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

Events

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  March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre.^[1]
  


• October
  
  
  
  • After the death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is appointed.
  
  
  • 
    Kinoko Nasu (奈須 きのこ) launches the Kara no Kyōkai series with five chapters released online.
  
  
  
  


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  November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.


• December – The Strand Magazine title is revived in the United States.

New books

Fiction

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  Tariq Ali – The Book of Saladin
  


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  Aaron Allston
  
  
  
  • Iron Fist
  
  
  • Wraith Squadron
  
  
  
  


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  Hanan al-Shaykh – I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح)


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  Martin Amis – Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published)


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  Beryl Bainbridge – Master Georgie
  


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  Iain M. Banks – Inversions
  


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  Alessandro Barbero – Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi (translated 2010 as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments)


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  Julian Barnes – England, England
  


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  Greg Bear
  
  
  
  • Dinosaur Summer
  
  
  • Foundation and Chaos
  
  
  
  


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  Raymond Benson – The Facts of Death
  


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  Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny – Psychoshop
  


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  Robert Bloch – Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
  


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  Roberto Bolaño – The Savage Detectives (Los Detectives Salvajes)
  


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  William Boyd – Armadillo
  


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  Giannina Braschi – Yo-Yo Boing!
  


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  Anne Carson – Autobiography of Red (verse novel)


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  Driss Chraïbi – Muhammad
  


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  Mary Higgins Clark – All Through the Night
  


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  Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six
  


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  Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
  


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  Michael Connelly – Blood Work
  


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  Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Triumph
  


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  Patricia Cornwell – Point of Origin
  


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  Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma
  


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  Ann C. Crispin – Rebel Dawn
  


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  Michael Cunningham – The Hours
  


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  Nelson DeMille – Plum Island
  


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  August Derleth
  
  
  
  • The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
  
  
  • In Lovecraft's Shadow
  
  
  
  


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  Peter Dickinson – The Kin
  


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  Allan W. Eckert – Return to Hawk's Hill
  


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  Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama
  


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  Giles Foden – The Last King of Scotland
  


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  Diana Gabaldon – Hellfire
  


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  Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors (mainly reprints)


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  Andrew Greeley – A Midwinter's Tale
  


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  John Grisham – The Street Lawyer
  


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  Wolf Haas – Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death)^[2]
  


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  Ha Jin (哈金) – Waiting
  


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  Tomson Highway – Kiss of the Fur Queen
  


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  Nick Hornby – About a Boy
  


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  Michel Houellebecq – Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires)
  


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  Marek S. Huberath – Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds)
  


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  John Irving – A Widow for One Year
  


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  K. W. Jeter
  
  
  
  • The Mandalorian Armor
  
  
  • Slave Ship
  
  
  
  


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  Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  


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  Stephen King – Bag of Bones
  


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  Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
  


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  Dean R. Koontz – Seize the Night
  


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  Joe R. Lansdale
  
  
  
  • Rumble Tumble
  
  
  • The Boar
  
  
  
  


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  Alain Mabanckou – Bleu-Blanc-Rouge
  


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  Patrick McCabe – Breakfast on Pluto
  


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  Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
  


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  Roy MacLaren – African Exploits
  


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  Steve Martin – Pure Drivel
  


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  Carol Matas – Greater Than Angels
  


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  China Miéville – King Rat
  


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  Toni Morrison – Paradise
  


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  Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman
  


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  Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)
  


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  Cees Nooteboom – All Souls' Day (Allerzielen)
  


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  Tim O'Brien – Tomcat in Love
  


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  Orhan Pamuk – My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı)
  


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  Tom Perrotta – Election
  


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  Terry Pratchett
  
  
  
  • Carpe Jugulum
  
  
  • The Last Continent
  
  
  
  


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  Fahmida Riaz – Godavari
  


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  David Adams Richards – The Bay of Love and Sorrows
  


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  José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Crónica de invisibles
  


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  Philip Roth – I Married a Communist
  


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  Margit Sandemo – Ensam i världen (Alone in the World)


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  Michael Slade – Shrink (also Primal Scream)


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  Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  


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  Michael Stackpole – I, Jedi
  


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  Danielle Steel
  
  
  
  • The Klone and I
  
  
  • The Long Road Home
  
  
  • Mirror Image
  
  
  
  


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  Thomas Sullivan – The Martyring
  


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  Andrew Vachss – Safe House
  


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  Connie Willis – To Say Nothing of the Dog
  


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  A. N. Wilson – Dream Children
  


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  Tom Wolfe – A Man in Full
  


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  Timothy Zahn – Vision of the Future
  

Children and young people

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  David Almond – Skellig^[3]
  


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  Gayle Greeno (with Mark Hess and Michael Gilbert) - Sunderlies Seeking
  


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  Tanya Huff (with Mark Hess) - Summon the Keeper
  


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  Diana Wynne Jones – Dark Lord of Derkholm^[4]
  


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  Dick King-Smith – The Crowstarver
  


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  Julius Lester – Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story
  


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  J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – BoshBlobberBosh: Runcible Poems for Edward Lear
  


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  J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets^[5]
  


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  Louis Sachar – Holes^[6]
  


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  Robert Swindells – Abomination
  


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  Judy Waite – Mouse, Look Out!
  


