1998 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998.

Events[]

  • 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
    • The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring.[2]
    • Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the Kara no Kyōkai series, with five chapters released online.
  • 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.[3]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1998 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

Deaths[]

  • January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920)
  • January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936)
  • 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
    • Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)
    • Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
  • May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905)
  • June 10
    • Joan Adeney Easdale, English poet (born 1913)
    • Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913)
  • 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)[13]
  • October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909)
  • October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)[14]
  • November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915)
  • November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)[15]
  • December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922)

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

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[]

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. ^ Willis, Chris. "The Story of The Strand". Strandmag.com. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Kakatuni, Michiko (16 October 1998). "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness". New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  6. ^ Brennan, Geraldine (2 October 2010). "My Name is Mina by David Almond | Book review". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  7. ^ Jones, Diana Wynne (1998). The Dark Lord of Derkholme. Gollancz. OCLC 745958627.
  8. ^ "Digested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". The Guardian. 25 August 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  9. ^ "He Didn't Do It". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  10. ^ Web page titled Krugovanje, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
  11. ^ Verduyn, Christl; Staebler, Edna (2009). Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9781554588114.
  12. ^ "Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75". AP News. 24 July 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  13. ^ "Iain Crichton Smith | Scottish writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  14. ^ Susan Bassnett (2009). Ted Hughes. Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7463-1003-8.
  15. ^ Chisholm, Anne (2004), "Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 11 December 2012 (subscription required)
  16. ^ 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
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