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1995 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1995.

Events

 * January 12 – The première of Sarah Kane's complete Blasted at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London provokes outrage.
 * February 28 – The Diary of Bridget Jones column first appears in The Independent newspaper (London).
 * March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea is opened by Jimmy Carter.
 * April 23 – World Book Day is first celebrated.
 * July 16 – Amazon.com, incorporated a year earlier by Jeff Bezos in Washington (state) as an online bookstore, sells its first book: Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.
 * August – Blackwell UK becomes the first British bookseller to offer online purchasing.
 * December 13 – The released film of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility has an Academy Award-winning screenplay by Emma Thompson.

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 * Simon & Schuster pays US$4.2 million for hardcover publishing rights to The Christmas Box, self-published by Richard Paul Evans, which has appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.
 * Fjærland in Norway becomes a book town.

Fiction

 * Ben Aaronovitch – The Also People
 * Louisa May Alcott (posthumous) – A Long Fatal Love Chase
 * Roger MacBride Allen
 * Ambush at Corellia
 * Assault at Selonia
 * Showdown at Centerpoint
 * Julia Alvarez – In the Time of the Butterflies
 * Martin Amis – The Information
 * Kevin J. Anderson – Darksaber
 * Iain Banks – Whit
 * Pat Barker – The Ghost Road
 * Daniel Blythe – Infinite Requiem
 * Thomas Brussig – Helden wie wir (Heroes Like Us)
 * Christopher Bulis – The Sorcerer's Apprentice
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs and Joe R. Lansdale – Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
 * T. C. Boyle – The Tortilla Curtain
 * Albert Camus (posthumous) – The First Man (Le Premier Homme, unfinished)
 * Andrew Cartmel – Warlock
 * Mary Higgins Clark – Silent Night
 * Michael Connelly – The Last Coyote
 * Paul Cornell – Human Nature
 * Bernard Cornwell
 * Sharpe's Battle
 * Battle Flag
 * The Winter King
 * Douglas Coupland – Microserfs
 * Robert Crais – Voodoo River
 * Michael Crichton – The Lost World
 * Maurice G. Dantec – Les Racines du mal
 * Martin Day – The Menagerie
 * L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – The Exotic Enchanter
 * Samuel Delany – Hogg
 * Terrance Dicks – Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
 * Umberto Eco – The Island of the Day Before
 * Stanley Elkin – Mrs. Ted Bliss
 * Kirill Eskov – The Gospel of Afranius («Евангелие от Афрания»)
 * Nicholas Evans – The Horse Whisperer
 * Timothy Findley – The Piano Man's Daughter
 * Richard Ford – Independence Day
 * Jon Fosse – Melancholy (Melancholia I)
 * Carlos Fuentes – The Crystal Frontier (La frontera de cristal)
 * John Gardner – GoldenEye
 * John Grisham – The Rainmaker
 * Barbara Hambly – Children of the Jedi
 * Craig Hinton – Millennial Rites
 * Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
 * Kazuo Ishiguro – The Unconsoled
 * Elfriede Jelinek – The Children of the Dead
 * Jo Jung-rae – Arirang
 * Welwyn Wilton Katz – Out of the Dark
 * Stephen King – Rose Madder
 * Joe R. Lansdale – The Two-Bear Mambo
 * John le Carré – Our Game
 * Andy Lane
 * The Empire of Glass
 * Original Sin
 * Paul Leonard
 * Dancing the Code
 * Toy Soldiers
 * Jonathan Lethem – Amnesia Moon
 * Barry Letts – The Ghosts of N-Space
 * Robert Ludlum – The Apocalypse Watch
 * Steve Lyons
 * Head Games
 * Time of Your Life
 * Frank McCourt – Angela's Ashes (semi-autobiographical)
 * Val McDermid – The Mermaids Singing
 * David A. McIntee
 * Lords of the Storm
 * Sanctuary
 * Andreï Makine – Dreams of My Russian Summers (Le Testament français)
 * Henning Mankell – Chronicler of the Winds (Comédia infantil)
 * Stephen Marley – Managra
 * Zakes Mda – Ways of Dying
 * James A. Michener – Miracle in Seville
 * Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
 * Mary McGarry Morris – Songs in Ordinary Time
 * Kate Orman – Set Piece
 * Terry Pratchett – Maskerade
 * Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
 * Relic
 * Mount Dragon
 * Christoph Ransmayr – The Dog King (Morbus Kitahara)
 * Jean Raspail – L'Anneau du pêcheur
 * Justin Richards – System Shock
 * Andrew Roberts – The Aachen Memorandum
 * Gareth Roberts
 * The Romance of Crime
 * Zamper
 * J. Jill Robinson – Eggplant Wife
 * Philip Roth – Sabbath's Theater
 * Salman Rushdie – The Moor's Last Sigh
 * Gary Russell – Invasion of the Cat-People
 * Josè Saramago – Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira)
 * Bernhard Schlink – The Reader
 * W. G. Sebald – Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt (The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage)
 * Sidney Sheldon – Morning, Noon and Night
 * Jane Smiley - Moo
 * Danielle Steel – Five Days In Paris
 * Neal Stephenson – The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
 * James B. Stewart – Blood Sport
 * Dave Stone – Sky Pirates!
 * Olga Tokarczuk – E.E.
 * Jim Turner, editor – Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology
 * Andrew Vachss – Footsteps of the Hawk
 * Robert James Waller – Puerto Vallarta Squeeze
 * Dave Wolverton – The Courtship of Princess Leia

Children and young people

 * Chris Van Allsburg – Bad Day at Riverbend
 * Elizabeth Arnold – The Parsley Parcel
 * Marion Zimmer Bradley (with Rosemary Edghill) – Ghostlight
 * Jimmy Carter (illustrated by Amy Carter) – The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer
 * Donald Hall (with Barry Moser) – The Pageant
 * Virginia Hamilton (with Leo and Diane Dillon) – Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
 * Joe R. Lansdale – Tarzan: the Lost Adventure
 * Fran Manushkin (with Ned Bittinger) – The Matzah That Papa Brought Home
 * Jim Murphy – The Great Fire
 * Alison Prince – The Sherwood Hero
 * Philip Pullman – Northern Lights (in US as The Golden Compass)
 * Diana Pullein-Thompson – I Wanted a Pony
 * Josephine Pullein-Thompson – Six Ponies
 * Mario Vargas Llosa (with Willi Glasauer) – Hitos y Mitos Literarios (The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works)
 * Judith Viorst – Alexander, Who Is Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
 * Jacqueline Wilson – Double Act

Drama

 * Parv Bancil – Papa Was A Bus Conductor
 * Jez Butterworth – Mojo
 * Margaret Edson – Wit
 * Horton Foote – The Young Man From Atlanta
 * Jon Fosse – The Name (Namnet)
 * Ronald Harwood – Taking Sides
 * Sarah Kane – Blasted
 * Terrence McNally – Master Class
 * Lynn Nottage
 * Crumbs from the Table of Joy
 * Por'Knockers
 * Yasmina Reza – The Unexpected Man (L'homme du hasard)
 * Tom Stoppard – Indian Ink

Poetry

 * Mark Doty – Atlantis: Poems

Non-fiction

 * André Aciman – Out of Egypt
 * Jean Baudrillard – The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
 * John G. Bennett (posthumously) – The Masters of Wisdom
 * George G. Blackburn – The Guns of Normandy
 * Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research
 * Pascal Bruckner – The Temptation of Innocence
 * L. Sprague de Camp – The Ape-Man Within
 * Tim Cornell – The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
 * Paul Davies – About Time
 * Robin Dunbar – The Trouble with Science
 * Mark Epstein – Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
 * Bill Gates – The Road Ahead
 * Doris Kearns Goodwin – No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
 * Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom
 * Leonard Nimoy – I Am Spock
 * Leslie and Les Parrott – Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
 * Man Ray and André Breton – Man Ray, 1890–1976
 * Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow – Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
 * Oliver Sacks – An Anthropologist on Mars
 * Simon Schama – Landscape and Memory
 * Sterling Seagrave – Lords of the Rim
 * Miranda Seymour – Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
 * Howard Stern – Miss America
 * Ibn Warraq – Why I Am Not a Muslim
 * Jane Wesman – Dive Right In: The Sharks Won't Bite
 * Jane Wilson-Howarth – Bugs, Bites & Bowels (later editions as The Essential Guide to Travel Health)

Films

 * Sense and Sensibility

Births

 * June 7 - Beth Reekles, Welsh author of young adult fiction
 * June 13 - S. C. Megale, American novelist and screenwriter

