1998 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1998.
Events
- March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première in London, a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre.[1]
- October
- Following the death of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.
- Kinoko Nasu launches the Kara no Kyōkai series with five chapters released online
- November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
New prose fiction
- Tariq Ali – The Book of Saladin
- Aaron Allston
- Hanan al-Shaykh – I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح)
- Martin Amis – Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published)
- Beryl Bainbridge – Master Georgie
- Iain M. Banks – Inversions
- Julian Barnes – England, England
- Greg Bear
- Raymond Benson – The Facts of Death
- Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny – Psychoshop
- Rituparna Bhattacharjee – Bhutia
- Robert Bloch – Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
- William Boyd – Armadillo
- Giannina Braschi – Yo-Yo Boing!
- Driss Chraïbi – Muhammad
- Mary Higgins Clark – All Through the Night
- Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six
- Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
- Michael Connelly – Blood Work
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Triumph
- Patricia Cornwell – Point of Origin
- Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma
- Ann C. Crispin – Rebel Dawn
- Michael Cunningham – The Hours
- Nelson DeMille – Plum Island
- August Derleth
- Peter Dickinson – The Kin
- Allan W. Eckert – Return to Hawk's Hill
- Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama
- Giles Foden – The Last King of Scotland
- Diana Gabaldon – Hellfire
- Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors (most stories previously published)
- Andrew Greeley – A Midwinter's Tale
- John Grisham – The Street Lawyer
- Wolf Haas – Komm, süßer Tod ("Come, Sweet Death")[2]
- Ha Jin – Waiting
- Tomson Highway – Kiss of the Fur Queen
- Nick Hornby – About a Boy
- Michel Houellebecq – Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires)
- Marek S. Huberath – Gniazdo światów ("Nest of Worlds")
- John Irving – A Widow for One Year
- K. W. Jeter
- Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Stephen King – Bag of Bones
- Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
- Dean R. Koontz – Seize the Night
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Alain Mabanckou – Bleu-Blanc-Rouge
- Patrick McCabe – Breakfast on Pluto
- Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
- Roy MacLaren – African Exploits
- Steve Martin – Pure Drivel
- Carol Matas – Greater Than Angels
- China Miéville – King Rat
- Toni Morrison – Paradise
- Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman
- Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)
- Cees Nooteboom – All Souls' Day (Allerzielen)
- Tim O'Brien – Tomcat in Love
- Orhan Pamuk – My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı)
- Tom Perrotta – Election
- Terry Pratchett
- Fahmida Riaz – Godavari
- David Adams Richards – The Bay of Love and Sorrows
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Crónica de invisibles
- Philip Roth – I Married a Communist
- J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Louis Sachar – Holes
- Margit Sandemo – Ensam i världen ("Alone in the World")
- Michael Slade – Shrink aka Primal Scream
- Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Michael Stackpole – I, Jedi
- Danielle Steel
- The Klone and I
- The Long Road Home
- Mirror Image
- Thomas Sullivan – The Martyring
- Andrew Vachss – Safe House
- Connie Willis – To Say Nothing of the Dog
- A. N. Wilson – Dream Children
- Tom Wolfe – A Man in Full
- Timothy Zahn – Vision of the Future
New drama
- Edward Albee – The Play About the Baby
- Marina Carr – By the Bog of Cats
- Michael Frayn – Copenhagen
- David Hare – The Blue Room
- Elfriede Jelinek – Ein Sportstück
- Marius von Mayenburg – Fireface (Feuergesicht)
Poetry
Main article: 1998 in poetry
- Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling), Second Edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 1998[3]
Non-fiction
- Charlotte Allen – The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus
- Antony Beevor – Stalingrad
- Bill Bryson – Notes from a Big Country
- Peter Cannon (editor) – Lovecraft Remembered
- Amanda Foreman – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- John Fowles – Wormholes – Essays and Occasional Writings
- Jonathan Freedland – Bring Home the Revolution
- A P J Abdul Kalam – India 2020
- Ryszard Kapuściński – Heban ("Ebony", translated as The Shadow of the Sun)
- Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian
- Alan I. Marcus – Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam
- Gilles Perrault (ed.) – Le Livre noir du capitalisme
- John Pilger – Hidden Agendas
- Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane[4]
- Marilee Strong – A Bright Red Scream
- University of Arizona – Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni
- Adam Zagajewski – Another Beauty
Births
Deaths
- January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920)
- January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936)
- January 23 – John Forbes, Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950)
- January 27 – Geoffrey Trease, English children's historical novelist (born 1909)
- February 7 – Lawrence Sanders, American novelist and short story writer (born 1920)
- February 15 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide, born 1908)
- February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895)
- March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903)
- April 11 – Francis Durbridge, English playwright (born 1912)
- April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
- April 27
- Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)
- Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
- May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905)
- June 10 – Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913)
- June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (born 1906)
- July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English biographer (born 1928)
- July 5 – Johnny Speight, English comedy writer (born 1920)
- July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912)
- July 14 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (born 1923)
- July 23
- John Hopkins, English film and television writer (born 1931)
- Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (born 1923)
- August 16 – Dorothy West, American novelist and short story writer (born 1907)
- August 22 – Grace Paley, American writer (born 1922)
- September 28 – Eric Malling, Canadian journalist (born 1946)
- October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909)
- October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)
- November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915)
- November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)
- December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922)
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago
- Europe Theatre Prize: Luca Ronconi
- Camões Prize: Antonio Candido
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jennifer Kremmer, Pegasus in the Suburbs
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, Broken Land
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards were presented this year
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew, The Wild Reply
- Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
Canada
- Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award: Talya Rubin
- See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Charlotte Gray: Mrs. King [5]
France
- Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires
- Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence
- Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol
- Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: David Almond, Skellig
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
- Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith
- Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote
- American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation: Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and (separately) Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, Desire
- Compton Crook Award: Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
- Frost Medal: Stanley Kunitz
- Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, American Pastoral
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
- Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Michael Byers, Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction)
- Nonfiction: D. J. Waldie, Anthony Walton
- Plays: W. David Hancock
- Poetry: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson
Elsewhere
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums
- Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
References
- ↑ "Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?", Playbill, 23 June 1998. Accessed 19 May 2013
- ↑ Sänger, Florian (2009). Literatur und Film im Feld narrativer Theorien: Analysemöglichkeiten von Literaturverfilmungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählposition und Fakalisierung am Beispiel Wolf Haas „Komm süßer Tod“. Aachen: Verlag Shaker. ISBN 978-3-8322-8659-0.
- ↑ Web page titled Krugovanje, Second Edition, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
- ↑ Goodreads, Romancing Mary Jane, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-25.
- ↑ Faculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012
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