1999 in literature 190188 207975743 2008-04-24T22:31:56Z Mutt 170860 /* New books */ {{Year nav topic2|1999|literature|poetry}} The year '''1999 in literature''' involved some significant events and new books. <!-- formerly (18apr07): ''See also:'' [[1998 in literature]], [[1999|other events of 1999]], [[2000 in literature]], [[list of years in literature]]. --> ==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]] - ''[[Solo Command]]'' and ''[[Starfighters of Adumar]]'' *[[Laurie Halse Anderson]] - ''[[Speak (novel)|Speak]]'' *[[Max Barry]] - ''[[Syrup (novel)|Syrup]]'' *[[Greg Bear]] - ''[[Darwin's Radio]]'' *[[Raymond Benson]] - ''[[High Time to Kill]]'' and ''[[The World Is Not Enough#Novelisation|The World Is Not Enough]]'' *[[Thomas Berger (US novelist)|Thomas Berger]] - ''[[The Return of Little Big Man]]'' *[[Maeve Binchy]] - ''[[Tara Road]]'' *[[Terry Brooks]] - ''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' *[[Tracy Chevalier]] - ''[[Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel)|Girl with a Pearl Earring]]'' *[[J. M. Coetzee]] - ''[[Disgrace]]'' *[[Matt Cohen]] - ''[[Elizabeth and After]]'' *[[Bernard Cornwell]] - ''[[Sharpe's Fortress]]'' and ''[[Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC]]'' *[[Douglas Coupland]] - ''[[Miss Wyoming (novel)|Miss Wyoming]]'' *[[Michael Crichton]] - ''[[Timeline (novel)|Timeline]]'' *[[Shaw J. Dallal]] - ''[[Scattered Like Seeds]]'' *[[August Derleth]], editor - ''[[New Horizons (book)|New Horizons]]'' *[[Marc Dugain]] - ''La Chambre des Officiers ([[The Officers' Ward]])'' *[[Frederic S. Durbin]] - ''[[Dragonfly (1999 novel)|Dragonfly]]'' *[[Bret Easton Ellis]] - ''[[Glamorama]]'' *[[Sebastian Faulks]] - ''[[Charlotte Gray (novel)|Charlotte Gray]]'' *[[Amanda Filipacchi]] - ''[[Vapor (novel)|Vapor]]'' *[[Diana Gabaldon]] - ''[[Through the Stones]]'' *[[John Grisham]] - ''[[The Testament]]'' *[[Joanne Harris]] - ''[[Chocolat]]'' *[[Thomas Harris]] - ''[[Hannibal (novel)|Hannibal]]'' *[[Victor Heck]] - ''[[The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward (anthology)|The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward]]'' *[[Carl Hiaasen]] - ''[[Sick Puppy]]'' *[[Stewart Home]] - ''[[Cunt (novel)|Cunt]]'' *[[Michel Houellebecq]] - ''[[Atomised]]'' *[[Nancy Huston]] - ''[[The Mark of the Angel]]'' *[[K. W. Jeter]] - ''[[Hard Merchandise]]'' *[[Stephen King]] - ''[[The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon]]'' and ''[[Hearts in Atlantis]]'' *[[John le Carré]] - ''[[Single & Single]]'' *[[Jonathan Lethem]] - ''[[Motherless Brooklyn]]'' *[[Frank McCourt (author)|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]] - ''[[Invisible Monsters]]'' and ''[[Survivor (novel)|Survivor]]'' *[[Susanne Pari]] - ''[[The Fortune Catcher]]'' *[[Terry Pratchett]] - ''[[The Fifth Elephant]]'' *[[Kathy Reichs]] - ''[[Death du Jour]]'' *[[Matthew Reilly]] - ''[[Temple (novel)|Temple]]'' *[[J. K. Rowling]] - ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' *[[Jane Turner Rylands]] - ''[[Dining with Peggy Guggenheim]]'' *[[Louis Sachar]] - ''[[Holes (book)|Holes]]'' *[[R. A. Salvatore]] - ''[[Vector Prime]]'' *[[Tupper Saussy|F. Tupper Saussy]] - ''[[Rulers Of Evil]]'' *[[Neal Shusterman]] - ''[[Downsiders]]'' *[[Michael Slade]] - ''[[Burnt Bones (Slade)|Burnt Bones]]'' *[[Lemony Snicket]] - ''[[The Reptile Room]]'' *[[Susan Sontag]] - ''[[In America (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]] - ''[[Andrew_Vachss#The_Burke_series|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]] - ''[[Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star]]'' *[[Wayson Choy]] - ''[[Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood]]'' *[[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]] - ''[[All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life]]'' *[[June Rose]] - ''[[Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre]]'' *[[David Southwell]] - ''[[Conspiracy Theories (book)]]'' ==Births== * ==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)|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 (novel)|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 (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' ===Canada=== * [[Giller Prize|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]]'' * [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Timothy Mo]], ''Renegade, or Halo2'' * [[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Kathryn Hughes]], ''[[George Eliot]]: The Last Victorian'' *[[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 (book)|Stalingrad]]'' * [[1999 Whitbread Awards|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 (novel)|Parable of the Talents ]]'' * [[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Louis Sachar]], ''[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]'' * [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Margaret Edson]], ''[[Wit (play)|Wit]]'' * [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Michael Cunningham]], ''[[The Hours (novel)|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 (novelist)|Andrew Miller]], ''Ingenious Pain'' [[Category:1999 books|*]] [[Category:1999|Literature]] [[Category:Years in literature]] [[de:Literaturjahr 1999]] [[fr:1999 en littérature]] [[he:1999 בספרות]] [[pl:1999 w literaturze]] [[pt:1999 na literatura]] [[sv:Litteraturåret 1999]]