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