Beograd, 1999 Spain Matilde Camus: Clamor del pensamiento ("Clamour of thought") Cancionero multicolor ("Multicolour collection of verses") La estrellita Giroldina ("Giroldina the star") Other languages Christoph Buchwald, general editor, and Raoul Schrott, guest editor, Jahrbuch der Lyrik 1999/2000 ("Poetry Yearbook 1999/2000"), publisher: Beck; anthology Luo Fu, Silent Falls the Snow, Chinese (Taiwan) Aharon Shabtai, Politiqa (Hebrew: "Politics") Maria Luisa Spaziani, Italy: Un fresco castagneto La radice del mare Marie Šťastná, Jarním pokrytcům ("To Spring Hypocrites"), Czech Republic Yu Jian, Yi mei chuanguo tiankong de dingzi China Awards and honors Nobel prize: Günter Grass Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gig Ryan, Pure and Applied Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: The Impossible, and other Poems by R. A. Simpson Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Lee Cataldi, Race Against Time Miles Franklin Award: Murray Bail, Eucalyptus Canada Gerald Lampert Award: Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems Archibald Lampman Award: John Barton, Sweet Ellipsis Atlantic Poetry Prize: John Steffler, That Night We Were Ravenous 1999 Governor General's Awards: Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (English); Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations (French) Pat Lowther Award: Hilary Clark, More Light Prix Alain-Grandbois: Hugues Corriveau, Le Livre du frère Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last Prix Émile-Nelligan: Jean-Éric Riopel, Papillons réfractaires New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement: Montana New Zealand Book Awards (no poetry winner this year) First-book award for poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, Victoria University Press United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Vicki Feaver, Geoffrey Hill, Elma Mitchell, Sheenagh Pugh Eric Gregory Award: Ross Cogan, Matthew Hollis, Helen Ivory, Andrew Pidoux, Owen Sheers, Dan Wyke Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Jo Shapcott, My Life Asleep (Oxford University Press) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Nick Drake, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe) Poet Laureate of Great Britain: Andrew Motion appointed Samuel Johnson Prize: Antony Beevor, Stalingrad T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Hugo Williams, Billy's Rain Whitbread Best Book Award: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Daisy Fried, She Didn't Mean To Do It Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Garrett Arthur Rense Prize awarded to James McMichael by the American Academy of Arts and Letters Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: J.D. McClatchy, "Tattoos" Bollingen Prize: Robert Creeley Frost Medal: Barbara Guest National Book Award for poetry: Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems Special Bicentential