1998 in literature
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See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy.
- Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.
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
- The Facts of Death - Raymond Benson
- Foundation and Chaos - Greg Bear
- Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire - Amanda Foreman
- Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
- Greater Than Angels - Carol Matas
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
- Heavy Water and Other Stories - Martin Amis (most stories previously published)
- Hellfire - Diana Gabaldon
- The Hours - Michael Cunnigham
- 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
- Magick Potions - Gerina Dunwich
- 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
- Myths, Memories & Lies: Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation, 1939-1960 (Essais sur l'imprégnation fasciste au Québec) - Esther Delisle
- 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
- To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
- Tomcat in Love - Tim O'Brien
- Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
- Waiting - Ha Jin
- Wicca A to Z - Gerina Dunwich
- A Widow for One Year - John Irving
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings - John Fowles
- The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America - Jules Witcover, David Halberstam
Births
Deaths
- January 2 - Frank Muir, comedy writer
- January 11 - John Wells, satirical writer
- January 23 - John Forbes, Australian poet
- January 27 - Geoffrey Trease, historical novelist
- February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author
- February 17 - Ernst Jünger, novelist and war memoirist
- March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock, childcare expert
- April 11 - Francis Durbridge, playwright
- April 19 - Octavio Paz, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature
- April 27 - Pauline Réage, author
- April 27 - Carlos Castaneda
- May 9 - Nat Perrin, comedy writer
- June 10 - Hammond Innes, novelist
- June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson, bestselling novelist
- July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith, biographer
- July 5 - Johnny Speight, comedy writer
- July 14 - Miroslav Holub, Czech poet
- July 23 - John Hopkins, film and television writer
- September 28 - Eric Malling, journalist
- October 22 - Eric Ambler, novelist
- October 28 - Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate
- November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist
- date unknown - Ian Wallace, science fiction 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
- Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
- 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
