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Authors born in 1959

Rabih Alameddine
Steve Alten
Stephen Amidon
Liz Balmaseda
Lynne Barrett-Lee
Erica Bauermeister
Martyn Bedford
Alice Blanchard
Peter Blauner
Dermot Bolger
Chaz Brenchley
Kevin Brooks
Sigmund Brouwer
Julie Burchill
Dia Calhoun
Laurie Calkhoven
Peter Cameron
Mike Carey
Caroline Carver
Deborah Challinor
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Susanna Clarke
Suzanne Clarke
Julian Clary
Michael Cobley
Nancy A Collins
Greg Costikyan
Greg Cox
Amanda Craig
Elizabeth Crook
Marianne Curley
Debbie Dadey
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Maurice G Dantec
Ed Decter
Stephen Dedman
Marie Desplechin
Adrienne Dines
Andre Dubus III
Tom Egeland
Ben Elton
S K Epperson
Steven Erikson
Leslie Esdaile
Penelope Evans
Bernardine Evaristo
Fabio
Ildefonso Falcones
Sarah Ferguson
Helen Fielding
Nigel Findley
Tibor Fischer
Jonathan Franzen
Sean French
Paul Geraghty
Anne Giardini
Debi Gliori
Owl Goingback
Beth Goobie
Alan Gordon
Muriel Gray
Ed Greenwood
Jens Christian Grøndahl
Lisa Grunwald
G M Hague
Anne Haverty
Howard V Hendrix
Craig Herbertson
Tami Hoag
David Hood
James Byron Huggins
Walter H Hunt
William King
Mary Kirchoff
Elizabeth Knox
Roberta Kray
Hugh Laurie
Gene Lazuta
Mark Lindquist
Laura Lippman
Maureen F McHugh
Andy McNab
Michael Mail
Sophie Masson
Bob Mayer
Paul Micou
Michael L Monhollon
Charlotte Moore
Margaret Murphy
Jo Nesbø
Kim Newman
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Mikael Niemi
Celeste O Norfleet
Charles Oberndorf
Jack O'Connell
Ben Okri
Ann Packer
Susan Palwick
Alan Pauls
Akif Pirincci
Stephen M Rainey
Nino Ricci
M Rickert
Alan Rodgers
Victoria Rowell
Martin Rowson
James Runcie
Wayne Allen Sallee
R A Salvatore
Mark Salzman
Barbara Samuel
Michael Scott
Helen Simpson
Lisa Smedman
Stephanie A Smith
Mehmet Murat Somer
José Carlos Somoza
David Sosnowski
Martha Soukup
Nick Stafford
Neal Stephenson
Dirk Strasser
Manil Suri
Sandi Toksvig
Simon Tolkien
Zoé Valdés
Sandro Veronesi
William T Vollmann
Nancy Warren
Mark London Williams
Philip G Williamson
David Niall Wilson
Jeanette Winterson
Meg Wolitzer
Sean Wright
Anne Zouroudi

Authors who died in 1959

Edwin Balmer
Raymond Chandler
G D H Cole
Lester Dent
Errol Flynn
Kathleen Freeman
Arthur O Friel
Anne Hepple
Laurence Housman
Jim Kjelgaard
E C R Lorac
Adelaide Manning
Michael Poole
Grace S Richmond
Sax Rohmer
Les Savage, Jr.
Aelfrida Tillyard
Boris Vian
Jiří Weil

1959 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Salvatore Quasimodo (winner)

1959 Best Novel Awards

Carnegie Medal
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (winner)

Hugo
A Case of Conscience by James Blish (winner)
The Enemy Stars by Poul Anderson
Have Spacesuit - Will Travel by Robert Heinlein
Immortality Inc by Robert Sheckley
Who? by Algis Budrys

1959 Best Collection Awards

National Book Award for Fiction
The Magic Barrel: And Other Stories by Bernard Malamud (winner)

1959 Best Novellette Awards

Hugo
The Big Front Yard by Clifford D Simak (winner)
Captivity by Zenna Henderson
A Deskful of Girls by Fritz Leiber
The Miracle Workers by Jack Vance
Rat in the Skull by Rog Phillips
Second Game by Charles V Devet and Katherine MacLean
Shark Ship by C M Kornbluth
Unwillingly to School by Pauline Ashwell

1959 Best Short Story Awards

Hugo
The Advent on Channel Twelve by C M Kornbluth
The Edge of the Sea by Algis Budrys
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed by Alfred Bester
Nine Yards of Other Cloth by Manly Wade Wellman
Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee by Fritz Leiber
Space to Swing a Cat by Stanley Mullen
That Hell-bound Train by Robert Bloch (winner)
Theory of Rocketry by C M Kornbluth
They've Been Working on... by Anton Lee Baker
Triggerman by J F Bone