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EVENTS

February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of '' The Satanic Verses '' author Salman Rushdie .

NEW BOOKS

'' Geek Love '' - Katherine Dunn

'' And The Ass Saw The Angel '' - Nick Cave

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

'' Chronicle Of The French Revolution '' - Jean Favier et al

'' Daddy '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Face Of Battle '' - John Keegan

'' Foucault's Pendulum '' - Umberto Eco

'' The Great And Secret Show '' - Clive Barker

'' Guards! Guards! '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Hyperion '' - Dan Simmons

'' It's Always Something '' - Gilda Radner

'' Jasmine '' - Bharati Mukherjee

'' The Joy Luck Club '' - Amy Tan

'' The Legacy Of Heorot '' - Larry Niven

'' Licence To Kill '' - John Gardner

'' London Fields '' - Martin Amis

'' Lot's Wife '' - Tom Wakefield

'' The Magick Of Candleburning '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' The Negotiator '' - Frederick Forsyth

'' The Pillars Of The Earth '' - Ken Follett

'' Playmates '' - Robert B. Parker

'' A Prayer For Owen Meany '' - John Irving

'' Pyramids '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Red Phoenix '' - Larry Bond

'' The Remains Of The Day '' - Kazuo Ishiguro

'' The Russia House '' - John Le Carré

'' The Sands Of Time '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' The Satanic Verses '' - Salman Rushdie

'' Six Days In Havana '' - James A. Michener

'' Solomon Gursky Was Here '' - Mordecai Richler

'' Star '' - Danielle Steel

'' Stark '' - Ben Elton

'' The Temple Of My Familiar '' - Alice Walker

'' A Time To Kill '' - John Grisham

'' Total Recall '' - Piers Anthony

'' The War Zone '' - Alexander Stuart

'' While My Pretty One Sleeps '' - Mary Higgins Clark

'' The Wicked And The Witless '' - Hugh Cook

'' Win, Lose Or Die '' - John Gardner

'' New Revised Standard Version '' of the Bible

'''' by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon

'' A Fire In The Sun '' - George Alec Effinger

NEW DRAMA

Keith Waterhouse - '' Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell ''

BIRTHS

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

May 19 - C. L. R. James , journalist

August 23 - R. D. Laing , psychologist and author

September 4 - Georges Simenon , ''Maigret'' author

September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme , Classicist

September 15 - Robert Penn Warren , poet

September 30 - Horace Alexander , pacifist writer, 100

October 13 - Cesare Zavattini , screenwriter

December 19 - Stella Gibbons , novelist

December 26 - Paul Jennings , humorist

December - George Seldon

AWARDS

- '' The Remains Of The Day ''

See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''The Healer's War''

, ''Joyful Noise''

, ''Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu''

, ''Les Manoeuvres d'automne''

, ''Le Livre brisé''

, ''La Neige de l'amiral''

, ''The Heidi Chronicles''

- ''Breathing Lessons''

: ''New and Collected Poems''

, ''Coleridge: Early Visions''