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This article presents a list of publications of literature, awards given, and births and deaths of major literary figures during 1989.

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Events

  • February 14 – The Satanic Verses controversy: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (died 3 June 1989), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel The Satanic Verses (1988). On February 24 Iran places a US $3 million bounty on Rushdie's head.
  • March 1 – Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 comes into effect in the United States making the country a party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works of 1886.
  • December 29 – Playwright Václav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia.
  • Unknown dates
  • Archeological remains of the English Renaissance Rose and Globe theaters are discovered in London.
  • The National Library of Norway is established in Oslo.

    • Fiction

  • Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh (Misk al–ghazal)
  • Martin Amis – London Fields
  • Piers Anthony – Total Recall
  • Iain Banks – Canal Dreams
  • Clive Barker – The Great and Secret Show
  • Julian Barnes – A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
  • Thomas Berger – Changing the Past
  • Larry Bond – Red Phoenix
  • Anthony Burgess – Any Old Iron
  • Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
  • Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger
  • Mary Higgins Clark – While My Pretty One Sleeps
  • Hugh Cook – The Wicked and the Witless
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • Sharpe's Revenge
  • Sea Lord (aka Killer's Wake)
  • Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One
  • Robert Crais – Stalking the Angel
  • Lindsey Davis – The Silver Pigs
  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • The Honorable Barbarian
  • (with Fletcher Pratt) – The Complete Compleat Enchanter
  • E. L. Doctorow – Billy Bathgate
  • Katherine Dunn – Geek Love
  • Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum
  • Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate)
  • George Alec Effinger – A Fire in the Sun
  • Ben Elton – Stark
  • Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth
  • Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator
  • Gabriel García Márquez – The General in His Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto)
  • John Gardner
  • Licence to Kill
  • Win, Lose or Die
  • Charles Gill – The Boozer Challenge
  • John Grisham – A Time to Kill
  • A. M. Homes – Jack
  • Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles
  • John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
  • Elias Khoury – رحلة غاندي الصغير (Rihlat Ghandi al-saghir, The Journey of Little Gandhi)
  • Stephen King – The Dark Half
  • László Krasznahorkai – The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája)
  • Joe R. Lansdale
  • Cold in July
  • By Bizarre Hands
  • John le Carré – The Russia House
  • H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions corrected edition
  • H. P. Lovecraft and others – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
  • Hilary Mantel – Fludd
  • James A. Michener – Six Days in Havana
  • Bharati Mukherjee – Jasmine
  • Larry Niven – The Legacy of Heorot
  • Robert B. Parker – Playmates
  • Ellis Peters
  • The Heretic's Apprentice
  • The Potter's Field
  • Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Guards! Guards!'
  • Pyramids
  • Paul Quarrington – Whale Music
  • Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here
  • Giampaolo Rugarli – Il nido di ghiaccio
  • José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon
  • Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
  • Dan Simmons – Hyperion
  • John Skipp and Craig Spector – Book of the Dead
  • Danielle Steel
  • Daddy
  • Star
  • Bruce Sterling – Crystal Express
  • Alexander Stuart – The War Zone
  • Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club
  • Shashi Tharoor – The Great Indian Novel
  • Rose Tremain – Restoration
  • Jane Vandenburgh – Failure to Zig-Zag
  • Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy
  • Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar
  • Roger Zelazny
  • Frost and Fire
  • Knight of Shadows

    • Children and young people

  • Verna Aardema - Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
  • Joyce Barkhouse – Pit Pony
  • Bruce Coville – My Teacher Is an Alien
  • Anne Fine
  • Bill's New Frock
  • Goggle-Eyes
  • Mark Helprin (with Chris Van Allsburg) - Swan Lake
  • Yoshi Kogo – Big Al
  • Bill Martin Jr. (with Lois Elhert) – Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
  • David McKee – Elmer
  • Jim Murphy - The Call Of The Wolves
  • Bill Peet - Bill Peet: An Autobiography
  • Robert D. San Souci - The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
  • Jon Scieszka (with Lane Smith) – The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
  • R. L. Stine – The New Girl (first in the Fear Street series of 55 books)

    • Drama

  • Herman Brusselmans & Tom Lanoye – De Canadese muur
  • Jim Cartwright – Two
  • Michael Wall – Amongst Barbarians
  • Keith Waterhouse – Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

    • Poetry

  • Simon Armitage – Zoom!
  • Paul Fleischman – Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
  • David Lehman – The Best American Poetry 1989

