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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' Extinction '' - Thomas Bernhard

'' The Bourne Supremacy '' - Robert Ludlum

'' The Bridge '' - Iain Banks

'' Cadillac Desert '' - Marc Reisner

'' The Fence Post Chronicles '' - W.P. Kinsella

'' The Fisher King '' - Anthony Powell

'' Ghost '' - Piers Anthony

'' The Golden Cup '' - Belva Plain

'' Hollywood Husbands '' - Jackie Collins

'' I'll Take Manhattan '' - Judith Krantz

'' In The Hollow Of His Hand '' - James Purdy

'' It '' - Stephen King

'' Kara Kush '' - Idries Shah

'' Kate Vaiden '' - Reynolds Price

'' Last Of The Breed '' - Louis L'Amour

'' Leo Africanus '' - Amin Maalouf

'' The Light Fantastic '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Love You Forever '' - Robert Munsch

'' A Matter Of Honour '' - Jeffrey Archer

''A Misalliance'' - Anita Brookner

'' The Moronic Inferno And Other Visits To America '' - Martin Amis

'' Nobody Lives For Ever '' - John Gardner

'' The Old Devils '' - Kingsley Amis

'' A Perfect Spy '' - John Le Carré

'' The Prince Of Tides '' - Pat Conroy

'' Red Storm Rising '' - Tom Clancy

'' Speaker For The Dead '' - Orson Scott Card

'' Sportswriter '' - Richard Ford

'' Taming A Sea Horse '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Tourist Season '' - Carl Hiaasen

'' Wanderlust '' - Danielle Steel

'' Whirlwind '' - James Clavell

'' The Wizards And The Warriors '' - Hugh Cook

NEW DRAMA

Willy Russell - '' Shirley Valentine ''

NON-FICTION

Flora Fraser - '' Beloved Emma ''

Richard Rhodes - '' The Making Of The Atomic Bomb ''

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 1 - Lord David Cecil , critic and biographer

January 4 - Christopher Isherwood , novelist

January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard , Science Fiction writer, founder of Scientology

February 11 - Frank Herbert , American Science Fiction Author

February 26 - Robert Penn Warren , poet, author

March 4 - Elizabeth Smart , Canadian poet and novelist

March 18 - Bernard Malamud , novelist

April 14 - Simone De Beauvoir , philosopher and feminist writer

May 15 - Theodore H. White , writer

June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer

August 3 - Beryl Markham , traveller and author

August 20 - Milton Acorn , Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

December 17 - J. F. Hendry , poet

December 19 - Virginia C. Andrews , novelist

AWARDS

, '' The Old Devils ''

See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Speaker For the Dead''

, ''Sarah, Plain and Tall''

, ''Valet de nuit''

, ''Les Funérailles de la Sardine''

, ''Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska''

and Robert Anton Wilson , '' The Illuminatus! Trilogy ''

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

, ''Lonesome Dove''

, ''The Flying Change''

, ''An Artist of the Floating World''