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. 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. September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. unknown date – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.
New books
Fiction Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna) 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 Road 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 & Single 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 Faith Ringgold – If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHahn 2015, pp. 264-265 Lemony Snicket The Bad Beginning 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) 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 mondes Zlatko Topčić – Refugees August Wilson – King Hedley II
Poetry
Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose Dejan Stojanović – Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself)Belgrade: Književna reč.
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. Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes
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) January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902) February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919) 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) February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936) March 4 Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934) 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) March 13 Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911) Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912) March 28 – Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945) April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911) May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904) May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930) 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) July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914) September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930) October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921) October 19 Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)
Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900) E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907) November 11 – Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923) November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910) December 2 – Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942) 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)
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, Prix Goncourt: Jean Echenoz, Prix Décembre: Claude Askolovitch, Prix Médicis French: Michel Del Castillo, Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Christian Oster, Prix Médicis International: Björn Larsson,
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
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