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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1998.

Events

March 5 – Tennessee Williams' 1938 play Not About Nightingales receives its stage première in London, in a collaboration between the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Corin and Vanessa Redgrave's Moving Theatre.[1]
October
- The death of the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Ted Hughes leaves a gap of several months before a successor, Andrew Motion, is designated the following spring.[2]
- Kinoko Nasu (奈須きのこ) launches the Kara no Kyōkai series, with five chapters released online.
November 18 – Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
December – The Strand Magazine title is revived in the United States.[3]

New books

Fiction

Tariq Ali – The Book of Saladin
Aaron Allston
- Iron Fist
- Wraith Squadron
Hanan al-Shaykh – I Sweep the Sun off Rooftops (أكنس الشمس عن السطوح)
Martin Amis – Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published)
Beryl Bainbridge – Master Georgie
Iain M. Banks – Inversions
Alessandro Barbero – Romanzo russo. Fiutando i futuri supplizi (translated 2010 as The Anonymous Novel. Sensing the Future Torments)
Julian Barnes – England, England
Greg Bear
- Dinosaur Summer
- Foundation and Chaos
Raymond Benson – The Facts of Death
Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny – Psychoshop
Robert Bloch – Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
Roberto Bolaño – The Savage Detectives (Los Detectives Salvajes)
William Boyd – Armadillo
Giannina Braschi – Yo-Yo Boing!
Anne Carson – Autobiography of Red (verse novel)
Driss Chraïbi – Muhammad
Mary Higgins Clark – All Through the Night
Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six
Paulo Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
Michael Connelly – Blood Work
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Triumph
Patricia Cornwell – Point of Origin
Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma
Ann C. Crispin – Rebel Dawn
Michael Cunningham – The Hours
Nelson DeMille – Plum Island
August Derleth
- The Final Adventures of Solar Pons
- In Lovecraft's Shadow
Peter Dickinson – The Kin
Allan W. Eckert – Return to Hawk's Hill
Bret Easton Ellis – Glamorama
Giles Foden – The Last King of Scotland
Diana Gabaldon – Hellfire
Neil Gaiman – Smoke and Mirrors (mainly reprints)
Andrew Greeley – A Midwinter's Tale
John Grisham – The Street Lawyer
Wolf Haas – Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death)[4]
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Among the Hidden
Ha Jin (哈金) – Waiting
Tomson Highway – Kiss of the Fur Queen
Nick Hornby – About a Boy
Michel Houellebecq – Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires)
Marek S. Huberath – Gniazdo światów (Nest of Worlds)
John Irving – A Widow for One Year
K. W. Jeter
- The Mandalorian Armor
- Slave Ship
Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Stephen King – Bag of Bones
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible[5]
Dean R. Koontz – Seize the Night
Joe R. Lansdale
- Rumble Tumble
- The Boar
Alain Mabanckou – Bleu-Blanc-Rouge
Patrick McCabe – Breakfast on Pluto
Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
Roy MacLaren – African Exploits
Steve Martin – Pure Drivel
Carol Matas – Greater Than Angels
China Miéville – King Rat
Toni Morrison – Paradise
Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru)
Cees Nooteboom – All Souls' Day (Allerzielen)
Sigrid Nunez – Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
Tim O'Brien – Tomcat in Love
Orhan Pamuk – My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı)
Tom Perrotta – Election
Terry Pratchett
- Carpe Jugulum
- The Last Continent
Fahmida Riaz – Godavari
David Adams Richards – The Bay of Love and Sorrows
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí – Crónica de invisibles
Philip Roth – I Married a Communist
Margit Sandemo – Ensam i världen (Alone in the World)
Michael Slade – Shrink (also Primal Scream)
Alexander McCall Smith – The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Michael Stackpole – I, Jedi
Danielle Steel
- The Klone and I
- The Long Road Home
- Mirror Image
Thomas Sullivan – The Martyring
Andrew Vachss – Safe House
Connie Willis – To Say Nothing of the Dog
A. N. Wilson – Dream Children
Tom Wolfe – A Man in Full
Timothy Zahn – Vision of the Future

