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The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- June 19 - Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized. He does not continue with his next book, On Writing, until July.
New books
- Aaron Allston - Solo Command and Starfighters of Adumar
- Laurie Halse Anderson - Speak
- Max Barry - Syrup
- Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio
- Raymond Benson - High Time to Kill and The World Is Not Enough
- Thomas Berger - The Return of Little Big Man
- Maeve Binchy - Tara Road
- Ben Bova - Return to Mars
- Terry Brooks - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring
- J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
- Matt Cohen - Elizabeth and After
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fortress and Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC
- Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming
- Michael Crichton - Timeline
- Shaw J. Dallal - Scattered Like Seeds
- August Derleth, editor - New Horizons
- Marc Dugain - La Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward)
- Frederic S. Durbin - Dragonfly
- Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama
- Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray
- Amanda Filipacchi - Vapor
- Diana Gabaldon - Through the Stones
- John Grisham - The Testament
- Joanne Harris - Chocolat
- Thomas Harris - Hannibal
- Victor Heck - The Asylum Vol 1 - The Psycho Ward
- Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy
- Stewart Home - Cunt
- Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
- Nancy Huston - The Mark of the Angel
- Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye - Soul Harvest
- K. W. Jeter - Hard Merchandise
- Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Hearts in Atlantis
- John le Carré - Single & Single
- Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
- Frank McCourt -'Tis
- David Macfarlane - Summer Gone
- Alistair MacLeod - No Great Mischief
- Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest
- Jeffrey Moore - Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
- Toni Morrison - Paradise
- Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters and Survivor
- Susanne Pari - The Fortune Catcher
- Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
- Kathy Reichs - Death du Jour
- Matthew Reilly - Temple
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Jane Turner Rylands - Dining with Peggy Guggenheim
- Louis Sachar - Holes
- R. A. Salvatore - Vector Prime
- F. Tupper Saussy - Rulers Of Evil
- Neal Shusterman - Downsiders
- Michael Slade - Burnt Bones
- Lemony Snicket - The Reptile Room
- Susan Sontag - In America
- Michael Stackpole - Isard's Revenge
- Matthew Stadler - Allan Stein
- Danielle Steel - Irresistible Forces
- Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
- James B. Stewart - Blind Eye
- Koushun Takami - Battle Royale
- Andrew Vachss - Choice of Evil
- Vernor Vinge - A Deepness in the Sky
- Jeanette Winterson - The World and Other Places
- Yahya Yakhlif - A Lake Beyond the Wind
- Robert Clark Young - One of the Guys
- Timothy Zahn - The Icarus Hunt
- Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold - Lord Demon
Non-fiction
- Kelly R. Brown - Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star
- Wayson Choy - Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
- Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe
- Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster - The Century
- S.T. Joshi - Sixty Years of Arkham House
- Winona LaDuke - All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
- June Rose - Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre
- David Southwell - Conspiracy Theories (book)
Births
Deaths
- February 8 - Iris Murdoch, writer, aged 79
- February 22 - William Bronk, poet, aged 80 (or 81?)
- February 24 - Andre Dubus, writer
- March 4 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, aged 77
- March 28 - Jim Turner, editor, aged 54
- May 10 - Shel Silverstein, children's poet, aged 68
- June 14 - J. F. Powers, American writer, aged 81
- July 2 - Mario Puzo, writer (The Godfather), aged 78
- July 16 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher, son of John F. Kennedy, aged 38 (airplane crash)
- October 3 - Heinz G. Konsalik, writer, aged 78
- October 19 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer
- November 11 - Jacobo Timmerman, journalist and publisher
- December 8 - Rupert Hart-Davis, editor, publisher
- December 12 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22), aged 76
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Hsu-Ming Teo, Love and Vertigo
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, Pure and Applied
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Lee Cataldi, Race Against Time
- Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
Canada
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard: A Good House
- See 1999 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Femina: Maryline Desbiolles, Anchise
- Prix Goncourt: Jean Echenoz, Je m'en vais
- Prix Décembre: Claude Askolovitch, Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Del Castillo, Colette, une certaine France
- Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Christian Oster, Mon grand appartement
- Prix Médicis International: Bjorn Larsson, Le capitaine et les rêves
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Timothy Mo, Renegade, or Halo2
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian
- Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh
- Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
- Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Daisy Fried, She Didn't Mean To Do It
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett
- Arthur Rense Prize awarded to James McMichael by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos"
- Compton Crook Award: James Stoddard, The High House
- Frost Medal: Barbara Guest
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Nebula Award: Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Louis Sachar, Holes
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Margaret Edson, Wit
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
- Wallace Stevens Award: Jackson Mac Low
Elsewhere
- Finlandia Prize: 1999 Kristina Carlson, Maan ääreen
- Premio Nadal: Gustavo MartÃn Zarzo, Las historias de Marta y Fernando
- Viareggio Prize: Ernesto Franco, Vite senza fine
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain