1998 in literature

Events

New Books

• About a Boy - Nick Hornby
• African Exploits[?] - Roy MacLaren
• All Through the Night[?] - Mary Higgins Clark[?]
• Amsterdam - Ian McEwan[?]
• Bag of Bones[?] - Stephen King
• The Bay of Love and Sorrows[?] - David Adams Richards
• The Book of Saladin[?] - Tariq Ali
• Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam - Alan I. Marcus
• Dinosaur Summer[?] - Greg Bear
• England, England - Julian Barnes
• Foundation and Chaos[?] - Greg Bear
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
• Hellfire[?] - Diana Gabaldon[?]
• I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops[?] - Hanan al-Shaykh[?]
• The Klone and I[?] - Danielle Steel
• The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
• The Long Road Home[?] - Danielle Steel
• A Man in Full[?] - Tom Wolfe
• The Memory of Hands[?] - Reshman Baig[?]
• A Midwinter's Tale[?] - Andrew Greeley
• Mirror Image - Danielle Steel
• Muhammad - Driss Chraibi[?]
• Paradise - Toni Morrison
• Point of Origin[?] - Patricia Cornwell
• Rainbow Six[?] - Tom Clancy
• Return to Hawk's Hill[?] - Allan W. Eckert
• Seize the Night[?] - Dean R. Koontz
• The Street Lawyer[?] - John Grisham
• Tomcat in Love[?] - Tim O'Brien
• Veronika Decides to Die[?] - Paulo Coelho
• Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson[?]
• A Widow for One Year[?] - John Irving
• The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America[?] - Jules Witcover[?], David Halberstam

Births

Deaths

• February 7 - Lawrence Sanders[?], author
• April 27 - Pauline Réage, author

Awards

• Booker Prize: Ian McEwan[?] - Amsterdam
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro[?]: The Love of a Good Woman
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Keran Hess[?], Out of the Dust
• Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago

• Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party
• 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