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Overview of the events of 1991 in literature
Overview of the events of 1991 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991 .
Events
February – Sisters
Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and
Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece
Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of
Chekhov 's
Three Sisters at the
Queen's Theatre , London.
July 11 –
Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of
Salman Rushdie 's
1988 novel
The Satanic Verses , is stabbed to death at the
University of Tsukuba during
The Satanic Verses controversy , in accordance with a
fatwa against those involved in circulating the book.
[1]
October –
Irvine Welsh 's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in
New Writing Scotland . It is later incorporated into
Trainspotting .
[2]
November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist
Alain-Fournier , 77 years after his death as Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier in
World War I . His bones are interred at
Saint-Remy-la-Calonne .
[3]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 22 –
Robert Choquette , Canadian novelist and poet (born
1905 )
January 23 –
Northrop Frye , Canadian literary critic (born
1912 )
[7]
January 29 –
Yasushi Inoue , Japanese novelist (born
1907 )
February 1 –
Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar , Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet (born
1916 )
February 16 –
Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi , Saudi Arabian journalist, literary critic and official (born
1905 )
[8]
February 24 –
John Daly , American journalist and
game show host (born
1914 )
March 14 –
Margery Sharp , English novelist and children's writer (born
1905 )
[9]
March 22 –
Paul Engle , American poet and novelist (born
1908 )
April 3 –
Graham Greene , English novelist (born
1904 )
[10]
April 4 –
Max Frisch , Swiss playwright and novelist (born
1911 )
[11]
April 12 –
James Schuyler , American poet (born
1923 )
April 15 –
Dante Milano , Brazilian modernist poet (born
1899 )
May 3 –
Jerzy Kosinski , Polish-American novelist (born
1933 ; suicide)
[12]
May 31 –
Angus Wilson , English novelist (born
1913 )
[13]
June 24 –
Sumner Locke Elliott , Australian-American author and playwright (born
1917 )
July 5 –
Howard Nemerov , American poet (born
1920 )
[14]
July 24 –
Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (born
1902 )
[15]
August 1 –
Yusuf Idris , Egyptian writer (born
1927 )
August 17 –
Terence Kilmartin , Irish journalist and translator (born
1922 )
September 4
September 24 –
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American children's writer (born
1904 )
[17]
September 27 –
Roy Fuller , English poet (born
1912 )
October 7 –
Natalia Ginzburg , Italian writer (born
1916 )
October 11 –
Steven "Jesse" Bernstein , American performance poet (born
1950 ; suicide)
[18]
October 12 –
Arkady Strugatsky , Russian science fiction writer (born
1925 )
[19]
October 16 –
Leon Levițchi , Romanian translator (born
1918 )
October 27 –
George Barker , English poet (born
1913 )
November 29 –
Frank Yerby , African American historical novelist (born
1916 )
[20]
December 11 –
Artur Lundkvist , Swedish author (born
1906 )
[21]
December 27 –
Hervé Guibert , French writer and photographer (born
1955 )
[22]
Unknown date –
Gogu Rădulescu , Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (born
1914 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Ben Okri ,
The Famished Road
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Berlie Doherty ,
Dear Nobody
Cholmondeley Award :
James Berry ,
Sujata Bhatt ,
Michael Hulse ,
Derek Mahon
Eric Gregory Award :
Roddy Lumsden ,
Glyn Maxwell ,
Stephen Smith ,
Wayne Burrows ,
Jackie Kay
Guardian Fiction Award :
Alan Judd , The Devil's Own Work
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Iain Sinclair , Downriver
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Adrian Desmond and
James Moore ,
Darwin
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Judith Wright
Whitbread Best Book Award :
John Richardson , A Life of Picasso
The Sunday Express Book of the Year :
Michael Frayn ,
A Landing on the Sun
United States
Fiction:
Rebecca Goldstein ,
Allegra Goodman ,
John Holman ,
Cynthia Kadohata ,
Rick Rofihe ,
J Anton Shammas (fiction/nonfiction)
Nonfiction:
Stanley Crouch
Plays:
Scott McPherson
Poetry:
Thylias Moss ,
Franz Wright
Elsewhere
References
^ Weisman, Steven R. (1991-07-13).
"Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain" .
The New York Times . Archived from
the original on June 2, 2002.
^ NWS 9:42.
^
"La découverte du corps d’Alain-Fournier et de ses frères d’armes" . Accessed 15 February 2015.
^ Matt Morrison (15 September 2010).
Key Concepts in Creative Writing . Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 77.
ISBN
978-1-137-11896-7 .
^ S. Lillian Kremer (2003).
Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index . Taylor & Francis. p. 1253.
ISBN
978-0-415-92984-4 .
^
Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
Archived 2013-01-21 at
archive.today . Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^
The Aligarh Critical Miscellany . A.A. Ansari. 1991. p. 89.
^ Maghribi, Muhammad Ali (1993). Aʻlām al-Ḥijāz fī al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar lil-Hijrah أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر والخامس عشر الهجري [Eminents of Hejaz in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AH ] (in Arabic). Vol. 4 (first ed.). Jedda: Tahama. p. 240.
^ Clark Layman Bruccoli; Gale Cengage (1996).
British Children's Writers Since 1960: First series . Gale Research. p. 311.
ISBN
978-0-8103-9356-1 .
^ Diemert, Brian (1996). Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
9780773566170 .
^ Berwald, Olaf (2013). A companion to the works of Max Frisch . Rochester, New York: Camden House. p. 6.
ISBN
9781571134189 .
^ Stanley, Alessandra (May 4, 1991).
"Jerzy Kosiński, The Writer, 57, Is Found Dead" . The New York Times . Retrieved April 5, 2008 .
^ Deborah Andrews (1992).
Annual Obituary, 1991 . St. James Press. p. 311.
ISBN
978-1-55862-175-6 .
^ Deborah Andrews (1992).
Annual Obituary, 1991 . St. James Press. p. 430.
ISBN
978-1-55862-175-6 .
^ Janet Hadda (24 March 2003).
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life . Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 215.
ISBN
978-0-299-18693-7 .
^
"Author, actor Thomas Tryon dies of stomach cancer" .
Boca Raton News .
Boca Raton, Florida .
Associated Press . September 5, 1991. p. 4A. Retrieved April 21, 2016 .
^ Lawrence Balter (2000).
Parenthood in America: An Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO. p. 265.
ISBN
978-1-57607-213-4 .
^
No Depression . No Depression. 2004. p. 11.
^ Frank Northen Magill (1997).
Cyclopedia of World Authors . Salem Press. pp. 1946–8.
ISBN
978-0-89356-449-0 .
^ William L. Andrews; Frances Smith Foster; Trudier Harris (15 February 2001).
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 452.
ISBN
978-0-19-803175-8 .
^ Kumm, Bjorn (12 Dec 1991). "Obituary: Artur Lundkvist".
The Independent . London. p. 13.
^
"Herve Guibert, French Novelist, 36" .
New York Times . 29 December 1991. Retrieved 29 August 2010 .
^
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction . Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
^
Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
^
Member Profile-Susan Mayse . The Writers Union of Canada. Retrieved 2012-11-18.