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1991 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991.

Events

  • February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre, London.
  • July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book.[1]
  • October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinbugh Festival", appears in New Writing Scotland. It is later incorporated into Trainspotting.[2]
  • November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fournier, 77 years after his death as Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier in World War I. His bones are interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.[3]

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Main article: 1991 in poetry

Non-fiction

Births

  • Sally Rooney, Irish fiction writer

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

  • See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
  • The Edna Staebler Award is established to honor the best literary work of creative non-fiction by a Canadian author who had published their first or second writing within the preceding year. [12]
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Susan Mayse, Ginger [13]
  • Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime: Susan Mayse, Ginger [14]

France

United Kingdom

United States

Fiction: Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, John Holman, Cynthia Kadohata, Rick Rofihe, J Anton Shammas (fiction/nonfiction)
Nonfiction: Stanley Crouch
Plays: Scott McPherson
Poetry: Thylias Moss, Franz Wright

Elsewhere

References

  1. ^ Weisman, Steven R. (1991-07-13). "Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 2, 2002.
  2. ^ NWS 9:42.
  3. ^ "La découverte du corps d’Alain-Fournier et de ses frères d’armes". Accessed 15 February 2015.
  4. ^ Matt Morrison (15 September 2010). Key Concepts in Creative Writing. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-137-11896-7.
  5. ^ S. Lillian Kremer (2003). Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index. Taylor & Francis. p. 1253. ISBN 978-0-415-92984-4.
  6. ^ Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland Archived 2013-01-21 at Archive.today. Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  7. ^ The Aligarh Critical Miscellany. A.A. Ansari. 1991. p. 89.
  8. ^ Clark Layman Bruccoli; Gale Cengage (1996). British Children's Writers Since 1960: First series. Gale Research. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-8103-9356-1.
  9. ^ No Depression. No Depression. 2004. p. 11.
  10. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1997). Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem Press. pp. 1946–8. ISBN 978-0-89356-449-0.
  11. ^ William L. Andrews; Frances Smith Foster; Trudier Harris (15 February 2001). The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Oxford University Press. p. 452. ISBN 978-0-19-803175-8.
  12. ^ Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  13. ^ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  14. ^ Member Profile-Susan Mayse. The Writers Union of Canada. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
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