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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' All The President's Men '' - Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

'' Carrie '' - Stephen King

'' Centennial '' - James A. Michener

'' Crime Partners '' - Donald Goines

'' The Cry Of The Halidon '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Death Sleep '' - John Hawkes

'' The Diviners '' - Margaret Laurence

'' The Dogs Of War '' - Frederick Forsyth

'' The Ebony Tower '' - John Fowles

'' Ending Up '' - Kingsley Amis

'' Falstaff '' - Robert Nye

'' Fear Of Flying '' - Erica Jong

'' Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said '' - Philip K. Dick

'' God Save The Child '' - Robert B. Parker

'' The Last Days Of Louisiana Red '' - Ishmael Reed

'' Let Me Alone '' - Anna Kavan

'' Look At The Harlequins '' - Vladimir Nabokov

'' The Other Side Of Midnight '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Pilgrim At Tinker Creek '' - Annie Dillard

'' The Pirate '' - Harold Robbins

'' Porterhouse Blue '' - Tom Sharpe

'' The Power Broker '' - Robert A. Caro

'' Something Happened '' - Joseph Heller

'' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy '' - John Le Carré

'' Wait Until The Evening '' - Hal Bennett

'' A Wind In The Door '' - Madeleine L'Engle

'' Working '' - Studs Terkel

NEW DRAMA

Michael Cook - '' Jacob's Wake ''

Dario Fo - '' Can't Pay? Won't Pay! ''

Paavo Haavikko - ''The Knight''

Ira Levin - '' Veronica's Room ''

Harold Pinter - '' No Man's Land ''

Tom Stoppard - '' Travesties ''

BIRTHS

April 13 - K. Sello Duiker , South Africa n novelist (d. 2005 )

''date unknown'' - Owen Sheers , poet

DEATHS

March 24 - Olive Higgins Prouty , American novelist

July 4 - Georgette Heyer , author

October 4 - Anne Sexton , poet

December 14 - Walter Lippmann , writer

AWARDS

, ''The Conservationist''

See 1974 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Rendezvous With Rama ''

, '' The Dispossessed ''

, ''The Slave Dancer''

and Harry Martinson

, ''La Dentellière''

Prix Médicis French: ''Porporino ou les Mystèrs de Naples''

, ''Libro de Manuel''

Pulitzer Prize For Drama : ''no award given''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : ''no award given''

, ''The Dolphin''

, ''Amati enigmi''