This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1990.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 24 â Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (born 1908)
- February 27 â Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (burns, born 1895)
- March 12 â Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist (born 1901)
- May 4 â John Ormond, Welsh poet (born 1923)
- May 10 â Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
- May 25 â Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
- July 15 â Zaim TopÃÂiÃÂ, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)
- July 22 â Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)
- August 1 â Michael Glenny, British translator of Russian literature into English (born 1927)
- August 17 â Roderick Cook, English playwright (born 1932)
- August 25 â Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
- September 8 â Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (born 1905)
- September 26 â Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist and journalist (born 1907)
- September 27 â Ion Biberi, Romanian social scientist, novelist and essayist (born 1904)
- September 30 â Patrick White, Australian novelist (born 1912)
- October 23 â Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (heart attack, born 1918)
- November 7 â Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist and travel writer (born 1912)
- November 8 â Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)
- November 23 â Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916)
- November 24 â Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
- November 29 â Clare H Abrahall, English biographer and children's writer (born 1900)
- December 1 â Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (born 1930)
- December 7 â Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist and playwright (suicide, born 1943)
- December 11 â David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
- December 14 â Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)
- December 16 - Stanley Green, American theatre and film historian and writer (born 1923)
- December 20 â Andrea Dunbar, English playwright (born 1961)
- December 24 â Gwyn Williams, Welsh poet and novelist (born 1904)
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, '
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
- Cholmondeley Award: Kingsley Amis, Elaine Feinstein, Michael O'Neill
- Eric Gregory Award: Nicholas Drake, Maggie Hannan, William Park, Jonathan Davidson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don Paterson, John Wells
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Sorley Maclean
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron
United States
Fiction: Yannick Murphy, Lawrence Naumoff, Mark Richard, Christopher Tilghman, Stephen Wright
Nonfiction: Harriet Ritvo, Amy Wilentz
Plays: Tony Kushner
Poetry: Emily Hiestand, Dennis Nurkse
Elsewhere
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