Solitary Grief''

★ Michael Shaara - ''For Love of the Game'' (posthumously published)

★ Sidney Sheldon - ''The Doomsday Conspiracy''

★ Jane Smiley - ''A Thousand Acres''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Heartbeat''

★ James B. Stewart - ''Den of Thieves''

★ Michael Swanwick - ''Gravity's Angels''

★ Amy Tan - ''The Kitchen God's Wife''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Sacrifice''

★ Bernard Werber - ''Empire of the Ants (in orig. French ''Les Fourmis'')

★ Tim Winton - ''Cloudstreet''

★ Helen Zahavi - ''Dirty Weekend''

★ Timothy Zahn - ''Heir to the Empire''

★ Haifa Zangana - ''Through the Vast Halls of Memory''

★ Roger Zelazny - ''Prince of Chaos''

New drama

★ Ariel Dorfman - ''Death and the Maiden''

★ Philip Ridley - ''The Pitchfork Disney''

★ Neil Simon - ''Lost in Yonkers''

Non-fiction

★ Dave Foreman - ''Confessions of an Eco-Warrior''

★ Madonna - ''SEX''

★ Robert K. Massie - ''Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War''

★ John Richardson - ''A Life of Picasso''

★ Simon Schama - ''Dead Certainties''

★ Naomi Wolf - ''The Beauty Myth''

★ Zhang Chengzhi - ''History of the Soul''

Births

★ Khloe

Deaths

★ January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet

★ January 23 - Northrop Frye, literary critic

★ January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian

★ February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host

★ March - Paul Engle, novelist

★ April 3 - Graham Greene

★ April 12 - James Schuyler, poet

★ April 29 - Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate

★ July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

★ September 24 - Dr. Seuss

★ October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet

★ October 12 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer

★ October 27 - George Barker, poet

★ November 29 - Frank Yerby, historical novelist

★ ''date unknown'' - Dante Milano, poet

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew McGahan, ''Praise''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, ''The Winter Baby''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, ''The Winter Baby''

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - ''Verandahs''

Canada

★ See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, ''Les Filles du Calvaire''

★ Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, ''Eau de café''

★ Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, ''La Dérive des sentiments''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Ben Okri, ''The Famished Road''

★ Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon

★ Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay

★ Guardian Fiction Award: Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, ''A Life of Picasso''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, ''Sleeping Preacher''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, "Museum of Clear Ideas"

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur

★ Compton Crook Award: Michael Flynn, ''In the country of the Blind''

★ Frost Medal: Donald Hall

★ Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, ''Stations of the Tide''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, ''Maniac Magee''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, ''Lost in Yonkers''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: ''Rabbit At Rest''

★ Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: ''The Ants''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: ''Near Changes''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Alfredo Conde Cid, ''Los otros días''