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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' Alaska '' - James A. Michener

'' The Alchemist '' - Paulo Coelho

'''' - Lou Mollgaard

'' Breathing Lessons '' - Anne Tyler

'' A Brief History Of Time '' - Stephen Hawking

'' The Butcher '' - Alina Reyes

'' Cabal '' - Clive Barker

'' Candlelight Spells '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' The Cardinal Of The Kremlin '' - Tom Clancy

'' Cat's Eye '' - Margaret Atwood

'' The Coming Of The King '' - Nikolai Tolstoy

'' Crimson Joy '' - Robert B. Parker

'' Curriculum (poems) '' - Grazyna Miller

'' The Dark Green Tunnel '' - Allan W. Eckert

'' The Fifth Child '' - Doris Lessing

'' Foucault's Pendulum '' - Umberto Eco

'''' - Alanna Nash

'' The Hellbound Heart '' - Clive Barker

'' The Icarus Agenda '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Jojo '' - Roger Caron

'' Love In The Time Of Cholera '' - Gabriel García Márquez

'' Nervous Conditions '' - Tsitsi Dangarembga

'' Oscar And Lucinda '' - Peter Carey

'' The Player Of Games '' - Iain M. Banks

'''' - Miranda Seymour

'' The Sands Of Time '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Scorpius '' - John Gardner

'' The Shell Seekers '' - Rosamunde Pilcher

'' Sourcery '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Tapestry '' - Belva Plain

'' Til We Meet Again '' - Judith Krantz

'' The Toynbee Convector '' - Ray Bradbury

'' The Walrus And The Warwolf '' - Hugh Cook

'' Wyrd Sisters '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Zoya '' - Danielle Steel

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February 3 - Robert Duncan , poet

March - Máirtín Ó Direáin , Irish language poet

April 12 - Alan Paton , novelist

April 21 - I.A.L.Diamond , comedy writer

May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein , Science Fiction Author

June 10 - Louis L'Amour , western novelist

July 12 - Joshua Logan , stage and film writer

August 28 - Max Shulman , novelist, short-story writer and dramatist

September 28 - Charles Addams , American Cartoonist

October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell , art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell

AWARDS

, ''Oscar and Lucinda''

See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Falling Free''

, ''Lincoln: A Photobiography''

, ''L'Exposition coloniale''

, ''La Porte du fond''

, ''les Maîtres anciens''

, ''Driving Miss Daisy''

, ''Beloved''

: ''Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems''

, ''The Comforts of Madness''