Your American History Reference Guide! - 1999 in literature
1999 in literature
See also: 1998 in literature , other events of 1999 , 2000 in literature , list of years in literature .
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.
New books
Births
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
May 10 - Shel Silverstein , children's poet, aged 68
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
December 8 - Rupert Hart-Davis , editor, publisher
December 12 - Joseph Heller , American novelist (Catch-22 ), aged 76
Awards
Booker Prize : J. M. Coetzee , Disgrace
Finlandia Prize : * 1999 Kristina Carlson , Maan ääreen
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.
Hugo Award for Best Novel: Connie Willis , To Say Nothing of the Dog
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Andrew Miller , Ingenious Pain
Nebula Award : Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Talents
Newbery Medal for children's literature : Louis Sachar , Holes
Nobel Prize for Literature : Günter Grass
Orange Prize for Fiction : Suzanne Berne , A Crime in the Neighborhood
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 ręves
Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Margaret Edson , Wit
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Michael Cunningham , The Hours
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Mark Strand , Blizzard of One
Samuel Johnson Prize : Antony Beevor , Stalingrad
Viareggio Prize : Ernesto Franco , Vite senza fine
Whitbread Best Book Award : Seamus Heaney , Beowulf