Deaths

 * January 9 – Peter Cook, English writer, comedian and satirist (born 1937)
 * January 30 – Gerald Durrell, English nature writer and naturalist (born 1925)
 * January 31 – George Abbott, American writer, director and producer (born 1887)
 * February 4 – Patricia Highsmith, American crime novelist (born 1921)
 * February 6
 * James Merrill, American poet (born 1926)
 * Xia Yan (夏衍), Chinese playwright and screenwriter, (born 1900)
 * February 21
 * Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924)
 * Calder Willingham, American writer (born 1922)
 * February 23 – James Herriot, English veterinary novelist (born 1916)
 * March 9 – Ian Ballantine, American publisher (born 1916)
 * March 20 – Sidney Kingsley, American dramatist (born 1906)
 * April 14 – Brian Coffey, Irish poet (born 1905)
 * April 27 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (born 1921)
 * May 30 or May 31 – Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu, Romanian novelist, memoirist and poet (born 1897)
 * June 14 – Roger Zelazny, American fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1937)
 * June 15 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter (born 1899)
 * June 20 – Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (born 1911)
 * June 21– Katarína Lazarová, Slovak novelist and translator (born 1914)
 * June 25 – Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津), Taiwanese Chinese novelist (suicide, born 1969)
 * July 6 – Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer (born 1915)
 * July 13 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (born 1908)
 * July 16
 * May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet, novelist and memoirist (born 1912)
 * Stephen Spender, English poet (born 1909)
 * July 25 – Janice Elliott, English novelist and children's writer (born 1931)
 * August 3 – Edward Whittemore, American novelist, (born 1933)
 * August 17 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (born 1901)
 * August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and writer (born 1910)
 * August 29 – Michael Ende, German fantasy novelist (born 1929)
 * September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (born 1920)
 * October 13 – Henry Roth, Austrian-born American novelist and short story writer (born 1906)
 * October 22 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist (born 1922)
 * October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (born 1924)
 * November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (born 1925)
 * November 10 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer (executed, born 1941)
 * November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Counselman, American author and poet (born 1911)
 * November 16 – Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian (born 1919)
 * November 17 – Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (born 1908)
 * November 20 – Robie Macauley, American writer and literary critic (born 1919)
 * November 22 – Margaret St. Clair, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
 * December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born 1913)
 * December 9 – Toni Cade Bambara, American writer (born 1939)
 * December 30 – Heiner Müller, German dramatist (born 1929)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney
 * Camões Prize: José Saramago

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Richard King, Kindling Does For Firewood
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Bruce Beaver, Anima and Other Poems
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Peter Boyle, Coming Home From the World
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Aileen Kelly, Coming Up for Light
 * Miles Franklin Award: Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed the Paper

Canada

 * Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
 * See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Andreï Makine, Le Testament français
 * Prix Décembre: Jean Échenoz, Les Grandes Blondes
 * Prix Médicis French: Vassilis Alexakis, La Langue maternelle and Andreï Makine, Le testament français
 * Prix Médicis International: Alessandro Baricco, Châteaux de la colère

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Christopher Priest, The Prestige
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth
 * Cholmondeley Award: U. A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright
 * Eric Gregory Award: Colette Bryce, Sophie Hannah, Tobias Hill, Mark Wormald
 * Newdigate prize: Antony Dunn
 * Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, William Maxwell
 * Carnegie Medal: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
 * Compton Crook Award: Doranna Durgin, Dun Lady's Jess
 * Hugo Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance
 * Nebula Award: Robert Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
 * Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography: Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
 * Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
 * Pulitzer Prize for History: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
 * Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Michael Cunningham, Reginald McKnight, Matthew Stadler, Melanie Sumner
 * Nonfiction: André Aciman, Lucy Grealy (nonfiction/poetry), Suzannah Lessard, Russ Rymer
 * Poetry: James L. McMichael, Mary Ruefle

Elsewhere

 * New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Michele Leggott, Dia
 * Montana Book Award for Poetry: Michael Jackson, Pieces of Music
 * Premio Nadal: Ignacio Carrión Hernández, Cruzar el Danubio
 * Premio San Clemente: Xurxo Borrazás, Vicious

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1994 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994.

Events

 * October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book How Late It Was, How Late as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial. One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Mogadon" the following week.
 * November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman.
 * December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn) is founded in Reykjavík by merging the former national library, Landsbókasafn Íslands, established in 1818, with the university library of 1940.
 * unknown dates
 * Penguin Books offer Peter James's novel Host on two floppy disks as "the world's first electronic novel".
 * The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

Fiction

 * Peter Ackroyd – Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
 * Nelson Algren (died 1981) – The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren (short stories)
 * Kevin J. Anderson
 * Champions of the Force
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Jedi Search
 * Reed Arvin – The Wind in the Wheat
 * Thomas Berger – Robert Crews
 * Louis de Bernières – Captain Corelli's Mandolin
 * Xurxo Borrazás – Vicious
 * Lily Brett – Just Like That
 * George Mackay Brown – Beside the Ocean of Time
 * Christopher Bulis – State of Change
 * James Chapman – Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand)
 * Tom Clancy – Debt of Honor
 * Jonathan Coe – What a Carve Up!
 * Michael Connelly – The Concrete Blonde
 * Paul Cornell
 * Goth Opera
 * No Future
 * Bernard Cornwell – Copperhead
 * Douglas Coupland – Life After God
 * Michael Crichton – Disclosure
 * Terrance Dicks – Blood Harvest
 * Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order
 * Bret Easton Ellis – The Informers
 * Valerio Evangelisti – Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore
 * David Frum – Dead Right
 * Stephen Fry – The Hippopotamus
 * William Gaddis – A Frolic of His Own
 * Neil Gaiman
 * The Sandman: Brief Lives (graphic novel, seventh in The Sandman series)
 * The Sandman: Worlds' End (graphic novel, eighth in The Sandman series)
 * Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean – Mr. Punch (graphic novel)
 * John Gardner – SeaFire
 * James Finn Garner – Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
 * David S. Garnett – Stargonauts
 * Mark Gatiss – St Anthony's Fire
 * Judith Godrèche – Point de côté
 * John Grisham – The Chamber
 * Romesh Gunesekera – Reef
 * Abdulrazak Gurnah – Paradise
 * Peter Handke – My Year in the No-Man's-Bay
 * Epeli Hau'ofa – Tales of the Tikongs
 * Dermot Healy – A Goat's Song
 * Joseph Heller – Closing Time
 * James Herbert – The Ghosts of Sleath
 * Craig Hinton – The Crystal Bucephalus
 * Alan Hollinghurst – The Folding Star
 * Nancy Huston – La Virevolte
 * John Irving – A Son of the Circus
 * Alexander Jablokov – The Breath of Suspension
 * James Kelman – How late it was, how late
 * Stephen King – Insomnia
 * Dean R. Koontz – Dark Rivers of the Heart
 * Joe R. Lansdale – Mucho Mojo
 * Andy Lane – All-Consuming Fire
 * Ursula K. Le Guin – "The Matter of Seggri" (in Crank!)
 * Madeleine L'Engle – Troubling a Star
 * Paul Leonard – Venusian Lullaby
 * Jonathan Lethem – Gun, with Occasional Music
 * H. P. Lovecraft – Miscellaneous Writings
 * Steve Lyons – Conundrum
 * F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre – The Woman Between the Worlds
 * David A. McIntee – First Frontier
 * Javier Marías – Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí)
 * Simon Messingham – Strange England
 * James A. Michener – Recessional
 * Rick Moody – The Ice Storm
 * Jim Mortimore – Parasite
 * Herta Müller – The Land of Green Plums
 * Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) – Piercing (ピアッシング, English translation 2007)
 * Tim O'Brien – In the Lake of the Woods
 * Daniel O'Mahony – Falls the Shadow
 * V. S. Naipaul – A Way in the World
 * John Peel – Evolution
 * Ellis Peters – Brother Cadfael's Penance
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Interesting Times
 * Soul Music
 * Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津) – Notes of a Crocodile
 * James Redfield – The Celestine Prophecy
 * Matthew Reilly – Contest
 * Justin Richards – Theatre of War
 * Gareth Roberts – Tragedy Day
 * Gary Russell – Legacy
 * Sidney Sheldon – Nothing Lasts Forever
 * Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries
 * Michael Slade – Ripper
 * S. P. Somtow – Jasmine Nights
 * Danielle Steel
 * Accident
 * The Gift
 * Wings
 * Botho Strauß – Living Glimmering Lying
 * Antonio Tabucchi – Pereira Maintains (Sostiene Pereira)
 * William Trevor – Felicia's Journey
 * John Updike – Brazil
 * Andrew Vachss – Down in the Zero
 * Marlene van Niekerk – Triomf
 * Jill Paton Walsh – Knowledge of Angels
 * Tim Winton – The Riders

Children and young people

 * Pamela Allen – Clippity-Clop
 * Chris Van Allsburg – The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
 * Nancy Farmer – The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
 * Mem Fox – Tough Boris
 * Gayle Greeno – Mind-Speakers' Call
 * Donald Hall (with Barry Moser)
 * The Farm Summer 1942
 * I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat
 * Julius Lester –John Henry
 * J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – The Christmas of the Reddle Moon
 * Sam McBratney – Guess How Much I Love You (board book)
 * Andre Norton (with Martin H. Greenberg and Braldt Bralds) – Catfantastic III
 * Glyn Parry –Monster Man
 * Gloria Jean Pinkney –The Sunday Outing
 * Jennifer Rowe (as Mary-Anne Dickinson) – The Charm Bracelet (first in the Fairy Realm series of ten books)
 * Francesca Simon – Horrid Henry (first in the eponymous series of 24 books)
 * Paul and Henrietta Stickland – Dinosaur Roar!
 * Amy Tan – Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
 * Jacqueline Wilson – Freddy's Teddy (first in the eponymous series of four books)

Drama

 * Marina Carr – The Mai
 * Kevin Elyot – My Night With Reg
 * Jon Fosse – Og aldri skal vi skiljast (And We'll Never Be Parted)
 * Terry Johnson – Dead Funny
 * Arthur Miller – Broken Glass
 * Yasmina Reza – Art

