1999 in literature

none 1999 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999. Events May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years.https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/20/features11.g23 The insider's story 20 May 1999 Andrew Motion The Guardian 12 January 2021 June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a van while taking a walk. He is hospitalized for three weeks and only resumes writing his next book, On Writing, in July.https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-near-fatal-accident-20-years-ago/ Stephen King Recalls the Accident That Almost Ended His Life 20 Years Ago Today June 19, 2019 Screen Rant Michael Kennedy January 13, 2021 September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.Scandinavian Review https://books.google.com/books?id=wy8MAQAAMAAJ 1999 American Scandinavian Foundation 13 unknown date – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.Jenny Hartley Sarah Turvey The Reading Groups Book https://books.google.com/books?id=XFvSm03FA7AC&pg=PA8 2002 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-925596-2 8 New books Fiction Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna)Helene Carol Weldt-Basson Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=pVcYDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56 1 May 2017 University of New Mexico Press 978-0-8263-5816-5 56 Aaron Allston Solo Command Starfighters of Adumar Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak Max Barry – Syrup Greg Bear – Darwin's Radio Raymond Benson High Time to Kill The World Is Not Enough Maeve Binchy – Tara RoadCecilia Konchar Farr Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads https://books.google.com/books?id=gPXa9PzU4N4C&pg=PA18 4 November 2004 SUNY Press 978-0-7914-6257-7 18 Luther Blissett (pseudonym) – Q François Bloemhof – Klipgooi Ben Bova – Return to Mars Terry Brooks – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Thomas Brussig – Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee Bonnie Burnard – A Good House Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower Tracy Chevalier – Girl with a Pearl Earring J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace Matt Cohen – Elizabeth and After Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Fortress Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC Douglas Coupland – Miss Wyoming Robert Crais – L.A. Requiem Michael Crichton – Timeline August Derleth (editor) – New Horizons Marc Dugain – La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward) Frederic S. Durbin – Dragonfly Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama Per Olov Enquist – The Visit of the Royal Physician (Livläkarens besök) Steve Erickson – The Sea Came in at Midnight Sebastian Faulks – Charlotte Gray Helen Fielding – The Edge of Reason Amanda Filipacchi – Vapor Anna Gavalda – Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part John Grisham – The Testament Ha Jin (哈金) – Waiting Joanne Harris – Chocolat Thomas Harris – Hannibal Ernest Hemingway – True at First Light Carl Hiaasen – Sick Puppy Stewart Home – Cunt Michel Houellebecq – Atomised Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye – Soul Harvest K. W. Jeter – Hard Merchandise Lisa Jewell – Ralph's Party Stephen King: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Hearts in Atlantis László Krasznahorkai – War and War Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies (short stories) Joe R. Lansdale Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard Freezer Burn John le Carré – Single & Singlehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/feb/14/crimebooks Blood is thicker than water - and twice as messy Adam Mars-Jones 14 February 1999 The Guardian 11 September 2021 Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn Ray Loriga – Tokio ya no nos quiere Frank McCourt -'Tis David Macfarlane – Summer Gone Alistair MacLeod – No Great Mischief Juliet Marillier – Daughter of the Forest Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell – From Hell (graphic novel) Jeffrey Moore – Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain Erwin Mortier – Marcel Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters Survivor Tony Parsons – Man and Boy Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant Kathy Reichs – Death du Jour Matthew Reilly – Temple Jennifer Roberson – Lady of Sherwood Louis Sachar – Holes R. A. Salvatore – Vector Prime Margit Sandemo – Skattejakten Neal Shusterman – Downsiders Susan Sontag – In America Ahdaf Soueif – The Map of Love Michael Stackpole – Isard's Revenge Matthew Stadler – Allan Stein Danielle Steel – Irresistible Forces Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon Francine Stock – A Foreign Country Peter Straub – Mr. X Remy Sylado – Ca Bau Kan (The Courtesan) Koushun Takami (高見 広春) – Battle Royale Rose Tremain – Music and Silence Miloš Urban – Sedmikostelí (The Seven Churches) Andrew Vachss – Choice of Evil Jane Vandenburgh – The Physics of Sunset Vernor Vinge – A Deepness in the Sky Jeanette Winterson – The World and Other Places Timothy Zahn – The Icarus Hunt Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold – Lord Demon Children and young people David Almond – Kit's WildernessHahn 2015, p. 21 Elizabeth Arnold – Spin of the Sunwheel Susan Cooper – King of ShadowsHahn 2015, p. 140 Julia Donaldson (with Axel Scheffler) – The GruffaloHahn 2015, p. 252 Nick Earls – 48 Shades of Brown Mem Fox - Sleepy Bears Barbara Diamond Goldin – Journeys With Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet Gerald Hausman (with Loretta Hausman and Barry Moser) – Dogs of