This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Thomas Berry â The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
- David Cairns â Berlioz: Volume 2, Servitude and Greatness 1832âÂÂ1869
- Wayson Choy â '
- The Dalai Lama â Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
- Samuel R. Delany â Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
- Laurence des Cars â '
- Freeman Dyson â The Sun, the Genome and the Internet
- Koenraad Elst â Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
- John Steele Gordon â '
- Brian Greene â The Elegant Universe
- Deborah Harkness â John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
- Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster â The Century
- S.T. Joshi â Sixty Years of Arkham House
- Winona LaDuke â All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
- Bruce Lincoln â Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
- Jamie Oliver â The Naked Chef
- W. G. Sebald â Luftkrieg und Literatur (Air War and Literature, translated as On the Natural History of Destruction)
- David Southwell â Conspiracy Theories
- Dejan Stojanoviàâ Razgovori (Conversations)
- Jean-Pierre Vernant â L'univers, les dieux, les hommes
Births
Deaths
- January 11 â Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)
- January 16 â Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
- February 8 â Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)
- February 20 â Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)
- February 22 â William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)
- February 24 â Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)
- March 4
- Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934)
- Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (born 1921)
- March 5 â John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)
- March 8 â Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914)
- March 13
- Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)
- Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912)
- March 28 â Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945)
- April 13 â Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911)
- May 8 â Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904)
- May 10 â Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930)
- May 27 â Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926)
- June 14 â J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
- July 2 â Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)
- July 14 â Maria BanuÃÂ, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
- September 25 â Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)
- October 3 â Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
- October 19
- Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
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
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
Notes
References
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