Poetry

 * Sophie Cabot Black – The Misunderstanding of Nature

Non-fiction

 * Michael Asher – Thesiger
 * Alan Bennett – Writing Home
 * John Berendt – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
 * Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
 * Denise Chong – The Concubine's Children
 * Antonio Damasio – Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
 * Anne Hugon – Vers Tombouctou : L'Afrique des explorateurs II
 * Paul Lawrence Farber – Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson
 * Leon Forrest – Relocations of the Spirit: Collected Essays
 * V. A. C. Gatrell – The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1780–1868
 * Martin Gilbert – In Search of Churchill
 * Christina Hoff Sommers – Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women
 * Will Hutton – The State We're In
 * Richard Leakey – The Origin of Humankind
 * Li Zhisui (邱妙津) – The Private Life of Chairman Mao
 * Steven Pinker – The Language Instinct
 * Tricia Rose – Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
 * Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
 * Richard B. Trask – Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy
 * Gabrielle van Zuylen – The Garden: Visions of Paradise
 * Charles P. Cozic – Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
 * Elizabeth Wurtzel – Prozac Nation

Births

 * April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist
 * June 25 – Robbie Coburn, Australian poet
 * October 16 - Alice Oseman, English author of young adult fiction

Deaths

 * January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American horror, fantasy and sci-fi writer (born 1901)
 * January 30 – Pierre Boulle, French novelist (born 1912)
 * January 31 – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (born 1912)
 * February 6 – Jack Kirby, American comic book cartoonist (born 1917)
 * February 11 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher of science (born 1924)
 * February 26 – J. L. Carr, English novelist (born 1912)
 * February 27 – Harold Acton, English writer, scholar and dilettante (born 1904)
 * March 9 – Charles Bukowski, German-born American poet and novelist (born 1920)
 * March 20 – Lewis Grizzard, American journalist and author (born 1946)
 * March 28 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian playwright (born 1909)
 * April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American scholar and writer (born 1914)
 * May 24 – John Wain, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1925)
 * May 30
 * Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (born 1909)
 * Isobel English (June Guesdon Jolliffe), English novelist (born 1920)
 * June 7 – Dennis Potter, English TV dramatist (born 1935)
 * June 17 – Yuri Nagibin, Soviet screenwriter and novelist (born 1920)
 * June 26 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist (born 1929)
 * July 5 – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Malayalam short story writer (born 1908)
 * July 30 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English novelist (born 1931)
 * August 7 – Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer (born 1898)
 * August 14 – Alice Childress, African American playwright, actress and young-adult novelist (born 1916)
 * August 25 – Bidhyanath Pokhrel, Nepali poet (born 1918)
 * September 7 – James Clavell, Australian-born American novelist (born 1921)
 * November 12 – J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes), Scottish novelist and critic (born 1906)
 * November 15 – Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (born 1908)
 * November 28 – Ian Serraillier, English novelist and poet (born 1912)
 * December 12 – Donna J. Stone, American poet and philanthropist (born 1933)
 * December 20 – Eva Alexanderson, Swedish novelist and translator (born 1911)
 * December 24 – John Osborne, English dramatist (born 1929)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburō Ōe
 * Europe Theatre Prize: Heiner Müller
 * Camões Prize: Jorge Amado

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Darren Williams, Swimming In Silk
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Certain Things
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Barry Hill, Ghosting William Buckley
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Deborah Staines, Now, Millennium
 * Miles Franklin Award: Rodney Hall, The Grisly Wife

Canada

 * Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
 * Edna Staebler Award: Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life,
 * Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets
 * See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Didier Van Cauwelaert, Un Aller simple
 * Prix Décembre: Jean Hatzfeld, L'Air de guerre and Éric Holder, La Belle Jardinière
 * Prix Médicis French: Yves Berger, Immobile dans le courant du fleuve
 * Prix Médicis International: Robert Schneider, Frère Sommeil

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Doris Lessing, Under My Skin
 * Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
 * Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland
 * Whitbread Best Book Award: William Trevor, Felicia's Journey

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry
 * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award: Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
 * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter"
 * Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage
 * Compton Crook Award: Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands
 * National Book Award for Fiction: William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
 * National Book Critics Circle Award: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
 * Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Moving Mars
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, The Giver
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
 * Wallace Stevens Award inaugurated with first award this year: W. S. Merwin
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Louis Edward, Mary Hood, Randall Kenan (fiction/nonfiction), Kate Wheeler
 * Nonfiction: Kennedy Fraser, Wayne Koestenbaum (nonfiction/poetry), Rosemary Mahoney, Claudia Roth Pierpont
 * Poetry: Mark Doty, Mary Swander (poetry/nonfiction)

Elsewhere

 * Montana Book Award for Poetry: Bill Manhire, ed., 100 New Zealand Poems
 * New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Andrew Johnston, How to Talk
 * Premio Nadal: Rosa Regàs, Azul
 * Premio de la Crítica de narrativa gallega: Xurxo Borrazás, Vicious

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Christian Herter

Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939. His moderate tone of negotiations was confronted by the intensity of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a series of unpleasant episodes that turned the Cold War even colder in 1960–61.

Early life
Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the École Alsacienne there (1901–1904) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School (1904–1911). He graduated from Harvard College in 1915 and did graduate work in architecture and interior design at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation before joining the diplomatic corps.

Herter married the wealthy heiress Mary Caroline Pratt (1895–1980) in 1917. She was the daughter of Frederic B. Pratt, longtime head of the Pratt Institute and granddaughter of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt. They had three sons and one daughter, including Christian A. Herter, Jr., who was active in international relations.

Diplomatic career
He was made attaché to the Embassy of the United States, Berlin, and was briefly arrested while in Mainz as a possible spy. He was part of the US delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he helped draft the Covenant of the League of Nations. Later, he was the assistant to Herbert Hoover in providing starvation relief to postwar Europe. Herter went on to work for Hoover when Hoover became Secretary of Commerce in the Harding Administration. Herter also participated in the 1919 meeting that resulted in creating the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

Herter hated working for the scandal-ridden administration of President Harding, and returned to Boston, where he was a magazine editor and lecturer on international affairs.

Political career

In 1930, Herter was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served for 12 years. In 1942, he sought the Massachusetts 10th district seat in the US House of Representatives, held by George H. Tinkham, whose isolationist views made him vulnerable during World War II. Once Herter entered the contest, Tinkham withdrew and so opened the way for Herter to be elected. Although he was critical of Franklin D. Roosevelt's liberal New Deal, Herter distinguished himself from 1943 to 1953 primarily for his stand on foreign affairs, especially in the so-called Herter Committee in 1947; its report initiated proposals that led to Harry Truman's Marshall Plan. In those years, he refused to support the permanence of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1947, Herter founded the Middle East Institute with Middle East scholar George Camp Keiser and then served on the board of trustees of the World Peace Foundation. He led bipartisan support for President Truman's Point Four Program giving technological help to poor countries.

Herter served five terms in Congress. In 1952, he ran successfully for governor of Massachusetts, narrowly defeating incumbent Governor Paul A. Dever.

Herter was re-elected governor in 1954, defeating Massachusetts House Minority Leader Robert F. Murphy. He chose not to seek a third term in 1956.

Diplomatic career
On February 21, 1957, Herter was appointed Under Secretary of State for the second term of the Eisenhower administration; later, when John Foster Dulles became seriously ill, he was appointed Secretary of State, April 22, 1959. Dulles died a month later. Herter himself suffered from severe arthritis, forcing him to use crutches when walking.

Herter's main diplomatic challenges included escalating crises over the status of West Berlin in the Cold War; difficult negotiations with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, especially regarding the Soviet downing of the U-2 spy plane; the collapse of the Paris Summit conference; and the early stages of American efforts to divert Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution away from communism. There were smaller crises around the world including a Civil War in the Congo. Herter's careful, cautious approach matched Eisenhower's preferences, emphasizing negotiation in response to bellicosity from the Kremlin. Despite the soft language, Herter supported strong policies against Cuba, and a refusal to compromise on Berlin. During his visit to West Berlin in July 1959, Herter was enthusiastically celebrated by over 100,000 people in the streets.

After leaving office he chaired a blue ribbon committee on State Department personnel, and was one of President John F. Kennedy's representatives for trade negotiations.

As an unemployed "elder statesman" after the election of 1960, Herter served on various councils and commissions, and was a special representative for trade negotiations, working for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson until his death.

Secretary Herter was also an active Freemason. He was a member of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Christian Herter's lifetime reputation was as an internationalist, especially interested in improving political and economic relations with Europe.

He died on December 30, 1966, at his home in Washington, D.C., at the age of 71. He is buried at the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Millis, Massachusetts.

Legacy
In 1943, with Paul Nitze (a distant cousin by marriage), Herter co-founded the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), which incorporated with the Johns Hopkins University in 1950.

In 1968, the American Foreign Service Association established its Christian A. Herter Award to honor senior diplomats who speak out or otherwise challenge the status quo. In 1948 Herter received an LL.D. from Bates College.

The World Affairs Council of Boston ("WorldBoston" as of 2002), which Christian Herter helped organize in the 1940s, also has a Christian A. Herter Award honoring individual contributions to international relations.

The Christian A. Herter Memorial Scholarship Program is a sponsored by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to recruit 10th and 11th grade students whose socio-economic backgrounds and environmental conditions may inhibit their ability to pursue higher education. Each year, 25 students in the 10th and 11th grades are selected to receive awards of up to 50 percent (50%) of their calculated need at the college of their choice within the continental United States.

