1989 in literature

Events

• February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 mllion bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

New Books

• The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
• Chronicle of the French Revolution[?] - Jean Favier[?] et al
• Daddy[?] - Danielle Steel
• The Face of Battle[?] - John Keegan[?]
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• It's Always Something[?] - Gilda Radner
• The Joy Luck Club[?] - Amy Tan
• The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven
• Lot's Wife[?] - Tom Wakefield[?]
• The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth[?]
• Pillars of the Earth[?] - Ken Follett
• A Prayer For Owen Meany[?] - John Irving
• Red Phoenix[?] - Larry Bond[?]
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Russia House[?] - John le Carré
• The Sands of Time[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• Six Days in Havana[?] - James A. Michener
• Solomon Gursky Was Here[?] - Mordecai Richler
• Star - Danielle Steel
• The Temple of My Familiar[?] - Alice Walker
• A Time to Kill[?] - John Grisham
• Total Recall[?] - Piers Anthony
• While My Pretty One Sleeps[?] - Mary Higgins Clark[?]

Births

• November 15 - Richmal Crompton, author

Deaths

• February 3 - John Cassavetes[?], actor, director, writer
• April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman[?], Joyful Noise
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela[?]
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Wendy Wasserstein[?], The Heidi Chronicles
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Anne Tyler[?] - Breathing Lessons
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems