1994 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994.
- 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
- Penguin Books offer Peter James's novel Host on two floppy disks as "the world's first electronic novel".[4]
- The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.[5]
New books
Fiction
- Peter Ackroyd – Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
- Nelson Algren (died 1981) – The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren (short stories)
- Kevin J. Anderson
- Reed Arvin – The Wind in the Wheat
- Thomas Berger – Robert Crews
- Louis de Bernières – Captain Corelli's Mandolin[6]
- Lily Brett – Just Like That
- George Mackay Brown – Beside the Ocean of Time[7]
- Christopher Bulis – State of Change
- James Chapman – Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand)
- Tom Clancy – Debt of Honor
- Jonathan Coe – What a Carve Up!
- Michael Connelly – The Concrete Blonde
- Paul Cornell
- 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
- Stephen Fry – The Hippopotamus
- William Gaddis – A Frolic of His Own
- Neil Gaiman
- The Sandman: Brief Lives (graphic novel, seventh in The Sandman series)
- The Sandman: Worlds' End (graphic novel, eighth in The Sandman series)
- Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean – Mr. Punch (graphic novel)
- 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
- Abdulrazak Gurnah – Paradise
- Peter Handke – My Year in the No-Man's-Bay
- Epeli Hau'ofa – Tales of the Tikongs
- Dermot Healy – A Goat's Song
- Joseph Heller – Closing Time
- James Herbert – The Ghosts of Sleath
- Craig Hinton – The Crystal Bucephalus
- Alan Hollinghurst – The Folding Star
- Nancy Huston – La Virevolte
- John Irving – A Son of the Circus
- 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
- Joe R. Lansdale – Mucho Mojo
- Andy Lane – All-Consuming Fire
- Ursula K. Le Guin – "The Matter of Seggri" (in Crank!)
- 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
- Javier Marías – Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí)
- Simon Messingham – Strange England
- James A. Michener – Recessional
- Rick Moody – The Ice Storm
- Jim Mortimore – Parasite
- Herta Müller – The Land of Green Plums
- Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) – Piercing (ピアッシング, English translation 2007)
- Tim O'Brien – In the Lake of the Woods
- Daniel O'Mahony – Falls the Shadow
- V. S. Naipaul – A Way in the World
- John Peel – Evolution
- Tito Perdue – The New Austerities
- Ellis Peters – Brother Cadfael's Penance
- Terry Pratchett
- Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津) – Notes of a Crocodile
- James Redfield – The Celestine Prophecy
- Matthew Reilly – Contest
- Justin Richards – Theatre of War
- Gareth Roberts – Tragedy Day
- Gary Russell – Legacy
- David Sedaris – Barrel Fever
- Sidney Sheldon – Nothing Lasts Forever
- Michael Slade – Ripper
- S. P. Somtow – Jasmine Nights
- Danielle Steel
- Botho Strauß – Living Glimmering Lying
- Antonio Tabucchi – Pereira Maintains (Sostiene Pereira)
- William Trevor – Felicia's Journey
- John Updike – Brazil
- Andrew Vachss – Down in the Zero
- Marlene van Niekerk – Triomf
- Jill Paton Walsh – Knowledge of Angels
- Tim Winton – The Riders
Children and young people
- Pamela Allen – Clippity-Clop
- Chris Van Allsburg – The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
- Nancy Farmer – The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
- Mem Fox – Tough Boris
- Gayle Greeno – Mind-Speakers' Call
- Donald Hall (with Barry Moser)
- Julius Lester –John Henry
- J. Patrick Lewis (with Gary Kelley) – The Christmas of the Reddle Moon
- Sam McBratney – Guess How Much I Love You (board book)
- Andre Norton (with Martin H. Greenberg and Braldt Bralds) – Catfantastic III
- Glyn Parry –Monster Man
- Gloria Jean Pinkney –The Sunday Outing
- Jennifer Rowe (as Mary-Anne Dickinson) – The Charm Bracelet (first in the Fairy Realm series of ten books)
- Francesca Simon – Horrid Henry (first in the eponymous series of 24 books)
- Paul and Henrietta Stickland – Dinosaur Roar!
- Amy Tan – Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
- Jacqueline Wilson – Freddy's Teddy (first in the eponymous series of four books)
Drama
- Marina Carr – The Mai
- Kevin Elyot – My Night With Reg
- Jon Fosse – Og aldri skal vi skiljast (And We'll Never Be Parted)
- Terry Johnson – Dead Funny
- Arthur Miller – Broken Glass
- Yasmina Reza – Art
Poetry
- Sophie Cabot Black – The Misunderstanding of Nature
Non-fiction
- Michael Asher – Thesiger
- Alan Bennett – Writing Home
- John Berendt – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Harold Bloom – The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
- Denise Chong – The Concubine's Children[8]
- Antonio Damasio – Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
- Anne Hugon – Vers Tombouctou : L'Afrique des explorateurs II
- Paul Lawrence Farber – Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson
- Leon Forrest – Relocations of the Spirit: Collected Essays
- V. A. C. Gatrell – The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1780–1868
- Martin Gilbert – In Search of Churchill
- Christina Hoff Sommers – Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women[9]
- Will Hutton – The State We're In
- Richard Leakey – The Origin of Humankind
- Li Zhisui (邱妙津) – The Private Life of Chairman Mao
- Steven Pinker – The Language Instinct
- Tricia Rose – Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
- Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- Richard B. Trask – Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy
- Gabrielle van Zuylen – The Garden: Visions of Paradise
- Charles P. Cozic – Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
- Elizabeth Wurtzel – Prozac Nation
Births
- April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist
- June 25 – Robbie Coburn, Australian poet
- October 16 – Alice Oseman, English author of young adult fiction