1999 in literature

See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace
• Finlandia Prize: * 1999 Kristina Carlson, Maan ääreen
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Bonnie Burnard: A Good House
• See 1999 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award for Best Novel: Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain
• Nebula Award: Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Louis Sachar, Holes
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Günter Grass
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Suzanne Berne, A Crime in the Neighborhood
• Prix Femina: Maryline Desbiolles, Anchise
• Prix Goncourt: Jean Echenoz, Je m'en vais
• Prix Décembre: Claude Askolovitch, Voyage au bout de la France: Le Front National tel qu'il est
• Prix Médicis French: Michel Del Castillo, Colette, une certaine France
• Prix Médicis Non-Fiction: Christian Oster, Mon grand appartement
• Prix Médicis International: Bjorn Larsson, Le capitaine et les rêves
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Margaret Edson, Wit
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Strand, Blizzard of One
• Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
• Viareggio Prize: Ernesto Franco, Vite senza fine
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf