The year 1990 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events - J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." It would be seven more years before the world was introduced to "Harry."
- Ernest Borneman is awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal.
- Nicci Gerrard marries Sean French, resulting in the writing team now known as Nicci French.
[edit] New books [edit] New drama Casey Rogers [edit] Non-fiction [edit] Poetry Main article: 1990 in poetry[edit] Deaths [edit] Awards [edit] Australia [edit] Canada [edit] France [edit] United Kingdom - Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- Cholmondeley Award: Kingsley Amis, Elaine Feinstein, Michael O’Neill
- Eric Gregory Award: Nicholas Drake, Maggie Hannan, William Park, Jonathan Davidson, Lavinia Greenlaw, Don Paterson, John Wells
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Sorley Maclean
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: J. M. Coetzee, Age of Iron
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