1991 in literature
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The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.
- The body of novelist Alain-Fournier is identified, 77 years after his death in World War I, and is interred at Saint Remy la Colonne.
[edit] New books
- Martin Amis - Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense
- Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies
- Beryl Bainbridge - The Birthday Boys
- Clive Barker - Imajica
- Pat Barker - Regeneration
- Louis Begley - Wartime Lies
- A. S. Byatt - Possession: A Romance
- Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
- Mary Higgins Clark - Loves Music, Loves to Dance
- Hugh Cook - The Werewolf and the Wormlord
- Paul Cornell - Timewyrm: Revelation
- Bernard Cornwell - Stormchild
- Douglas Coupland - Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - The Pixilated Peeress
- Don DeLillo - Mao II
- Terrance Dicks - Timewyrm: Exodus
- Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
- Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
- Roddy Doyle - The Van
- Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
- Stephen Fry - "The Liar"
- Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World (Sofies verden)
- John Gardner - The Man from Barbarossa
- David Gates - Jernigan
- Ann Granger - Say It With Poison
- John Grisham - The Firm
- Josephine Hart - Damage
- Elisabeth Harvor, Our Lady of All Distances 11 stories (revision of Women and Children, published in 1973), Canada
- Mark Jacobson - Gojiro
- John le Carré - The Secret Pilgrim
- Morgan Llywelyn - Druids
- James A. Michener - Mexico
- Rohinton Mistry - Such a Long Journey
- John Peel - Timewyrm: Genesys
- Marge Piercy - He, She and It
- Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man and Witches Abroad
- Alexandra Ripley - Scarlett
- Nigel Robinson - Timewyrm: Apocalypse
- Bernice Rubens - A Solitary Grief
- Michael Shaara - For Love of the Game (posthumously published)
- Sidney Sheldon - The Doomsday Conspiracy
- Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
- Danielle Steel - Heartbeat
- James B. Stewart - Den of Thieves
- Michael Swanwick - Gravity's Angels
- Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
- Andrew Vachss - Sacrifice
- Bernard Werber - Empire of the Ants (in orig. French Les Fourmis)
- Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
- Helen Zahavi - Dirty Weekend
- Timothy Zahn - Heir to the Empire
- Haifa Zangana - Through the Vast Halls of Memory
- Roger Zelazny - Prince of Chaos
[edit] New drama
- Ariel Dorfman - Death and the Maiden
- Philip Ridley - The Pitchfork Disney
- Neil Simon - Lost in Yonkers
[edit] Non-fiction
- Henry Steele Commager - Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, arranged for one volume
- Dave Foreman - Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
- Madonna - SEX
- Robert K. Massie - Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
- John Richardson - A Life of Picasso
- Simon Schama - Dead Certainties
- Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth
- Zhang Chengzhi - History of the Soul
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Births
Rachel McAteer, 9th of May 1991
[edit] Deaths
- January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
- January 23 - Northrop Frye, literary critic
- January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
- February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host
- March - Paul Engle, novelist
- April 3 - Graham Greene
- April 12 - James Schuyler, poet
- April 29 - Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
- July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
- September 24 - Dr. Seuss
- October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
- October 12 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer
- October 27 - George Barker, poet
- November 29 - Frank Yerby, historical novelist
- date unknown - Dante Milano, poet
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew McGahan, Praise
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - Verandahs
[edit] Canada
- See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du Calvaire
- Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, Eau de café
- Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, La Dérive des sentiments
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
- Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
- Guardian Fiction Award: Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iain Sinclair, Downriver
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
- Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, Museum of Clear Ideas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Richard Wilbur
- Compton Crook Award: Michael Flynn, In the country of the Blind
- Frost Medal: Donald Hall
- Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit At Rest
- Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
[edit] Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Alfredo Conde Cid, Los otros días
