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EVENTS

First Giller Prize For Canadian Fiction awarded.

NEW BOOKS

'' Accident '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Celestine Prophecy '' - James Redfield

'' The Chamber '' - John Grisham

'' Contest '' - Matthew Reilly

'' Creatures Of The Kingdom '' - James A. Michener

'' Dark Rivers Of The Heart '' - Dean R. Koontz

'' Daughter Of Damascus '' - Shiham Turjuman

'' Dead Right '' - David Frum

'' The Debt Of Honor '' - Tom Clancy

'' Disclosure '' - Michael Crichton

'' The Ghosts Of Sleath '' - James Herbert

'' The Gift '' - Danielle Steel

'' How Late It Was, How Late '' - James Kelman

'' The Ice Storm '' - Rick Moody

'' The Informers '' - Bret Easton Ellis

'' In Search Of CHURCHILL '' - Martin Gilbert

'' Interesting Times '' - Terry Pratchett

'' In The Lake Of The Woods '' - Tim O'Brien

'' Insomnia '' - Stephen King

'' Just Like That '' - Lily Brett

'' Life After God '' - Douglas Coupland

'' Nothing Lasts Forever '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Point De Côté '' - Judith Godrèche

'' Politically Correct Bedtime Stories '' - James Finn Garner

'' Recessional '' - James A. Michener

'' SeaFire '' - John Gardner

'' Songs Of Earth And Power '' - Greg Bear

'' Soul Music '' - Terry Pratchett

'' The Stone Diaries '' - Carol Shields

'' Troubling A Star '' - Madeleine L'Engle

'' La Virevolte '' - Nancy Huston

'' The Wind In The Wheat '', by Reed Arvin

'' Wings '' - Danielle Steel

NEW DRAMA

'' My Night With Reg '' - Kevin Elyot

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 30 - Pierre Boulle , author

February 6 - Jack Kirby , Comic Book writer

February 27 - Harold Acton , author, the inspiration for Anthony Blanche

March 9 - Charles Bukowski , novelist

March 28 - Eugene Ionesco , playwright

April 16 - Ralph Ellison , scholar, writer

May 30 – Juan Carlos Onetti , Uruguayan writer

June 7 - Dennis Potter , controversial TV dramatist

August 7 - Rosa Chacel , controversial Spanish writer

September 7 - James Clavell , blockbusting novelist

November 12 - J. I. M. Stewart , novelist and critic

December 24 - John Osborne , dramatist

AWARDS

, ''How Late It Was, How Late''

, ''The Book of Secrets''

See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Moving Mars''

, '' The Giver ''

, ''Un Aller simple''

, ''L'Air de guerre'' and Éric Holder , ''La Belle Jardinière''

, ''Immobile dans le courant du fleuve''

, ''Frère Sommeil''

, ''Three Tall Women''

, ''The Shipping News''

, ''Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems''

, ''Felicia’s Journey''