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

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

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
David S. Garnett - Stargonauts
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

New drama

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

Poetry

Main article: 1994 in poetry

Sophie Cabot Black - The Misunderstanding of Nature

Non-fiction

Michael Asher - Thesiger
Dionne Brand, - Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics and We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History
Martin Gilbert - In Search of Churchill
Will Hutton - The State We're In
Li Zhisui - The Private Life of Chairman Mao

Births

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

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe

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

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.

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

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