1990 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.

Video 1990 in literature

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.
• 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.

Maps 1990 in literature

New books

Fiction

• Felipe Alfau - Chromos (completed 1948)
• Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons
• Hoda Barakat - The Stone of Laughter (??? ?????)
• 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
• A.S. Byatt - Possession (1990 Booker Prize winner)
• 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
• Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Doll's House (graphic novel; volume 2 of The Sandman series)
• Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
• John Kenneth Galbraith - A Tenured Professor
• John Gardner - Brokenclaw
• Elizabeth George - Well-Schooled in Murder
• Andrew Greeley - The Cardinal Virtues
• Peter Høeg - Tales of the Night (Fortællinger om Natten)
• 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
• Charles Johnson - Middle Passage (1990 National Book Award for Fiction)
• Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World
• Mitsuyo Kakuta (?? ??) - K?fuku na y?gi (A Blissful Pastime)
• Imre Kertész - Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)
• Stephen King
  • Four Past Midnight
  • 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
• Patrick McGrath - Spider
• Alan Moore and David Lloyd - V for Vendetta (graphic novel)
• Brian Moore - Lies of Silence
• Alice Munro - Friend of My Youth (short stories)
• B?o Ninh - The Sorrow of War (N?i bu?n chi?n tranh)
• Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
• Y?ko Ogawa (?? ??) - Pregnancy Calendar (Ninshin karendaa, ?? ?????)
• 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
• John Updike - Rabbit at Rest (1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
• Andrew Vachss - Blossom
• Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
• Harry L. Watson - Liberty and Power
• John Edgar Wideman - Philadelphia Fire (1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
• Banana Yoshimoto - Amrita

Children and young people

• Chris Van Allsburg - Just a Dream
• Gillian Cross - Wolf
• Crescent Dragonwagon - Home Place
• Rumer Godden - Fu-Dog
• Ken Kesey - Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear
• Jean Marzollo - Pretend You're a Cat
• Jim Murphy - The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War
• Bill Peet - Cock-a-doodle Dudley
• Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
• Dr. Seuss - Oh, the Places You'll Go
• Diane Stanley - Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England
• Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) - The War of the Ring
• Jacqueline Wilson - Glubbslyme (fantasy novel)
• Terenci Moix - Los Grandes Mitos del Cine (The Greatest Stories of Hollywood Cinema)

Drama

• Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa
• Declan Hughes - I Can't Get Started
• John Guare - Six Degrees of Separation
• Girish Karnad - Taledanda (Kannada: ??????, Death by Beheading)
• Peter Shaffer - Lettice and Lovage

Poetry

• Derek Walcott - Omeros

Non-fiction

• Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See
• Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
• Judith Butler - Gender Trouble
• Dougal Dixon - Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
• Arun Shourie and Sita Ram Goel - Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them
• Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War
• Michael Lynch - Scotland: A New History
• Susan Mayse - Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
• James A. Michener - Pilgrimage
• Taslima Nasrin - Nirbachito Column
• 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
• Gary Snyder - The Practice of the Wild
• Hans-Jürgen Syberberg - On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Art in Post-War Germany (Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege)

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Births

• March 29 - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, English poet, playwright and novelist

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Deaths

• February 27 - Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (burns, born 1895)
• May 10 - Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
• May 25 - Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
• July 15 - Zaim Top?i?, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)
• July 22 - Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)
• August 25 - Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
• September 8 - Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (born 1905)
• 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)
• November 7 - Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist, and travel writer (born 1912)
• November 8 - Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)
• November 23 - Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916)
• November 24 - Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
• December 7 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (suicide, born 1943)
• December 11 - David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
• December 14 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)
• Unknown dates
  • Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (born 1930)
  • Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall, English biographer and children's writer (born 1900)

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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

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References

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