1999 in literature

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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)[10]

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)[11]
Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes[12]

Births

December 22 - Ameer Idreis, Canadian writer

Deaths

January 11 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)[13]
January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)[14]
February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)[15]
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)
February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)[16]
March 4
- Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934)[17]
- 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)[18]
March 13
- Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)[19]
- Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912)[20]
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)
June 14 – J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)[21]
September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)[22]
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)[23]
November 11 – Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923)
November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910)[24]
December 2 – Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942)
December 8 – Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (born 1907)[25]
December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923)[26]

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
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

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.
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)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71228.
Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000.
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.
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. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
"KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
"Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78". nytimes.com. July 3, 1999.
Adrian, Jack (30 September 1999). "Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
John Mole (12 November 1999). "Obituary: E.J. Scovell". Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
"Obituary for Paul Bowles". The New York Times. 19 November 1999.
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[14] Conradi, Peter J. (2004). "Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71228.

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

[Beatrice-16] 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.

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

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

[19] Gifford, Denis (19 March 1999). "Obituary: Lee Falk". The Independent. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

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

[21] "Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78". nytimes.com. July 3, 1999.

[22] Adrian, Jack (30 September 1999). "Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-09-24.

[23] John Mole (12 November 1999). "Obituary: E.J. Scovell". Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

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

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

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