1999 in literature

Events

New Books

• Apollyon[?] - Jerry B. Jenkins[?] & Tim LaHaye[?]
• Assassins[?] - Jerry B. Jenkins[?] & Tim LaHaye[?]
• Atomised[?] - Michel Houellebecq
• Blind Eye[?] - James B. Stewart[?]
• The Century[?] - Peter Jennings[?] and Todd Brewster[?]
• Chocolat - Joanne Harris
• Darwin's Radio[?] - Greg Bear
• Death du Jour[?] - Kathy Reichs[?]
• Dining with Peggy Guggenheim[?] - Jane Turner Rylands[?]
• Disgrace[?] - J. M. Coetzee[?]
• 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
• Irresistable 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

Births

Deaths

• 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

Awards

• Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee[?], Disgrace
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard: A Good House
• Newberry 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
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Margaret Edson[?], Wit
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Cunningham[?], The Hours
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand[?], Blizzard of One