Overview of the events of 1998 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 2 – Frank Muir , English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920 )January 11 – John Wells , English satirist (born 1936 )January 18 – Monica Edwards , English children's novelist (born 1912 )January 23 – John Forbes , Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950 )January 27 – Geoffrey Trease , English children's historical novelist (born 1909 )February 7 – Lawrence Sanders , American novelist and short story writer (born 1920 )February 15 – Martha Gellhorn , American journalist (suicide, born 1908 )February 17 – Ernst Jünger , German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895 )March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock , American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903 )April 11 – Francis Durbridge , English playwright (born 1912 )April 19 – Octavio Paz , Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914 )April 27
May 9 – Nat Perrin , American comedy writer (born 1905 )May 11 — Willy Corsari , Dutch author of detective fiction (born 1897 )[ 13] June 10
June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson , English novelist (born 1906 )July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith , English biographer (born 1928 )July 5 – Johnny Speight , English comedy writer (born 1920 )July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912 )July 14 – Miroslav Holub , Czech poet (born 1923 )July 23
August 16 – Dorothy West , American novelist and short story writer (born 1907 )August 22 – Grace Paley , American writer (born 1922 )September 28 – Eric Malling , Canadian journalist (born 1946 )October 15 – Iain Crichton Smith , Scottish writer (born 1928 )[ 15] October 22 – Eric Ambler , English spy novelist (born 1909 )October 28 – Ted Hughes , English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930 )[ 16] November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915 )November 8 – Rumer Godden , English novelist (born 1907 )[ 17] November 17 – Alexandru Talex , Romanian journalist, critic and biographer (born 1909 )December 16 – William Gaddis , American novelist (born 1922 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize : Ian McEwan , Amsterdam Carnegie Medal for children's literature : David Almond , Skellig James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Beryl Bainbridge , Master Georgie James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Peter Ackroyd , The Life of Thomas More Cholmondeley Award : Roger McGough , Robert Minhinnick , Anne Ridler , Ken Smith Eric Gregory Award : Mark Goodwin , Joanne Limburg , Patrick McGuinness , Kona Macphee , Esther Morgan , Christiania Whitehead , Frances Williams Orange Prize for Fiction : Carol Shields , Larry's Party Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry : Les Murray Whitbread Best Book Award : Ted Hughes , Birthday Letters
United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize : Shara McCallum , The Water Between Us Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry : X.J. Kennedy American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama : Horton Foote American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation : Angela Davis , Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and (separately) Allison Hedge Coke , Dog Road Woman Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry : Sherod Santos , "Elegy for My Sister", and (separately) Neil Azevedo , "Caspar Hauser Songs"Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry : Frank Bidart , Desire Compton Crook Award : Katie Waitman , The Merro Tree Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman , Forever Peace Frost Medal : Stanley Kunitz Nebula Award : Joe Haldeman , Forever Peace Newbery Medal for children's literature : Karen Hesse , Out of the Dust PEN American Center 's PEN Open Book Award: Giannina Braschi , Yo-Yo Boing! Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Paula Vogel , How I Learned to Drive Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Philip Roth , American Pastoral Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Charles Wright , Black Zodiac Wallace Stevens Award : A. R. Ammons Whiting Awards :Fiction: Michael Byers , Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction)
Non-fiction: D. J. Waldie , Anthony Walton
Plays: W. David Hancock
Poetry: Nancy Eimers , Daniel Hall , James Kimbrell , Charles Harper Webb , Greg Williamson
Elsewhere
References
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