1999 IN LITERATURE

The year '1999 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized. He does not continue with his next book, ''On Writing'', until July.

New books

★ Aaron Allston

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★ ''Solo Command''

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★ ''Starfighters of Adumar''

★ Laurie Halse Anderson - ''Speak''

★ Max Barry - ''Syrup''

★ Greg Bear - ''Darwin's Radio''

★ Raymond Benson

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★ ''High Time to Kill''

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★ ''The World Is Not Enough''

★ Thomas Berger - ''The Return of Little Big Man''

★ Maeve Binchy - ''Tara Road''

★ Terry Brooks - ''

★ Tracy Chevalier - ''Girl with a Pearl Earring''

★ J. M. Coetzee - ''Disgrace''

★ Matt Cohen - ''Elizabeth and After''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''Miss Wyoming''

★ Michael Crichton - ''Timeline''

★ Shaw J. Dallal - ''Scattered Like Seeds''

★ August Derleth, editor - ''New Horizons''

★ Marc Dugain - ''La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward)''

★ Frederic S. Durbin - ''Dragonfly''

★ Bret Easton Ellis - ''Glamorama''

★ Sebastian Faulks - ''(novel)|Charlotte Gray''

★ Diana Gabaldon - ''Through the Stones''

★ John Grisham - ''The Testament''

★ Joanne Harris - ''Chocolat''

★ Thomas Harris - ''Hannibal''

★ Victor Heck - ''The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward''

★ Carl Hiaasen - ''Sick Puppy''

★ Stewart Home - ''Cunt''

★ Michel Houellebecq - ''Atomised''

★ Nancy Huston - ''The Mark of the Angel''

★ K. W. Jeter - ''Hard Merchandise''

★ Stephen King

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★ ''The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon''

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★ ''Hearts in Atlantis''

★ John le Carré - ''Single & Single''

★ Jonathan Lethem - ''Motherless Brooklyn''

★ Frank McCourt -'''Tis''

★ David Macfarlane - ''Summer Gone''

★ Alistair MacLeod - ''No Great Mischief''

★ Jeffrey Moore - ''Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain''

★ Toni Morrison - ''Paradise''

★ Chuck Palahniuk

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★ ''Invisible Monsters''

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★ ''Survivor''

★ Susanne Pari - ''The Fortune Catcher''

★ Terry Pratchett - ''The Fifth Elephant''

★ Kathy Reichs - ''Death du Jour''

★ Matthew Reilly - ''Temple''

★ J. K. Rowling - ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''

★ Jane Turner Rylands - ''Dining with Peggy Guggenheim''

★ Louis Sachar - ''Holes''

★ R. A. Salvatore - ''Vector Prime''

★ F. Tupper Saussy - ''Rulers Of Evil''

★ Neal Shusterman - ''Downsiders''

★ Michael Slade - ''Burnt Bones''

★ Lemony Snicket - ''The Reptile Room''

★ Susan Sontag - ''In America''

★ Michael Stackpole - ''Isard's Revenge''

★ Matthew Stadler - ''Allan Stein''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Irresistible Forces''

★ Neal Stephenson - ''Cryptonomicon''

★ James B. Stewart - ''Blind Eye''

★ Koushun Takami - ''Battle Royale''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Choice of Evil''

★ Vernor Vinge - ''A Deepness in the Sky''

★ Jeanette Winterson - ''The World and Other Places''

★ Yahya Yakhlif - ''A Lake Beyond the Wind''

★ Robert Clark Young - ''One of the Guys''

★ Timothy Zahn - ''The Icarus Hunt''

★ Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold - ''Lord Demon''

Non-fiction

★ Kelly R. Brown - ''

★ Wayson Choy - ''

★ Brian Greene - ''The Elegant Universe''

★ Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - ''Soul Harvest''

★ Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster - ''The Century''

★ S.T. Joshi - ''Sixty Years of Arkham House''

★ Winona LaDuke - ''

★ June Rose - ''

★ David Southwell - ''Conspiracy Theories (book)''

Births

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Deaths

★ February 8 - Iris Murdoch, writer, aged 79

★ February 22 - William Bronk, poet, aged 80 (or 81?)

★ February 24 - Andre Dubus, writer

★ March 4 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, aged 77

★ March 28 - Jim Turner, editor, aged 54

★ May 10 - Shel Silverstein, children's poet, aged 68

★ June 14 - J. F. Powers, American writer, aged 81

★ July 2 - Mario Puzo, writer (''The Godfather''), aged 78

★ July 16 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of John F. Kennedy, aged 38 (airplane crash)

★ October 3 - Heinz G. Konsalik, writer, aged 78

★ October 19 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer

★ November 11 - Jacobo Timmerman, journalist and publisher

★ December 8 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher

★ December 12 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (''Catch-22''), aged 76

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Günter Grass

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Hsu-Ming Teo, ''Love and Vertigo''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, ''Pure and Applied''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Lee Cataldi, ''Race Against Time''

★ Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, ''Eucalyptus''

Canada

★ Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard: ''A Good House''

★ See 1999 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Femina: Maryline Desbiolles, ''Anchise''

★ Prix Goncourt: Jean Echenoz, ''Je m'en vais''

★ Prix Décembre: Claude Askolovitch, ''Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est''

★ Prix Médicis French: Michel Del Castillo, ''Colette, une certaine France''

★ Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Christian Oster, ''Mon grand appartement''

★ Prix Médicis International: Bjorn Larsson, ''Le capitaine et les rêves''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee, ''Disgrace''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh

★ Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke

★ Orange Prize for Fiction: Suzanne Berne, ''A Crime in the Neighborhood''

★ Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, ''Stalingrad''

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, ''Beowulf''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Daisy Fried, ''She Didn't Mean To Do It''

★ Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett

★ Arthur Rense Prize awarded to James McMichael by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos"

★ Compton Crook Award: James Stoddard, ''The High House''

★ Frost Medal: Barbara Guest

★ Hugo Award for Best Novel: Connie Willis, ''To Say Nothing of the Dog''

★ Nebula Award: Octavia E. Butler, ''Parable of the Talents''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Louis Sachar, ''Holes''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Margaret Edson, ''Wit''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Cunningham, ''The Hours''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, ''Blizzard of One''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: Jackson Mac Low

Elsewhere

★ Finlandia Prize: 1999 Kristina Carlson, ''Maan ääreen''

★ Premio Nadal: Gustavo Martín Zarzo, ''Las historias de Marta y Fernando''

★ Viareggio Prize: Ernesto Franco, ''Vite senza fine''

★ IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Andrew Miller, ''Ingenious Pain''