1994 in literature

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 New Books
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Awards

Events

First Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction awarded.

New Books

Accident - Danielle Steel
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Chamber - John Grisham
Creatures of the Kingdom - James A. Michener
Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean R. Koontz
Daughter of Damascus - Shiham Turjuman
Dead Right - David Frum
The Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy
Disclosure - Michael Crichton
The Ghosts of Sleath - James Herbert
The Gift - Danielle Steel
The Ice Storm - Rick Moody
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
In Search of CHURCHILL - Martin Gilbert
Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
Insomnia - Stephen King
Just Like That - Lily Brett
Life After God - Douglas Coupland
Nothing Lasts Forever - Sidney Sheldon
Point de cÃÂ´tÃÂ© - Judith GodrÃÂ¨che
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner
Recessional - James A. Michener
Songs of Earth and Power - Greg Bear
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle
La Virevolte - Nancy Huston
The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin
Wings - Danielle Steel

Births

Deaths

January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author
February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer
March 28 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
April 16 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer

Awards

Booker Prize: James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
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.
Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Moving Mars
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, The Giver
Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe
Prix Goncourt: Didier Van Cauwelaert, Un Aller simple
Prix DÃÂ©cembre: Jean Hatzfeld, L'Air de guerre and ÃÂric Holder, La Belle JardiniÃÂ¨re
Prix MÃÂ©dicis French: Yves Berger, Immobile dans le courant du fleuve
Prix MÃÂ©dicis International: Robert Schneider, FrÃÂ¨re Sommeil
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
Whitbread Best Book Award: William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey