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major portions of Japanese writer Shōko Ieda's 1991 book Yellow Cab, about the eponymous sexual stereotype of Japanese women, were later denounced as "fraudulent" by her research assistant?

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The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Poetry
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.
The body of novelist Alain-Fournier is identified, 77 years after his death in World War I, and is interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.

New books

Martin Amis - Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense
Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies
Beryl Bainbridge - The Birthday Boys
Clive Barker - Imajica
Pat Barker - Regeneration
Louis Begley - Wartime Lies
Louis de Bernieres - Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
A. S. Byatt - Possession: A Romance
Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
Tom Clancy - The Sum of All Fears
Mary Higgins Clark - Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Hugh Cook - The Werewolf and the Wormlord
Paul Cornell - Timewyrm: Revelation
Bernard Cornwell - Stormchild
Douglas Coupland - Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - The Pixilated Peeress
Don DeLillo - Mao II
Terrance Dicks - Timewyrm: Exodus
Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
Roddy Doyle - The Van
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Stephen Fry - The Liar
Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World (Sofies verden)
John Gardner - The Man from Barbarossa
David Gates - Jernigan
Ann Granger - Say It With Poison
John Grisham - The Firm
Josephine Hart - Damage
Elisabeth Harvor, Our Lady of All Distances 11 stories (revision of Women and Children, published in 1973), Canada
Mark Jacobson - Gojiro
John le Carré - The Secret Pilgrim
Morgan Llywelyn - Druids
James A. Michener - Mexico
Rohinton Mistry - Such a Long Journey
Timothy Mo - The Redundancy of Courage
John Peel - Timewyrm: Genesys
Marge Piercy - He, She and It
Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man and Witches Abroad
Alexandra Ripley - Scarlett
Nigel Robinson - Timewyrm: Apocalypse
Bernice Rubens - A Solitary Grief
Michael Shaara - For Love of the Game (posthumously published)
Sidney Sheldon - The Doomsday Conspiracy
Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
Danielle Steel - Heartbeat
James B. Stewart - Den of Thieves
Michael Swanwick - Gravity's Angels
Amy Tan - The Kitchen God's Wife
Andrew Vachss - Sacrifice
Bernard Werber - Empire of the Ants (in orig. French Les Fourmis)
Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
Helen Zahavi - Dirty Weekend
Timothy Zahn - Heir to the Empire
Haifa Zangana - Through the Vast Halls of Memory
Roger Zelazny - Prince of Chaos

New drama

Non-fiction

Dionne Brand - No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario
Henry Steele Commager - Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, arranged for one volume
Dave Foreman - Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
Madonna - SEX
Robert K. Massie - Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
Thomas Pakenham - The Scramble for Africa
John Richardson - A Life of Picasso
Simon Schama - Dead Certainties
Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth
Zhang Chengzhi - History of the Soul
P.J. O'Rourke - Parliament of Whores

Poetry

Main article: 1991 in poetry

Births

Rachel McAteer, 9th of May 1991

Deaths

January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
January 23 - Northrop Frye, literary critic
January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host
March - Paul Engle, novelist
April 3 - Graham Greene
April 12 - James Schuyler, poet
April 29 - Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
May 3 - Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist
July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
September 24 - Dr. Seuss
October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
October 12 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer
October 27 - George Barker, poet
November 29 - Frank Yerby, historical novelist
date unknown - Dante Milano, poet

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Andrew McGahan, Praise
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jennifer Maiden, The Winter Baby
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jean Kent - Verandahs

Canada

See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Alfredo Conde Cid, Los otros días

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