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EVENTS
June 19
-
Stephen King
is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized. He does not continue with his next book, ''
On Writing
'', until July.
NEW BOOKS
'''' -
Winona LaDuke
''
Atomised
'' -
Michel Houellebecq
''
Battle Royale
'' -
Koushun Takami
''
Blind Eye
'' -
James B. Stewart
''
Le Chambre Des Officiers
'' (''The Officers' Ward'') -
Marc Dugain
''
Charlotte Gray
'' -
Sebastian Faulks
''
Chocolat
'' -
Joanne Harris
''
Conspiracy Theories (book)
'' -
David Southwell
''
Cryptonomicon
'' -
Neal Stephenson
''
Cunt
'' -
Stewart Home
''
Darwin's Radio
'' -
Greg Bear
''
A Deepness In The Sky
'' -
Vernor Vinge
''
Death Du Jour
'' -
Kathy Reichs
''
Dining With Peggy Guggenheim
'' -
Jane Turner Rylands
''
Disgrace
'' -
J. M. Coetzee
''
The Fifth Elephant
'' -
Terry Pratchett
'''' -
Kelly R. Brown
''
The Fortune Catcher
'' -
Susanne Pari
''
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
'' -
Stephen King
''
Glamorama
'' -
Bret Easton Ellis
''
Hannibal
'' -
Thomas Harris
''
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
'' -
J. K. Rowling
''
Hearts In Atlantis
'' -
Stephen King
''
High Time To Kill
'' -
Raymond Benson
''
Holes
'' -
Louis Sachar
''
The Icarus Hunt
'' -
Timothy Zahn
''
In America
'' -
Susan Sontag
''
Invisible Monsters
'' -
Chuck Palahniuk
''
Irresistible Forces
'' -
Danielle Steel
''
A Lake Beyond The Wind
'' -
Yahya Yakhlif
''
The Mark Of The Angel
'' -
Nancy Huston
''
Miss Wyoming
'' -
Douglas Coupland
''
One Of The Guys
'' -
Robert Clark Young
''
Paradise
'' -
Toni Morrison
''
Prisoner In A Red-Rose Chain
'' –
Jeffrey Moore
''
Rulers Of Evil
'' -
F. Tupper Saussy
''
Sick Puppy
'' -
Carl Hiaasen
''
Single & Single
'' -
John Le Carré
''
Speak
'' -
Laurie Halse Anderson
'''' -
Terry Brooks
''
Scattered Like Seeds
'' -
Shaw J. Dallal
''
Soul Harvest
'' -
Jerry B. Jenkins
&
Tim LaHaye
''
Survivor
'' -
Chuck Palahniuk
'''' -
June Rose
''
Syrup
'' -
Max Barry
''
'Tis
'' -
Frank McCourt
''
Tara Road
'' -
Maeve Binchy
''
Temple
'' -
Matthew Reilly
''
The Testament
'' -
John Grisham
''
The World Is Not Enough
'' -
Raymond Benson
''
Through The Stones
'' -
Diana Gabaldon
''
Timeline
'' -
Michael Crichton
NON-FICTION
Peter Jennings
and
Todd Brewster
- ''
The Century
''
BIRTHS
DEATHS
February 8
-
Iris Murdoch
, writer, aged 79
February 22
-
William Bronk
, poet, aged 80 (or 81?)
February 24
-
Andre Dubus
, writer
March 4
-
Karel Van Het Reve
, Dutch writer, aged 77
May 10
-
Shel Silverstein
, children's poet, aged 68
June 14
-
J. F. Powers
, American writer, aged 81
July 2
-
Mario Puzo
, writer (''
The Godfather
''), aged 78
July 16
-
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
, publisher, son of
John F. Kennedy
, aged 38 (airplane crash)
October 3
-
Heinz G. Konsalik
, writer, aged 78
October 19
-
Nathalie Sarraute
, Russian born Francophone lawyer and writer
November 11
-
Jacobo Timmerman
, journalist and publisher
December 8
-
Rupert Hart-Davis
, editor, publisher
December 12
-
Joseph Heller
, American novelist (''
Catch-22
''), aged 76
AWARDS
, ''Disgrace''
Kristina Carlson
, ''Maan ääreen''
: ''A Good House''
See
1999 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
, ''
To Say Nothing Of The Dog
''
, ''Ingenious Pain''
, ''Parable of the Talents''
, ''Holes''
, ''A Crime in the Neighborhood''
, ''Anchise''
, ''Je m'en vais''
, ''Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est''
, ''Colette, une certaine France''
, ''Mon grand appartement''
, ''Le capitaine et les rêves''
, ''Wit''
, ''The Hours''
, ''Blizzard of One''
, ''Stalingrad''
, ''Vite senza fine''
, ''Beowulf''
