1989 IN LITERATURE

The year '1989 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Japan

Events

★ February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of ''The Satanic Verses'' author Salman Rushdie.

New books

★ Hanan al-Shaykh - ''Women of Sand and Myrrh (Misk al-ghazal)''

★ Martin Amis - ''London Fields''

★ Piers Anthony - ''Total Recall''

★ Clive Barker - ''The Great and Secret Show''

★ Larry Bond - ''Red Phoenix''

★ 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''

★ Bryce Courtenay - ''The Power of One''

★ Lindsey Davis - ''The Silver Pigs''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''The Honorable Barbarian''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - ''The Complete Compleat Enchanter''

★ Katherine Dunn - ''Geek Love''

★ Umberto Eco - ''Foucault's Pendulum''

★ George Alec Effinger - ''A Fire in the Sun''

★ Ben Elton - ''Stark''

★ Ken Follett - ''The Pillars of the Earth''

★ Frederick Forsyth - ''The Negotiator''

★ John Gardner

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★ ''Licence to Kill''

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★ ''Win, Lose or Die''

★ John Grisham - ''A Time to Kill''

★ 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''

★ John le Carré - ''The Russia House''

★ H.P. Lovecraft - ''The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions'' corrected edition

★ H.P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands - ''

★ James A. Michener - ''Six Days in Havana''

★ Bharati Mukherjee - ''Jasmine''

★ Larry Niven - ''The Legacy of Heorot''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Playmates''

★ Giuseppe Pontiggia - ''La grande sera''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Guards! Guards!''

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★ ''Pyramids''

★ Paul Quarrington - ''Whale Music''

★ Mordecai Richler - ''Solomon Gursky Was Here''

★ Salman Rushdie - ''The Satanic Verses''

★ José Saramago - ''The History of the Siege of Lisbon''

★ Sidney Sheldon - ''The Sands of Time''

★ Dan Simmons - ''Hyperion''

★ Danielle Steel

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★ ''Daddy''

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★ ''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''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Hard Candy''

★ Tom Wakefield - ''Lot's Wife''

★ Alice Walker - ''The Temple of My Familiar''

★ Roger Zelazny

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★ ''Frost & Fire''

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★ ''Knight of Shadows''

New drama

★ Herman Brusselmans & Tom Lanoye - ''De Canadese muur''

★ Jim Cartwright - ''Two''

★ Michael Wall - ''Amongst Barbarians''

★ Keith Waterhouse - ''Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell''

Poetry

★ Paul Fleischman - ''

Non-fiction

★ Stephen R. Covey - ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People''

★ Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon - ''Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony''

★ John Keegan - ''The Face of Battle''

★ Ann Moir and David Jessel – ''Brain Sex''

★ ''New Revised Standard Version'' of the Bible

★ Gilda Radner - ''It's Always Something''

★ Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson - ''

★ Jeremy Wilson - ''

Deaths

★ January 8 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist

★ February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer

★ March 14 - Edward Abbey, essayist

★ March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet

★ April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer

★ April 25 - Norma Klein, author

★ May 19 - C. L. R. James, journalist

★ July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny

★ August 23 - R. D. Laing, psychologist and author

★ September 4 - Georges Simenon, ''Maigret'' author

★ September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme, Classicist

★ September 15 - Robert Penn Warren, poet

★ September 30 - Horace Alexander, pacifist writer, 100

★ October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter

★ December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist

★ December 26 - Paul Jennings, humorist

★ December - George Selden

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela

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''

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 Manoeuvres 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''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell

★ Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry

★ Newdigate prize: Jane Griffiths

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, ''Coleridge: Early Visions''

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 Beshevis Singer

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"

★ Compton Crook Award: Elizabeth Moon, ''Sheepfarmer's Daughter''

★ Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks

★ Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, ''The Healer's War''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, ''Joyful Noise''

★ 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''

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''.