Herter Park in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts is named in Herter's honor. A University of Massachusetts Amherst building devoted to the teaching of history and other liberal arts is named "Herter Hall" after the statesman as well.

Herter was the last serving Secretary of State born in the 19th century.

Books

 * Christian Herter, Toward an Atlantic Community (1963)

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1993 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993.

Events

 * September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi.
 * November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel The Shipping News.
 * unknown dates
 * Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Cranes' Morning appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994.
 * Professor Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on The Sunday Times UK bestseller list.
 * Reality television contest Million's Poet (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates.
 * Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's Bajazet is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre.
 * The Guodian Chu Slips, including the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, a chapter from the Book of Rites, content from the Book of Documents and the previously lost Xing Zi Ming Chu, written on bamboo and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period), are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China).

Fiction

 * Stephen Ambrose – Band of Brothers
 * Jeffrey Archer – Honour Among Thieves
 * David Banks – Iceberg
 * Iain Banks – Complicity
 * Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door
 * Greg Bear – Moving Mars
 * Daniel Blythe – The Dimension Riders
 * William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon
 * Sandra Boynton – Barnyard Dance!
 * Christopher Bulis – Shadowmind
 * Anthony Burgess – A Dead Man in Deptford
 * Ramsey Campbell – Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
 * Tom Clancy – Without Remorse
 * Deborah Joy Corey – Losing Eddie
 * Bernard Cornwell – Rebel
 * Robert Crais – Free Fall
 * Maurice G. Dantec – La Sirène rouge
 * Peter Darvill-Evans – Deceit
 * Hollace Davids and Paul Davids – Mission from Mount Yoda
 * Lindsey Davis – Poseidon's Gold
 * L. Sprague de Camp – Rivers of Time
 * Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
 * Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
 * Helen Dunmore – Zennor in Darkness
 * Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – Deep River (深い河)
 * Steve Erickson – Arc d'X
 * Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
 * Richard Paul Evans – The Christmas Box
 * Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
 * Amanda Filipacchi – Nude Men
 * Neil Gaiman
 * The Sandman: A Game of You (graphic novel; fifth in The Sandman series)
 * The Sandman: Fables & Reflections (graphic novel; sixth in The Sandman series)
 * John Gardner – Never Send Flowers
 * Ernest Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying
 * William Gibson – Virtual Light
 * John Grisham – The Client
 * Hal (a Macintosh IIcx computer) and Scott French (programmer) – Just This Once
 * Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Museum of Happiness
 * Stephen King – Nightmares & Dreamscapes
 * Nancy Kress – The Aliens of Earth
 * John le Carré – The Night Manager
 * Lois Lowry – The Giver
 * Robert Ludlum – The Scorpio Illusion
 * Amin Maalouf – Le Rocher de Tanios
 * David A. McIntee – White Darkness
 * Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero
 * David Malouf – Remembering Babylon
 * Gita Mehta – A River Sutra (short stories)
 * Jim Mortimore
 * Blood Heat
 * (with Andy Lane) – Lucifer Rising
 * Taslima Nasrin – Lajja
 * Patrick O'Brian – Clarissa Oakes
 * Kate Orman – The Left-Handed Hummingbird
 * Tim Pears – In the Place of Fallen Leaves
 * Neil Penswick – The Pit
 * Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms
 * E. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News
 * Jean Raspail – Sept cavaliers
 * Ishmael Reed – Japanese by Spring
 * Anne Rice – Lasher
 * Gareth Roberts – The Highest Science
 * J. Jill Robinson – Lovely In Her Bones
 * Nigel Robinson – Birthright
 * W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants
 * Will Self – My Idea of Fun
 * Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
 * Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
 * Ahdaf Soueif – In the Eye of the Sun
 * Danielle Steel – Vanished
 * Emil Tode (Tõnu Õnnepalu) – Piiririik (Border State)
 * Jesús Torbado – El peregrino
 * Sue Townsend – Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
 * Scott Turow – Pleading Guilty
 * Kathy Tyers – The Truce at Bakura
 * Buket Uzuner – The Sound of Fishsteps (Balık İzlerinin Sesi)
 * Andrew Vachss – Shella
 * Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes)
 * Ivan Vladislavic – The Folly
 * Robert James Waller – Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
 * Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting
 * Herman Wouk – The Hope
 * Austin Wright – Tony and Susan
 * Timothy Zahn – The Last Command
 * Roger Zelazny – A Night in the Lonesome October

Children and young people

 * Janet and Allan Ahlberg – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
 * Nelson Algren (posthumous) – He Swung and He Missed
 * Chris Van Allsburg – The Sweetest Fig
 * Malorie Blackman – Operation Gadgetman!
 * Susan Cooper – The Boggart
 * Richard Dalby – Mistletoe & Mayhem: Horrific Tales for the Holidays
 * Mem Fox – Time for Bed
 * Cornelia Funke – Wild Chicks
 * Johanna Hurwitz – New Shoes for Silvia
 * Jim Murphy – Across America on an Emigrant Train
 * Larry Niven (with Alicia Austin) – Bridging the Galaxies
 * Rodman Philbrick – Freak the Mighty
 * Allen Say – Grandfather's Journey
 * Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great and the Pillowcase
 * Francisco Calvo Serraller (with Willi Glasauer) – Grandes Maestros de la Pintura
 * Theresa Tomlinson – The Forestwife (first in the Forestwife trilogy)
 * Nancy Willard – A Starlit Somersault Downhill

Drama

 * Parv Bancil – Ungrateful Dead
 * April De Angelis – Playhouse Creatures
 * David Hare – The Absence of War
 * Tom Stoppard – Arcadia

Poetry

 * Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
 * Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems
 * Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling: 1978–1987)

Non-fiction

 * Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
 * Khursheed Kamal Aziz – The Murder of History in Pakistan: A critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan
 * Malcolm Bradbury – The Modern British Novel
 * Richard Dawkins – Viruses of the Mind
 * Shobha De and Khushwant Singh – Uncertain Liaisons
 * Alain Erlande-Brandenburg – Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages
 * Alexandre Farnoux – Cnossos : L'archéologie d'un rêve
 * Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary
 * Bob Flowerdew – The Organic Gardener
 * Tamala Krishna Goswami – Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
 * Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson and Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes
 * Laënnec Hurbon – Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy
 * Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life
 * Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi – The God Particle
 * James Lees-Milne – People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust
 * Michel Maffesoli – The Contemplation of the World
 * Jean Marigny – Vampires: The World of the Undead
 * Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics
 * Ram Swarup – Hindu View of Christianity and Islam
 * Miranda Seymour – Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
 * Howard Stern – Private Parts
 * Walter Stewart – Too Big to Fail
 * Margaret Thatcher – The Downing Street Years
 * Gordon S. Wood – The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Births

 * July 3 - Hayeon Lim, South Korean author
 * July 5 - Leah Johnson, American author
 * August 1 - Tomi Adeyemi, Nigerian–American novelist
 * August 26 - Nancy Yi Fan, Chinese American author
 * December 22 - Leema Dhar, Indian poet and novelist
 * unknown date - Idza Luhumyo, Kenyan short story writer

Deaths

 * January 6 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter (born 1918)
 * January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, etc.), English historical novelist (born 1906)
 * January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部 公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924)
 * January 29 – Gustav Hasford, American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (born 1947)
 * February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
 * March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods (born 1909)
 * March 10 – Dan Simonescu, Romanian literary historian and bibliographer (born 1902)
 * March 16 – Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist (b. 1923)
 * April 15
 * Leslie Charteris, Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907)
 * Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (born 1929)
 * April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (born 1914)
 * May 6 – Dorothy B. Hughes, American crime writer and critic (born 1904)
 * June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911)
 * July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (born 1901)
 * August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian (born 1924)
 * September – Leonte Răutu, Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor (born 1910)
 * September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1924)
 * September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet (born 1920)
 * November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist (born 1917)
 * November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)
 * December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist (born 1903)
 * December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (born 1904)
 * December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer (possible suicide, born 1913)
 * Unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
 * Camões Prize: Rachel de Queiroz

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed The Paper
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Jill Jones, The Mask and Jagged Star
 * Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game

Canada

 * See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list
 * Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Liza Potvin (co-winner), White Lies (for my mother)
 * Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in Havana

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios
 * Prix Décembre: René de Obaldia. Exobiographie
 * Prix Médicis French: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Sa femme
 * Prix Médicis International: Paul Auster, Leviathan

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
 * Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
 * Whitbread Book Award: Joan Brady, Theory of War
 * The Sunday Express Book of the Year: William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Saj, Red Under the Skin
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters gold Medal for Belles Lettres, Elizabeth Hardwick
 * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"
 * Compton Crook Award: Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
 * Frost Medal: William Stafford
 * National Book Award for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
 * National Book Critics Circle Award: Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
 * Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Dagoberto Gilb, Sigrid Nunez, Janet Peery, Lisa Shea
 * Plays: Kevin Kling
 * Poetry: Mark Levine, Nathaniel Mackey (poetry/fiction), Dionisio D. Martinez, Kathleen Peirce

 * Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 (March 13): Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Schindler's List

Elsewhere

 * Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal

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1992 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.

Events

 * July – The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States.
 * August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of Abkhazia in Sukhumi during the War in Abkhazia by Georgian forces.
 * August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annihilated during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska.
 * September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction The English Patient is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018.