Children and young people

David Almond – Skellig[6]
Gayle Greeno (with Michael Gilbert) - Sunderlies Seeking
Tanya Huff - Summon the Keeper
Diana Wynne Jones – Dark Lord of Derkholm[7]
Dick King-Smith – The Crowstarver
Julius Lester – Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story
J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – BoshBlobberBosh: Runcible Poems for Edward Lear
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets[8]
Louis Sachar – Holes[9]
Robert Swindells – Abomination
Judy Waite – Mouse, Look Out!
Douglas Wood – Rabbit and the Moon

Drama

Edward Albee – The Play About the Baby
Parv Bancil – Made in England (full-length version)
Marina Carr – By the Bog of Cats
Michael Frayn – Copenhagen
David Hare – The Blue Room
Ted Hughes (translator) – Phèdre
Elfriede Jelinek – Ein Sportstück (A Sports Piece)
Sol B River
- The White Witch of Rose Hall
- River Plays 1 (published)
Shelagh Stephenson – An Experiment with an Air Pump
Marius von Mayenburg – Fireface (Feuergesicht)
Tennessee Williams (died 1983) – Not About Nightingales (first performance; written 1938)

Poetry

Seamus Heaney
- Beowulf (translation)
- Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996
Ted Hughes – Birthday Letters
Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling; 2nd edition)[10]

Non-fiction

Charlotte Allen – The Human Christ: The Search For The Historical Jesus
Andrea Ashworth – Once in a House on Fire
Antony Beevor – Stalingrad
Bill Bryson – Notes from a Big Country
Peter Cannon (editor) – Lovecraft Remembered
Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd – Dear Friend and Gardener
Corinne Debaine-Francfort – La redécouverte de la Chine ancienne
Amanda Foreman – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
John Fowles – Wormholes – Essays and Occasional Writings
Jonathan Freedland – Bring Home the Revolution
Sita Ram Goel – Vindicated by Time
Simon Heffer – Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell
Adam Hochschild – King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – India 2020
Ryszard Kapuściński – Heban (Ebony, translated as The Shadow of the Sun)
B. B. Lal – India 1947–1997: New Light on the Indus Civilization
Eric Liu – The Accidental Asian
Alan I. Marcus – Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam
Thylias Moss – Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress
Inga Muscio – Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
V. S. Naipaul – Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples
Gilles Perrault (ed.) – Le Livre noir du capitalisme (The Black Book of Capitalism)
John Pilger – Hidden Agendas
Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane[11]
Arun Shourie – Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
Marilee Strong – A Bright Red Scream
University of Arizona – Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni
Adam Zagajewski – Another Beauty

Deaths

January 2 – Frank Muir, English comedy writer and broadcaster (born 1920)
January 11 – John Wells, English satirist (born 1936)
January 23 – John Forbes, Australian poet (heart attack, born 1950)
January 27 – Geoffrey Trease, English children's historical novelist (born 1909)
February 7 – Lawrence Sanders, American novelist and short story writer (born 1920)
February 15 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide, born 1908)
February 17 – Ernst Jünger, German novelist and war memoirist (born 1895)
March 15 – Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer on child care (born 1903)
April 11 – Francis Durbridge, English playwright (born 1912)
April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
April 27
- Anne Desclos (Pauline Réage), French journalist and novelist (born 1907)
- Carlos Castaneda, Mexican-born American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
May 9 – Nat Perrin, American comedy writer (born 1905)
June 10
- Joan Adeney Easdale, English poet (born 1913)
- Hammond Innes, English novelist (born 1913)
June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English novelist (born 1906)
July 1 – Martin Seymour-Smith, English biographer (born 1928)
July 5 – Johnny Speight, English comedy writer (born 1920)
July 9 – Ian Wallace (John Wallace Pritchard), American science fiction author (born 1912)
July 14 – Miroslav Holub, Czech poet (born 1923)
July 23
- John Hopkins, English film and television writer (born 1931)
- Manuel Mejía Vallejo, Colombian novelist (born 1923)[12]
August 16 – Dorothy West, American novelist and short story writer (born 1907)
August 22 – Grace Paley, American writer (born 1922)
September 28 – Eric Malling, Canadian journalist (born 1946)
October 15 – Iain Crichton Smith, Scottish writer (born 1928)[13]
October 22 – Eric Ambler, English spy novelist (born 1909)
October 28 – Ted Hughes, English poet and Poet Laureate (born 1930)[14]
November 3 – Bob Kane (Robert Kahn), American comics artist and writer (born 1915)
November 8 – Rumer Godden, English novelist (born 1907)[15]
December 16 – William Gaddis, American novelist (born 1922)

