1998 in literature

Events

• November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.

New Books

• About a Boy - Nick Hornby
• African Exploits - Roy MacLaren
• All Through the Night - Mary Higgins Clark
• Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
• Bag of Bones - Stephen King
• The Bay of Love and Sorrows - David Adams Richards
• The Book of Saladin - Tariq Ali
• Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam - Alan I. Marcus
• Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
• Dinosaur Summer - Greg Bear
• England, England - Julian Barnes
• Foundation and Chaos - Greg Bear
• Greater Than Angels - Carol Matas
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
• Hellfire - Diana Gabaldon
• I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops - Hanan al-Shaykh
• Inversions - Iain M. Banks
• The Klone and I - Danielle Steel
• The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
• The Long Road Home - Danielle Steel
• The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
• A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
• The Memory of Hands - Reshman Baig
• A Midwinter's Tale - Andrew Greeley
• Mirror Image - Danielle Steel
• Muhammad - Driss Chraibi
• Paradise - Toni Morrison
• Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell
• Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
• Return to Hawk's Hill - Allan W. Eckert
• Seize the Night - Dean R. Koontz
• The Street Lawyer - John Grisham
• Tomcat in Love - Tim O'Brien
• Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
• A Widow for One Year - John Irving
• The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America - Jules Witcover, David Halberstam

Births

Deaths

• February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author
• April 27 - Pauline Réage, author

Awards

• Booker Prize: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
• See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Grand of Green Plums
• Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Keran Hess, Out of the Dust
• Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party
• Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence
• Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires
• Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol
• Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, American Pastoral
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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