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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
Xurxo Borrazás – O desintegrista
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 Wilderness
Elizabeth Arnold – Spin of the Sunwheel
Susan Cooper – King of Shadows
Julia Donaldson (with Axel Scheffler) – The Gruffalo
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 Azkaban
Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
Jacqueline Wilson – The Illustrated Mum
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)
= 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
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke – Paracelsus: Essential Readings.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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, 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
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land
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, Holes
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
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 (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
References
External links
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