1990 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.
Contents
Events
- March – Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters opens at the Gate Theatre in Dublin with locally-born Sinéad, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack in the title rôles and their father Cyril Cusack as Dr. Chebutykin.[1]
- c. June – Joanne Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London Euston railway station. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." She begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997.
- October – Nicci Gerrard marries Sean French, in the London Borough of Hackney, resulting in the writing team known as Nicci French.
- Austrian writer Ernest Bornemann is awarded the first Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual research.
New books
- Felipe Alfau – Chromos (completed 1948)
- Iain M. Banks – Use of Weapons
- Hoda Barakat – The Stone of Laughter (حجر الضحك)
- Greg Bear – Heads and Queen of Angels
- Thomas Berger – Orrie's Story
- Louis de Bernières – The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
- William Boyd – Brazzaville Beach
- Ray Bradbury – A Graveyard for Lunatics
- John Bradshaw – Homecoming
- Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger
- Hugh Cook – The Wazir and the Witch and The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Waterloo and Crackdown
- Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
- Jim Dodge – Stone Junction
- Roddy Doyle – The Snapper
- Dominick Dunne – An Inconvenient Woman
- James Ellroy – L.A. Confidential
- John Kenneth Galbraith – A Tenured Professor
- John Gardner – Brokenclaw
- Elizabeth George – Well-Schooled in Murder
- Andrew Greeley – The Cardinal Virtues
- Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Light Years, first of the Cazalet series
- Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles 2
- Marsha Hunt – Joy
- Monica Hughes – Invitation to the Game
- P. D. James – Devices and Desires
- Robert Jordan – The Eye of the World
- Imre Kertész – Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)
- Stephen King – Four Past Midnight and The Stand
- Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia
- Joe R Lansdale – Savage Season
- Elmore Leonard – Get Shorty
- Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Ultimatum
- Ian McEwan – The Innocent
- Brian Moore – Lies of Silence
- Alice Munro – Friend of My Youth (short stories)
- Bảo Ninh – The Sorrow of War (Nỗi buồn chiến tranh)
- Tim O'Brien – The Things They Carried
- Orhan Pamuk – The Black Book
- Robert B. Parker – Stardust
- Rosamund Pilcher – September
- Belva Plain – Harvest
- Terry Pratchett – Eric and Moving Pictures
- Thomas Pynchon – Vineland
- W. G. Sebald – Schwindel. Gefühle ("Vertigo")
- Lucius Shepard – The Ends of the Earth
- Danielle Steel – Message From Nam
- James Tiptree, Jr. – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
- Scott Turow – The Burden of Proof
- Andrew Vachss – Blossom
- Kurt Vonnegut – Hocus Pocus
- Harry L. Watson – Liberty and Power
- Banana Yoshimoto – Amrita
New drama
- Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
- John Guare – Six Degrees of Separation
- Girish Karnad – Taledanda (Kannada: ತಲೆದಂಡ, "Death by Beheading")
- Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage
Non-fiction
- Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine – Last Chance to See
- Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
- Dougal Dixon – Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
- Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Soccer War
- Michael Lynch – Scotland: A New History
- Susan Mayse – Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin [2]
- James A. Michener – Pilgrimage
- V. S. Naipaul – India: A Million Mutinies Now
- Raphael Patai – The Hebrew Goddess
- Ronald Reagan – An American Life
- Barry Siegel – A Death in White Bear Lake
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege
Poetry
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Deaths
- May 10 – Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
- May 25 – Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
- July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)[3]
- August 25 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
- September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist and journalist (born 1907)
- September 30 – Patrick White, Australian novelist (born 1912)
- October 23 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (heart attack, born 1918)[4]
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist, and travel writer (born 1912)
- November 8 – Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)[5]
- November 23 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916[6]
- December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (born 1943; suicide)[7]
- December 11 – David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
- December 14 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)[8]
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Octavio Paz
- Europe Theatre Prize: Giorgio Strehler
- Camões Prize: João Cabral de Melo Neto
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Gillian Mears, The Mint Lawn
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Kristopher Rassemussen, In the Name of the Father
- Miles Franklin Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
Canada
- See 1990 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Jean Rouaud, Les Champs d'honneur
- Prix Décembre: François Maspero, Les Passagers du Roissy–Express
- Prix Médicis French: Les Quartiers d'hiver – Jean-Noël Pancrazi
- Prix Médicis International: Amitav Ghosh, Les feux du Bengale
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
- Cholmondeley Award: Kingsley Amis, Elaine Feinstein, Michael O'Neill
- Eric Gregory Award: Nicholas Drake, Maggie Hannan, William Park, Jonathan Davidson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don Paterson, John Wells
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Sorley Maclean
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Debra Allbery, Walking Distance
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: W. S. Merwin
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Christopher Logue, Kings
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, The Inner Room
- Caldecott Award: Ed Young, Lon Po Po: A Red–Riding Hood Story from China
- Compton Crook Award: Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon
- Frost Medal: Denise Levertov / James Laughlin
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Dan Simmons for Hyperion
- National Book Award for Fiction: Charles Johnson for Middle Passage
- Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Oscar Hijuelos for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Simic: The World Doesn't End
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Yannick Murphy, Lawrence Naumoff, Mark Richard, Christopher Tilghman, Stephen Wright
- Nonfiction: Harriet Ritvo, Amy Wilentz
- Plays: Tony Kushner
- Poetry: Emily Hiestand, Dennis Nurkse
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal, Juan José Millás, La soledad era esto
References
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- ↑ Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin Goodreads, (retrieved 11/18/2012)
- ↑ Levine, Suzanne Jill (2000). Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-28190-8. p 377
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