The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1990 Literary Facts
Charles Simic receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The World Doesn’t End
Michel Tremblay publishes Le Train
Derek Walcott publishes Omeros
August Wilson publishes The Piano Lesson
John Updike publishes Rabbit at Rest
Octavio Paz receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Mona Van Duyn publishes Near Changes: Poems
Mordecai Richler receives the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Solomon Gursky Was Here
Patricia Cornwell publishes Postmortem
Joy Harjo publishes In Mad Love and War
Michael Crichton publishes Jurassic Park
A. S. Byatt publishes Possession
Edward Bond publishes Jackets
At an environmental conference in London, representatives over 80 nations sign an agreement to stop producing CFCs, damaging to the ozone layer, by the year 2000
Helmut Kohl is elected chancellor of Germany—a nation reunited for the first time since 1945
Unrest in Kosovo grows; the Yugoslavian government intervenes
The Marxist Sandinistas fall from power in Nicaragua
Iraqi forces invade Kuwait; the U.N. imposes sanctions, and a coalition of powers prepares for war with Iraq
Oscar Hijuelos receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
A. S. Byatt receives the Booker Prize for Possession
Imre Kertész publishes Kaddis a meg nem születetett gyermekért (Kaddish for a Child Not Born)
Walter Mosley introduces his fictional detective Easy Rawlins in the novel Devil in a Blue Dress
South African Black Nationalist Nelson Mandela is freed from prison after 27 years of confinement
Explore: Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela: A Biography, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Josephine W. Johnson dies
Walker Percy dies
Explore: The Moviegoer, The Second Coming, Walker Percy
Irving Wallace dies
Explore: The Fan Club, The Miracle, The Prize, Irving Wallace
Manuel Puig dies
Explore: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Betrayed By Rita Hayworth, Manuel Puig
Norman MacLean dies
Explore: A River Runs Through It, Young Men and Fire
B. F. Skinner dies
Explore: B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Morley Callaghan dies
Explore: All the Years of Her Life, Morley Callaghan, A Cap for Steve, Two Fishermen, In "A Cap for Steve" by Morley Callaghan, what does the cap symbolize?
Thomas McGrath dies
Alberto Pincherle dies
Explore: The Time of Indifference, Alberto Moravia
Patrick White dies
Explore: The Solid Mandala, Voss, The Ham Funeral, Patrick White
Hugh MacLennan dies
Explore: Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, Hugh MacLennan
Lawrence Durrell dies
Explore: The Alexandria Quartet, The Revolt of Aphrodite, Lawrence Durrell
Malcolm Muggeridge dies
Explore: Malcolm Muggeridge
Roald Dahl dies
Explore: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl, The Magic Finger
Reinaldo Arenas dies
Explore: The Palace of the White Skunks
Friedrich Duerrenmatt dies
Explore: The Physicists, The Visit, Friedrich Dürrenmatt