1991 in literature
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The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.
- The body of novelist Alain-Fournier is identified, 77 years after his death in World War I, and is interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.
[edit] New prose fiction
- Martin Amis – Time's Arrow: or the Nature of the Offense
- Jeffrey Archer – As the Crow Flies
- Beryl Bainbridge – The Birthday Boys
- Clive Barker – Imajica
- Pat Barker – Regeneration
- Louis Begley – Wartime Lies
- Louis de Bernières – Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
- A. S. Byatt – Possession: A Romance
- Agatha Christie – Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
- Tom Clancy – The Sum of All Fears
- Mary Higgins Clark – Loves Music, Loves to Dance
- Hugh Cook – The Werewolf and the Wormlord
- Paul Cornell – Timewyrm: Revelation
- Bernard Cornwell – Stormchild
- Douglas Coupland – Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Pixilated Peeress
- Don DeLillo – Mao II
- Terrance Dicks – Timewyrm: Exodus
- Assia Djebar - Far from Medina
- Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
- Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
- Roddy Doyle – The Van
- Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
- Stephen Fry – The Liar
- Jostein Gaarder – Sophie's World (Sofies verden)
- John Gardner – The Man from Barbarossa
- David Gates – Jernigan
- Ann Granger – Say It With Poison
- John Grisham – The Firm
- Josephine Hart – Damage
- Elisabeth Harvor, Our Lady of All Distances 11 stories (revision of Women and Children, published in 1973), Canada
- Mark Jacobson – Gojiro
- Stephen King – Needful Things
- John le Carré – The Secret Pilgrim
- Morgan Llywelyn – Druids
- James A. Michener – Mexico
- Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey
- Timothy Mo – The Redundancy of Courage
- Cees Nooteboom - The Following Story
- John Peel – Timewyrm: Genesys
- Marge Piercy – He, She and It
- Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man and Witches Abroad
- Alexandra Ripley – Scarlett
- J. Jill Robinson – Saltwater Trees
- Nigel Robinson – Timewyrm: Apocalypse
- Bernice Rubens – A Solitary Grief
- Norman Rush – Mating
- Michael Shaara – For Love of the Game (posthumously published)
- Sidney Sheldon – The Doomsday Conspiracy
- Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
- Danielle Steel – Heartbeat
- James B. Stewart – Den of Thieves
- Michael Swanwick – Gravity's Angels
- Antonio Tabucchi - Requiem: A Hallucination
- Amy Tan – The Kitchen God's Wife
- Andrew Vachss – Sacrifice
- Martin Waddell - Farmer Duck
- Bernard Werber – Empire of the Ants (in orig. French Les Fourmis)
- Tim Winton – Cloudstreet
- Helen Zahavi – Dirty Weekend
- Timothy Zahn – Heir to the Empire
- Haifa Zangana – Through the Vast Halls of Memory
- Roger Zelazny – Prince of Chaos
- Avi – Nothing But the Truth
- G. Clifton Wisler – Red Cap (Book)
[edit] New drama
- Ariel Dorfman – Death and the Maiden
- Philip Ridley – The Pitchfork Disney
- Neil Simon – Lost in Yonkers
[edit] Non-fiction
- Dionne Brand – No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario
- Henry Steele Commager – Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, arranged for one volume
- Dave Foreman – Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
- Jung Chang – Wild Swans
- Madonna – SEX
- Robert K. Massie – Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
- 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
- Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth
- Zhang Chengzhi – History of the Soul
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1991 in poetry
[edit] Births
Rachel McAteer, 9 May 1991
[edit] Deaths
- January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- January 23 – Northrop Frye, literary critic
- January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, historian
- February 24 – John Daly, journalist, game show host
- March – Paul Engle, novelist
- April 3 – Graham Greene
- April 12 – James Schuyler, poet
- April 29 – Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
- May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist
- July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator
- September 24 – Dr. Seuss
- October 11 – Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer
- October 27 – George Barker, poet
- November 29 – Frank Yerby, historical novelist
- date unknown – Dante Milano, poet
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew McGahan, Praise
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent – Verandahs
[edit] Canada
- See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du Calvaire
- Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, Eau de café
- Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, La Dérive des sentiments
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody
- Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
- Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
- Guardian Fiction Award: Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iain Sinclair, Downriver
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
- Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: Richard Wilbur
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, The Museum of Clear Ideas
- Compton Crook Award: Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind
- Frost Medal: Donald Hall
- Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit at Rest
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
[edit] Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Alfredo Conde Cid, Los otros días
