1994 IN LITERATURE


The year '1994 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
United States
Elsewhere

Events



★ The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

New books



Kevin J. Anderson


★ ''Champions of the Force''


★ ''Dark Apprentice''


★ ''Jedi Search''

Reed Arvin - ''The Wind in the Wheat''

Greg Bear - ''Songs of Earth and Power''

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 - ''The Debt of Honor''

Paul Cornell


★ ''Goth Opera''


★ ''No Future''

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''

John Gardner - ''SeaFire''

James Finn Garner - ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories''

Mark Gatiss - ''St Anthony's Fire''

Judith Godrèche - ''Point de côté''

John Grisham - ''The Chamber''

Romesh Gunesekera - ''Reef''

James Herbert - ''The Ghosts of Sleath''

Craig Hinton - ''The Crystal Bucephalus''

Alan Hollinghurst - ''The Folding Star''

Nancy Huston - ''La Virevolte''

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''

Andy Lane - ''All-Consuming Fire''

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''

Simon Messingham - ''Strange England''

James A. Michener


★ ''Creatures of the Kingdom''


★ ''Recessional''

Rick Moody - ''The Ice Storm''

Jim Mortimore - ''Parasite''

Tim O'Brien - ''In the Lake of the Woods''

Daniel O'Mahony - ''Falls the Shadow''

John Peel - ''Evolution''

Terry Pratchett


★ ''Interesting Times''


★ ''Soul Music''

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''

Danielle Steel


★ ''Accident''


★ ''The Gift''


★ ''Wings''

Shiham Turjuman - ''Daughter of Damascus''

Andrew Vachss - ''Down in the Zero''

Jill Paton Walsh - ''Knowledge of Angels''

New drama



★ ''Broken Glass'' - Arthur Miller

★ ''My Night With Reg'' - Kevin Elyot

Poetry



Sophie Cabot Black - ''The Misunderstanding of Nature''

Non-fiction



Martin Gilbert - ''In Search of Churchill''

Births




Deaths



January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author

February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer

February 11 - Paul Feyerabend, philosopher of science

February 26 - J. L. Carr, novelist

February 27 - Harold Acton, author, the inspiration for Anthony Blanche

March 9 - Charles Bukowski, poet and novelist

March 28 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright

April 16 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer

May 30Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer

June 7 - Dennis Potter, controversial TV dramatist

July 30 - Robin Cook, novelist

August 7 - Rosa Chacel, controversial Spanish writer

September 7 - James Clavell, blockbusting novelist

November 12 - J. I. M. Stewart, novelist and critic

December 24 - John Osborne, dramatist

Awards



Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe
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''
Canada


Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award

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''

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

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''

Nebula Award: Greg Bear, ''Moving Mars''

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, ''The Giver''

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
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 Regás, ''Azul''

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