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EVENTS

'', popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.

NEW BOOKS

'' American Psycho '' - Bret Easton Ellis

'' As The Crow Flies '' - Jeffrey Archer

'' Damage '' - Josephine Hart

'' Dead Certainties '' - Simon Schama

'' Den Of Thieves '' - James B. Stewart

'' Dirty Weekend '' - Helen Zahavi

'' The Doomsday Conspiracy '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Druids '' - Morgan Llywelyn

'' The Firm '' - John Grisham

'' For Love Of The Game '' - Michael Shaara (posthumous)

'''' - Douglas Coupland

'' Gojiro '' - Mark Jacobson

'' He, She And It '' - Marge Piercy

'' Heartbeat '' - Danielle Steel

'' Imajica '' - Clive Barker

'' Jernigan '' - David Gates

'' The Kitchen God's Wife '' - Amy Tan

'' A Life Of Picasso '' - John Richardson

'' Loves Music, Loves To Dance '' - Mary Higgins Clark

'' The Man From Barbarossa '' - John Gardner

'' Mao II '' - Don DeLillo

'' Mexico '' - James A. Michener

'''' - A. S. Byatt

'' Reaper Man '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Say It With Poison '' - Ann Granger

'' Scarlett '' - Alexandra Ripley

'' The Secret Pilgrim '' - John Le Carré

'' SEX '' - Madonna

'' Heir To The Empire '' - Timothy Zahn

'' Such A Long Journey '' - Rohinton Mistry

'' The Sum Of All Fears '' - Tom Clancy

'' A Thousand Acres '' - Jane Smiley

'' Through The Vast Halls Of Memory '' - Haifa Zangana

'' Time's Arrow, Or The Nature Of The Offense '' - Martin Amis

'' The Van '' - Roddy Doyle

'' The Werewolf And The Wormlord '' - Hugh Cook

'' Wicca Craft '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' Witches Abroad '' - Terry Pratchett

NEW DRAMA

Ariel Dorfman - '' Death And The Maiden ''

Neil Simon - '' Lost In Yonkers ''

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 22 - Robert Choquette , Canadian novelist and poet

January 23 - Northrop Frye , literary critic

January 29 - Yasushi Inoue , historian

February 24 - John Daly , journalist, Game Show host

April 3 - Graham Greene

April 12 - James Schuyler , poet

April 29 - Claude Gallimard , French publishing magnate

July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

September 24 - Dr. Seuss

October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein , performance poet

October 12 - Arkady Strugatsky , science fiction writer

October 27 - George Barker , poet

November 29 - Frank Garvin Yerby , historical novelist

AWARDS

, ''The Famished Road''

See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Stations of the Tide''

, ''Maniac Magee''

, ''Les Filles du Calvaire''

, ''Eau de café''

, ''La Dérive des sentiments''

, ''Lost in Yonkers''

: ''Rabbit At Rest''

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: ''Near Changes''

, ''A Life of Picasso''