Fiction

 * Ben Aaronovitch – Transit
 * Tariq Ali – Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
 * Paul Auster – Leviathan
 * Iain Banks – The Crow Road
 * Clive Barker – The Thief of Always
 * Julian Barnes – The Porcupine
 * Greg Bear – Anvil of Stars
 * Thomas Berger – Meeting Evil
 * Louis de Bernières – The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
 * James P. Blaylock – Lord Kelvin's Machine
 * Pascal Bruckner – The Divine Child
 * A. S. Byatt – Morpho Eugenia
 * Roger Caron – Dreamcaper
 * Andrew Cartmel – Cat's Cradle: Warhead
 * Patrick Chamoiseau – Texaco
 * Paulo Coelho – The Valkyries
 * Michael Connelly – The Black Echo
 * Hugh Cook
 * The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster
 * The Worshippers and the Way
 * Paul Cornell – Love and War
 * Bernard Cornwell
 * Sharpe's Devil
 * Scoundrel
 * Douglas Coupland – Shampoo Planet
 * Mia Couto – Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula)
 * Robert Crais – Lullaby Town
 * L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – The Enchanter Reborn
 * Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run with the Wolves
 * Elena Ferrante – L'amore molesto (Troubling Love)
 * Tibor Fischer – Under the Frog
 * Leon Forrest – Divine Days
 * John Gardner – Death is Forever
 * Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Season of Mists (graphic novel; volume 4 of The Sandman series)
 * Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – Signal to Noise (graphic novel)
 * Cristina García – Dreaming in Cuban
 * Mark Gatiss – Nightshade
 * Ann Granger – Cold in the Earth
 * Alasdair Gray – Poor Things
 * John Grisham – The Pelican Brief
 * Hella Haasse – Heren van de thee (The Tea Lords)
 * Victor Headley – Yardie
 * Andrew Hunt – Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
 * Simon Ings – Hot Head
 * P. D. James – The Children of Men
 * Denis Johnson – Jesus' Son (short story collection)
 * John Kessel – Meeting in Infinity
 * Stephen King
 * Dolores Claiborne
 * Gerald's Game
 * Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy
 * Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses (Book 1 of the Border Trilogy)
 * Val McDermid – Dead Beat
 * Ian McEwan – Black Dogs
 * Terry McMillan – Waiting to Exhale
 * Javier Marías – A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco)
 * Andrés L. Mateo – La Balada de Alfonsina Bairán
 * Rohinton Mistry – Tales from Firozsha Baag
 * Caitlin Moran – The Chronicles of Narmo
 * Toni Morrison – Jazz
 * Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
 * Ellis Peters – The Holy Thief
 * Marc Platt – Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Lords and Ladies
 * Small Gods
 * Anne Rice – The Tale of the Body Thief
 * Mordecai Richler – Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
 * Jennifer Roberson – Lady of the Forest
 * Robert Schneider – Schlafes Bruder
 * Patricia Schonstein – A Time of Angels
 * W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen)
 * Gail Sheehy – Silent Passage
 * Sidney Sheldon – The Stars Shine Down
 * Michael Slade – Cutthroat
 * Danielle Steel
 * Jewels
 * Mixed Blessings
 * Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
 * Adam Thorpe – Ulverton
 * Sue Townsend – The Queen and I
 * Rose Tremain – Sacred Country
 * Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
 * John Updike – Memories of the Ford Administration
 * Gore Vidal – Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal
 * Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep
 * Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County
 * Connie Willis – Doomsday Book
 * Timothy Zahn – Dark Force Rising
 * Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas – Flare
 * Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
 * El último día del mundo (The last day of the world)
 * Misterios de las noches y los días (Mysteries of the nights and days; short stories)

Children and young people

 * Pamela Allen – Belinda
 * Chris Van Allsburg – The Widow's Broom
 * Gillian Cross – The Great Elephant Chase
 * Garry Disher – The Bamboo Flute
 * Anne Fine – Flour Babies
 * Jamila Gavin – The Wheel of Surya (first in the Surya trilogy)
 * Rumer Godden
 * Great Grandfather's House
 * Listen to the Nightingale
 * Virginia Hamilton (with Jerry Pinkney) – Drylongso
 * William Mayne – Low Tide
 * Gerald McDermott – Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa
 * Hilary McKay – The Exiles
 * Michael Morpurgo – Waiting for Anya
 * Barry Moser – Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
 * Jim Murphy – The Long Road to Gettysburg
 * Barbara Park – Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (first in the Junie B. Jones series)
 * Marcus Pfister – Rainbow Fish (Der Regenbogenfisch)
 * Gloria Jean Pinkney (with Jerry Pinkney) – Back Home
 * Marjorie W. Sharmat (with Marc Simont) – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
 * Ulf Stark – Can You Whistle, Johanna? (Kan du vissla Johanna?)
 * Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – Sauron Defeated
 * Judith Vigna – Black Like Kyra White Like Me
 * Martin Waddell – Owl Babies
 * Nancy Willard (with Barry Moser) – Beauty and the Beast
 * Douglas Wood – Old Turtle
 * Susan Meddaugh – Martha Speaks

Drama

 * Herb Gardner – Conversations with My Father
 * Peter Handke – Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other)
 * David Mamet – Oleanna
 * Louis Nowra – Così
 * Zlatko Topčić – Musa And The Goat (radio version)
 * Michael Wall – Women Laughing
 * Peter Whelan – The School of Night

Poetry

 * Ben Okri – An African Elegy

Non-fiction

 * Nelson Algren (died 1981) – America Eats (travel book, written 1930s)
 * Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
 * Bill Bryson – Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
 * Linda Colley – Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837
 * Esther Delisle – The Traitor and the Jew (Le Traître et le Juif: Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929–1939)
 * Daniel Dennett – Consciousness Explained
 * Eamon Duffy – The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400 to c. 1580
 * Gerina Dunwich – Secrets of Love Magick
 * Christiane Éluère – The Celts: First Masters of Europe
 * John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
 * Elizabeth Hay – The Only Snow in Havana
 * Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
 * Charles Jennings - Up North
 * Neil Lyndon – No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism
 * Andrew Morton – Diana: Her True Story
 * Mark E. Neely, Jr. – The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
 * Liza Potvin – White Lies (for my mother)
 * Léon Werth (died 1955) – 33 Jours (written 1940)
 * Michael Jackson – Dancing the Dream

Anthologies

 * Margaret Busby (ed.) – Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present

Births

 * March 4 - Gaurav Sharma, Indian author
 * April 14 - Naoise Dolan, Irish novelist
 * August 12 - Naoki Higashida, Japanese autistic author
 * September 18 - Jidanun Lueangpiansamut, Thai writer
 * October 5 - Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
 * October 30 - Édouard Louis, French writer
 * November 11 - Aya Mansour, Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist

Deaths

 * January 4 – Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born 1915)
 * January 9 – Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
 * January 4 – John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
 * January 14 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born 1909)
 * January 28 – Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
 * February 10 – Alex Haley, African-American writer (born 1921)
 * February 16
 * Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)
 * George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
 * April 4 – Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer (born 1915)
 * April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)
 * April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)
 * April 28 – Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
 * May 22 – Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
 * July 6 – Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
 * July 22 – Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
 * July 23 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (born 1908)
 * August 4 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born 1909)
 * August 29 – Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
 * September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
 * November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)
 * November 17 – Audre Lorde, American poet, writer and feminist (born 1934)
 * December 22 – Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
 * December 25 – Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
 * December 27 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and activist (born 1902)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Derek Walcott
 * Camões Prize: Vergílio Ferreira

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Fotini Epanomitis, The Mule's Foal
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon, This is the Stone
 * Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Cloudstreet

Canada

 * See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Marie Wadden, Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco
 * Prix Décembre: Henri Thomas, La Chasse au trésor and Roger Grenier, Regardez la neige qui tombe
 * Prix Médicis French: Michel Rio, Tlacuilo
 * Prix Médicis International: Louis Begley, Une éducation polonaise

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Flour Babies
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rose Tremain, Sacred Country
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
 * Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis
 * Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine
 * Whitbread Best Book Award: Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
 * The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
 * Forward Prizes for Poetry (first awards): Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (collection); Simon Armitage, Kid (first collection); Jackie Kay, "Black Bottom" (single poem)

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Sam Shepard
 * Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
 * Compton Crook Award: Carol Severance, Reefsong
 * Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow
 * National Book Award for Fiction: to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
 * National Book Critics Circle Award: to Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
 * Nebula Award: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Mao II by Don DeLillo
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: R.S. Jones, J.S. Marcus, Damien Wilkins
 * Nonfiction: Eva Hoffman, Katha Pollitt (poetry/nonfiction)
 * Plays: Suzan-Lori Parks, Keith Reddin, José Rivera
 * Poetry: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead

Elsewhere

 * Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, Ciegas esperanzas

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1991 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1991.

Events

 * February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre, London.
 * July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book.
 * October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in New Writing Scotland. It is later incorporated into Trainspotting.
 * November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fournier, 77 years after his death as Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier in World War I. His bones are interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.

