1994 in literature

Events

• First Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction awarded.

New Books

• Accident[?] - Danielle Steel
• The Celestine Prophecy[?] - James Redfield[?]
• The Chamber[?] - John Grisham
• Creatures of the Kingdom[?] - James A. Michener
• 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 Gift[?] - Danielle Steel
• In Search of CHURCHILL[?] - Martin Gilbert[?]
• In the Lake of the Woods]] - Tim O'Brien
• Insomnia - Stephen King
• Nothing Lasts Forever[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The Octopus Frets, political poems by Daniel C. Boyer
• Point de côté[?] - Judith Godrèche
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories[?] - James Finn Garner[?]
• Recessional[?] - James A. Michener
• Songs of Earth and Power[?] - Greg Bear
• 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

Births

Deaths

• January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author
• February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer
• March 28 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
• April 16 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer

• Booker Prize: James Kelman[?], How Late It Was, How Late
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: M.G. Vassanji[?], The Book of Secrets
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, The Giver
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe
• 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