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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.

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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, Jedi - Michael Stackpole

I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops - Hanan al-Shaykh

Inversions - Iain M. Banks

Iron Fist - Aaron Allston

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 Mandalorian Armor - K. W. Jeter

The Martyring - Thomas Sullivan

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

Rebel Dawn - Ann C. Crispin

Return to Hawk's Hill - Allan W. Eckert

Seize the Night - Dean R. Koontz

Shrink aka Primal Scream - Michael Slade

Slave Ship - K. W. Jeter

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

Vision of the Future - Timothy Zahn

Waiting - Ha Jin

A Widow for One Year - John Irving

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Wraith Squadron - Aaron Allston

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Michael Frayn - Copenhagen

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Esther Delisle - (Essais sur l'imprégnation fasciste au Québec)

Gerina Dunwich - Wicca A to Z

Amanda Foreman -

John Fowles - Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings

Alan I. Marcus - Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam -

Jules Witcover, David Halberstam - The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America

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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, author

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 of Great Britain

November 8 - Rumer Godden, novelist

date unknown - Ian Wallace, science fiction author

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Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago

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See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman

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Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires

Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence

Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol

Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe

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Booker Prize: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam

Cholmondeley Award: Roger McGough, Robert Minhinnick, Anne Ridler, Ken Smith

Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party

Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Shara McCallum, The Water Between Us

Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: X.J. Kennedy

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Horton Foote

Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Frank Bidart, Desire

Hugo Award for Best Novel: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace

Frost Medal: Stanley Kunitz

Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace

Newbery Medal for children's literature: Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, American Pastoral

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac

Wallace Stevens Award: A. R. Ammons

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IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Grand of Green Plums