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