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Overview of the events of 1998 in literature
Overview of the events of 1998 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 2 –
Frank Muir , English comedy writer and broadcaster (born
1920 )
January 11 –
John Wells , English satirist (born
1936 )
January 18 –
Monica Edwards , English children's novelist (born
1912 )
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
May 9 –
Nat Perrin , American comedy writer (born
1905 )
May 11 —
Willy Corsari , Dutch author of detective fiction (born
1897 )
[13]
June 10
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
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 15 –
Iain Crichton Smith , Scottish writer (born
1928 )
[15]
October 22 –
Eric Ambler , English spy novelist (born
1909 )
October 28 –
Ted Hughes , English poet and Poet Laureate (born
1930 )
[16]
November 3 –
Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born
1915 )
November 8 –
Rumer Godden , English novelist (born
1907 )
[17]
December 16 –
William Gaddis , American novelist (born
1922 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Ian McEwan ,
Amsterdam
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
David Almond ,
Skellig
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Beryl Bainbridge ,
Master Georgie
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Peter Ackroyd , The Life of
Thomas More
Cholmondeley Award :
Roger McGough ,
Robert Minhinnick ,
Anne Ridler ,
Ken Smith
Eric Gregory Award :
Mark Goodwin ,
Joanne Limburg ,
Patrick McGuinness ,
Kona Macphee ,
Esther Morgan ,
Christiania Whitehead ,
Frances Williams
Orange Prize for Fiction :
Carol Shields ,
Larry's Party
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Les Murray
Whitbread Best Book Award :
Ted Hughes ,
Birthday Letters
United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :
Shara McCallum , The Water Between Us
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry :
X.J. Kennedy
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama :
Horton Foote
American Book Award
Before Columbus Foundation :
Angela Davis , Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and (separately)
Allison Hedge Coke , Dog Road Woman
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry :
Sherod Santos , "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately)
Neil Azevedo , "Caspar Hauser Songs"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry :
Frank Bidart , Desire
Compton Crook Award :
Katie Waitman ,
The Merro Tree
Hugo Award for Best Novel:
Joe Haldeman ,
Forever Peace
Frost Medal :
Stanley Kunitz
Nebula Award :
Joe Haldeman ,
Forever Peace
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Karen Hesse ,
Out of the Dust
PEN American Center 's PEN Open Book Award:
Giannina Braschi ,
Yo-Yo Boing!
Pulitzer Prize for Drama :
Paula Vogel ,
How I Learned to Drive
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Philip Roth ,
American Pastoral
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Charles Wright , Black Zodiac
Wallace Stevens Award :
A. R. Ammons
Whiting Awards :
Fiction:
Michael Byers ,
Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction)
Non-fiction:
D. J. Waldie ,
Anthony Walton
Plays:
W. David Hancock
Poetry:
Nancy Eimers ,
Daniel Hall ,
James Kimbrell ,
Charles Harper Webb ,
Greg Williamson
Elsewhere
References
^
"Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?" .
Playbill . 1998-06-23. Archived from
the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2013-05-19 .
^ Andrew Motion (20 May 1999).
"The insider's story" . The Guardian . Retrieved 12 January 2021 .
^ Willis, Chris.
"The Story of The Strand" . Strandmag.com. Archived from
the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2014 .
^ Sänger, Florian (2009). Literatur und Film im Feld narrativer Theorien: Analysemöglichkeiten von Literaturverfilmungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählposition und Fakalisierung am Beispiel Wolf Haas "Komm süßer Tod" . Aachen: Verlag Shaker.
ISBN
978-3-8322-8659-0 .
^ Kakatuni, Michiko (16 October 1998).
" 'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness" .
New York Times . Retrieved 18 January 2021 .
^ Brennan, Geraldine (2 October 2010).
"My Name is Mina by David Almond | Book review" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 August 2018 .
^ Jones, Diana Wynne (1998). The Dark Lord of Derkholme . Gollancz.
OCLC
745958627 .
^
"Digested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" . The Guardian . 25 August 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2018 .
^
"He Didn't Do It" . archive.nytimes.com . Retrieved 19 August 2018 .
^ Web page titled
Krugovanje , Dejan Stojanović at the
Internet Archive
^ Verduyn, Christl; Staebler, Edna (2009).
Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries . Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 270.
ISBN
9781554588114 .
^ Flower, John (17 January 2013).
Historical Dictionary of French Literature . Scarecrow Press. pp. 44–45.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7945-4 .
^ van Boven, Erica (2003). "Schrijven als Beroep. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). Een broodschrijfster met literaire passie" [Writing as a Profession. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). A bread writer with a literary passion]. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis (in Dutch). 23 : 184.
^
"Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75" . AP News . 24 July 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2021 .
^
"Iain Crichton Smith | Scottish writer" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 19 August 2018 .
^ Susan Bassnett (2009).
Ted Hughes . Oxford University Press. p. 2.
ISBN
978-0-7463-1003-8 .
^ Chisholm, Anne (2004). "Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998)".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/71256 . Retrieved 11 December 2012 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
^ Faculty of Arts, 1998,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University , previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012