Myth: Tales from Around the World Satoshi Kitamura – Me and My Cat? Adeline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella (autobiography) Robert L. Millet (with James C. Christensen) – Parables and other Teaching Stories John Nickle – The Ant Bully Andre Norton (with Martin H. Greenberg) – Catfantastic V Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose Jerry Pinkney The Little Match Girl The Ugly Duckling Louise Rennison – Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging' Is on TIME's List of the 100 Best YA Books https://time.com/collection/100-best-ya-books/6084491/angus-thongs-and-full-frontal-snogging/ Time 12 January 2022 en Faith Ringgold – If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa ParksGILLES CAROL PFANNENSTIEL GENNIE Talking about Books: Touching the Heart: Books that Amplify Life Language Arts 2000 78 1 78–86 41483118 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41483118.pdf 12 January 2022 0360-9170 J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHahn 2015, pp. 264-265 Lemony Snicket The Bad BeginningOlson Danel 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7728-3 523 https://books.google.com/books?id=9wLv2fEGnpkC&pg=PA523 en The Reptile Room Jacqueline Wilson – The Illustrated MumHahn 2015, p. 631 Simms Taback – Joseph Had a Little Overcoat Drama Jon Fosse – Dream of Autumn (Draum om hausten)International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 https://books.google.com/books?id=EcinRfSQImAC&pg=PA539 2004 Taylor & Francis 978-1-85743-269-5 539 David Mamet – Boston Marriage Frank McGuinness – Dolly West's Kitchen Lars Norén – 7:3 Mark O'Rowe – Howie the Rookie Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt – Hôtel des deux mondesYvonne Ying Hsieh Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ou, la philosophie de l'ouverture https://books.google.com/books?id=JgH3QPt3CT4C&pg=PA68 2006 Summa Publications, Inc. 978-1-883479-49-7 68 Zlatko Topčić – Refugees August Wilson – King Hedley II Poetry 1999 in poetry Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose Dejan Stojanović – Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself)Belgrade: Književna reč. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2389737W/Sunce_sebe_gleda Sunce sebe gleda Dejan Stojanović (writer) Dejan Stojanović Open Library 2009 2013-12-20 Non-fiction Thomas Berry – The Great Work: Our Way into the Future David Cairns – Berlioz: Volume 2, Servitude and Greatness 1832–1869 Wayson Choy – Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood The Dalai Lama – Ancient Wisdom, Modern World Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Laurence des Cars – Les Préraphaélites : Un modernisme à l'anglaise Freeman Dyson – The Sun, the Genome and the Internet Koenraad Elst – Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate John Steele Gordon – The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653–2000 Brian Greene – The Elegant Universe Deborah Harkness – John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature 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 Bruce Lincoln – Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship Jamie Oliver – The Naked Chef W. G. Sebald – Luftkrieg und Literatur (Air War and Literature, translated as On the Natural History of Destruction) David Southwell – Conspiracy Theories Dejan Stojanović – Razgovori (Conversations)Belgrade: Književna reč. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14875464W/Razgovori Razgovori Dejan Stojanović Open Library 2010 2013-12-20 Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommesRüf Isabelle 16 October 1999 https://www.letemps.ch/culture/livres-jeanpierre-vernant-lunivers-dieux-hommes Livres: Jean-Pierre Vernant: L'Univers, les dieux, les hommes Le Temps fr 29 October 2020 Births October 13 – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Nigerian–British author and columnist December 22 – Ameer Idreis, Canadian writer Deaths January 11 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)Jenni Calder The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison https://books.google.com/books?id=vXj3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT16 13 June 2019 Sandstone Press Ltd 978-1-912240-67-8 16 January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902) February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919) https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/97801h98614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-71228 Conradi Peter J. Peter J. Conradi Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 Oxford University Press Oxford 10.1093/ref:odnb/71228 Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999) 978-0-19-861412-8 subscription February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000. February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/arts/william-m-bronk-81-a-poet-of-depth-and-haunting-vision.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss William M. Bronk, 81, a Poet Of Depth and Haunting Vision Peter Appleborne 25 February 1999 New York Times 4 May 2023 February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)2009-03-21 http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/dubus/ Andre Dubus III: "What I'm working on now, I can't think about anyone liking" Andre III Dubus Ron Hogan Beatrice March 4 Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934) Bruce Weber Del Close, 64, a Comedian With a Flair for Improvisation https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/16/arts/del-close-64-a-comedian-with-a-flair-for-improvisation.html The New York Times March 16, 1999 2014-09-02 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (born 1921) March 5 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999. March 8 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914)O. Classe Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Kiribati Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 2000 153 March 13 Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)Gifford Denis Obituary: Lee Falk https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lee-falk-1081509.