1999 in literature

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

Events

May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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June 19 – Stephen 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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September 7 – Black Diamond, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, is inaugurated as an extension to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
unknown date – Persephone Books is founded in Bloomsbury, London, by Nicola Beauman, to reprint mid-20th century fiction and non-fiction, mainly by women.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

New books

Fiction

Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune (Hija de la fortuna)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Aaron Allston
- Solo Command
- Starfighters of Adumar
Laurie Halse Anderson – Speak
Max Barry – Syrup
Greg Bear – Darwin's Radio
Raymond Benson
- High Time to Kill
- The World Is Not Enough
Maeve Binchy – Tara Road<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Luther Blissett (pseudonym) – Q
François Bloemhof – Klipgooi
Ben Bova – Return to Mars
Terry Brooks – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Thomas Brussig – Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
Bonnie Burnard – A Good House
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tracy Chevalier – Girl with a Pearl Earring
J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace
Matt Cohen – Elizabeth and After
Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Fortress
- Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC
Douglas Coupland – Miss Wyoming
Robert Crais – L.A. Requiem
Michael Crichton – Timeline
August Derleth (editor) – New Horizons
Marc Dugain – La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward)
Frederic S. Durbin – Dragonfly
Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama
Per Olov Enquist – The Visit of the Royal Physician (Livläkarens besök)
Steve Erickson – The Sea Came in at Midnight
Sebastian Faulks – Charlotte Gray
Helen Fielding – The Edge of Reason
Amanda Filipacchi – Vapor
Anna Gavalda – Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part
John Grisham – The Testament
Ha Jin (哈金) – Waiting
Joanne Harris – Chocolat
Thomas Harris – Hannibal
Ernest Hemingway – True at First Light
Carl Hiaasen – Sick Puppy
Stewart Home – Cunt
Michel Houellebecq – Atomised
Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye – Soul Harvest
K. W. Jeter – Hard Merchandise
Lisa Jewell – Ralph's Party
Stephen King:
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- Hearts in Atlantis
László Krasznahorkai – War and War
Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies (short stories)
Joe R. Lansdale
- Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard
- Freezer Burn
John le Carré – Single & Single<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Jonathan Lethem – Motherless Brooklyn
Ray Loriga – Tokio ya no nos quiere
Frank McCourt -'Tis
David Macfarlane – Summer Gone
Alistair MacLeod – No Great Mischief
Juliet Marillier – Daughter of the Forest
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell – From Hell (graphic novel)
Jeffrey Moore – Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Erwin Mortier – Marcel
Chuck Palahniuk
- Invisible Monsters
- Survivor
Tony Parsons – Man and Boy
Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant
Kathy Reichs – Death du Jour
Matthew Reilly – Temple
Jennifer Roberson – Lady of Sherwood
Louis Sachar – Holes
R. A. Salvatore – Vector Prime
Margit Sandemo – Skattejakten
Neal Shusterman – Downsiders
Susan Sontag – In America
Ahdaf Soueif – The Map of Love
Michael Stackpole – Isard's Revenge
Matthew Stadler – Allan Stein
Danielle Steel – Irresistible Forces
Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon
Francine Stock – A Foreign Country
Peter Straub – Mr. X
Remy Sylado – Ca Bau Kan (The Courtesan)
Koushun Takami (高見広春) – Battle Royale
Rose Tremain – Music and Silence
Miloš Urban – Sedmikostelí (The Seven Churches)
Andrew Vachss – Choice of Evil
Jane Vandenburgh – The Physics of Sunset
Vernor Vinge – A Deepness in the Sky
Jeanette Winterson – The World and Other Places
Timothy Zahn – The Icarus Hunt
Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold – Lord Demon

Iona Opie – Here Comes Mother Goose
Dejan Stojanović – Sunce sebe gleda (The Sun Watches Itself)<ref>Belgrade: Književna reč. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Non-fiction

Thomas Berry – The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
David Cairns – Berlioz: Volume 2, Servitude and Greatness 1832–1869
Wayson Choy – Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
The Dalai Lama – Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Laurence des Cars – Les Préraphaélites : Un modernisme à l'anglaise
Freeman Dyson – The Sun, the Genome and the Internet
Koenraad Elst – Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
John Steele Gordon – The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power: 1653–2000
Brian Greene – The Elegant Universe
Deborah Harkness – John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster – The Century
S.T. Joshi – Sixty Years of Arkham House
Winona LaDuke – All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Bruce Lincoln – Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
Jamie Oliver – The Naked Chef
W. G. Sebald – Luftkrieg und Literatur (Air War and Literature, translated as On the Natural History of Destruction)
David Southwell – Conspiracy Theories
Dejan Stojanović – Razgovori (Conversations)<ref>Belgrade: Književna reč. {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Jean-Pierre Vernant – L'univers, les dieux, les hommes<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Births

October 13 – Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Nigerian–British author and columnist
December 22 – Ameer Idreis, Canadian writer

Deaths

January 11 – Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1897)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 16 – Dadie Rylands (George Rylands), English Shakespearean scholar (born 1902)
February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born novelist and philosopher (born 1919)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (suicide, born 1971)<ref>Hattenstone, Simon. The Guardian (London) 1 July 2000.</ref>
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (born 1918)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist and autobiographer (born 1936)<ref name=Beatrice>Template:Cite interview</ref>
March 4
- Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (born 1934)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (born 1921)
March 5 – John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (born 1920)<ref>Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999.</ref>
March 8 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine author (born 1914)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 13
- Lee Falk, American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer (born 1911)<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Cbignore</ref>
- Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1912)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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March 28 – Jim Turner, American editor (born 1945)
April 13 – Knut Hauge, Norwegian novelist, dramatist and children's writer (born 1911)<ref name=snl>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
May 8 – Soeman Hs, Indonesian novelist (born 1904)
May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American children's poet (born 1930)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 27 – Alice Adams, short story writer and novelist (born 1926)
June 14 – J. F. Powers, American writer (born 1917)
July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (born 1920)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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July 14 – Maria Banuș, Romanian poet and translator (born 1914)
September 25 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (born 1930)<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Cbignore</ref>
October 3 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (born 1921)
October 19
- Penelope Mortimer, Welsh-born English novelist and biographer (born 1918)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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- Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer and lawyer (born 1900)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- E. J. Scovell, English poet (born 1907)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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November 11 – Jacobo Timerman, Soviet-born Argentinian journalist and publisher (born 1923)
November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (born 1910)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
December 2 – Matt Cohen, Canadian novelist (born 1942)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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December 8 – Rupert Hart-Davis, English editor and publisher (born 1907)<ref>Norwich, John Julius, "Davis, Sir Rupert Charles Hart- (1907–1999)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2008</ref>
December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (born 1923)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>