    • Non-fiction

  • Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg – Angst und Vorurteil
  • Rodney Cotterill – No Ghost in the Machine: Modern Science and the Brain, the Mind, and the Soul
  • Stephen R. Covey – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Cynthia Enloe – Bananas, Beaches and Bases
  • Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon – Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
  • Tim Jeal – Baden-Powell
  • Bob Kane and Tom Andrae – Batman and Me
  • John Keegan – The Face of Battle
  • Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson – And Their Children After Them
  • Peter Mayle – A Year in Provence
  • Ann Moir and David Jessel – Brain Sex
  • New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
  • Michael Palin – Around the World in 80 Days
  • Gilda Radner – It's Always Something
  • Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson – True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny
  • V. Vale and Andrea Juno – Modern Primitives
  • Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett – The Andy Warhol Diaries
  • Jeremy Wilson – Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence
  • Bob Wood – Big Ten Country

    • Births

  • July 11 – David Henrie, American actor and screenwriter

    • Deaths

  • January 4 – Srikrishna Alanahalli, Indian novelist and poet (born 1947)
  • January 8 – Bruce Chatwin, English travel writer and novelist (born 1940)
  • February 3 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director and writer (born 1929)
  • February 12 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (born 1931)
  • March 14 – Edward Abbey, American essayist (born 1927)
  • March 27 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist and poet (born 1898)
  • April 14 – Laurence Meynell (Valerie Baxter, A. Stephen Tring), English novelist and children's writer (born 1899)
  • April 19 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist (born 1907)
  • May 19 – C. L. R. James, Trinidad-born American journalist (born 1901)
  • May 20 – Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1930)
  • August 23 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist and author (born 1927)
  • August 26 – Irving Stone, American novelist (born 1903)
  • September 4
  • Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist and crime writer (born 1903)
  • Sir Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist (born 1903)
  • September 13 – Aatreya, Telugu screenwriter (born 1921)
  • September 15 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet and novelist (born 1905)
  • September 30
  • Horace Alexander, English current-affairs writer and ornithologist (born 1909)
  • Oskar Davičo, Serbian novelist and poet (born 1909)
  • October 13 – Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (born 1902)
  • November 22 – José Guadalupe Cruz, Mexican comics writer (born 1917)
  • December 5 – George Selden (Terry Andrews), American children's author (gastrointestinal bleeding, born 1929)
  • December 19 – Stella Gibbons, English novelist (born 1902)
  • December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish-born playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906)
  • December 26 – Paul Jennings, English humorist (born 1918)

    • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela
  • Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Brook
  • Camões Prize: Miguel Torga

    • Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Mandy Sayer, Mood Indigo
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Gwen Harwood, Bone Scan
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: John Tranter, Under Berlin
  • Mary Gilmore Prize: Alex Skovron, The Re-arrangement
  • Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

    • Canada

  • See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

    • France

  • Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand Pas vers le Bon Dieu
  • Prix Décembre: Guy Dupré, Les Manœuvres d'automne
  • Prix Médicis French: Serge Doubrovsky, Le Livre brisé
  • Prix Médicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral

    • United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes
  • Cholmondeley Award: Peter Didsbury, Douglas Dunn, E.J. Scovell
  • Eric Gregory Award: Gerard Woodward, David Morley, Katrina Porteous, Paul Henry
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: James Kelman, A Disaffection
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
  • Newdigate prize: Jane Griffiths
  • Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Allen Curnow
  • Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
  • The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Rose Tremain, Restoration

    • United States

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Nancy Vieira Couto, The Face in the Water
  • Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Anthony Hecht
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham, "Spring"
  • Compton Crook Award: Elizabeth Moon, Sheepfarmer's Daughter
  • Frost Medal: Gwendolyn Brooks
  • National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
  • National Book Award for Fiction: to Spartina by John Casey
  • Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
  • 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
  • Whiting Awards:
    • Fiction: Ellen Akins, Marianne WigginsNonfiction: Ian Frazier, Natalie Kusz, Luc Sante, Tobias Wolff (nonfiction/fiction)Plays: Timberlake WertenbakerPoetry: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright

    Japan

  • Falcon Award (Maltese Falcon Society of Japan): Andrew Vachss for Strega
  • The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established, with Ken'ichi Sakemi winning with his novel Kōkyū Shōsetsu.

    • References

    1989 in literature Wikipedia
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