Fiction

 * Julia Alvarez – How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
 * Martin Amis – Time's Arrow: or the Nature of the Offence
 * Piers Anthony
 * Tatham Mound
 * Question Quest
 * Virtual Mode
 * Jeffrey Archer – As the Crow Flies
 * Beryl Bainbridge – The Birthday Boys
 * Clive Barker – Imajica
 * Pat Barker – Regeneration
 * Julian Barnes – Talking It Over
 * Louis Begley – Wartime Lies
 * Louis de Bernières – Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
 * Xurxo Borrazás – Cabeza de chorlito
 * A. S. Byatt – Possession: A Romance
 * Agatha Christie (d. 1976) – 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 (1992 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
 * Terrance Dicks – Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Assia Djebar – Far from Medina (Loin de Médine)
 * Stephen R. Donaldson
 * The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story
 * The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge
 * Roddy Doyle – The Van
 * Kaori Ekuni (江國 香織) – Kirakira Hikaru (Twinkle, Twinkle)
 * Bret Easton Ellis – American Psycho
 * Joy Fielding – See Jane Run
 * Stephen Fry – The Liar
 * Diana Gabaldon – Outlander
 * Neil Gaiman
 * The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (graphic novel; volume 1 in The Sandman series)
 * The Sandman: Dream Country (graphic novel; volume 3 in The Sandman series)
 * 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, 1973)
 * Mark Jacobson – Gojiro (The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans)
 * Stephen King – Needful Things
 * John le Carré – The Secret Pilgrim
 * Leslie Marmon Silko – Almanac of the Dead
 * Penelope Lively – City of the Mind
 * Morgan Llywelyn – Druids
 * James A. Michener – Mexico
 * Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey
 * Timothy Mo – The Redundancy of Courage
 * Cees Nooteboom – The Following Story
 * Ben Okri – The Famished Road (1991 Booker Prize)
 * Leonardo Padura Fuentes – Pasado perfecto (translated as Havana Blue)
 * John Peel – Timewyrm: Genesys
 * Tito Perdue – Lee
 * Ellis Peters – The Summer of the Danes
 * Marge Piercy – He, She and It
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Reaper Man
 * Witches Abroad
 * Jean Raspail – Sire
 * Alexandra Ripley – Scarlett
 * J. Jill Robinson – Saltwater Trees
 * Nigel Robinson – Timewyrm: Apocalypse
 * Bernice Rubens – A Solitary Grief
 * Norman Rush – Mating (1991 National Book Award for Fiction)
 * José Saramago – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo)
 * Michael Shaara (posthumously) – For Love of the Game
 * Sidney Sheldon – The Doomsday Conspiracy
 * Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres (1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
 * Danielle Steel – Heartbeat
 * James B. Stewart – Den of Thieves
 * Michael Swanwick – Gravity's Angels
 * Antonio Tabucchi – Requiem: A Hallucination
 * Amy Tan – The Kitchen God's Wife
 * Andrew Vachss – Sacrifice
 * Bernard Werber – Empire of the Ants (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

Children and young people

 * Arnold Adoff – In for Winter, Out for Spring
 * Chris Van Allsburg – The Wretched Stone
 * Avi – Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel
 * Margaret Barbalet (illustrated by Jane Tanner) – The Wolf
 * Berlie Doherty – Dear Nobody
 * Sarah Ellis – Pick-Up Sticks
 * Karen Wynn Fonstad (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) - The Atlas of Middle-earth
 * Jostein Gaarder – Sophie's World (Sofies verden), English translation 1995
 * Sonia Levitin – The Man Who Kept His Heart in a Bucket
 * Jacqueline Wilson – The Story of Tracy Beaker (first in the Tracy Beaker series of six books)
 * G. Clifton Wisler – Red Cap

Drama

 * Ariel Dorfman – Death and the Maiden
 * Tony Kushner – Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (first part premières)
 * Mustapha Matura – The Coup
 * Philip Ridley – The Pitchfork Disney
 * Neil Simon – Lost in Yonkers
 * George Tabori – Goldberg Variations
 * Timberlake Wertenbaker – Three Birds Alighting on a Field

Non-fiction

 * Dionne Brand – No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario
 * Marjorie Chibnall – Empress Matilda
 * Henry Steele Commager – Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples
 * Jung Chang (張戎) – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
 * Françoise Dunand – Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity
 * Koenraad Elst – Ayodhya and after: issues before Hindu society
 * Dave Foreman – Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
 * Robert Hart – Forest Gardening: Rediscovering Nature and Community in a Post-Industrial Age
 * Albert Hourani – A History of the Arab Peoples
 * Anne Hugon – The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape
 * Pauline Kael – Movie Love
 * Alan Macfarlane – The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616–1683
 * Madonna – Sex
 * Robert K. Massie – Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
 * Taslima Nasrin – Jabo na keno? jabo
 * P.J. O'Rourke – Parliament of Whores
 * Thomas Pakenham – The Scramble for Africa
 * William Pokhlyobkin – A History of Vodka
 * John Richardson – A Life of Picasso
 * Simon Schama – Dead Certainties
 * Art Spiegelman – Maus: A Survivor's Tale (II: And Here My Troubles Began) (graphic biography/autobiography)
 * Georges Tate – L'Orient des Croisades
 * Marie Wadden – Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
 * Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
 * Zhang Chengzhi – History of the Soul

Births

 * January 23 – Jonahmae Panen Pacala (known as Jonaxx), Filipino Wattpad author
 * April 1 – Kat Zhang, American young-adult and middle-grade fiction writer
 * April 20 – Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Dutch novelist and poet
 * unknown dates
 * Gabriel Bergmoser, Australian author, playwright and screenwriter
 * Chibundu Onuzo, Nigerian novelist
 * Sally Rooney, Irish fiction writer

Deaths

 * January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet (born 1905)
 * January 23 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (born 1912)
 * January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese novelist (born 1907)
 * February 1 – Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar, Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet (born 1916)
 * February 16 – Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi, Saudi Arabian journalist, literary critic and official (born 1905)
 * February 24 – John Daly, American journalist and game show host (born 1914)
 * March 2 – Mary Howard (Mary Mussi), English romance novelist (born 1907)
 * March 14 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (born 1905)
 * March 22 – Paul Engle, American poet and novelist (born 1908)
 * April 3 – Graham Greene, English novelist (born 1904)
 * April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (born 1911)
 * April 5 – Eve Garnett, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1900)
 * April 12 – James Schuyler, American poet (born 1923)
 * April 15 – Dante Milano, Brazilian modernist poet (born 1899)
 * May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (born 1933; suicide)
 * May 31 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (born 1913)
 * June 24 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)
 * July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (born 1920)
 * July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (born 1902)
 * August 1 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (born 1927)
 * August 13 – John Sommerfield, English communist writer (born 1908)
 * August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (born 1922)
 * September 4
 * Peggy Ramsay, British theatrical agent (born 1908)
 * Tom Tryon, American actor and writer (born 1926)
 * September 24 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American children's writer (born 1904)
 * September 27 – Roy Fuller, English poet (born 1912)
 * October 7 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (born 1916)
 * October 11 – Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, American performance poet (born 1950; suicide)
 * October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer (born 1925)
 * October 16 – Leon Levițchi, Romanian translator (born 1918)
 * October 27 – George Barker, English poet (born 1913)
 * November 29 – Frank Yerby, African American historical novelist (born 1916)
 * December 5 – Jack Trevor Story, English novelist (born 1917)
 * December 11 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author (born 1906)
 * December 27 – Hervé Guibert, French writer and photographer (born 1955)
 * Unknown date – Gogu Rădulescu, Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (born 1914)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer
 * Camões Prize: José Craveirinha

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
 * Miles Franklin Award: David Malouf, The Great World

Canada

 * See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
 * The Edna Staebler Award is established to honor the best literary work of creative non-fiction by a Canadian author who had published their first or second writing within the preceding year.
 * Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Susan Mayse, Ginger
 * Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime: Susan Mayse, Ginger

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du Calvaire
 * Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, Eau de café
 * Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, La Dérive des sentiments

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody
 * Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
 * Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
 * Guardian Fiction Award: Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iain Sinclair, Downriver
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
 * Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
 * The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Julia Kasdorf, Sleeping Preacher
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: John Frederick Nims
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: Richard Wilbur
 * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Donald Hall, The Museum of Clear Ideas
 * Compton Crook Award: Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind
 * Frost Medal: Donald Hall
 * Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit at Rest
 * Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, John Holman, Cynthia Kadohata, Rick Rofihe, J Anton Shammas (fiction/nonfiction)
 * Nonfiction: Stanley Crouch
 * Plays: Scott McPherson
 * Poetry: Thylias Moss, Franz Wright

Elsewhere

 * Premio Nadal: Alfredo Conde Cid, Los otros días

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1990 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1990.

Events

 * March – Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters opens at the Gate Theatre in Dublin with locally born Sinéad, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack in the title rôles and their father Cyril Cusack as Dr. Chebutykin.
 * March 20 – Stephen Blumberg is arrested for stealing more than 23,600 books in North America.
 * May 24 – Alicia Girón García is the first woman to become director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
 * c. June – J. K. Rowling has the idea for Harry Potter while on a train from Manchester to London: "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." She begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which will be completed in 1995 and published in 1997.
 * October – Nicci Gerrard marries Sean French in the London Borough of Hackney, to make up a writing team known as Nicci French.
 * Uncertain date – Austrian writer Ernest Bornemann is awarded the first Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual research.

