The year '1999 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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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.
New books
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Aaron Allston
★
★ ''
Solo Command''
★
★ ''
Starfighters of Adumar''
★
Laurie Halse Anderson - ''
Speak''
★
Max Barry - ''
Syrup''
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Greg Bear - ''
Darwin's Radio''
★
Raymond Benson
★
★ ''
High Time to Kill''
★
★ ''
The World Is Not Enough''
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Thomas Berger - ''
The Return of Little Big Man''
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Maeve Binchy - ''
Tara Road''
★
Terry Brooks - ''
★
Tracy Chevalier - ''
Girl with a Pearl Earring''
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J. M. Coetzee - ''
Disgrace''
★
Matt Cohen - ''
Elizabeth and After''
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Douglas Coupland - ''
Miss Wyoming''
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Michael Crichton - ''
Timeline''
★
Shaw J. Dallal - ''
Scattered Like Seeds''
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August Derleth, editor - ''
New Horizons''
★
Marc Dugain - ''La Chambre des Officiers (
The Officers' Ward)''
★
Frederic S. Durbin - ''
Dragonfly''
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Bret Easton Ellis - ''
Glamorama''
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Sebastian Faulks - ''
(novel)|Charlotte Gray''
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Diana Gabaldon - ''
Through the Stones''
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John Grisham - ''
The Testament''
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Joanne Harris - ''
Chocolat''
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Thomas Harris - ''
Hannibal''
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Victor Heck - ''
The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward''
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Carl Hiaasen - ''
Sick Puppy''
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Stewart Home - ''
Cunt''
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Michel Houellebecq - ''
Atomised''
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Nancy Huston - ''
The Mark of the Angel''
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K. W. Jeter - ''
Hard Merchandise''
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Stephen King
★
★ ''
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon''
★
★ ''
Hearts in Atlantis''
★
John le Carré - ''
Single & Single''
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Jonathan Lethem - ''
Motherless Brooklyn''
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Frank McCourt -''
'Tis''
★
David Macfarlane - ''
Summer Gone''
★
Alistair MacLeod - ''
No Great Mischief''
★
Jeffrey Moore - ''
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain''
★
Toni Morrison - ''
Paradise''
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Chuck Palahniuk
★
★ ''
Invisible Monsters''
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★ ''
Survivor''
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Susanne Pari - ''
The Fortune Catcher''
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Terry Pratchett - ''
The Fifth Elephant''
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Kathy Reichs - ''
Death du Jour''
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Matthew Reilly - ''
Temple''
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J. K. Rowling - ''
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''
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Jane Turner Rylands - ''
Dining with Peggy Guggenheim''
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Louis Sachar - ''
Holes''
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R. A. Salvatore - ''
Vector Prime''
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F. Tupper Saussy - ''
Rulers Of Evil''
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Neal Shusterman - ''
Downsiders''
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Michael Slade - ''
Burnt Bones''
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Lemony Snicket - ''
The Reptile Room''
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Susan Sontag - ''
In America''
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Michael Stackpole - ''
Isard's Revenge''
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Matthew Stadler - ''
Allan Stein''
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Danielle Steel - ''
Irresistible Forces''
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Neal Stephenson - ''
Cryptonomicon''
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James B. Stewart - ''
Blind Eye''
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Koushun Takami - ''
Battle Royale''
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Andrew Vachss - ''
Choice of Evil''
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Vernor Vinge - ''
A Deepness in the Sky''
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Jeanette Winterson - ''
The World and Other Places''
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Yahya Yakhlif - ''
A Lake Beyond the Wind''
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Robert Clark Young - ''
One of the Guys''
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Timothy Zahn - ''
The Icarus Hunt''
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Roger Zelazny and
Jane Lindskold - ''
Lord Demon''
Non-fiction
★
Kelly R. Brown - ''
★
Wayson Choy - ''
★
Brian Greene - ''
The Elegant Universe''
★
Jerry B. Jenkins &
Tim LaHaye - ''
Soul Harvest''
★
Peter Jennings and
Todd Brewster - ''
The Century''
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S.T. Joshi - ''
Sixty Years of Arkham House''
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Winona LaDuke - ''
★
June Rose - ''
★
David Southwell - ''
Conspiracy Theories (book)''
Births
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Deaths
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February 8 -
Iris Murdoch, writer, aged 79
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February 22 -
William Bronk, poet, aged 80 (or 81?)
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February 24 -
Andre Dubus, writer
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March 4 -
Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, aged 77
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March 28 -
Jim Turner, editor, aged 54
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May 10 -
Shel Silverstein, children's poet, aged 68
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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)
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October 3 -
Heinz G. Konsalik, writer, aged 78
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October 19 -
Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer
★
November 11 -
Jacobo Timmerman, journalist and publisher
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December 8 -
Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher
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December 12 -
Joseph Heller, American novelist (''
Catch-22''), aged 76
Awards
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Nobel Prize for Literature:
Günter Grass
Australia
★
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award:
Hsu-Ming Teo, ''Love and Vertigo''
★
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:
Gig Ryan, ''Pure and Applied''
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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry:
Lee Cataldi, ''Race Against Time''
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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.
France
★
Prix Femina:
Maryline Desbiolles, ''Anchise''
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Prix Goncourt:
Jean Echenoz, ''Je m'en vais''
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Prix Décembre:
Claude Askolovitch, ''Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est''
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Prix Médicis French:
Michel Del Castillo, ''Colette, une certaine France''
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Prix Médicis Non-Fiction:
Christian Oster, ''Mon grand appartement''
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Prix Médicis International:
Bjorn Larsson, ''Le capitaine et les rêves''
United Kingdom
★
Booker Prize:
J. M. Coetzee, ''Disgrace''
★
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
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Orange Prize for Fiction:
Suzanne Berne, ''A Crime in the Neighborhood''
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Samuel Johnson Prize:
Antony Beevor, ''Stalingrad''
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Whitbread Best Book Award:
Seamus Heaney, ''Beowulf''
United States
★
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:
Daisy Fried, ''She Didn't Mean To Do It''
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Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry:
George Garrett
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Arthur Rense Prize awarded to
James McMichael by the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry:
J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos"
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Compton Crook Award:
James Stoddard, ''
The High House''
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Frost Medal:
Barbara Guest
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Hugo Award for Best Novel:
Connie Willis, ''
To Say Nothing of the Dog''
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Nebula Award:
Octavia E. Butler, ''Parable of the Talents''
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Newbery Medal for
children's literature:
Louis Sachar, ''Holes''
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama:
Margaret Edson, ''Wit''
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
Michael Cunningham, ''The Hours''
★
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Mark Strand, ''Blizzard of One''
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Wallace Stevens Award:
Jackson Mac Low
Elsewhere
★
Finlandia Prize:
1999 Kristina Carlson, ''Maan ääreen''
★
Premio Nadal:
Gustavo Martín Zarzo, ''Las historias de Marta y Fernando''
★
Viareggio Prize:
Ernesto Franco, ''Vite senza fine''
★
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award:
Andrew Miller, ''Ingenious Pain''
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