Wikipedia: 1999 in literature

1999 in literature
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See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
Blind Eye - James B. Stewart
The Century - Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulkes
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
Death du Jour - Kathy Reichs
Dining with Peggy Guggenheim - Jane Turner Rylands
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star - Kelly R. Brown
The Fortune Catcher - Susanne Pari
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
Irresistible Forces - Danielle Steel
A Lake Beyond the Wind - Yahya Yakhlif
The Mark of the Angel - Nancy Huston
Paradise - Toni Morrison
Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen
Single & Single - John le Carré
Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace - Terry Brooks
Scattered Like Seeds - Shaw J. Dallal
Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre - June Rose
'Tis - Frank McCourt
Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
The Testament - John Grisham
Through the Stones - Diana Gabaldon
Timeline - Michael Crichton

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
December 8 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher
December 12 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22), aged 76

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.
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 Fémina: 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 rêves
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