1989 In Literature

Events

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

New books

• Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
• And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
• Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al
• Daddy - Danielle Steel
• The Face of Battle - John Keegan
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
• Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
• Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
• The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
• The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven
• London Fields - Martin Amis
• Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield
• The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth
• Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
• Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
• Red Phoenix - Larry Bond
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Russia House - John le Carr
• The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• Six Days in Havana - James A. Michener
• Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
• Star - Danielle Steel
• The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
• A Time to Kill - John Grisham
• Total Recall - Piers Anthony
• While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark
• New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
• by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon

Births

Deaths

• February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
• April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
• See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo Jos Cela
• Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu
• Prix Dcembre: Guy Dupr, Les Manoeuvres d'automne
• Prix Mdicis French: Serge Dubrovsky, Le Livre bris
• Prix Mdicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral
• 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
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions

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