1989 in literature
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This article presents a list of publications of literature, awards given, and births and deaths of major literary figures during 1989.
Contents
Events
- February 14 - The Satanic Verses controversy: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (deceased 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel The Satanic Verses (1988). On February 24 Iran places a US$3 million bounty on Rushdie's head.
- March 1 - Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 comes into effect in the United States making the country a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886.
- December 29 - Playwright Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia.
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- Archaeological remains of the English Renaissance theatres The Rose and the Globe are discovered in London.[1]
- The National Library of Norway is established in Oslo.
New prose fiction
- Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh (Misk al–ghazal)
- Martin Amis – London Fields
- Piers Anthony – Total Recall
- Iain Banks – Canal Dreams
- 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
- Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate)
- 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
- A. M. Homes – Jack
- 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
- Elias Khoury – رحلة غاندي الصغير (Rihlat Ghandi al-saghir, "The Journey of Little Gandhi")
- Stephen King – The Dark Half
- László Krasznahorkai – The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája)
- Joe R. Lansdale – Cold in July
- 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 link says 1990 not 1989, which is right?
- Hilary Mantel – Fludd
- James A. Michener – Six Days in Havana
- Bharati Mukherjee – Jasmine
- Larry Niven – The Legacy of Heorot
- Robert B. Parker – Playmates
- Ellis Peters – The Heretic's Apprentice and The Potter's Field
- Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera
- Terry Pratchett – Guards! Guards! and Pyramids
- Paul Quarrington – Whale Music
- Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here
- Giampaolo Rugarli – Il nido di ghiaccio
- 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
- Jane Vandenburgh – Failure to Zig-Zag
- Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy
- Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar
- Roger Zelazny – Frost & Fire and Knight of Shadows
Horror fiction
Children's and young adults' fiction
- Anne Fine - Bill's New Frock
- Yoshi Kogo - Big Al
- David McKee - Elmer
Drama
- Herman Brusselmans & Tom Lanoye - De Canadese muur
- Jim Cartwright - Two
- Michael Wall - Amongst Barbarians
- Keith Waterhouse - Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Poetry
- Simon Armitage - Zoom!
- Paul Fleischman - Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
- David Lehman - The Best American Poetry 1989
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 Warhol and Pat Hackett - The Andy Warhol Diaries
- Jeremy Wilson - Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence
- Bob Wood - Big Ten Country
Births
- July 11 – David Henrie, American actor and screenwriter
Deaths
- January 8 – Bruce Chatwin, English travel writer and novelist (born 1940)
- February 3 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer (born 1929)
- February 12 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (born 1931)
- March 14 – Edward Abbey, American essayist (born 1927)
- March 27 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist and poet (born 1898)
- April 19 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist (born 1907)
- May 19 – C. L. R. James, Trinidad-born American journalist (born 1901)
- May 20 – Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1930)
- August 23 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist and author (born 1927)
- August 26 – Irving Stone, American novelist (born 1903)
- September 4
- Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist and crime writer (born 1903)
- Sir Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist (born 1903)
- September 13 – Aatreya, Telugu screenwriter (born 1921)
- September 15 – Robert Penn Warren, poet and novelist (born 1905)
- September 30
- Horace Alexander, English current-affairs writer and ornithologist (born 1909)
- Oskar Davičo, Serbian novelist and poet (born 1909)
- October 13 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (born 1902)
- November 22 – José Guadalupe Cruz, Mexican comics writer (born 1917)
- December 5 – George Selden (Terry Andrews), American children's author (gastrointestinal bleeding, born 1929)[2]
- December 19 – Stella Gibbons, novelist (born 1902)
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906 1906)
- December 26 – Paul Jennings, English humorist (born 1918 1918)
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela
- Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Brook
- Camões Prize: Miguel Torga
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
- Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
Canada
- See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
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
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
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
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
- National Book Award for Fiction: to Spartina by John Casey
- Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
- 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
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Ellen Akins, Marianne Wiggins
- Nonfiction: Ian Frazier, Natalie Kusz, Luc Sante, Tobias Wolff (nonfiction/fiction)
- Plays: Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Poetry: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright
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.
References
- ↑ The Rose Theatre Trust. Accessed 15 July 2014
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