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The year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première.
  • November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
  • Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.

New prose fiction[]

  • Tariq Ali - The Book of Saladin
  • Aaron Allston
    • Iron Fist
    • Wraith Squadron
  • Hanan al-Shaykh - I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops
  • Martin Amis - Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published)
  • Beryl Bainbridge - Master Georgie
  • Iain M. Banks - Inversions
  • Julian Barnes - England, England
  • Greg Bear
    • Dinosaur Summer
    • Foundation and Chaos
  • Raymond Benson - The Facts of Death
  • Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny - Psychoshop
  • Rituparna Bhattacharjee - Bhutia
  • Robert Bloch - Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
  • William Boyd - Armadillo
  • Driss Chraibi - Muhammad
  • Mary Higgins Clark - All Through the Night
  • Tom Clancy - Rainbow Six
  • Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
  • Michael Connelly - Blood Work
  • Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Triumph
  • Patricia Cornwell - Point of Origin
  • Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
  • Ann C. Crispin - Rebel Dawn
  • Michael Cunningham - The Hours
  • Nelson DeMille - Plum Island (novel)
  • August Derleth
    • The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
    • In Lovecraft's Shadow
  • Peter Dickinson - The Kin
  • Allan W. Eckert - Return to Hawk's Hill
  • Giles Foden - The Last King of Scotland
  • Diana Gabaldon - Hellfire
  • Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors (most of the contained stories previously published)
  • Andrew Greeley - A Midwinter's Tale
  • John Grisham - The Street Lawyer
  • Ha Jin - Waiting
  • Tomson Highway - Kiss of the Fur Queen
  • Nick Hornby - About a Boy
  • John Irving - A Widow for One Year
  • K. W. Jeter
    • The Mandalorian Armor
    • Slave Ship
  • Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  • Stephen King - Bag of Bones
  • Dean R. Koontz - Seize the Night
  • Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
  • Roy MacLaren - African Exploits
  • Steve Martin - Pure Drivel
  • Carol Matas - Greater Than Angels
  • Toni Morrison - Paradise
  • Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman
  • Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Cees Nooteboom - All Souls' Day
  • Tim O'Brien - Tomcat in Love
  • Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red
  • Tom Perrotta - Election
  • Terry Pratchett
    • Carpe Jugulum
    • The Last Continent
  • David Adams Richards - The Bay of Love and Sorrows
  • Philip Roth - I Married a Communist
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Louis Sachar - Holes
  • Michael Slade - Shrink aka Primal Scream
  • Michael Stackpole - I, Jedi
  • Danielle Steel
    • The Klone and I
    • The Long Road Home
    • Mirror Image
  • Thomas Sullivan - The Martyring
  • Andrew Vachss - Safe House
  • Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • A. N. Wilson - Dream Children
  • Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full
  • Timothy Zahn - Vision of the Future
  • José Luis Rodríguez Pittí - Crónica de invisibles

New drama[]

  • Edward Albee - The Play About the Baby
  • Michael Frayn - Copenhagen
  • David Hare - The Blue Room
  • Marius von Mayenburg - Fireface (Feuergesicht)

Poetry[]

Main article: 1998 in poetry
  • Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling), Second Edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, 1998[1]

Non-fiction[]

  • Charlotte Allen - The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus
  • Harold Bloom - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  • Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country
  • Peter Cannon (editor) - Lovecraft Remembered
  • Esther Delisle - Myths, Memories & Lies: Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation, 1939-1960 (Essais sur l'imprégnation fasciste au Québec)
  • Gerina Dunwich - Wicca A to Z
  • Amanda Foreman - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Jonathan Freedland - Bring Home the Revolution
  • John Fowles - Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval, Space
  • Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian
  • Alan I. Marcus - Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam -
  • John Pilger - Hidden Agendas
  • Marilee Strong - A Bright Red Scream
  • Jules Witcover, David Halberstam - The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America
  • Adam Zagajewski - Another Beauty

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 2 - Frank Muir, comedy writer
  • January 11 - John Wells, satirical writer
  • January 23 - John Forbes, Australian poet
  • January 27 - Geoffrey Trease, historical novelist
  • February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author
  • February 17 - Ernst Jünger, novelist and war memoirist
  • March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock, childcare expert
  • April 11 - Francis Durbridge, playwright
  • April 19 - Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
  • April 27 - Pauline Réage, author
  • April 27 - Carlos Castaneda, author
  • May 9 - Nat Perrin, comedy writer
  • June 10 - Hammond Innes, novelist
  • June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson, bestselling novelist
  • July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer
  • July 5 - Johnny Speight, comedy writer
  • July 9 - Ian Wallace, science fiction author
  • July 14 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet
  • July 23 - John Hopkins, film and television writer
  • September 28 - Eric Malling, journalist
  • October 22 - Eric Ambler, novelist
  • October 28 - Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great Britain
  • November 3 - Bob Kane, comics artist and writer, creator of Batman
  • November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

  • Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award: Talya Rubin
  • See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
  • Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman

France[]

  • Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires
  • Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence
  • Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol
  • Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums
  • Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes

References[]

  1. ↑ Web page titled Krugovanje, Second Edition, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
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