Encyclopedia:
1989 in literature
See also: 1988 in literature,
other events of 1989,
1990 in literature,
list of years in literature.
Events
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February 24 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of
The Satanic Verses author
Salman Rushdie.
New books
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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 -
The Cardinal of the Kremlin *
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*
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**
Licence to Kill **
Win, Lose or Die*
John Grisham -
A Time to Kill *
John Irving -
A Prayer For Owen Meany *
Kazuo Ishiguro -
The Remains of the Day *
John le Carré -
The Russia House *
James A. Michener -
Six Days in Havana *
Bharati Mukherjee -
Jasmine *
Larry Niven -
The Legacy of Heorot*
Robert B. Parker -
Playmates *
Terry Pratchett**
Guards! Guards! **
Pyramids *
Paul Quarrington -
Whale Music*
Mordecai Richler -
Solomon Gursky Was Here *
Salman Rushdie -
The Satanic Verses*
Sidney Sheldon -
The Sands of Time *
Dan Simmons -
Hyperion *
Danielle Steel**
Daddy **
Star *
Alexander Stuart -
The War Zone *
Amy Tan -
The Joy Luck Club *
Shashi Tharoor -
The Great Indian Novel*
Rose Tremain -
Restoration *
Tom Wakefield -
Lot's Wife *
Alice Walker -
The Temple of My FamiliarNew drama
*
Herman Brusselmans &
Tom Lanoye -
De Canadese muur*
Jim Cartwright -
Two*
Michael Wall -
Amongst Barbarians*
Keith Waterhouse -
Jeffrey Bernard is UnwellPoetry
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Paul Fleischman -
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two VoicesNon-fiction
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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*
New Revised Standard Version of the
Bible *
Gilda Radner -
It's Always Something *
Dan Topolski and
Patrick Robinson -
True Blue: Oxford Boat Race Mutiny*
Jeremy Wilson -
Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. LawrenceDeaths
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January 8 -
Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist
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February 3 -
John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
*
March 14 -
Edward Abbey, essayist
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March 27 -
Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet
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April 19 -
Daphne du Maurier, writer
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April 25 -
Norma Klein, author
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May 19 -
C. L. R. James, journalist
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July 10 -
Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny
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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
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October 13 -
Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
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December 19 -
Stella Gibbons, novelist
*
December 26 -
Paul Jennings, humorist
* December -
George SeldenAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature:
Camilo José CelaAustralia
*
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-arrangementCanada
* See
1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
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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'amiralUnited Kingdom
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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 *
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry:
Allen Curnow*
Whitbread Best Book Award:
Richard Holmes,
Coleridge: Early VisionsUnited States
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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"
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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 PoemsElsewhere
* The
Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with
Ken'ichi Sakemi winning with his novel
Kōkyū Shōsetsu.
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