1999 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Literary prizes
- Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Talents , Category: Best Novel
- Ted Chiang , Story of Your Life , story of your life , Category: Best Short Novel
- Mary A. Turzillo , Mars Is No Place for Children , Category: Best Narration
- Leslie What , The Cost of Doing Business , Category: Best Short Story
- M. Night Shyamalan , The Sixth Sense , The Sixth Sense , Category: Best Screenplay
- Connie Willis , To Say Nothing of the Dog , The Colors of Time , Category: Best Novel
- Greg Egan , Oceanic , Oceanic , Category: Best Short Novel
- Bruce Sterling , Taklamakan , Taklamakan , Category: Best Narration
- Michael Swanwick , The Very Pulse of the Machine , The Pulse of the Machine , Category: Best Short Story
- Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog , The Colors of Time , Category: Best SF Novel
- George RR Martin , A Clash of Kings , King Feud , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Stephen King , Bag of Bones , Sara , Category: Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
- Nalo Hopkinson , Brown Girl in the Ring , Category: Best First Novel
- Greg Egan, Oceanic , Oceanic , Category: Best Short Novel
- Greg Egan, The Planck Dive , Category: Best Narration
- Bruce Sterling, Taklamakan , Taklamakan , Category: Best Narration (awarded twice)
- Bruce Sterling, Maneki Neko , Category: Best Short Story
- Avram Davidson , edited by: Robert Silverberg & Grania Davis , The Avram Davidson Treasury , Category: Best Collection
- Robert Silverberg, Legends , Category: Best Anthology
- Andreas Eschbach , The Jesus Video , Category: Best Novel
- Marcus Hammerschmitt , Wüstenlack , Category: Best short story / short story
- Ian McDonald , Fool Victim , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Harry Rowohlt , Category: Best Translator
- Rudi Schweikert for the new edition by Kurd Laßwitz , On two planets , special price
- Stephen Baxter , Vacuum Diagrams , vacuum diagrams
- Booker Prize : JM Coetzee , Disgrace
- Georg Büchner Prize : Arnold Stadler
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Fritz Stern
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Terézia Mora , The Ophelia case
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize : Andreas Eschbach for Das Jesus Video
- Finlandia Prize : Kristina Carlson , Maan ääreen
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Dennis Bock , Olympia
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Charlotte Gray, Sisters in the Wilderness
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Peter C. Newman , Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
- Journey Prize : Alissa York , The Back of the Bear's Mouth
- Nobel Prize for Literature : Günter Grass
- Prix Goncourt : Jean Echenoz , Je m'en vais
- National Book Award : Ha Jin , Waiting (Fiction); John W. Dower : Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Nonfiction); Ai , Vice: New & Selected Poems (Poetry); Kimberly Willis Holt , Summer Blues (Young People's Literature)
New releases
Fiction
- At the abyss - Wolfgang Hohlbein
- At the shorter end of Sonnenallee - Thomas Brussig
- Arne's estate - Siegfried Lenz
- Atlantis - Stephen King
- Expansion of the combat zone - Michel Houellebecq
- The visit of the personal doctor - Per Olov Enquist
- Blueprint - Charlotte Kerner
- Chaos - David Mitchell
- The comeback - Michael Connelly
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- David days, Mona nights - Andreas Steinhöfel / Anja Tuckermann
- Dark - Wolfgang Hohlbein
- Egg salad - A woman goes his way - Helge Schneider
- The wrong track - Henning Mankell
- Fortuna's daughter - Isabel Allende
- The Green Mile - Stephen King
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Joanne K. Rowling
- The Sisters' House - Charlotte Link
- I'll shoot you! - Morton Rhue
- Lots of Trouble - Big Trouble - Dave Barry
- War of the Angels - Wolfgang Hohlbein
- Luna Lunera - Rosa Regàs
- The girl - Stephen King
- Mahler's time - Daniel Kehlmann
- Mngan's Legacy - Brian Moore
- Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
- The wall stands on the Rhine - Christian v. Ditfurth
- My century - Günter Grass
- The Mill on the River - Roy Jacobsen
- Q - Luther Blissett
- Rain Novel - Karen Duve
- Saltwater - Charles Simmons
- Shame - JM Coetzee
- Shadows - Tim Bowler
- Silentium! - Wolf Haas
- The Testament - John Grisham
- Timbuktu - Paul Auster
- Timeline - Michael Crichton
- The Turkish woman - Martin Mosebach
- The lost picture - Michael Frayn
- White crane over Tibet - Federica de Cesco
- Widow for a year - John Irving
Non-fiction
Born
- September 24th : Raphael Müller , German writer
Died
- January 2 : Sebastian Haffner , German author and journalist (* 1907 )
- January 11th : Brian Moore , Irish-Canadian writer and screenwriter (* 1921 )
- January 27 : Gonzalo Torrente Ballester , Spanish writer (* 1910 )
- January 29 : David Ricardo Williams , Canadian lawyer, historian and writer (* 1923 )
- March 8 : Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentinian writer (* 1914 )
- March 13 : Gary Jennings , American writer (* 1928 )
- March 19 : José Agustín Goytisolo , Spanish poet (* 1928 )
- May 9 : Jürgen Fuchs , German civil rights activist and writer (* 1950 )
- May 14 : Grete Weil , German writer (* 1906 )
- June 1 : Gert Ledig , German writer (* 1921 )
- June 21 : Karl Krolow , German writer (* 1915 )
- July 8th : Günter Caspar , editor-in-chief at Aufbau Verlag (* 1924 )
- August 22 : Sheila Och , children's book author (* 1940 )
- August 23 : James White , Irish author (born 1928 )
- September 25 : Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (born 1930 )
- October 11 : Fakir Baykurt , Turkish educator and writer (* 1929 )
- October 12 : Udo Steinke , German writer (* 1942 )
- October 18 : Herbert Heckmann , German writer (* 1930 )
- October 19 : Nathalie Sarraute , French writer (* 1900 )
- October 21 : Horst Krüger , German writer (* 1919 )
- October 27 : Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet (* 1902 )
- October 30 : Detlev Meyer , German poet (* 1948 )
- November 6 : George V. Higgins , American (crime) writer (* 1939 )
- December 12 : Joseph Heller , American writer (* 1923 )
- December 13 : Ian Watt , British literary critic and literary historian (* 1917 )
- December 18 : Hans Ernst Schneider , German literary scholar (* 1909 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charlotte Gray ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ↑ National Book Award: National Book Awards - 1999. Retrieved October 16, 2011.