1998 in literature

See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature.

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