1990 in literature Totally Explained

Everything about 1990 In Literature totally explained

The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very furlly formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." It would be seven more years before the world was introduced to "Harry."
Ernest Borneman is awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal.

New books

Douglas Adams & Mark Cawardine - Last Chance to See

Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons

Greg Bear - Heads and Queen of Angels

William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

Ray Bradbury - A Graveyard for Lunatics

John Bradshaw - Homecoming

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

Dominick Dunne - An Inconvenient Woman

James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential

John Kenneth Galbraith - A Tenured Professor

John Gardner - Brokenclaw

Elizabeth George - Well-Schooled in Murder

Andrew Greeley - The Cardinal Virtues

Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - The Conan Chronicles 2

Marsha Hunt - Joy

P. D. James - Devices and Desires

Imre Kertész - Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)

Stephen King - Four Past Midnight and

Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia

Elmore Leonard - Get Shorty

Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Ultimatum

James A. Michener - Pilgrimage

Brian Moore - Lies of Silence (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moore_%28novelist%29)

Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried

Orhan Pamuk - The Black Book

Robert B. Parker - Stardust

Rosamund Pilcher - September

Belva Plain - Harvest

Terry Pratchett - Eric and Moving Pictures

Thomas Pynchon - Vineland

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

Andrew Vachss - Blossom

Harry L. Watson - Liberty and Power

Banana Yoshimoto - Amrita

New drama

Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa

Non-fiction

Dougal Dixon -

Michael Lynch -

V. S. Naipaul -

Raphael Patai - The Hebrew Goddess

Ronald Reagan - An American Life

Barry Siegel - A Death in White Bear Lake

Deaths

February 24 – Malcolm Forbes, publisher

May 10 – Walker Percy

August 25 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer

September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer

October 23 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher

November 8 – Anya Seton, author

November 23 – Roald Dahl, author

December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American writer (b. 1943)

December 14 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Octavio Paz

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

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,

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

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal, Juan José Millás, La soledad era esto

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