1989 in literature

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See also: 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

New books

• Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
• And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
• Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al
• Daddy - Danielle Steel
• The Face of Battle - John Keegan
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
• Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
• Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
• The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
• The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven
• Licence to Kill - John Gardner
• London Fields - Martin Amis
• Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield
• The Magick of Candleburning - Gerina Dunwich
• The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth
• The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• Playmates - Robert B. Parker
• A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
• Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
• Red Phoenix - Larry Bond
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Russia House - John le Carré
• The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• Six Days in Havana - James A. Michener
• Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
• Star - Danielle Steel
• Stark - Ben Elton
• The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
• A Time to Kill - John Grisham
• Total Recall - Piers Anthony
• The War Zone - Alexander Stuart
• While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark
• The Wicked and the Witless - Hugh Cook
• Win, Lose or Die - John Gardner
• New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
• Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon
• A Fire in the Sun - George Alec Effinger

New drama

• Keith Waterhouse - Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Births

Deaths

• January 8 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist
• February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
• March 14 - Edward Abbey, essayist
• March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet
• April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer
• May 19 - C. L. R. James, journalist
• August 23 - R. D. Laing, psychologist and author
• September 4 - Georges Simenon, Maigret author
• September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme, Classicist
• September 15 - Robert Penn Warren, poet
• September 30 - Horace Alexander, pacifist writer, 100
• October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter
• December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist
• December 26 - Paul Jennings, humorist
• December - George Seldon

Awards

• Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
• See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela
• Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu
• Prix Décembre: Guy Dupré, Les Manoeuvres d'automne
• Prix Médicis French: Serge Dubrovsky, Le Livre brisé
• Prix Médicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visionsfr:1989 en littérature

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