This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999 .
Events May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years.[1] June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a van while taking a walk. He is hospitalized for three weeks and only resumes writing his next book, On Writing , in July.[2] September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen .[3] unknown date – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury , London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.[4] New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose Dejan Stojanović – Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself)[9] Non-fiction Thomas Berry – The Great Work: Our Way into the Future David Cairns – Berlioz: Volume 2, Servitude and Greatness 1832–1869 Wayson Choy – Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood The Dalai Lama – Ancient Wisdom, Modern World Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Laurence des Cars – Les Préraphaélites : Un modernisme à l'anglaise Freeman Dyson – The Sun, the Genome and the Internet Koenraad Elst – Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke – Paracelsus: Essential Readings .John Steele Gordon – The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653–2000 Brian Greene – The Elegant Universe Deborah Harkness – John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster – The Century S.T. Joshi – Sixty Years of Arkham House Winona LaDuke – All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life Bruce Lincoln – Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship Jamie Oliver – The Naked Chef W. G. Sebald – Luftkrieg und Literatur (Air War and Literature, translated as On the Natural History of Destruction )David Southwell – Conspiracy Theories Dejan Stojanović – Razgovori (Conversations)[10] Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes [11] Deaths January 11 – Naomi Mitchison , Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897 )[12] January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902 )February 8 – Iris Murdoch , Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919 )[13] February 20 – Sarah Kane , English playwright (suicide, born 1971 )[14] February 22 – William Bronk , American poet (born 1918 )February 24 – Andre Dubus , American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936 )[15] March 4 – Karel van het Reve , Dutch writer (born 1921 )March 5 – John Figueroa , Jamaican poet (born 1920 )March 8 – Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentine author (born 1914 )March 13 – Garson Kanin , American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912 )March 28 – Jim Turner , American editor (born 1945 )April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911 )May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904 )May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930 )June 14 – J. F. Powers , American writer (born 1917 )July 2 – Mario Puzo , American writer (born 1920 )September 22 – Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (born 1930 )October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik , German novelist (born 1921 )October 19 November 11 – Jacobo Timerman , Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923 )November 18 – Paul Bowles , American novelist (born 1910 )December 2 – Matt Cohen , Canadian novelist (born 1942 )December 8 – Rupert Hart-Davis , English editor and publisher (born 1907 )December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923 )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 VictorianCholmondeley Award : Vicki Feaver , Geoffrey Hill , Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh Eric Gregory Award : Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers , Dan WykeOrange 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 Finlandia Prize : 1999 Kristina Carlson, Maan ääreen International Dublin Literary Award: Andrew Miller , Ingenious Pain Alfaguara Prize: Manuel Vicent, Son de mar Premio Nadal : Gustavo Martín Zarzo, Las historias de Marta y Fernando Viareggio Prize : Ernesto Franco, Vite senza fine Notes ^ Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story" . The Guardian . Retrieved 12 January 2021 . ^ Michael Kennedy (June 19, 2019). "Stephen King Recalls the Accident That Almost Ended His Life 20 Years Ago Today" . Screen Rant . Retrieved January 13, 2021 . ^ Scandinavian Review ^ Jenny Hartley; Sarah Turvey (2002). The Reading Groups Book 978-0-19-925596-2 . ^ Helene Carol Weldt-Basson (1 May 2017). Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction 978-0-8263-5816-5 . ^ Cecilia Konchar Farr (4 November 2004). Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads 978-0-7914-6257-7 . ^ International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 978-1-85743-269-5 .^ Yvonne Ying Hsieh (2006). Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, ou, la philosophie de l'ouverture 978-1-883479-49-7 . ^ Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2009). "Sunce sebe gleda" . Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20 . ^ Belgrade: Književna reč. Stojanović, Dejan (2010). "Razgovori" . Open Library. Retrieved 2013-12-20 . ^ Rüf, Isabelle (16 October 1999). "Livres: Jean-Pierre Vernant: L'Univers, les dieux, les hommes" . Le Temps . Retrieved 29 October 2020 . ^ Jenni Calder (13 June 2019). The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison 978-1-912240-67-8 . ^ Conradi, Peter J. (2004). "Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required) ) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71228 .^ Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian ^ Dubus, Andre, III. "Andre Dubus III: "What I'm working on now, I can't think about anyone liking" " . Beatrice (Interview). Ron Hogan. Retrieved 2009-03-21 . ^ John Mole (12 November 1999). "Obituary: E.J. Scovell" . Independent . Retrieved 13 January 2021 . This article is copied from an
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