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lee-falk-1081509.html 2022-05-01 subscription 15 February 2020 The Independent 19 March 1999 en Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912) KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director. Jewish Virtual Library https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kanin-garson November 20, 2020 March 28 – Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945) April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911)Knut Hauge Store norske leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget Oslo http://www.snl.no/Knut_Hauge no 26 February 2011 May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904) May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930)Michael Gray Baughan Shel Silverstein Facts On File, Incorporated 2013 978-1-4381-4936-3 May 27 – Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926) June 14 – J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917) July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/movies/mario-puzo-author-who-made-the-godfather-a-world-addiction-is-dead-at-78.html Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78 The New York Times July 3, 1999 July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914) September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley Adrian Jack 30 September 1999 The Independent 2018-09-24 en-GB October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921) October 19 Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006 Findmypast.com 11 June 2018 4 November 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151104084417/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900)Jefferson Ann https://books.google.com/books?id=IdLLDwAAQBAJ Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between 2020-07-21 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-20192-4 en E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-e-j-scovell-1125270.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-e-j-scovell-1125270.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: E.J. Scovell 12 November 1999 John Mole Independent 13 January 2021 November 11 – Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923) November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910) https://www.nytimes.com/library/books/111999obit-p-bowles.html Obituary for Paul Bowles The New York Times 19 November 1999 December 2 – Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942)SFE: Cohen, Matt https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cohen_matt sf-encyclopedia.com 12 January 2022 December 8 – Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (born 1907)Norwich, John Julius, "Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart- (1907–1999)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2008 December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923) Joseph Heller, Darkly Surreal Novelist, Dies at 76 Severo, Richard Mitgang, Herbert The New York Times December 14, 1999 https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/14/books/joseph-heller-darkly-surreal-novelist-dies-at-76.html?ref=joseph_heller June 15, 2010 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Günter Grass Camões Prize: Sophia de Mello Breyner 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. Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane France Prix Femina: Maryline Desbiolles, fr Anchise Prix Goncourt: Jean Echenoz, fr Je m'en vais Prix Décembre: Claude Askolovitch, fr Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est Prix Médicis French: Michel Del Castillo, fr Colette, une certaine France Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Christian Oster, fr Mon grand appartement Prix Médicis International: Björn Larsson, fr Le capitaine et les rêves United Kingdom Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's LandHahn 2015, p. 660 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 (first award): 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 National Book Award for Fiction: to Waiting by Ha Jin National Book Critics Circle Award: to Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem Nebula Award: Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents Newbery Medal for children's literature: Louis Sachar, HolesHahn 2015, p. 658 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Hours by Michael Cunningham 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 Whiting Awards: Fiction: Ehud Havazelet, Ben Marcus, Yxta Maya Murray, ZZ Packer Nonfiction: Gordon Grice, Margaret Talbot Plays: Naomi Iizuka Poetry: Michael Haskell, Terrance Hayes, Martha Zweig Elsewhere Finlandia Prize: 1999 Kristina Carlson, Maan ääreen Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Fritz Stern International Dublin Literary Award: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain Alfaguara Prize: Manuel Vicent, Son de mar Premio Nadal: Gustavo Martín Zarzo, Las historias de Marta y Fernando Viareggio Prize: Ernesto Franco, Vite senza fine Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. 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