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EVENTS

November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel '' Charming Billy ''.

Following the death of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, there is a gap of several months before a successor is appointed.

NEW BOOKS

'' About A Boy '' - Nick Hornby

'' African Exploits '' - Roy MacLaren

'' All Through The Night '' - Mary Higgins Clark

'' Amsterdam '' - Ian McEwan

'' Bag Of Bones '' - Stephen King

'' The Bay Of Love And Sorrows '' - David Adams Richards

'' The Book Of Saladin '' - Tariq Ali

'' Carpe Jugulum '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Dinosaur Summer '' - Greg Bear

'' Dream Children '' - A. N. Wilson

'' England, England '' - Julian Barnes

'' The Facts Of Death '' - Raymond Benson

'' Foundation And Chaos '' - Greg Bear

'' Girlfriend In A Coma '' - Douglas Coupland

'' Greater Than Angels '' - Carol Matas

'' Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets '' - J. K. Rowling

'' Heavy Water And Other Stories '' - Martin Amis (most stories previously published)

'' Hellfire '' - Diana Gabaldon

'' The Hours '' - Michael Cunnigham

'' I Sweep The Sun Off Rooftops '' - Hanan Al-Shaykh

'' Inversions '' - Iain M. Banks

'' The Klone And I '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Last Continent '' - Terry Pratchett

'' The Long Road Home '' - Danielle Steel

'' The Love Of A Good Woman '' - Alice Munro

'' Magick Potions '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' A Man In Full '' - Tom Wolfe

'' The Memory Of Hands '' - Reshman Baig

'' A Midwinter's Tale '' - Andrew Greeley

'' Mirror Image '' - Danielle Steel

'' Muhammad '' - Driss Chraibi

'' Paradise '' - Toni Morrison

'' Point Of Origin '' - Patricia Cornwell

'' Rainbow Six '' - Tom Clancy

'' Return To Hawk's Hill '' - Allan W. Eckert

'' Seize The Night '' - Dean R. Koontz

'' Smoke And Mirrors '' - Neil Gaiman (most of the contained stories previously published)

'' The Street Lawyer '' - John Grisham

'' To Say Nothing Of The Dog '' - Connie Willis

'' Tomcat In Love '' - Tim O'Brien

'' Veronika Decides To Die '' - Paulo Coelho

'' Waiting '' - Ha Jin

'' A Widow For One Year '' - John Irving

'' The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle '' - Haruki Murakami

NEW DRAMA

Michael Frayn - '' Copenhagen ''

NON-FICTION

'' (Essais sur l'imprégnation fasciste au Québec)

Gerina Dunwich - '' Wicca A To Z ''

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John Fowles - '' Wormholes - Essays And Occasional Writings ''

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BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 2 - Frank Muir , comedy writer

January 11 - John Wells , satirical writer

January 23 - John Forbes , Australian poet

January 27 - Geoffrey Trease , historical novelist

February 7 - Lawrence Sanders , author

February 17 - Ernst Jünger , novelist and war memoirist

March 15 - Dr Benjamin Spock , childcare expert

April 11 - Francis Durbridge , playwright

April 19 - Octavio Paz , winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature

April 27 - Pauline Réage , author

April 27 - Carlos Castaneda

May 9 - Nat Perrin , comedy writer

June 10 - Hammond Innes , novelist

June 11 - Dame Catherine Cookson , bestselling novelist

July 1 - Martin Seymour-Smith , biographer

July 5 - Johnny Speight , comedy writer

July 14 - Miroslav Holub , Czech poet

July 23 - John Hopkins , film and television writer

September 28 - Eric Malling , journalist

October 22 - Eric Ambler , novelist

October 28 - Ted Hughes , Poet Laureate

November 8 - Rumer Godden , novelist

''date unknown'' - Ian Wallace , science fiction author

AWARDS

- ''Amsterdam''

See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

: ''The Love of a Good Woman''

, '' Forever Peace ''

, ''The Grand of Green Plums''

, ''Forever Peace''

, ''Out of the Dust''

, ''Larry's Party''

, ''Confidence pour confidence''

, ''Les Particules élémentaires''

Prix Médicis French: ''Le Loup mongol''

, ''How I Learned to Drive''

, ''American Pastoral''

, ''Black Zodiac''

, ''Birthday Letters''