1991 in literature

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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[]

Main article: 1991 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Dionne Brand – No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario
  • Marjorie Chibnall – Empress Matilda
  • Henry Steele Commager – Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples
  • Jung Chang (張戎) – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
  • Françoise Dunand – Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity
  • Koenraad Elst – Ayodhya and after: issues before Hindu society
  • Dave Foreman – Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
  • Robert Hart – Forest Gardening: Rediscovering Nature and Community in a Post-Industrial Age
  • Albert Hourani – A History of the Arab Peoples
  • Anne Hugon – The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape
  • Alan Macfarlane – The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683
  • Madonna – Sex
  • Robert K. Massie – Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
  • Taslima Nasrin – Jabo na keno? jabo
  • P.J. O'Rourke – Parliament of Whores
  • Thomas Pakenham – The Scramble for Africa
  • William Pokhlyobkin – A History of Vodka
  • John Richardson – A Life of Picasso
  • Simon Schama – Dead Certainties
  • Art Spiegelman – Maus: A Survivor's Tale (II: And Here My Troubles Began) (graphic biography/autobiography)
  • Georges Tate – L'Orient des Croisades
  • Marie Wadden – Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland[6]
  • Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
  • Zhang Chengzhi – History of the Soul

Births[]

  • Sally Rooney, Irish fiction writer

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 24 – John Daly, American journalist and game show host (born 1914)
  • March 14 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (born 1905)[8]
  • March 22 – Paul Engle, American poet and novelist (born 1908)
  • April 3 – Graham Greene, English novelist (born 1904)[9]
  • April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (born 1911)[10]
  • 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)[11]
  • May 31 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (born 1913)[12]
  • June 24 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)
  • July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (born 1920)[13]
  • July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (born 1902)[14]
  • August 1 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (born 1927)
  • August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (born 1922)
  • September 4
    • Peggy Ramsay, British theatrical agent (born 1908)

Tom Tryon, American actor and writer (born 1926)[15]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

  • See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
  • The Edna Staebler Award is established to honor the best literary work of creative non-fiction by a Canadian author who had published their first or second writing within the preceding year. [22]
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Susan Mayse, Ginger [23]
  • Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime: Susan Mayse, Ginger [24]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ NWS 9:42.
  3. ^ "La découverte du corps d’Alain-Fournier et de ses frères d’armes". Accessed 15 February 2015.
  4. ^ Matt Morrison (15 September 2010). Key Concepts in Creative Writing. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-137-11896-7.
  5. ^ S. Lillian Kremer (2003). Holocaust Literature: Lerner to Zychlinsky, index. Taylor & Francis. p. 1253. ISBN 978-0-415-92984-4.
  6. ^ Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today. Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  7. ^ The Aligarh Critical Miscellany. A.A. Ansari. 1991. p. 89.
  8. ^ Clark Layman Bruccoli; Gale Cengage (1996). British Children's Writers Since 1960: First series. Gale Research. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-8103-9356-1.
  9. ^ Diemert, Brian (1996). Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780773566170.
  10. ^ Berwald, Olaf (2013). A companion to the works of Max Frisch. Rochester, New York: Camden House. p. 6. ISBN 9781571134189.
  11. ^ Stanley, Alessandra (May 4, 1991). "Jerzy Kosiński, The Writer, 57, Is Found Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
  12. ^ Deborah Andrews (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-55862-175-6.
  13. ^ Deborah Andrews (1992). Annual Obituary, 1991. St. James Press. p. 430. ISBN 978-1-55862-175-6.
  14. ^ Janet Hadda (24 March 2003). Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-299-18693-7.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ Lawrence Balter (2000). Parenthood in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 265. ISBN 978-1-57607-213-4.
  17. ^ No Depression. No Depression. 2004. p. 11.
  18. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1997). Cyclopedia of World Authors. Salem Press. pp. 1946–8. ISBN 978-0-89356-449-0.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Kumm, Bjorn (12 Dec 1991). "Obituary: Artur Lundkvist". The Independent. London. p. 13.
  21. ^ "Herve Guibert, French Novelist, 36". New York Times. 29 December 1991. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  22. ^ Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  23. ^ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  24. ^ Member Profile-Susan Mayse. The Writers Union of Canada. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
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