Fiction

 * Felipe Alfau – Chromos (completed 1948)
 * Iain M. Banks – Use of Weapons
 * Greg Bear – Heads and Queen of Angels
 * Thomas Berger – Orrie's Story
 * Louis de Bernières – The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
 * William Boyd – Brazzaville Beach
 * Ray Bradbury – A Graveyard for Lunatics
 * John Bradshaw – Homecoming
 * A.S. Byatt – Possession (1990 Booker Prize winner)
 * Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger
 * Hugh Cook – The Wazir and the Witch and The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers
 * Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Waterloo and Crackdown
 * Michael Crichton – Jurassic Park
 * Jim Dodge – Stone Junction
 * Roddy Doyle – The Snapper
 * Dominick Dunne – An Inconvenient Woman
 * James Ellroy – L.A. Confidential
 * Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: The Doll's House (graphic novel; volume 2 of The Sandman series)
 * Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett – Good Omens
 * John Kenneth Galbraith – A Tenured Professor
 * John Gardner – Brokenclaw
 * Elizabeth George – Well-Schooled in Murder
 * Andrew Greeley – The Cardinal Virtues
 * Peter Høeg – Tales of the Night (Fortællinger om Natten)
 * Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Light Years, first of the Cazalet series
 * Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles 2
 * Marsha Hunt – Joy
 * Monica Hughes – Invitation to the Game
 * P. D. James – Devices and Desires
 * Charles Johnson – Middle Passage (1990 National Book Award for Fiction)
 * Robert Jordan – The Eye of the World
 * Jamaica Kincaid – Lucy
 * Stephen King – Four Past Midnight and The Stand ("The Complete & Uncut Edition")
 * Hanif Kureishi – The Buddha of Suburbia
 * Joe R Lansdale – Savage Season
 * Elmore Leonard – Get Shorty
 * Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Ultimatum
 * Ian McEwan – The Innocent
 * Patrick McGrath – Spider
 * Alan Moore and David Lloyd – V for Vendetta (graphic novel)
 * Brian Moore – Lies of Silence
 * Alice Munro – Friend of My Youth (short stories)
 * Tim O'Brien – The Things They Carried
 * Orhan Pamuk – The Black Book
 * Robert B. Parker – Stardust
 * Rosamund Pilcher – September
 * Belva Plain – Harvest
 * Terry Pratchett – Eric and Moving Pictures
 * Thomas Pynchon – Vineland
 * W. G. Sebald – Vertigo (Schwindel. Gefühle)
 * Lucius Shepard – The Ends of the Earth
 * Danielle Steel – Message From Nam
 * James Tiptree, Jr. – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
 * Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1973) and Alan Lee (illustrator)) – The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3; The History of Middle-earth vol. 8)
 * Scott Turow – The Burden of Proof
 * John Updike – Rabbit at Rest (1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
 * Andrew Vachss – Blossom
 * Kurt Vonnegut – Hocus Pocus
 * Harry L. Watson – Liberty and Power
 * John Edgar Wideman – Philadelphia Fire (1991 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction)
 * Banana Yoshimoto – Amrita

Children and young people

 * Chris Van Allsburg – Just a Dream
 * Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
 * Lucy Cousins – Maisy Goes for a Swim (first in the Maisy Mouse series)
 * Gillian Cross – Wolf
 * Lynley Dodd - Slinky Malinki
 * Rumer Godden – Fu-Dog
 * Ken Kesey – Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear
 * Jean Marzollo – Pretend You're a Cat
 * Terenci Moix – Los Grandes Mitos del Cine (The Greatest Stories of Hollywood Cinema)
 * Inga Moore – Six-dinner Sid
 * Jim Murphy – The Boys' War: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War
 * Bill Peet – Cock-a-doodle Dudley
 * Salman Rushdie – Haroun and the Sea of Stories
 * Dr. Seuss – Oh, the Places You'll Go
 * Diane Stanley – Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England
 * Jacqueline Wilson – Glubbslyme (fantasy novel)
 * William Steig – Shrek!

Drama

 * Brian Friel – Dancing at Lughnasa
 * Declan Hughes – I Can't Get Started
 * John Guare – Six Degrees of Separation
 * Girish Karnad – Taledanda (Kannada: ತಲೆದಂಡ, Death by Beheading)
 * Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage

Poetry

 * Derek Walcott – Omeros

Non-fiction

 * Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine – Last Chance to See
 * Bill Bryson – The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
 * Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
 * Cheikh Anta Diop – Alerte sous les tropiques: articles 1946–1960: culture et développement en Afrique noire (translated as Towards the African Renaissance: essays in African culture & development, 1946–1960)
 * Dougal Dixon – Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
 * Lawrence Durrell – Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence
 * Arun Shourie and Sita Ram Goel – Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them
 * Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Soccer War
 * Pierre Lévêque – The Birth of Greece
 * Michael Lynch – Scotland: A New History
 * Susan Mayse – Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
 * James A. Michener – Pilgrimage
 * Raphael Patai – The Hebrew Goddess
 * Ronald Reagan – An American Life
 * Barry Siegel – A Death in White Bear Lake
 * Gary Snyder – The Practice of the Wild
 * Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Art in Post-War Germany (Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Kriege)

Births

 * March 29 – Kiran Millwood Hargrave, English poet, playwright and novelist
 * July 27 - Victoria Aveyard, American young-adult novelist
 * Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese francophone fiction writer

Deaths

 * January 24 – Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (born 1908)
 * February 27 – Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian linguist, editor and memoirist (burns, born 1895)
 * March 12 – Rosamond Lehmann, English novelist (born 1901)
 * May 4 – John Ormond, Welsh poet (born 1923)
 * May 10 – Walker Percy, American novelist (born 1916)
 * May 25 – Lucy M. Boston, English children's novelist (born 1892)
 * July 15 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)
 * July 22 – Manuel Puig, Argentine novelist (heart attack, born 1932)
 * August 1 – Michael Glenny, British translator of Russian literature into English (born 1927)
 * August 17 – Roderick Cook, English playwright (born 1932)
 * August 25 – Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, playwright and broadcasting personality (born 1903)
 * September 8 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (born 1905)
 * September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist and journalist (born 1907)
 * September 27 – Ion Biberi, Romanian social scientist, novelist, and essayist (born 1904)
 * September 30 – Patrick White, Australian novelist (born 1912)
 * October 23 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (heart attack, born 1918)
 * November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, English novelist, dramatist, and travel writer (born 1912)
 * November 8 – Anya Seton, American genre novelist (born 1904)
 * November 23 – Roald Dahl, Welsh-born children's author (myelodysplastic syndrome, born 1916)
 * November 24 – Dodie Smith, English novelist and dramatist (born 1899)
 * December 1 – Irma Chilton, Welsh children's writer in Welsh and English (born 1930)
 * December 7 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (suicide, born 1943)
 * December 11 – David Turner, English dramatist (born 1927)
 * December 14 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss dramatist (congestive heart failure, born 1921)
 * December 20 – Andrea Dunbar, English playwright (born 1961)
 * December 24 – Gwyn Williams, Welsh poet and novelist (born 1904)

Uncertain date
 * Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall, English biographer and children's writer (born 1900)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Octavio Paz
 * Europe Theatre Prize: Giorgio Strehler
 * Camões Prize: João Cabral de Melo Neto

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Gillian Mears, The Mint Lawn
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Adamson, The Clean Dark
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Kristopher Rassemussen, In the Name of the Father
 * Miles Franklin Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine

Canada

 * See 1990 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Jean Rouaud, Les Champs d'honneur
 * Prix Décembre: François Maspero, Les Passagers du Roissy–Express
 * Prix Médicis French: Les Quartiers d'hiver – Jean-Noël Pancrazi
 * Prix Médicis International: Amitav Ghosh, Les Feux du Bengale

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
 * 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

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Debra Allbery, Walking Distance
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: W. S. Merwin
 * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Christopher Logue, Kings
 * Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, The Inner Room
 * Caldecott Award: Ed Young, Lon Po Po: A Red–Riding Hood Story from China
 * Compton Crook Award: Josepha Sherman, The Shining Falcon
 * Frost Medal: Denise Levertov / James Laughlin
 * Hugo Award for Best Novel: Dan Simmons for Hyperion
 * National Book Award for Fiction: Charles Johnson for Middle Passage
 * Nebula Award: Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Oscar Hijuelos for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Simic: The World Doesn't End
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Yannick Murphy, Lawrence Naumoff, Mark Richard, Christopher Tilghman, Stephen Wright
 * Nonfiction: Harriet Ritvo, Amy Wilentz
 * Plays: Tony Kushner
 * Poetry: Emily Hiestand, Dennis Nurkse

Elsewhere

 * Premio Nadal, Juan José Millás, La soledad era esto

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1989 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1989.

Events

 * February 14 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel The Satanic Verses (1988). On February 24 Iran places a US $3 million bounty on Rushdie's head. On August 3, 1989, a bomb kills Mustafa Mazeh in London as he attempts to plant it in a hotel, in order to carry out the fatwa.
 * March 1 – The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 comes into effect in the United States, making the country a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886.
 * April 23 – Leading figures of the theatre mark William Shakespeare's birthday with a street party to oppose the destruction of the recently-discovered archaeological remains of the English Renaissance Rose Theatre and Globe theatres in London.
 * October – The National Library of Norway is established, with a new building at Mo i Rana.
 * December 29 – Playwright Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia.

