1999 in literature

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The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 Non-fiction
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Awards

[edit] 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.

[edit] New books

Aaron Allston - Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar
Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
Max Barry - Syrup
Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio
Raymond Benson - High Time to Kill and The World Is Not Enough
Thomas Berger - The Return of Little Big Man
Maeve Binchy - Tara Road
Ben Bova - Return to Mars
Terry Brooks - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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 and Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC
Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming
Michael Crichton - Timeline
Shaw J. Dallal - Scattered Like Seeds
August Derleth, editor - New Horizons
Marc Dugain - La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward)
Frederic S. Durbin - Dragonfly
Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray
Amanda Filipacchi - Vapor
Diana Gabaldon - Through the Stones
John Grisham - The Testament
Joanne Harris - Chocolat
Thomas Harris - Hannibal
Victor Heck - The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward
Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy
Stewart Home - Cunt
Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
Nancy Huston - The Mark of the Angel
Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - Soul Harvest
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 -'Tis
David Macfarlane - Summer Gone
Alistair MacLeod - No Great Mischief
Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest
Jeffrey Moore - Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Toni Morrison - Paradise
Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters and Survivor
Susanne Pari - The Fortune Catcher
Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
Kathy Reichs - Death du Jour
Matthew Reilly - Temple
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jane Turner Rylands - Dining with Peggy Guggenheim
Louis Sachar - Holes
R. A. Salvatore - Vector Prime
F. Tupper Saussy - Rulers Of Evil
Neal Shusterman - Downsiders
Michael Slade - Burnt Bones
Lemony Snicket - The Reptile Room
Susan 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 - 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

[edit] Non-fiction

[edit] Births

[edit] 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, 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), 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

[edit] Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Günter Grass

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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

1999 in literature

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Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

[edit] Non-fiction

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Awards

[edit] Australia

[edit] Canada

[edit] France

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States

[edit] Elsewhere

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