1999 in literature

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.
* 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.
* September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.
*''unknown date'' – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.

New books

Fiction

*Isabel Allende – ''Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna)''
*Aaron Allston
**'' Solo Command''
**'' Starfighters of Adumar''
* Laurie Halse Anderson – '' Speak''
* Max Barry – ''Syrup''
* Greg Bear – '' Darwin's Radio''
*Raymond Benson
**''High Time to Kill''
**''The World Is Not Enough''
*Maeve Binchy – ''Tara Road''
*François Bloemhof – '' Klipgooi''
* Xurxo Borrazás – ''O desintegrista''
*Ben Bova – ''Return to Mars''
*Terry Brooks – ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''
* Thomas Brussig – ''Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee''
*Bonnie Burnard''
*Stephen Chbosky – '' The Perks of Being a Wallflower''
*Tracy Chevalier – '' Girl with a Pearl Earring''
* J. M. Coetzee – ''Disgrace''
* Matt Cohen – '' Elizabeth and After''
*Bernard Cornwell
**'' Sharpe's Fortress''
**'' Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC''
* Douglas Coupland – ''Miss Wyoming''
*Robert Crais – '' L.A. Requiem''
*Michael Crichton – ''Timeline''
*August Derleth (editor) – ''New Horizons''
*Marc Dugain – ''La Chambre des Officiers ( The Officers' Ward)''
* Frederic S. Durbin – ''Dragonfly''
*Bret Easton Ellis – '' Glamorama''
* Per Olov Enquist – '' The Visit of the Royal Physician (Livläkarens besök)''
* Steve Erickson – '' The Sea Came in at Midnight''
*Sebastian Faulks – '' Charlotte Gray''
*Helen Fielding – '' The Edge of Reason''
*Amanda Filipacchi – ''Vapor''
* Anna Gavalda – '' Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part''
*John Grisham – '' The Testament''
*Ha Jin (哈金) – ''Waiting''
*Joanne Harris – '' Chocolat''
*Thomas Harris – ''Hannibal''
*Ernest Hemingway – ''True at First Light''
*Carl Hiaasen – ''Sick Puppy''
*Stewart Home – ''Cunt''
* Michel Houellebecq – '' Atomised''
*Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye – '' Soul Harvest''
*K. W. Jeter – ''Hard Merchandise''
*Lisa Jewell – ''Ralph's Party''
*Stephen King:
**''The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon''
**'' Hearts in Atlantis''
*László Krasznahorkai – '' War and War''
*Jhumpa Lahiri – '' Interpreter of Maladies'' (short stories)
* Joe R. Lansdale
**'' Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard''
**'' Freezer Burn''
*John le Carré – '' Single & Single''
*Jonathan Lethem – ''Motherless Brooklyn''
*Ray Loriga – ''Tokio ya no nos quiere''
*Frank McCourt -'' 'Tis''
*David Macfarlane – '' Summer Gone''
*Alistair MacLeod – ''No Great Mischief''
* Juliet Marillier – ''Daughter of the Forest''
*Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell – '' From Hell'' (graphic novel)
*Jeffrey Moore – ''Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain''
*Erwin Mortier – ''Marcel''
*Chuck Palahniuk
**'' Invisible Monsters''
**'' Survivor''
* Tony Parsons – '' Man and Boy''
*Terry Pratchett – '' The Fifth Elephant''
* Kathy Reichs – ''Death du Jour''
*Matthew Reilly – ''Temple''
*Jennifer Roberson – '' Lady of Sherwood''
* Louis Sachar – '' Holes''
*R. A. Salvatore – ''Vector Prime''
* Margit Sandemo – '' Skattejakten''
* Neal Shusterman – ''Downsiders''
*Michael Slade – '' Burnt Bones''
*Susan Sontag – '' In America''
*Ahdaf Soueif – ''The Map of Love''
* Michael Stackpole – '' Isard's Revenge''
* Matthew Stadler – ''Allan Stein''
*Danielle Steel – ''Irresistible Forces – ''Cryptonomicon''
* Francine Stock – '' A Foreign Country''
*Remy Sylado – ''Ca Bau Kan'' (The Courtesan)
* Koushun Takami (高見 広春) – '' Battle Royale''
* Rose Tremain – ''Music and Silence''
*Miloš Urban – ''Sedmikostelí'' (The Seven Churches)
*Andrew Vachss – '' Choice of Evil''
* Jane Vandenburgh – 'The Physics of Sunset''
*Vernor Vinge – ''A Deepness in the Sky''
*Jeanette Winterson – '' The World and Other Places''
* Timothy Zahn – '' The Icarus Hunt''
*Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold – ''Lord Demon''

Children and young people

*David Almond – '' Kit's Wilderness''
* Elizabeth Arnold – ''Spin of the Sunwheel''
* Susan Cooper – ''King of Shadows''
*Julia Donaldson (with Axel Scheffler) – ''The Gruffalo''
*Nick Earls – ''48 Shades of Brown''
*Mem Fox - ''Sleepy Bears''
* Barbara Diamond Goldin – '' Journeys With Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet''
* Gerald Hausman (with Loretta Hausman and Barry Moser) – ''Dogs of Myth: Tales from Around the World''
*Satoshi Kitamura – '' Me and My Cat?''
* Adeline Yen Mah – '' Chinese Cinderella'' (autobiography)
*Robert L. Millet (with James C. Christensen) – ''Parables and other Teaching Stories''
* John Nickle – ''The Ant Bully''
*Andre Norton (with Martin H. Greenberg) – ''Catfantastic V''
* Iona Opie – ''Here Comes Mother Goose''
*Jerry Pinkney
** ''The Little Match Girl''
** '' The Ugly Duckling''
*Louise Rennison – ''Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging''
*Faith Ringgold – ''If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks''
*J. K. Rowling – ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''
*Lemony Snicket
**''The Bad Beginning''
**'' The Reptile Room''
* Jacqueline Wilson – '' The Illustrated Mum''
*Simms Taback – ''Joseph Had a Little Overcoat''

Drama

*Jon Fosse – '' Dream of Autumn''
*David Mamet – ''Boston Marriage''
* Frank McGuinness – '' Dolly West's Kitchen''
*Lars Norén – ''7:3''
* Mark O'Rowe – ''Howie the Rookie''
*Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt – '' Hôtel des deux mondes''
* Zlatko Topčić – ''Refugees''
*August Wilson – ''King Hedley II''

Poetry

* Iona Opie – ''Here Comes Mother Goose''
*Dejan Stojanović – ''Sunce sebe gleda'' (The Sun Watches Itself)

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)
* Jean-Pierre Vernant – '' L'univers, les dieux, les hommes''

Births

* October 13 – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Nigerian–British author and columnist
* December 22 – Ameer Idreis, Canadian writer

Deaths

*January 11 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)
*January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
*February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)
*February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)
*February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)
*February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)
*March 4
** Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934)
** 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
** Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)
** 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)
*May 27 – Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926)
* June 14 – J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
*July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)
*July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
*September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)
*October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
* October 19
** Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)
** Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900)
**E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907)
*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

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Günter Grass
*Camões Prize: Sophia de Mello Breyner

Australia

* The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Hsu-Ming Teo, ''Love and Vertigo''
* C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, ''Pure and Applied''
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry

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