1994 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994.

Events[]

  • October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book How Late It Was, How Late as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial.[1] One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Mogadon" the following week.[2]
  • November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman.[3]
  • December 1 – Iceland's National and University Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn) is founded in Reykjavík by merging the former national library, Landsbókasafn Íslands, established in 1818, with the university library of 1940.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

  • Marina Carr – The Mai
  • Kevin Elyot – My Night With Reg
  • Terry Johnson – Dead Funny
  • Arthur Miller – Broken Glass
  • Yasmina Reza – Art

Poetry[]

Main article: 1994 in poetry
  • Sophie Cabot Black – The Misunderstanding of Nature

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • March 14 - Bashir Mehtaab, Indian Urdu language poet
  • April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist
  • October 16 - Alice Oseman, English author of young adult fiction

Deaths[]

  • January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American horror, fantasy and sci-fi writer (born 1901)
  • January 30 – Pierre Boulle, French novelist (born 1912)
  • January 31 – Erwin Strittmatter, German writer (born 1912)
  • February 6 – Jack Kirby, American comic book cartoonist (born 1917)
  • February 11 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher of science (born 1924)
  • February 26 – J. L. Carr, English novelist (born 1912)
  • February 27 – Harold Acton, English writer, scholar and dilettante (born 1904)
  • March 9 – Charles Bukowski, German-born American poet and novelist (born 1920)
  • March 20 – Lewis Grizzard, American journalist and author (born 1946)
  • March 28 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian playwright (born 1909)
  • April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American scholar and writer (born 1914)
  • May 24 – John Wain, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1925)
  • May 30
    • Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (born 1909)[11]
    • Isobel English (June Guesdon Jolliffe), English novelist (born 1920)
  • June 7 – Dennis Potter, English TV dramatist (born 1935)
  • June 17 – Yuri Nagibin, Soviet screenwriter and novelist (born 1920)
  • June 26 – Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist (born 1929)
  • July 5 – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Malayalam short story writer (born 1908)
  • July 30 – Robin Cook (Derek Raymond), English novelist (born 1931)
  • August 7 – Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer (born 1898)
  • August 14 – Alice Childress, African American playwright, actress and young-adult novelist (born 1916)
  • August 25 – Bidhyanath Pokhrel, Nepali poet (born 1918)
  • September 7 – James Clavell, Australian-born American novelist (born 1921)
  • November 12 – J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes), Scottish novelist and critic (born 1906)
  • November 15 – Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (born 1908)
  • November 28 – Ian Serraillier, English novelist and poet (born 1912)
  • December 12 – Donna J. Stone, American poet and philanthropist (born 1933)
  • December 20 – Eva Alexanderson, Swedish novelist and translator (born 1911)
  • December 24 – John Osborne, English dramatist (born 1929)[12]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

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

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Fiction: Louis Edward, Mary Hood, Randall Kenan (fiction/nonfiction), Kate Wheeler
Nonfiction: Kennedy Fraser, Wayne Koestenbaum (nonfiction/poetry), Rosemary Mahoney, Claudia Roth Pierpont
Poetry: Mark Doty, Mary Swander (poetry/nonfiction)

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Winder, Robert (13 October 1994). "Highly literary and deeply vulgar: If James Kelman's Booker novel is rude, it is in good company, argues Robert Winder". The Independent. London. James Kelman's victory in the Booker Prize on Tuesday night has already provoked a not altogether polite discussion...
  2. ^ Walsh, Maeve (21 March 1999). "It was five years ago today: How controversial it was, how controversial". The Independent.
  3. ^ "...Przeprowadzone badania wykazują, że szczątki kostne, przywiezione w 1988 roku ze wsi Jeziory na Ukrainie należą do kobiety w wieku 25–30 lat, o wzroście około 164 cm...." (The tests conducted indicate that the bone remains, brought in 1988 from the village Jeziory in the Ukraine, belong to a woman 25–30 years old and about 164 cm tall....") from the protocol of the commission called by the Ministry of Culture and Art after the exhumation on 26 November 1994 of the presumed grave of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz at Pęksowy Brzyzek cemetery in Zakopane. From:"Maciej Pinkwart, "Wygraliśmy"". Archived from the original on 2010-01-20. Retrieved 2015-01-28. in: Moje Zakopane, 21 February 2005. (Source: Komunikat Komisji powołanej przez Ministra Kultury i Sztuki do spraw pochówku Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza. Prof. dr. hab. Tadeusz Polak). Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  4. ^ "All Eight Roy Grace Novels by Peter James Now Available in e-Book Format in the United States: Author of "the world's first electronic novel" in 1994". prweb. 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  5. ^ "Scotiabank Giller Prize". The Canadian Encyclopedia. July 7, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  6. ^ George Stade; Karen Karbiener (12 May 2010). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present. Infobase Publishing. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-4381-1689-1.
  7. ^ George Mackay Brown; George Mackay-Brown (27 March 2014). Beside the Ocean of Time. John Murray Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4447-7973-8.
  8. ^ Schatt, Stan (12 March 2015). Michael Connelly. Anaphora Literary Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-68114-062-9.
  9. ^ "1995: Denise Chong". Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners. Wilfrid Laurier University. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  10. ^ Kirkpatrick, Melanie (July 14, 1994). "Bookshelf: Taking feminism back". pp. A8 – via ProQuest.
  11. ^ "Juan Carlos Onetti, Novelist and Poet, Dies in Madrid at 84". New York Times. June 1, 1994. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  12. ^ Luc Gilleman (4 February 2014). John Osborne: Vituperative Artist. Routledge. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-317-84281-1.
  13. ^ Faculty of Arts, 1994, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2012-10-01 at the Wayback Machine Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Linda Johns, Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  14. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
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