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First Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction awarded.

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Accident - Danielle Steel

The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield

The Chamber - John Grisham

Champions of the Force - Kevin J. Anderson

Contest - Matthew Reilly

Creatures of the Kingdom - James A. Michener

Dark Apprentice - Kevin J. Anderson

Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean R. Koontz

Daughter of Damascus - Shiham Turjuman

Dead Right - David Frum

The Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy

Disclosure - Michael Crichton

The Ghosts of Sleath - James Herbert

The Gift - Danielle Steel

Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand) - James Chapman

How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman

The Ice Storm - Rick Moody

The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis

In Search of CHURCHILL - Martin Gilbert

Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett

In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien

Insomnia - Stephen King

Jedi Search - Kevin J. Anderson

Just Like That - Lily Brett

Life After God - Douglas Coupland

Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore - Valerio Evangelisti

Nothing Lasts Forever - Sidney Sheldon

Point de côté - Judith Godrèche

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner

Recessional - James A. Michener

Ripper - Michael Slade

SeaFire - John Gardner

Songs of Earth and Power - Greg Bear

Soul Music - Terry Pratchett

The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields

Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle

La Virevolte - Nancy Huston

The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin

Wings - Danielle Steel

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My Night With Reg - Kevin Elyot

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January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author

February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer

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

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

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Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe

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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.

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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

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Booker Prize: James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late

Cholmondeley Award: Ruth Fainlight, Gwen Harwood, Elizabeth Jennings, John Mole

Whitbread Best Book Award: William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Jan Beatty, Mad River

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Wendell Berry

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: A. R. Ammons, Garbage

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