1999 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999.

Events

  • May 1Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/20/features11.g23|title=The insider's story|date=20 May 1999|author=Andrew Motion|website=The Guardian|access-date=12 January 2021}}
  • June 19Stephen King is hit by a van while taking a walk. He is hospitalized for three weeks and only resumes writing his next book, On Writing, in July.{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-near-fatal-accident-20-years-ago/|title=Stephen King Recalls the Accident That Almost Ended His Life 20 Years Ago Today|date=June 19, 2019|website=Screen Rant|author=Michael Kennedy|access-date=January 13, 2021}}
  • September 7Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.{{cite book|title=Scandinavian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wy8MAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=American Scandinavian Foundation|page=13}}
  • unknown datePersephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.{{cite book|author1=Jenny Hartley|author2=Sarah Turvey|title=The Reading Groups Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFvSm03FA7AC&pg=PA8|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-925596-2|page=8}}

New books

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{{Main article|1999 in poetry}}

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Births

Deaths

  • January 11Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897){{cite book|author=Jenni Calder|title=The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXj3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT16|date=13 June 2019|publisher=Sandstone Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-912240-67-8|page=16}}
  • January 16Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
  • February 8Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919){{cite encyclopedia |url = https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/97801h98614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-71228 |last=Conradi|first=Peter J.|author-link=Peter J. Conradi|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|format=|date=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/71228|title=Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris (1919–1999)|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|url-access=subscription}}
  • February 20Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000.
  • February 22William Bronk, American poet (born 1918){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/arts/william-m-bronk-81-a-poet-of-depth-and-haunting-vision.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=William M. Bronk, 81, a Poet Of Depth and Haunting Vision|author=Peter Appleborne|date=25 February 1999|website=New York Times|access-date=4 May 2023}}
  • February 24Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936){{cite interview |access-date=2009-03-21 |url=http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/dubus/

|title=Andre Dubus III: "What I'm working on now, I can't think about anyone liking" |first=Andre III |last=Dubus |others=Ron Hogan |work=Beatrice}}

  • March 4
  • Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934){{cite news |author= Bruce Weber |title=Del Close, 64, a Comedian With a Flair for Improvisation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/16/arts/del-close-64-a-comedian-with-a-flair-for-improvisation.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 16, 1999 |access-date=2014-09-02}}
  • Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (born 1921)
  • March 5John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)Pamela Beshoff, [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-figueroa-1079752.html "Obituary: John Figueroa"], The Independent, 11 March 1999.
  • March 8Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914){{cite book|author=O. Classe|title=Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L. Kiribati|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|year=2000|page=153}}
  • March 13
  • Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911){{cite news |last1=Gifford |first1=Denis |title=Obituary: Lee Falk |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lee-falk-1081509.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-lee-falk-1081509.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 February 2020 |work=The Independent |date=19 March 1999 |language=en}}{{cbignore}}
  • Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912){{Cite web|title= KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director. |website=Jewish Virtual Library|url= https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kanin-garson |access-date=November 20, 2020}}
  • March 28Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945)
  • April 13Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911){{cite encyclopedia|title=Knut Hauge|encyclopedia= Store norske leksikon | publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget| location=Oslo| url=http://www.snl.no/Knut_Hauge|language=no|access-date=26 February 2011}}
  • May 8Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904)
  • May 10Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930){{cite book|author=Michael Gray Baughan|title=Shel Silverstein|publisher=Facts On File, Incorporated|year=2013|ISBN=978-1-4381-4936-3}}
  • May 27Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926)
  • June 14J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
  • July 2Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/movies/mario-puzo-author-who-made-the-godfather-a-world-addiction-is-dead-at-78.html|title=Mario Puzo, Author Who Made 'The Godfather' a World Addiction, Is Dead at 78|work=The New York Times|date=July 3, 1999}}
  • July 14Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
  • September 25Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930){{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-marion-zimmer-bradley-1123162.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Marion Zimmer Bradley|last=Adrian|first=Jack|date=30 September 1999|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}
  • October 3Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
  • October 19
  • Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918){{Cite web |url=http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp |title=Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006 |website=Findmypast.com |access-date=11 June 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104084417/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp }}
  • Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900){{Cite book|last=Jefferson|first=Ann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdLLDwAAQBAJ|title=Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between|date=2020-07-21|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-20192-4|language=en}}
  • E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-e-j-scovell-1125270.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-e-j-scovell-1125270.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: E.J. Scovell|date=12 November 1999|author=John Mole|website=Independent|access-date=13 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}
  • November 11Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923)
  • November 18Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910){{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/library/books/111999obit-p-bowles.html |title= Obituary for Paul Bowles| work= The New York Times| date= 19 November 1999}}
  • December 2Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942){{cite web |title=SFE: Cohen, Matt |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cohen_matt |website=sf-encyclopedia.com |access-date=12 January 2022}}
  • December 8Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (born 1907)Norwich, John Julius, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/73494, "Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart- (1907–1999)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2008
  • December 12Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923){{cite news |title= Joseph Heller, Darkly Surreal Novelist, Dies at 76|author1=Severo, Richard |author2=Mitgang, Herbert |newspaper= The New York Times|date= December 14, 1999|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/14/books/joseph-heller-darkly-surreal-novelist-dies-at-76.html?ref=joseph_heller|access-date=June 15, 2010}}

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Notes

  • {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=978-0-19-871554-2 |edition=2nd}}

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