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The year 1994 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards 8.1 Australia 8.2 Canada 8.3 France 8.4 United Kingdom 8.5 United States 8.6 Elsewhere

[edit] Events

• The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

[edit] New books

• Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search
• Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat
• Greg Bear - Songs of Earth and Power
• Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• Lily Brett - Just Like That
• George Mackay Brown - Beside the Ocean of Time
• Christopher Bulis - State of Change
• James Chapman - Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand)
• Tom Clancy - The Debt of Honor
• Michael Connelly - The Concrete Blonde
• Paul Cornell - Goth Opera and No Future
• Bernard Cornwell - Copperhead
• Douglas Coupland - Life After God
• Michael Crichton - Disclosure
• Terrance Dicks - Blood Harvest
• Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order
• Bret Easton Ellis - The Informers
• Valerio Evangelisti - Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore
• David Frum - Dead Right
• John Gardner - SeaFire
• James Finn Garner - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
• Mark Gatiss - St Anthony's Fire
• Judith Godrèche - Point de côté
• John Grisham - The Chamber
• Romesh Gunesekera - Reef
• James Herbert - The Ghosts of Sleath
• Craig Hinton - The Crystal Bucephalus
• Alan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star
• Nancy Huston - La Virevolte
• Alexander Jablokov - The Breath of Suspension
• James Kelman - How late it was, how late
• Stephen King - Insomnia'
• Dean R. Koontz - Dark Rivers of the Heart
• Andy Lane - All-Consuming Fire
• Madeleine L'Engle - Troubling a Star
• Paul Leonard - Venusian Lullaby
• Jonathan Lethem - Gun, with Occasional Music
• H. P. Lovecraft - Miscellaneous Writings
• Steve Lyons - Conundrum
• F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre - The Woman Between the Worlds
• David A. McIntee - First Frontier
• Simon Messingham - Strange England
• James A. Michener - Creatures of the Kingdom and Recessional
• Rick Moody - The Ice Storm
• Jim Mortimore - Parasite
• Tim O'Brien - In the Lake of the Woods
• Daniel O'Mahony - Falls the Shadow
• John Peel - Evolution
• Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times and Soul Music
• James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy
• Matthew Reilly - Contest
• Justin Richards - Theatre of War
• Gareth Roberts - Tragedy Day
• Gary Russell - Legacy
• Sidney Sheldon - Nothing Lasts Forever
• Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries
• Michael Slade - Ripper
• S. P. Somtow - Jasmine Nights
• Danielle Steel - Accident, The Gift and Wings
• William Trevor - Felicia's Journey
• Shiham Turjuman - Daughter of Damascus
• Andrew Vachss - Down in the Zero
• Jill Paton Walsh - Knowledge of Angels
• Binod Bihari Verma - Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi

[edit] New drama

• Kevin Elyot - My Night With Reg
• Arthur Miller - Broken Glass

[edit] Poetry

• Sophie Cabot Black - The Misunderstanding of Nature

[edit] Non-fiction

• Michael Asher - Thesiger
• Martin Gilbert - In Search of Churchill
• Will Hutton - The State We're In
• Li Zhisui - The Private Life of Chairman Mao

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author
• February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer
• February 11 - Paul Feyerabend, philosopher of science
• February 26 - J. L. Carr, novelist
• February 27 - Harold Acton, author, the inspiration for Anthony Blanche
• March 9 - Charles Bukowski, poet and novelist
• March 28 - Eugène Ionesco, playwright
• April 16 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer
• May 30 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer
• June 7 - Dennis Potter, controversial TV dramatist
• July 30 - Robin Cook, novelist
• 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

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe

[edit] Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Darren Williams, Swimming In Silk
• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray, Certain Things
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Barry Hill, Ghosting William Buckley
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Deborah Staines, Now, Millennium

[edit] Canada

• Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets
• See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

[edit] France

• Prix Goncourt: Didier Van Cauwelaert, Un Aller simple
• Prix Décembre: Jean Hatzfeld, L'Air de guerre and Éric Holder, La Belle Jardinière
• Prix Médicis French: Yves Berger, Immobile dans le courant du fleuve
• Prix Médicis International: Robert Schneider, Frère Sommeil

[edit] United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Doris Lessing, Under My Skin
• Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole
• Eric Gregory Award: Julia Copus, Alice Oswald, Steven Blyth, Kate Clanchy, Giles Goodland
• Whitbread Best Book Award: William Trevor, Felicia's Journey

[edit] United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry
• Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stewart James, "Vanessa", and (separately) Marilyn Hacker, "Cancer Winter"
• Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage
• Compton Crook Award: Mary Rosenblum, The Drylands
• Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Moving Mars
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, The Giver
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
• Wallace Stevens Award inaugurated with first award this year: W. S. Merwin

[edit] Elsewhere

• Montana Book Award for Poetry: Bill Manhire, ed., 100 New Zealand Poems
• New Zealand Book Award for Poetry: Andrew Johnston, How to Talk
• Premio Nadal: Rosa Regàs, Azul