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EVENTS

  • Tom Clancy signed a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), that paid him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . He then signed a second agreement for another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy followed this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million.




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AWARDS

  • , '' The God Of Small Things ''

  • : - ''Barney's Version''

  • See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

  • , ''A Heart So White''

  • , ''The Moon and the Sun''

  • , ''The View from Saturday''


  • , ''Fugitive Pieces''

  • , ''La Bataille''

  • , ''La Compagnie des spectres''

  • , ''America''


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

  • - ''Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer''

  • : ''Live Together: New and Selected Poems''

  • , ''Tales from Ovid''