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  Douglas Wood – Rabbit and the Moon
  

Drama

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  Edward Albee – The Play About the Baby
  


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  Parv Bancil – Made in England (full-length version)


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  Marina Carr – By the Bog of Cats
  


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  Michael Frayn – Copenhagen
  


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  David Hare – The Blue Room
  


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  Elfriede Jelinek – Ein Sportstück (A Sports Piece)


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  Sol B River
  
  
  
  • The White Witch of Rose Hall
  
  
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    River Plays 1 (published)
  
  
  
  


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  Shelagh Stephenson – An Experiment with an Air Pump
  


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  Marius von Mayenburg – Fireface (Feuergesicht)

Poetry

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  Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling; 2nd edition)^[7]
  

Non-fiction

• Charlotte Allen – The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus
  


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  Antony Beevor – Stalingrad
  


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  Bill Bryson – Notes from a Big Country
  


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  Peter Cannon (editor) – Lovecraft Remembered
  


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  Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd – Dear Friend and Gardener
  


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  Corinne Debaine-Francfort – La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne
  


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  Amanda Foreman – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
  


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  John Fowles – Wormholes – Essays and Occasional Writings
  


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  Jonathan Freedland – Bring Home the Revolution
  


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  Sita Ram Goel – Vindicated by Time
  


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  Simon Heffer – Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
  


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  A P J Abdul Kalam – India 2020
  


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  Ryszard Kapuściński – Heban (Ebony, translated as The Shadow of the Sun)


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  B. B. Lal – India 1947–1997: New Light on the Indus Civilization
  


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  Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian
  


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  Alan I. Marcus – Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam
  


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  Thylias Moss – Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress
  


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  Inga Muscio – Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
  


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  V. S. Naipaul – Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples
  


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  Gilles Perrault (ed.) – Le Livre noir du capitalisme (The Black Book of Capitalism)
  


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  John Pilger – Hidden Agendas
  


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  Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane^[8]
  


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  Arun Shourie – Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
  


• Marilee Strong – A Bright Red Scream
  


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  University of Arizona – Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni
  


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  Adam Zagajewski – Another Beauty
  

Deaths

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  January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920)


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  January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936)


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  January 23 – John Forbes, Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950)


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  January 27 – Geoffrey Trease, English children's historical novelist (born 1909)


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  February 7 – Lawrence Sanders, American novelist and short story writer (born 1920)


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  February 15 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide, born 1908)


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  February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895)


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  March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903)


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  April 11 – Francis Durbridge, English playwright (born 1912)


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  April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)


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  April 27
  
  
  
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    Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)
  
  
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    Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
  
  
  
  


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  May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905)


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  June 10 – Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913)


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  June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (born 1906)


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  July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English biographer (born 1928)


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  July 5 – Johnny Speight, English comedy writer (born 1920)


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  July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912)


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  July 14 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (born 1923)


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  July 23
  
  
  
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    John Hopkins, English film and television writer (born 1931)
  
  
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    Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (born 1923)
  
  
  
  


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  August 16 – Dorothy West, American novelist and short story writer (born 1907)


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  August 22 – Grace Paley, American writer (born 1922)


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  September 28 – Eric Malling, Canadian journalist (born 1946)


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  October 15 – Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (born 1928)^[9]
  


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  October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909)


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  October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)


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  November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915)


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  November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)


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  December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922)

Awards

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  Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago
  


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  Europe Theatre Prize: Luca Ronconi
  


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  Camões Prize: Antonio Candido
  

Australia

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  The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jennifer Kremmer, Pegasus in the Suburbs
  


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  C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Coral Hull, Broken Land
  


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  Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: No awards this year


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  Mary Gilmore Prize: Emma Lew, The Wild Reply
  


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  Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
  

Canada

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  Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award: Talya Rubin
  


• See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists.


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  Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
  


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  Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Charlotte Gray: Mrs. King ^[10]
  

France

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  Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires
  


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  Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence
  


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  Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol
  


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  Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep – Jonathan Coe
  

United Kingdom

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  Booker Prize: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
  


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  Carnegie Medal for children's literature: David Almond, Skellig
  


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  James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
  


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  James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
  


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  Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith
  


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  Eric Gregory Award: Mark Goodwin, Joanne Limburg, Patrick McGuinness, Kona Macphee, Esther Morgan, Christiania Whitehead, Frances Williams
  


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  Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party
  


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  Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Les Murray
  


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  Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
  

United States

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  Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us
  


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  Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy
  


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  American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote
  


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  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
  


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  Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Sherod Santos, "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo, "Caspar Hauser Songs"


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  Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, Desire
  


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  Compton Crook Award: Katie Waitman, The Merro Tree
  


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  Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
  


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  Frost Medal: Stanley Kunitz
  


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  Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
  


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  Newbery Medal for children's literature: Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
  


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  PEN American Center's PEN Open Book Award: Giannina Braschi, Yo-Yo Boing!
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, American Pastoral
  


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  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
  


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  Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons
  


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  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

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  International Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums
  


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  Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes
  

References