1990 in literature

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

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.^[1]
c. June – Joanne Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London Euston railway station. She says "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, resulting in the writing team known as Nicci French.
Austrian writer Ernest Bornemann is awarded the first Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual research.

New books

Felipe Alfau – Chromos (completed 1948)
Iain M. Banks – Use of Weapons
Hoda Barakat – The Stone of Laughter (حجر الضحك)
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
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
John Kenneth Galbraith – A Tenured Professor
John Gardner – Brokenclaw
Elizabeth George – Well-Schooled in Murder
Andrew Greeley – The Cardinal Virtues
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
Robert Jordan – The Eye of the World
Imre Kertész – Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)
Stephen King – Four Past Midnight and 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
Brian Moore – Lies of Silence
Alice Munro – Friend of My Youth (short stories)
Bảo Ninh – The Sorrow of War (Nỗi buồn chiến tranh)
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
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
Andrew Vachss – Blossom
Kurt Vonnegut – Hocus Pocus
Harry L. Watson – Liberty and Power
Banana Yoshimoto – Amrita

New drama

Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
John Guare – Six Degrees of Separation
Girish Karnad – Taledanda (Kannada: ತಲೆದಂಡ, "Death by Beheading")
Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage

Non-fiction

Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine – Last Chance to See
Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
Dougal Dixon – Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Soccer War
Michael Lynch – Scotland: A New History
Susan Mayse – Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin ^[2]
James A. Michener – Pilgrimage
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
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege

Poetry

Derek Walcott – Omeros

Deaths

May 10 – Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
May 25 – Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)^[3]
August 25 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
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)^[4]
November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist, and travel writer (born 1912)
November 8 – Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)^[5]
November 23 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916^[6]
December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (born 1943; suicide)^[7]
December 11 – David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
December 14 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)^[8]

Awards

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

References

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1990 in literature

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Poetry

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

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