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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1999. Events [ edit ] May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for ten years.
As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1999. Events. May 1 – Andrew Motion is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years. June 19 – Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the three weeks hospitalized and only continues with his next book, On Writing, in July.
1999 is the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1999 was awarded to Günter Grass "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history"
Sep 30, 1999 · Nobel Prize for Literature 1999. Günter Grass. “whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history” When Günter Grass published “The Tin Drum” in 1959 it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.
