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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.^[1]
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.^[2]
September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.^[3]
unknown date – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.^[4]

New books

Poetry

Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose
Dejan Stojanović – Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself)^[18]

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)^[19]
Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes^[20]

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)^[21]
January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)^[22]
February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)^[23]
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)^[24]
February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)^[25]
March 4
- Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934)^[26]
- Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (born 1921)
March 5 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)^[27]
March 8 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914)^[28]
March 13
- Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)^[29]
- Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912)^[30]
March 28 – Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945)
April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911)^[31]
May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904)
May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930)^[32]
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)^[33]
July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)^[34]
October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
October 19
- Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)^[35]

- Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900)^[36]
- E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907)^[37]
November 11 – Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923)
November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910)^[38]
December 2 – Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942)^[39]
December 8 – Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (born 1907)^[40]
December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923)^[41]

Awards

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^[42]
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^[43]
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

^ Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^ Michael Kennedy (June 19, 2019). "Stephen King Recalls the Accident That Almost Ended His Life 20 Years Ago Today". Screen Rant. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
^ Scandinavian Review. American Scandinavian Foundation. 1999. p. 13.
^ Jenny Hartley; Sarah Turvey (2002). The Reading Groups Book. Oxford University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-925596-2.
^ Helene Carol Weldt-Basson (1 May 2017). Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. University of New Mexico Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8263-5816-5.
^ Cecilia Konchar Farr (4 November 2004). Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads. SUNY Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7914-6257-7.
^ Adam Mars-Jones (14 February 1999). "Blood is thicker than water - and twice as messy". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 21
^ Hahn 2015, p. 140
^ Hahn 2015, p. 252
^ "'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging' Is on TIME's List of the 100 Best YA Books". Time. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ GILLES, CAROL; PFANNENSTIEL, GENNIE (2000). "Talking about Books: Touching the Heart: Books that Amplify Life" (PDF). Language Arts. 78 (1): 78–86. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 41483118. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
^ ^a ^b Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 631
^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5.
^ Yvonne Ying Hsieh (2006). Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ou, la philosophie de l'ouverture. Summa Publications, Inc. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-883479-49-7.
^ Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2009). "Sunce sebe gleda". Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2010). "Razgovori". Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20.
^ Rüf, Isabelle (16 October 1999). "Livres: Jean-Pierre Vernant: L'Univers, les dieux, les hommes". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^ Jenni Calder (13 June 2019). The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison. Sandstone Press Ltd. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-912240-67-8.
^ Conradi, Peter J. (2004). "Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71228. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
^ Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000.
^ Peter Appleborne (25 February 1999). "William M. Bronk, 81, a Poet Of Depth and Haunting Vision". New York Times. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
^ Dubus, Andre III. "Andre Dubus III: "What I'm working on now, I can't think about anyone liking"". Beatrice (Interview). Ron Hogan. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
^ Bruce Weber (March 16, 1999). "Del Close, 64, a Comedian With a Flair for Improvisation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
^ Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999.
^ O. Classe (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Kiribati. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 153.
^ Gifford, Denis (19 March 1999). "Obituary: Lee Falk". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
^ "KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
^ "Knut Hauge". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
^ Michael Gray Baughan (2013). Shel Silverstein. Facts On File, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4381-4936-3.
^ "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. July 3, 1999.
^ Adrian, Jack (30 September 1999). "Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
^ "Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006". Findmypast.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
^ Jefferson, Ann (2020-07-21). Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20192-4.
^ John Mole (12 November 1999). "Obituary: E.J. Scovell". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
^ "Obituary for Paul Bowles". The New York Times. 19 November 1999.
^ "SFE: Cohen, Matt". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Norwich, John Julius, "Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart- (1907–1999)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2008
^ Severo, Richard; Mitgang, Herbert (December 14, 1999). "Joseph Heller, Darkly Surreal Novelist, Dies at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2010.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
^ Hahn 2015, p. 658

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[1] Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[2] Michael Kennedy (June 19, 2019). "Stephen King Recalls the Accident That Almost Ended His Life 20 Years Ago Today". Screen Rant. Retrieved January 13, 2021.

[3] Scandinavian Review. American Scandinavian Foundation. 1999. p. 13.

[4] Jenny Hartley; Sarah Turvey (2002). The Reading Groups Book. Oxford University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-925596-2.

[5] Helene Carol Weldt-Basson (1 May 2017). Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. University of New Mexico Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8263-5816-5.

[6] Cecilia Konchar Farr (4 November 2004). Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads. SUNY Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7914-6257-7.

[7] Adam Mars-Jones (14 February 1999). "Blood is thicker than water - and twice as messy". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 September 2021.

[8] Hahn 2015, p. 21

[9] Hahn 2015, p. 140

[10] Hahn 2015, p. 252

[11] "'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging' Is on TIME's List of the 100 Best YA Books". Time. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[12] GILLES, CAROL; PFANNENSTIEL, GENNIE (2000). "Talking about Books: Touching the Heart: Books that Amplify Life" (PDF). Language Arts. 78 (1): 78–86. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 41483118. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[13] Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265

[Snicket-14] Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.

[15] Hahn 2015, p. 631

[16] International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-85743-269-5.

[17] Yvonne Ying Hsieh (2006). Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ou, la philosophie de l'ouverture. Summa Publications, Inc. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-883479-49-7.

[18] Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2009). "Sunce sebe gleda". Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20.

[19] Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2010). "Razgovori". Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20.

[20] Rüf, Isabelle (16 October 1999). "Livres: Jean-Pierre Vernant: L'Univers, les dieux, les hommes". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 29 October 2020.

[21] Jenni Calder (13 June 2019). The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison. Sandstone Press Ltd. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-912240-67-8.

[22] Conradi, Peter J. (2004). "Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71228. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.

[23] Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000.

[24] Peter Appleborne (25 February 1999). "William M. Bronk, 81, a Poet Of Depth and Haunting Vision". New York Times. Retrieved 4 May 2023.

[Beatrice-25] Dubus, Andre III. "Andre Dubus III: "What I'm working on now, I can't think about anyone liking"". Beatrice (Interview). Ron Hogan. Retrieved 2009-03-21.

[26] Bruce Weber (March 16, 1999). "Del Close, 64, a Comedian With a Flair for Improvisation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-09-02.

[27] Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999.

[28] O. Classe (2000). Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Kiribati. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 153.

[29] Gifford, Denis (19 March 1999). "Obituary: Lee Falk". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

[30] "KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved November 20, 2020.

[snl-31] "Knut Hauge". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 26 February 2011.

[32] Michael Gray Baughan (2013). Shel Silverstein. Facts On File, Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-4381-4936-3.

[33] "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. July 3, 1999.

[34] Adrian, Jack (30 September 1999). "Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2018-09-24.

[35] "Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006". Findmypast.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2018.

[36] Jefferson, Ann (2020-07-21). Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20192-4.

[37] John Mole (12 November 1999). "Obituary: E.J. Scovell". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

[38] "Obituary for Paul Bowles". The New York Times. 19 November 1999.

[39] "SFE: Cohen, Matt". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[40] Norwich, John Julius, "Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart- (1907–1999)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2008

[41] Severo, Richard; Mitgang, Herbert (December 14, 1999). "Joseph Heller, Darkly Surreal Novelist, Dies at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2010.

[42] Hahn 2015, p. 660

[43] Hahn 2015, p. 658

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1999 in literature

Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Notes

References

External links

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