Fiction

 * Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh (Misk al–ghazal)
 * Martin Amis – London Fields
 * Piers Anthony – Total Recall
 * Iain Banks – Canal Dreams
 * John Banville – The Book of Evidence
 * Clive Barker – The Great and Secret Show
 * Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
 * Thomas Berger – Changing the Past
 * Larry Bond – Red Phoenix
 * Larry Brown – Dirty Work
 * Anthony Burgess – Any Old Iron
 * Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
 * Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger
 * Mary Higgins Clark – While My Pretty One Sleeps
 * Hugh Cook – The Wicked and the Witless
 * Bernard Cornwell
 * Sharpe's Revenge
 * Sea Lord (aka Killer's Wake)
 * Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
 * Robert Crais – Stalking the Angel
 * Lindsey Davis – The Silver Pigs
 * L. Sprague de Camp
 * The Honorable Barbarian
 * (with Fletcher Pratt) – The Complete Compleat Enchanter
 * E. L. Doctorow – Billy Bathgate
 * Katherine Dunn – Geek Love
 * Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum
 * George Alec Effinger – A Fire in the Sun
 * Mircea Eliade (died 1986) – Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent (Romanul adolescentului miop) (written 1921–1925)
 * Ben Elton – Stark
 * Steve Erickson – Tours of the Black Clock
 * Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate)
 * Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
 * Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
 * Jon Fosse – Naustet (Boathouse)
 * Gabriel García Márquez – The General in His Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto)
 * John Gardner
 * Licence to Kill
 * Win, Lose or Die
 * Charles Gill – The Boozer Challenge
 * John Grisham – A Time to Kill
 * A. M. Homes – Jack
 * Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles
 * John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
 * Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
 * Fleur Jaeggy – it:I beati anni del castigo (Sweet Days of Discipline)
 * Randall Kenan – A Visitation of Spirits
 * Elias Khoury – رحلة غاندي الصغير (Rihlat Ghandi al-saghir, The Journey of Little Gandhi)
 * Stephen King – The Dark Half
 * László Krasznahorkai – The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája)
 * Joe R. Lansdale
 * Cold in July
 * By Bizarre Hands
 * John le Carré – The Russia House
 * H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (corrected edition)
 * Hilary Mantel – Fludd
 * Javier Marías – Todas las almas (All Souls)
 * James A. Michener – Six Days in Havana
 * Hanna Mina – The End of a Brave Man (Nihayat Rajul Shujaa)
 * Bharati Mukherjee – Jasmine
 * Larry Niven – The Legacy of Heorot
 * Joyce Carol Oates – American Appetites
 * Robert B. Parker – Playmates
 * Ellis Peters
 * The Heretic's Apprentice
 * The Potter's Field
 * Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera
 * Terry Pratchett
 * Guards! Guards!
 * Pyramids
 * Paul Quarrington – Whale Music
 * Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here
 * Giampaolo Rugarli – Il nido di ghiaccio
 * José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon
 * Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
 * Dan Simmons – Hyperion
 * John Skipp and Craig Spector – Book of the Dead
 * Danielle Steel
 * Daddy
 * Star
 * Bruce Sterling – Crystal Express
 * Alexander Stuart – The War Zone
 * Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
 * Shashi Tharoor – The Great Indian Novel
 * Rose Tremain – Restoration
 * Jane Vandenburgh – Failure to Zig-Zag
 * Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy
 * Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar
 * Robert McLiam Wilson – Ripley Bogle
 * Roger Zelazny
 * Frost & Fire (short stories and essays)
 * Knight of Shadows
 * Barbara Kingsolver - The Bean Trees

Children and young people

 * Verna Aardema – Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
 * Joyce Barkhouse – Pit Pony
 * Bruce Coville – My Teacher Is an Alien
 * Anne Fine
 * Bill's New Frock
 * Goggle-Eyes
 * Mark Helprin (with Chris Van Allsburg) – Swan Lake
 * Yoshi Kogo – Big Al
 * Norman Maclean (with Barry Moser) – A River Runs Through It
 * Bill Martin Jr. (with Lois Ehlert) – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
 * David McKee – Elmer
 * Jim Murphy – The Call Of The Wolves
 * Bill Peet – Bill Peet: An Autobiography
 * Robert D. San Souci – The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
 * Jon Scieszka (with Lane Smith) – The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
 * R. L. Stine – The New Girl (first in the Fear Street series of 55 books)
 * Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – The Treason of Isengard
 * Hélène Desputeaux – Caillou
 * Michael Rosen – We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Drama

 * Herman Brusselmans and Tom Lanoye – De Canadese muur (The Canadian Wall)
 * Jim Cartwright – Two
 * Nick Darke – Kissing the Pope (original title: Campesinos)
 * Michael Wall – Amongst Barbarians
 * Keith Waterhouse – Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Poetry

 * Simon Armitage – Zoom!
 * Paul Fleischman – Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
 * David Lehman – The Best American Poetry 1989

Non-fiction

 * Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg – Angst und Vorurteil
 * Bill Bryson – The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
 * Rodney Cotterill – No Ghost in the Machine: Modern Science and the Brain, the Mind, and the Soul
 * Stephen R. Covey – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
 * Bruno Dagens – Angkor: Heart of an Asian Empire
 * William Dalrymple – In Xanadu: A Quest
 * Cynthia Enloe – Bananas, Beaches and Bases
 * Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon – Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
 * Rüdiger Imhof – John Banville: A Critical Introduction, the first full-length appraisal of the work of major turn of the century writer John Banville.
 * Tim Jeal – Baden-Powell
 * Pauline Kael – Hooked
 * Bob Kane and Tom Andrae – Batman and Me
 * John Keegan – The Face of Battle
 * Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson – And Their Children After Them
 * Peter Mayle – A Year in Provence
 * Claudia Moatti – The Search for Ancient Rome
 * Ann Moir and David Jessel – Brain Sex
 * New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
 * Michael Palin – Around the World in 80 Days
 * Harold Perkin – The Rise of Professional Society. England Since 1880
 * Gilda Radner – It's Always Something
 * Peter Sloterdijk – Infinite Mobilization (Eurotaoismus)
 * Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson – True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
 * V. Vale and Andrea Juno – Modern Primitives
 * Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett – The Andy Warhol Diaries
 * Jeremy Wilson – Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence
 * Bob Wood – Big Ten Country

Births

 * August 26 - Sara Raasch, American young-adult fiction writer

Deaths

 * January 4 – Srikrishna Alanahalli, Indian novelist and poet (born 1947)
 * January 8 – Bruce Chatwin, English travel writer and novelist (born 1940)
 * February 3 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer (born 1929)
 * February 12 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (born 1931)
 * February 21 – Denys Corley Smith, English author and journalist (born 1922)
 * March 14 – Edward Abbey, American essayist (born 1927)
 * March 27 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist and poet (born 1898)
 * April 14 – Laurence Meynell (Valerie Baxter, A. Stephen Tring), English novelist and children's writer (born 1899)
 * April 19 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist (born 1907)
 * May 19 – C. L. R. James, Trinidad-born American journalist (born 1901)
 * May 20 – Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1930)
 * July 31 – Zhou Yang, Chinese literary theorist (born 1908)
 * August 23 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist and author (born 1927)
 * August 26 – Irving Stone, American novelist (born 1903)
 * September 4
 * Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist and crime writer (born 1903)
 * Sir Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist (born 1903)
 * September 13 – Acharya Aatreya, Telugu screenwriter (born 1921)
 * September 15 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist (born 1905)
 * September 30
 * Horace Alexander, English current-affairs writer and ornithologist (born 1909)
 * Oskar Davičo, Serbian novelist and poet (born 1909)
 * October 13 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (born 1902)
 * November 22 – José Guadalupe Cruz, Mexican comics writer (born 1917)
 * December 5 – George Selden (Terry Andrews), American children's author (gastrointestinal bleeding, born 1929)
 * December 19 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist (born 1902)
 * December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish-born playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906)
 * December 26 – Paul Jennings, English humorist (born 1918)

Awards

 * Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela
 * Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Brook
 * Camões Prize (first award): Miguel Torga

Australia

 * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Mandy Sayer, Mood Indigo
 * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gwen Harwood, Bone Scan
 * Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Under Berlin
 * Mary Gilmore Prize: Alex Skovron, The Re-arrangement
 * Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

Canada

 * See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

 * Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand Pas vers le Bon Dieu
 * Prix Décembre: Guy Dupré, Les Manœuvres d'automne
 * Prix Médicis French: Serge Doubrovsky, Le Livre brisé
 * Prix Médicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral

United Kingdom

 * Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
 * Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E. J. Scovell
 * Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: James Kelman, A Disaffection
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
 * Newdigate prize: Jane Griffiths
 * Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow
 * Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
 * The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Rose Tremain, Restoration

United States

 * Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nancy Vieira Couto, The Face in the Water
 * Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Anthony Hecht
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Isaac Bashevis Singer
 * Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
 * Compton Crook Award: Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter
 * Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks
 * National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
 * National Book Award for Fiction: to Spartina by John Casey
 * Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
 * Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise
 * PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
 * Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
 * Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
 * Whiting Awards:
 * Fiction: Ellen Akins, Marianne Wiggins
 * Nonfiction: Ian Frazier, Natalie Kusz, Lucy Sante, Tobias Wolff (nonfiction/fiction)
 * Plays: Timberlake Wertenbaker
 * Poetry: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright

Japan

 * Falcon Award (Maltese Falcon Society of Japan): Andrew Vachss for Strega
 * The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with Ken'ichi Sakemi winning with his novel Kōkyū Shōsetsu.

title: 1989 in literature