1998 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1998.

Events

March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première in London, a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre.^[1]
October
- Following the death of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.
- Kinoko Nasu launches the Kara no Kyōkai series with five chapters released online
November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.

New prose fiction

Tariq Ali - The Book of Saladin
Aaron Allston
- Iron Fist
- Wraith Squadron
Hanan al-Shaykh - I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح)
Martin Amis - Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published)
Beryl Bainbridge - Master Georgie
Iain M. Banks - Inversions
Julian Barnes - England, England
Greg Bear
- Dinosaur Summer
- Foundation and Chaos
Raymond Benson - The Facts of Death
Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny - Psychoshop
Rituparna Bhattacharjee - Bhutia
Robert Bloch - Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
William Boyd - Armadillo
Giannina Braschi - Yo-Yo Boing!
Driss Chraïbi - Muhammad
Mary Higgins Clark - All Through the Night
Tom Clancy - Rainbow Six
Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
Michael Connelly - Blood Work
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Triumph
Patricia Cornwell - Point of Origin
Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
Ann C. Crispin - Rebel Dawn
Michael Cunningham - The Hours
Nelson DeMille - Plum Island
August Derleth
- The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
Peter Dickinson - The Kin
Allan W. Eckert - Return to Hawk's Hill
Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
Giles Foden - The Last King of Scotland
Diana Gabaldon - Hellfire
Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors (most stories previously published)
Andrew Greeley - A Midwinter's Tale
John Grisham - The Street Lawyer
Wolf Haas - Komm, süßer Tod ("Come, Sweet Death")^[2]
Ha Jin - Waiting
Tomson Highway - Kiss of the Fur Queen
Nick Hornby - About a Boy
Michel Houellebecq - Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires)
Marek S. Huberath - Gniazdo światów ("Nest of Worlds")
John Irving - A Widow for One Year
K. W. Jeter
- The Mandalorian Armor
- Slave Ship
Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Stephen King - Bag of Bones
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
Dean R. Koontz - Seize the Night
Joe R. Lansdale
- Rumble Tumble
- The Boar
Alain Mabanckou - Bleu-Blanc-Rouge
Patrick McCabe - Breakfast on Pluto
Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
Roy MacLaren - African Exploits
Steve Martin - Pure Drivel
Carol Matas - Greater Than Angels
China Miéville - King Rat
Toni Morrison - Paradise
Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)
Cees Nooteboom - All Souls' Day (Allerzielen)
Tim O'Brien - Tomcat in Love
Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı)
Tom Perrotta - Election
Terry Pratchett
- Carpe Jugulum
- The Last Continent
Fahmida Riaz - Godavari
David Adams Richards - The Bay of Love and Sorrows
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí - Crónica de invisibles
Philip Roth - I Married a Communist
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Louis Sachar - Holes
Margit Sandemo - Ensam i världen ("Alone in the World")
Michael Slade - Shrink aka Primal Scream
Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Michael Stackpole - I, Jedi
Danielle Steel
- The Klone and I
- The Long Road Home
- Mirror Image
Thomas Sullivan - The Martyring
Andrew Vachss - Safe House
Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog
A. N. Wilson - Dream Children
Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full
Timothy Zahn - Vision of the Future

New drama

Edward Albee - The Play About the Baby
Marina Carr - By the Bog of Cats
Michael Frayn - Copenhagen
David Hare - The Blue Room
Elfriede Jelinek - Ein Sportstück
Marius von Mayenburg - Fireface (Feuergesicht)

Poetry

Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling), Second Edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 1998^[3]

Non-fiction

Charlotte Allen - The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus
Antony Beevor - Stalingrad
Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country
Peter Cannon (editor) - Lovecraft Remembered
Amanda Foreman - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
John Fowles - Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings
Jonathan Freedland - Bring Home the Revolution
A P J Abdul Kalam - India 2020
Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian
Alan I. Marcus - Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam
Gilles Perrault (ed.) - Le Livre noir du capitalisme
John Pilger - Hidden Agendas
Michael Poole - Romancing Mary Jane^[4]
Marilee Strong - A Bright Red Scream
University of Arizona - Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni
Adam Zagajewski - Another Beauty

Births

Deaths

January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920)
January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936)
January 23 – John Forbes, Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950)
January 27 – Geoffrey Trease, English children's historical novelist (born 1909)
February 7 – Lawrence Sanders, American novelist and short story writer (born 1920)
February 15 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide, born 1908)
February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895)
March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903)
April 11 – Francis Durbridge, English playwright (born 1912)
April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
April 27
- Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)
- Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905)
June 10 – Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913)
June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (born 1906)
July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English biographer (born 1928)
July 5 – Johnny Speight, English comedy writer (born 1920)
July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912)
July 14 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (born 1923)
July 23
- John Hopkins, English film and television writer (born 1931)
- Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (born 1923)
August 16 – Dorothy West, American novelist and short story writer (born 1907)
August 22 – Grace Paley, American writer (born 1922)
September 28 – Eric Malling, Canadian journalist (born 1946)
October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909)
October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)
November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915)
November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)
December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922)

Awards

Fiction: Michael Byers, Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction)

Nonfiction: D. J. Waldie, Anthony Walton

Plays: W. David Hancock

Poetry: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson

Elsewhere

IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums
Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes

References

↑ "Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?", Playbill, 23 June 1998. Accessed 19 May 2013
↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
↑ Web page titled Krugovanje, Second Edition, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
↑ Goodreads, Romancing Mary Jane, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-25.
↑ Faculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012

[1] "Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?", Playbill, 23 June 1998. Accessed 19 May 2013

[2] Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

[3] Web page titled Krugovanje, Second Edition, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive

[gribx-4] Goodreads, Romancing Mary Jane, Book review, Retrieved 2012-11-25.

[5] Faculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012

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