1998 IN LITERATURE

The year '1998 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

★ November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel ''Charming Billy''.

★ Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.

New books

★ Aaron Allston

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★ ''Iron Fist

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★ ''Wraith Squadron''

★ Hanan al-Shaykh - ''I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops''

★ Martin Amis - ''Heavy Water and Other Stories'' (most stories previously published)

★ Reshman Baig - ''The Memory of Hands''

★ Iain M. Banks - ''Inversions''

★ Julian Barnes - ''England, England''

★ Greg Bear

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★ ''Dinosaur Summer''

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★ ''Foundation and Chaos''

★ Raymond Benson - ''The Facts of Death''

★ Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny - ''Psychoshop''

★ Robert Bloch - ''Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies''

★ Driss Chraibi - ''Muhammad''

★ Mary Higgins Clark - ''All Through the Night''

★ Tom Clancy - ''Rainbow Six''

★ Paulo Coelho - ''Veronika Decides to Die''

★ Patricia Cornwell - ''Point of Origin''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''Girlfriend in a Coma''

★ Ann C. Crispin - ''Rebel Dawn''

★ Michael Cunningham - ''The Hours''

★ August Derleth

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★ ''The Final Adventures of Solar Pons''

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★ ''In Lovecraft's Shadow''

★ Allan W. Eckert - ''Return to Hawk's Hill''

★ Diana Gabaldon - ''Hellfire''

★ Neil Gaiman - ''Smoke and Mirrors'' (most of the contained stories previously published)

★ Andrew Greeley - ''A Midwinter's Tale''

★ John Grisham - ''The Street Lawyer''

★ Ha Jin - ''Waiting''

★ Tomson Highway - ''Kiss of the Fur Queen''

★ Nick Hornby - ''About a Boy''

★ John Irving - ''A Widow for One Year''

★ K. W. Jeter

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★ ''The Mandalorian Armor''

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★ ''Slave Ship''

★ Wayne Johnston - ''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams''

★ Stephen King - ''Bag of Bones''

★ Dean R. Koontz - ''Seize the Night''

★ Ian McEwan - ''Amsterdam''

★ Roy MacLaren - ''African Exploits''

★ Steve Martin - ''Pure Drivel''

★ Carol Matas - ''Greater Than Angels''

★ Toni Morrison - ''Paradise''

★ Alice Munro - ''The Love of a Good Woman''

★ Haruki Murakami - ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle''

★ Tim O'Brien - ''Tomcat in Love''

★ Tom Perrotta - ''Election''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Carpe Jugulum''

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★ ''The Last Continent''

★ David Adams Richards - ''The Bay of Love and Sorrows''

★ J. K. Rowling - ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''

★ Michael Slade - ''Shrink'' aka ''Primal Scream''

★ Michael Stackpole - ''I, Jedi''

★ Danielle Steel

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★ ''The Klone and I''

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★ ''The Long Road Home''

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★ ''Mirror Image''

★ Thomas Sullivan - ''The Martyring''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Safe House''

★ Connie Willis - ''To Say Nothing of the Dog''

★ A. N. Wilson - ''Dream Children''

★ Tom Wolfe - ''A Man in Full''

★ Timothy Zahn - ''Vision of the Future''

New drama

★ Edward Albee - ''The Play About the Baby''

★ Michael Frayn - ''Copenhagen''

Non-fiction

★ Tariq Ali - ''The Book of Saladin''

★ Peter Cannon (editor) - ''Lovecraft Remembered''

★ Esther Delisle - '' (Essais sur l'imprégnation fasciste au Québec)

★ Gerina Dunwich - ''Wicca A to Z''

★ Amanda Foreman - ''Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire''

★ John Fowles - ''Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings''

★ Alan I. Marcus - '' -

★ Jules Witcover, David Halberstam - ''

Births

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Deaths

★ January 2 - Frank Muir, comedy writer

★ January 11 - John Wells, satirical writer

★ January 23 - John Forbes, Australian poet

★ January 27 - Geoffrey Trease, historical novelist

★ February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author

★ February 17 - Ernst Jünger, novelist and war memoirist

★ March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock, childcare expert

★ April 11 - Francis Durbridge, playwright

★ April 19 - Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature

★ April 27 - Pauline Réage, author

★ April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, author

★ May 9 - Nat Perrin, comedy writer

★ June 10 - Hammond Innes, novelist

★ June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson, bestselling novelist

★ July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer

★ July 5 - Johnny Speight, comedy writer

★ July 14 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet

★ July 23 - John Hopkins, film and television writer

★ September 28 - Eric Malling, journalist

★ October 22 - Eric Ambler, novelist

★ October 28 - Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great Britain

★ November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist

★ ''date unknown'' - Ian Wallace, science fiction author

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jennifer Kremmer, ''Pegasus in the Suburbs''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, ''Broken Land''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew ''The Wild Reply''

Canada

★ Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

★ See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

★ Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: ''The Love of a Good Woman''

France

★ Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, ''Les Particules élémentaires''

★ Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, ''Confidence pour confidence''

★ Prix Médicis French: ''Le Loup mongol''

★ Prix Médicis International: ''The House of Sleep'' - Jonathan Coe

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Ian McEwan - ''Amsterdam''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith

★ Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams

★ Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, ''Larry's Party''

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, ''Birthday Letters''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, ''The Water Between Us''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"

★ Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, ''Desire''

★ Compton Crook Award: Katie Waitman, ''The Merro Tree''

★ Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman, ''Forever Peace''

★ Frost Medal: Stanley Kunitz

★ Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, ''Forever Peace''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Karen Hesse, ''Out of the Dust''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, ''American Pastoral''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, ''Black Zodiac''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons

Elsewhere

★ IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, ''The Grand of Green Plums''

★ Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, ''Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes''