1998 in literature

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Events

New Books

  • About a Boy - Nick Hornby
  • All Souls' Day (novel) - Cees Nooteboom
  • American Idyll - Philip Roth
  • Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
  • Aurora (novel) - Robert Harris
  • Delivered - Lee Child
  • Before Max arrived - Michael Köhlmeier
  • Until the end of time - Jodi Picoult
  • The Grand Chessboard: America's strategy of Dominance - Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Elementary (novel) - Michel Houellebecq
  • Flee, my friend! - Ralf Rothmann
  • The Fifth Mountain - Paulo Coelho
  • The Beheaded Rooster - Eginald Schlattner
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
  • The gentlemen of the fences - Magnus Mills
  • Inversions - Iain M. Banks
  • Into the Open - Karl -Heinz Ott
  • Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
  • The colony of unrequited dreams - Wayne Johnston
  • Come, Sweet Death (novel) - Wolf Haas
  • Leaning, Leaning Over Water. A novel in ten stories. - Frances Itani
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • Loop - The Ring III - Koji Suzuki
  • The Luftgängerin - Robert Schneider
  • The magazine (novel) - Hellmuth Karasek
  • The Middle of the World - Andreas Steinhofel
  • Pargfrider - Stefan Heym
  • Revenge - Shirley Conran
  • Riptide (novel) - Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child
  • Sara (Stephen King) - Stephen King
  • Shadow Children (Book) - Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • The Engineer of Human Souls - Josef Škvorecký
  • A gushing fountain - Martin Walser
  • Stardust - Neil Gaiman
  • Thetis. Otherworld - Alban Nikolai autumn
  • Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
  • Widow for One Year - John Irving

Died

Prices

  • Nobel Prize for Literature José Saramago
  • Booker Prize: Ian McEwan Amsterdam
  • Georg Büchner Prize: Elfriede Jelinek
  • Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Martin Walser
  • Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Pong
  • Prix ​​Goncourt: Paule Constant for Confidence pour confidence
  • Arthur Ellis Award: William Deverell for Trial of Passion
  • Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Curtis Gillespie, The Progress of an Object in Motion
  • Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History: June Margaret Hillyard Little, 'No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit ' - The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario
  • Journey Prize: John Brooke, The Finer Points of Apples
  • Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
  • Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
  • Hammett Prize: William Deverell for Trial of Passion
  • Trillium Book Award: André Alexis, Childhood and Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman; Daniel Poliquin, L' homme de paille and Stefan Psenak, you chaos et de l' ordre des choses
  • Derrick Murdoch Award: Eric Wright
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