1998 in literature

none 1998 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998. Events March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play Not About Nightingales receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre.http://www.playbill.com/news/article/39759-Alley-Theatres-Nightingales-Closes-July-3-Next-Stop-Broadway Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway? Playbill 1998-06-23 2013-05-19 https://archive.today/20130131114137/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/39759-Alley-Theatres-Nightingales-Closes-July-3-Next-Stop-Broadway 2013-01-31 dead October The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring.https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/20/features11.g23 The insider's story 20 May 1999 Andrew Motion The Guardian 12 January 2021 Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the Kara no Kyōkai series, with five chapters released online. November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy. December – The Strand Magazine title is revived in the United States.http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_history.htm The Story of The Strand Chris Willis Strandmag.com 20 March 2014 4 August 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100804162101/http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_history.htm dead New books Fiction Turki al-Hamad – Adama (first volume in Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) trilogy) Tariq Ali – The Book of Saladin Aaron Allston Iron Fist Wraith Squadron Hanan al-Shaykh – I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح) Martin Amis – Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published) Beryl Bainbridge – Master Georgie Iain M. Banks – Inversions Alessandro Barbero – Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi (translated 2010 as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments) Julian Barnes – England, England Greg Bear Dinosaur Summer Foundation and Chaos Raymond Benson – The Facts of Death Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny – Psychoshop Robert Bloch – Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies Roberto Bolaño – The Savage Detectives (Los Detectives Salvajes) William Boyd – Armadillo Giannina Braschi – Yo-Yo Boing! Anne Carson – Autobiography of Red (verse novel) Driss Chraïbi – Muhammad Mary Higgins Clark – All Through the Night Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die Michael Connelly – Blood Work Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Triumph Patricia Cornwell – Point of Origin Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma Ann C. Crispin – Rebel Dawn Michael Cunningham – The Hours Nelson DeMille – Plum Island August Derleth The Final Adventures of Solar Pons In Lovecraft's Shadow Peter Dickinson – The Kin Allan W. Eckert – Return to Hawk's Hill Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama Giles Foden – The Last King of Scotland Diana Gabaldon – Hellfire Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors (mainly reprints) Andrew Greeley – A Midwinter's Tale John Grisham – The Street Lawyer Wolf Haas – Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death)Florian Sänger Literatur und Film im Feld narrativer Theorien: Analysemöglichkeiten von Literaturverfilmungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählposition und Fakalisierung am Beispiel Wolf Haas "Komm süßer Tod" Verlag Shaker Aachen 2009 978-3-8322-8659-0 Margaret Peterson Haddix - Among the Hidden Ha Jin (哈金) – Waiting Tomson Highway – Kiss of the Fur Queen Nick Hornby – About a Boy Michel Houellebecq – Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires) Marek S. Huberath – Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds) John Irving – A Widow for One Year K. W. Jeter The Mandalorian Armor Slave Ship Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Stephen King – Bag of Bones Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood BibleKakatuni Michiko 16 October 1998 'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/daily/kingsolver-book-review.html 18 January 2021 Dean R. Koontz – Seize the Night Joe R. Lansdale Rumble Tumble The Boar Alain Mabanckou – Bleu-Blanc-Rouge Patrick McCabe – Breakfast on Pluto Ian McEwan – Amsterdam Roy MacLaren – African Exploits Steve Martin – Pure Drivel Carol Matas – Greater Than Angels China Miéville – King Rat Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) Cees Nooteboom – All Souls' Day (Allerzielen) Sigrid Nunez – Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury Tim O'Brien – Tomcat in Love Orhan Pamuk – My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı) Tom Perrotta – Election Terry Pratchett Carpe Jugulum The Last Continent Fahmida Riaz – Godavari David Adams Richards – The Bay of Love and Sorrows José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Crónica de invisibles Philip Roth – I Married a Communist Margit Sandemo – Ensam i världen (Alone in the World) Michael Slade – Shrink (also Primal Scream) Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Michael Stackpole – I, Jedi Danielle Steel The Klone and I The Long Road Home 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 Children and young people David Almond – SkelligBrennan Geraldine My Name is Mina by David Almond Book review https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/03/my-name-is-mina-david-almond-review The Guardian 19 August 2018 en 2 October 2010 Melvin Burgess – Junk Denise Fleming – Mama Cat Has Three Kittens Gayle Greeno (with Michael Gilbert) – Sunderlies Seeking Tanya Huff – Summon the Keeper Diana Wynne Jones – Dark Lord of DerkholmJones Diana Wynne The Dark Lord of Derkholme Gollancz en 1998 745958627 Dick King-Smith – The Crowstarver Julius Lester – Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – BoshBlobberBosh: Runcible Poems for Edward Lear J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsDigested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets https://www.theguardian.com/books/1998/aug/25/booksforchildrenandteenagers The Guardian 19 August 2018 en 25 August 1998 Louis Sachar – HolesHe Didn't Do It https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/15/reviews/981115.15hearnet.html archive.nytimes.com 19 August 2018 Robert Swindells – Abomination Judy Waite – Mouse, Look Out! Douglas Wood – Rabbit and the Moon Drama Edward Albee – The Play About the Baby Parv Bancil – Made in England (full-length version) Marina Carr – By the Bog of Cats Michael Frayn – Copenhagen David Hare – The Blue Room Ted Hughes (translator) – Phèdre Elfriede Jelinek – Ein Sportstück (A Sports Piece) Bryony Lavery – Frozen Terrence McNally – Corpus Christi Sol B River The White Witch of Rose Hall River Plays 1 (published) Shelagh Stephenson – An Experiment with an Air Pump Marius von Mayenburg – Fireface (Feuergesicht) Tennessee Williams (died 1983) – Not About Nightingales (first performance; written 1938) Poetry 1998 in poetry Seamus Heaney Beowulf (translation) Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 Ted Hughes – Birthday Letters Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling; 2nd edition)Web page titled Krugovanje, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive Non-fiction Charlotte Allen – The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus Andrea Ashworth – Once in a House on Fire Antony Beevor – Stalingrad Harold Bloom – Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Bill Bryson – Notes from a Big Country Peter Cannon (editor) – Lovecraft Remembered Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd – Dear Friend and Gardener Corinne Debaine-Francfort – La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne Amanda Foreman – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire John Fowles – Wormholes – Essays and Occasional Writings Jonathan Freedland – Bring Home the Revolution Sita Ram Goel – Vindicated by Time Simon Heffer – Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell Adam Hochschild – King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – India 2020 Ryszard Kapuściński – Heban (Ebony, translated as The Shadow of the Sun) B. B. Lal – India 1947–1997: New Light on the Indus Civilization Martin Lee and Marcia Miller – The Mega-fun Multiplication Facts Activity Book Eric Liu – The Accidental Asian Alan I. Marcus – Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam Thylias Moss – Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress Inga Muscio – Cunt: A Declaration of Independence V. S. Naipaul – Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples Gilles Perrault (ed.) – Le Livre noir du capitalisme (The Black Book of Capitalism) John Pilger – Hidden Agendas Michael Poole – Romancing Mary JaneVerduyn Christl Staebler Edna Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries 2009 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 9781554588114 270 https://books.google.com/books?id=udvfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 en Arun Shourie – Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud Marilee Strong – A Bright Red Scream University of Arizona – Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni Adam Zagajewski – Another Beauty Births March 7 – Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist May 15 – Mohammed El-Kurd, Palestinian writer and poet December 16 – Chloe Gong, Chinese-born New Zealand author unknown dates K-Ming Chang – Taiwanese-American novelist and poet Moses MacKenzie – British novelist Deaths January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920) January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936) January 18 – Monica Edwards, English children's novelist (born 1912) January 23 – John Forbes, Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950) January 27 – Geoffrey Trease, English children's historical novelist (born 1909) February 7 – Lawrence Sanders, American novelist and short story writer (born 1920) February 15 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide, born 1908) February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895) February 27 – Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (born 1901) March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903) April 11 – Francis Durbridge, English playwright (born 1912) April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914) April 27 Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)Flower John Historical Dictionary of French Literature 17 January 2013 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7945-4 44–45 https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 en Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925) May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905) May 11 — Willy Corsari, Dutch author of detective fiction (born 1897)van Boven Erica Schrijven als Beroep. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). Een broodschrijfster met literaire passie Writing as a Profession. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). A bread writer with a literary passion Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis 23 2003 184 NL June 10 Joan Adeney Easdale, English poet (born 1913) Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913) June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (born 1906) July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English biographer (born 1928) July 5 – Johnny Speight, English comedy writer (born 1920) July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912) July 14 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (born 1923) July 23 John Hopkins, English film and television writer (born 1931) Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (born 1923)https://apnews.com/article/718261ccc1a0f319073e2a1c94677a7a Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75 24 July 1998 AP News 12 January 2021 August 16 – Dorothy West, American novelist and short story writer (born 1907) August 22 – Grace Paley, American writer (born 1922) September 28 – Eric Malling, Canadian journalist (born 1946) October 15 – Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (born 1928)Iain Crichton Smith Scottish writer https://www.britannica.com/biography/Iain-Crichton-Smith Encyclopedia Britannica 19 August 2018 en October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909) October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)Susan Bassnett Ted Hughes https://books.google.com/books?id=-zRtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 2009 Oxford University Press 978-0-7463-1003-8 2 November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915) November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)Chisholm Anne Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/71256 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online 11 December 2012 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/71256 November 17 – Alexandru Talex, Romanian journalist, critic and biographer (born 1909) December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago Europe Theatre Prize: Luca Ronconi Camões Prize: Antonio Candido 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 this year Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew, The Wild Reply Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs Canada Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award: Talya Rubin See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists. Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Charlotte Gray: Mrs. KingFaculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164217/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11315 2014-06-06, Wilfrid Laurier University, previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012 France Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, fr Confidence pour confidence Prix Médicis French: fr Le Loup mongol Prix Médicis International: fr The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe United Kingdom Booker Prize: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam Carnegie Medal for children's literature: David Almond, Skellig James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More 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 American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation: Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and (separately) Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman 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 PEN American Center's PEN Open Book Award: Giannina Braschi, Yo-Yo Boing! 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 Whiting Awards: Fiction: Michael Byers, Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction) Non-fiction: D. J. Waldie, Anthony Walton Plays: W. David Hancock Poetry: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Martin Walser International Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes References 30em External links Popular Books of 1998 at Goodreads Published 1998 Books at Goodreads 1998 Books at Goodreads