1989 in literature
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The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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 prose fiction
- 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
- Julian Barnes - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
- Thomas Berger - Changing the Past
- Larry Bond – Red Phoenix
- Anthony Burgess - Any Old Iron
- Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
- Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger
- Mary Higgins Clark – While My Pretty One Sleeps
- Hugh Cook – The Wicked and the Witless
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Revenge and Sea Lord (aka Killer's Wake)
- Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
- Robert Crais - Stalking the Angel
- Lindsey Davis – The Silver Pigs
- L. Sprague de Camp – The Honorable Barbarian
- L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Complete Compleat Enchanter
- E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate
- 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
- Gabriel García Márquez – The General in His Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto)
- John Gardner - Licence to Kill and Win, Lose or Die
- Charles Gill - The Boozer Challenge
- John Grisham – A Time to Kill
- Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles
- John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
- Stephen King – The Dark Half
- László Krasznahorkai - The Melancholy of Resistance
- John le Carré – The Russia House
- H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions corrected edition
- H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Hilary Mantel - Fludd
- James A. Michener – Six Days in Havana
- Bharati Mukherjee – Jasmine
- Larry Niven – The Legacy of Heorot
- Robert B. Parker – Playmates
- Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera
- Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! and Pyramids
- Paul Quarrington – Whale Music
- Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here
- José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon
- Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
- Dan Simmons – Hyperion
- Danielle Steel - Daddy and Star
- Bruce Sterling – Crystal Express
- Alexander Stuart – The War Zone
- Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
- Shashi Tharoor – The Great Indian Novel
- Rose Tremain – Restoration
- Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy
- Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar
- Roger Zelazny - Frost & Fire and Knight of Shadows
[edit] Horror fiction
[edit] Children's and young adults' fiction
- Anne Fine - Bill's New Frock
- Yoshi Kogo - Big Al
[edit] Drama
- Herman Brusselmans & Tom Lanoye - De Canadese muur
- Jim Cartwright - Two
- Michael Wall - Amongst Barbarians
- Keith Waterhouse - Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
[edit] Poetry
- Simon Armitage - Zoom!
- Paul Fleischman - Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
- David Lehman - The Best American Poetry 1989
[edit] Non-fiction
- Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg - Angst und Vorurteil
- Stephen R. Covey - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Cynthia Enloe - Bananas, Beaches and Bases
- Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon - Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
- Tim Jeal - Baden-Powell
- Bob Kane and Tom Andrae - Batman and Me
- John Keegan - The Face of Battle
- Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson - And Their Children After Them
- Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence
- Ann Moir and David Jessel – Brain Sex
- New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
- Michael Palin - Around the World in 80 Days
- Gilda Radner - It's Always Something
- Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson - True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
- V. Vale and Andrea Juno - Modern Primitives
- Andy Warhole and Pat Hackett - The Andy Warhol Diaries
- Jeremy Wilson - Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence
- Bob Wood - Big Ten Country
[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
- August 23 - R. D. Laing, psychologist and author
- August 26 - Irving Stone, novelist
- September 4 - Georges Simenon, Maigret author
- September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme, Classicist
- September 15 - Robert Penn Warren, poet and novelist
- September 30 - Horace Alexander, pacifist writer, 100
- October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
- December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
- December 22 - Samuel Beckett, writer
- 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
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
- Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell
- Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: James Kelman, A Disaffection
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
- Newdigate prize: Jane Griffiths
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Rose Tremain, Restoration
[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 Bashevis Singer
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
- 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 Poems
[edit] Japan
- Falcon Award (Maltese Falcon Society of Japan): Andrew Vachss for Strega
- The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with Ken'ichi Sakemi winning with his novel Kōkyū Shōsetsu.
