1990 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.
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 has the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London: "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, to make up a writing team known as Nicci French.
- Austrian writer Ernest Bornemann is awarded the first Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual research.
New books
Fiction
- 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
Children and young adults
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
Births
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
- ^ Wolf, Matt (27 May 1990). "Theater: Novel Casting for 'Three Sisters' – Three Sisters". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-06-16.
- ^ 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
- ^ Lewis, William (2005). Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism. Lexington Books.
- ^ Moser, Margaret (29 September 2006). "Love in the Time of 'Green Darkness'". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ "Deaths England and Wales 1984–2006". Findmypast.com. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- ^ Soto, Francisco (1998). Reinaldo Arenas. Twayne's World Author Series.
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Friedrich Dürrenmatt". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015.
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