1989 in literature
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See also: 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
[edit] 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
- Licence to Kill - John Gardner
- London Fields - Martin Amis
- Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield
- The Magick of Candleburning - Gerina Dunwich
- The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- Playmates - Robert B. Parker
- 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 Carré
- 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
- Stark - Ben Elton
- The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
- A Time to Kill - John Grisham
- Total Recall - Piers Anthony
- The War Zone - Alexander Stuart
- While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark
- The Wicked and the Witless - Hugh Cook
- Win, Lose or Die - John Gardner
- New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
- Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon
- A Fire in the Sun - George Alec Effinger
[edit] New drama
- Herman Brusselmans & Tom Lanoye - De Canadese muur
- Jim Cartwright - Two
- Keith Waterhouse - Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
[edit] Births
- July 10 - Daniel Kvamme
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist
- February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
- March 14 - Edward Abbey, essayist
- March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet
- April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer
- April 25 - Norma Klein, author
- May 19 - C. L. R. James, journalist
- July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny
- 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
- October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
- December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
- December 26 - Paul Jennings, humorist
- December - George Selden
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- 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-arrangement
[edit] Canada
- See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- 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'amiral
[edit] United Kingdom
- 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 Visions
[edit] United States
- 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"
- 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 Poems
[edit] Elsewhere
- The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with Ken'ichi Sakemi winning with his novel Kōkyū Shōsetsu.
