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

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★ ''Champions of the Force''

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★ ''Dark Apprentice''

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★ ''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

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★ ''Goth Opera''

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★ ''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

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★ ''Creatures of the Kingdom''

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★ ''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

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★ ''Interesting Times''

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★ ''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

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★ ''Accident''

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★ ''The Gift''

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★ ''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

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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 30 – Juan 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''