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Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft - Condoleezza Rice & Philip Zelikow

Simon & Schuster paid US$4.2 million for the hardcover publishing rights for The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans after the self-published book appeared on The New York Times bestseller list.

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Ambush at Corellia - Roger MacBride Allen

The Apocalypse Watch - Robert Ludlum

Assault at Selonia - Roger MacBride Allen

Blindness - Josè Saramago

Blood Sport - James B. Stewart

Children of the Jedi - Barbara Hambly

Darksaber - Kevin J. Anderson

The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal Stephenson

The First Man (Le premier homme) - Albert Camus

Five Days In Paris - Danielle Steel

GoldenEye - John Gardner

The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans

Independence Day - Richard Ford

The Information - Martin Amis

The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco

Landscape and Memory - Simon Schama

The Lost World - Michael Crichton

Man Ray, 1890-1976 - Man Ray, Andre Breton

Maskerade - Terry Pratchett

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland

Miracle in Seville - James A. Michener

Morning, Noon, & Night - Sidney Sheldon

Northern Lights (published in North America as The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman

Our Game - John le Carré

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze - Robert James Waller

The Rainmaker - John Grisham

Rose Madder - Stephen King

Showdown at Centerpoint - Roger MacBride Allen

Silent Night - Mary Higgins Clark

The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle

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Love! Valour! Compassion! - Terrence McNally

Indian Ink - Tom Stoppard

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Mark Epstein - Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective

Gerina Dunwich - The Wicca Book of Days

Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars

Miranda Seymour -

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January 9 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer

January 30 Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, writer

January 31 - George Abbott, writer, director, producer

February 4 - Patricia Highsmith, author

February 12 - Robert Bolt, writer

February 21 - Calder Willingham, writer

February 23 - James Herriot, author

April 14 - Brian Coffey, poet

June 14 - Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction

July 16 - Stephen Spender, poet

August 3 - Edward Whittemore, writer

August 29 - Michael Ende, fantasy novelist

October 22 - Kingsley Amis, author

November 16 - Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian

November 22 - Margaret St. Clair, science fiction writer

December 2 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist

December 30 - Heiner Müller, dramatist

May Sarton - American writer

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Nobel Prize for Literature: Seamus Heaney

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Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

See 1995 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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Prix Goncourt: Andreï Makine, Le Testament français

Prix Décembre: Jean Échenoz, Les Grandes Blondes

Prix Médicis French: Vassilis Alexakis, La Langue maternelle and Andreï Makine, Le testament français

Prix Médicis International: Alessandro Baricco, Châteaux de la colère

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Booker Prize: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

Cholmondeley Award: U.A. Fanthorpe, Christopher Reid, C. H. Sisson, Kit Wright

Whitbread Best Book Award: Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Sandy Solomon, Pears, Lake, Sun

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Maxine Kumin

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, William Maxwell

Carnegie Medal: Philip Pullman, Northern Lights

Hugo Award: Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Nebula Award: Robert Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Philip Levine, The Simple Truth

Wallace Stevens Award: James Tate