1991 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- Michael Swanwick , Stations of the Tide , In Times of the Flood , Category: Best Novel
- Nancy Kress , Beggars in Spain , Beggars in Spain , Category: Best Short Novel
- Mike Conner , Guide Dog , Blind Dog Category: Best story
- Alan Brennert , Ma Qui , The Lost Soul , Category: Best Short Story
- Lois McMaster Bujold , The Vor Game , The Prince and the Mercenary , Category: Best Novel
- Joe Haldeman , The Hemingway Hoax , The Hemingway Scam , Category: Best Short Novel
- Mike Resnick , The Manamouki , Manamouki , Category: Best Narration
- Terry Bisson , Bears Discover Fire , The Bears Discover Fire , Category: Best Short Story
- Dan Simmons , The Fall of Hyperion , The End of Hyperion Also: The Fall of Hyperion , Category: Best SF Novel
- Ursula K. Le Guin , Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea , Tehanu , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Anne Rice , The Witching Hour , Witches Hour , Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
- Michael F. Flynn , In the Country of the Blind , Category: Best First Novel
- Kim Stanley Robinson , A Short, Sharp Shock , A short, violent shock , Category: Best Short Novel
- Dan Simmons, Entropy's Bed at Midnight , Category: Best Narration
- Terry Bisson, Bears Discover Fire , The Bears Discover Fire , Category: Best Short Story
- Orson Scott Card , Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Carl Amery , The Secret of the Crypt , Category: Best Novel
- Thomas Ziegler , A Little Something for Us Reincarnauts , Category: Best Story
- Peter Robert , Simulation , Category: Best Short Story
- Iain M. Banks , The Bridge , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Hans Joachim Alpers for many years of secondary literary work, special price
- Ian McDonald , King of Morning, Queen of Day , King of the Dawn, Queen of Light
- Booker Prize : Ben Okri , The Famished Road
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : György Konrád
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Emine Sevgi Özdamar , Life is a caravanserai
- Prix Goncourt : Pierre Combescot , Les Filles du Calvaire
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Neil Simon , Lost in Yonkers
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : John Updike : Rabbit at Rest
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Mona Van Duyn : Near Changes
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Audrey Thomas , Wild Blue Yonder
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Marianne McLean , The People of Glengarry: Highlanders in Transition 1745-1820 & John T. Saywell , Just Call Me Mitch. The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn
- Journey Prize : Yann Martel , The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
- Trillium Book Award : Margaret Atwood , Wilderness Tips
- Premio Nadal : Alfredo Conde Cid , Los otros días
- Georg Brandes Prize : Bjørn Bredal
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Vita Andersen
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Ib Michael , Vanillepigen
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Søren Ulrik Thomsen , Hjemfalden
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Kjell Askildsen , Et stort øde landskap
New releases
Fiction
- Old cover shop - Wolfgang Hilbig
- American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
- Beggar in Spain - Nancy Kress
- The Echoes of All Fear - Tom Clancy
- Once in Berlin, simply - Sabine Brandt
- The company - John Grisham
- The following story - Cees Nooteboom
- Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
- In a small town - Stephen King
- Concert at the end of winter - Ismail Kadare
- The Murderous Tea Round - Agatha Christie
- Nail a pudding on the wall! - Christine Nöstlinger
- Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
- Sofie's world - Jostein Gaarder
- Wild sheep hunting - Haruki Murakami
drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
- SEX - Madonna
- The Discomfort of the Sexes - Judith Butler
- What keeps couples together? - Juerg Willi
- Wild swans - Jung Chang
Born
- February 20: Sally Rooney , Irish writer
- April 20: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld , Dutch writer
- Johannes Floehr , German author October 2:
- anonymous: Hendrik M. Bekker , German writer
- anonymous: Jonas Eika , Danish writer
Died
- January 2 : Edmond Jabès , French writer and poet (* 1912 )
- January 3 : Fritz Brunner , Swiss writer (* 1899 )
- January 3 : Anna Gmeyner , Austro-British writer (* 1902 )
- January 16 : Heinz Rein , German writer (* 1906 )
- January 29 : Inoue Yasushi , Japanese writer (* 1907 )
- February 21 : Hejar , Kurdish writer, poet, linguist and translator (* 1920 )
- March 14th : Margery Sharp , British writer (* 1905 )
- April 3 : Graham Greene , British writer (* 1904 )
- April 4 : Max Frisch , Swiss architect and writer (* 1911 )
- Farah Mohamed Jama Awl , Somali writer (* 1937 ) April:
- May 7 : Kurt Zube , German author, publisher, editor (* 1905 )
- May 30 : Walter Dirks , publicist, writer and journalist (* 1901 )
- May 31 : Angus Wilson , British writer (born 1913 )
- June 10 : Vercors , French writer and caricaturist (* 1902 )
- June 14 : Werner Kraft , German librarian, literary scholar and writer (* 1896 )
- June 20 : Max Lüthi , Swiss literary scholar and interpreter of fairy tales (* 1909 )
- June 29 : Henri Lefebvre , French sociologist and philosopher (* 1901 )
- July 5 : Fritz Martini , German Germanist and literary historian (* 1909 )
- July 24 : Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-American writer and 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1902 )
- July 26th : Maria Treben , Austrian author, naturopathy, alternative medicine (* 1907 )
- August 9 : Richard Löwenthal , German political scientist and publicist (* 1908 )
- August 12 : Hans Weigel , Austrian writer and theater critic (* 1908 )
- August 21 : Wolfgang Hildesheimer , German writer and painter (* 1916 )
- August 23 : Wilhelm Hahnemann , Austrian and German soccer player (* 1914 )
- September 3 : Rolf Italiaander , German writer and art collector (* 1913 )
- September 13 : Erich Kern , Austrian writer and publicist (* 1906 )
- September 24 : Theodor Seuss Geisel , American children's book author and cartoonist (* 1904 )
- October 7 : Natalia Ginzburg , Italian writer (* 1916 )
- October 20 : Ronald M. Schernikau , German writer (* 1960 )
- November 8 : Kurt Brand , German science fiction writer (* 1917 )
- November 27 : Vilém Flusser , Czech media philosopher and communication scientist (* 1920 )
- December 17th : Aida Mitsuo , Japanese poet and calligrapher (* 1924 )