Awards

Fiction: Michael Byers, Ralph Lombreglia (fiction/nonfiction)

Non-fiction: D. J. Waldie, Anthony Walton

Plays: W. David Hancock

Poetry: Nancy Eimers, Daniel Hall, James Kimbrell, Charles Harper Webb, Greg Williamson

Elsewhere

International Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums
Premio Nadal: Lucía Etxebarria, Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes

References

"Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?". Playbill. 1998-06-23. Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
Willis, Chris. "The Story of The Strand". Strandmag.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
Sänger, Florian (2009). Literatur und Film im Feld narrativer Theorien: Analysemöglichkeiten von Literaturverfilmungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählposition und Fakalisierung am Beispiel Wolf Haas "Komm süßer Tod". Aachen: Verlag Shaker. ISBN 978-3-8322-8659-0.
Kakatuni, Michiko (16 October 1998). "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness". New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
Brennan, Geraldine (2 October 2010). "My Name is Mina by David Almond | Book review". the Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
Jones, Diana Wynne (1998). The Dark Lord of Derkholme. Gollancz. OCLC 745958627.
"Digested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". the Guardian. 25 August 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
"He Didn't Do It". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
Web page titled Krugovanje, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
Verduyn, Christl; Staebler, Edna (2009). Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9781554588114.
"Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75". AP News. 24 July 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
"Iain Crichton Smith | Scottish writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
Susan Bassnett (2009). Ted Hughes. Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7463-1003-8.
Chisholm, Anne (2004), "Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 11 December 2012 (subscription required)
Faculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012

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[1] "Alley Theatre's Nightingales Closes July 3; Next Stop Broadway?". Playbill. 1998-06-23. Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2013-05-19.

[2] Andrew Motion (20 May 1999). "The insider's story". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[3] Willis, Chris. "The Story of The Strand". Strandmag.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.

[4] Sänger, Florian (2009). Literatur und Film im Feld narrativer Theorien: Analysemöglichkeiten von Literaturverfilmungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzählposition und Fakalisierung am Beispiel Wolf Haas "Komm süßer Tod". Aachen: Verlag Shaker. ISBN 978-3-8322-8659-0.

[5] Kakatuni, Michiko (16 October 1998). "'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness". New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

[6] Brennan, Geraldine (2 October 2010). "My Name is Mina by David Almond | Book review". the Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

[7] Jones, Diana Wynne (1998). The Dark Lord of Derkholme. Gollancz. OCLC 745958627.

[8] "Digested read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". the Guardian. 25 August 1998. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

[9] "He Didn't Do It". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

[10] Web page titled Krugovanje, Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive

[11] Verduyn, Christl; Staebler, Edna (2009). Must Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 270. ISBN 9781554588114.

[12] "Author Mejia Vallejo Dies at 75". AP News. 24 July 1998. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[13] "Iain Crichton Smith | Scottish writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

[14] Susan Bassnett (2009). Ted Hughes. Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-7463-1003-8.

[15] Chisholm, Anne (2004), "Godden, (Margaret) Rumer (1907–1998)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 11 December 2012 (subscription required)

[16] Faculty of Arts, 1998, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, previous winners, Charlotte Gray, Retrieved 11/24/2012