1991 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1991.

Events

February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only appearance together on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's play Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre, London.
July 11 – The Satanic Verses controversy: Hitoshi Igarashi (b. 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba in accordance with the fatwa issued against those involved in circulating the controversial book.^[1]
October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinbugh Festival" later incorporated into Trainspotting, is published in New Writing Scotland.^[2]
November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and the identification of the body of novelist Alain-Fournier, 77 years after his death in World War I; his bones are interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.^[3]

New prose fiction

Martin Amis – Time's Arrow: or the Nature of the Offense
Piers Anthony – Tatham Mound, Question Quest, Virtual Mode
Jeffrey Archer – As the Crow Flies
Beryl Bainbridge – The Birthday Boys
Clive Barker – Imajica
Pat Barker – Regeneration
Julian Barnes – Talking It Over
Louis Begley – Wartime Lies
Louis de Bernières – Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
A. S. Byatt – Possession: A Romance
Agatha Christie (d. 1976) – 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 (Loin de Médine)
Stephen R. Donaldson
- The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
- 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)
Diana Gabaldon – Outlander
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, 1973)
Mark Jacobson – Gojiro
Stephen King – Needful Things
John le Carré – The Secret Pilgrim
Penelope Lively – City of the Mind
Morgan Llywelyn – Druids
James A. Michener – Mexico
Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey
Timothy Mo – The Redundancy of Courage
Cees Nooteboom – The Following Story
Leonardo Padura Fuentes – Pasado perfecto (translated as Havana Blue)
John Peel – Timewyrm: Genesys
Ellis Peters – The Summer of the Danes
Marge Piercy – He, She and It
Terry Pratchett – Reaper Man and Witches Abroad
Jean Raspail – Sire
Alexandra Ripley – Scarlett
J. Jill Robinson – Saltwater Trees
Nigel Robinson – Timewyrm: Apocalypse
Bernice Rubens – A Solitary Grief
Norman Rush – Mating
José Saramago – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo)
Michael Shaara (posthumous) – For Love of the Game
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 (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)

New drama

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
Dave Foreman – Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
Jung Chang – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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
Marie Wadden – Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland^[4]
Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Zhang Chengzhi – History of the Soul

Poetry

Deaths

January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet (b. 1905)
January 23 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (b. 1912)
January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese novelist (b. 1907)
February 24 – John Daly, American journalist and game show host (b. 1914)
March – Paul Engle, American poet and novelist (b. 1908)
April 3 – Graham Greene, English novelist (b. 1904)
April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (b. 1911)
April 12 – James Schuyler, American poet (b. 1923)
April 15 – Dante Milano, Brazilian modernist poet (b. 1899)
May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (b. 1933; suicide)
May 31 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (b. 1913)
June 24 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (b. 1917)
July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (b. 1902)
August 1 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (b. 1927)
August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (b. 1922)
September 4 – Peggy Ramsay, British theatrical agent (b. 1908)
September 24 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American children's writer (b. 1904)
September 27 – Roy Fuller, English poet (b. 1912)
October 11 – Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, American performance poet (b. 1950; suicide)
October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer (b. 1925)
October 27 – George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
November 29 – Frank Yerby, African American historical novelist (b. 1916)

Awards

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
Miles Franklin Award: David Malouf, The Great World

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 honour the best literary work of creative non-fiction by a Canadian author who'd published their first or second writing within the preceding year. ^[5]
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Susan Mayse, Ginger ^[6]
Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime: Susan Mayse, Ginger ^[7]

References

^ Weisman, Steven R. (1991-07-13). "Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain". The New York Times.
^ NWS 9:42.
^ "La découverte du corps d’Alain-Fournier et de ses frères d’armes". Accessed 15 February 2015
^ Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland. Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
^ Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
^ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
^ Member Profile-Susan Mayse. The Writers Union of Canada. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[1] Weisman, Steven R. (1991-07-13). "Japanese Translator of Rushdie Book Found Slain". The New York Times.

[2] NWS 9:42.

[3] "La découverte du corps d’Alain-Fournier et de ses frères d’armes". Accessed 15 February 2015

[4] Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland. Douglas & McIntyre. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

[5] Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[6] Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

[7] Member Profile-Susan Mayse. The Writers Union of Canada. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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Events

New prose fiction

New drama

Non-fiction

Poetry

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

References