1994 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1994.

Events

November 26 – The Ministry of Culture and Art in Poland orders exhumation of the presumed grave of absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remaining bones prove that the body belongs to an unknown woman.

December 1 – The National and University Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn) is established in Reykjavík by merger of the former national library, Landsbókasafn Íslands (established 1818) and the university library (1940).

Penguin Books offer Peter James' novel Host on two floppy disks as "the world's first electronic novel".

The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

Fiction

Peter Ackroyd – Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Kevin J. Anderson

Champions of the Force

Dark Apprentice

Jedi Search

Reed Arvin – The Wind in the Wheat

Thomas Berger – Robert Crews

Louis de Bernières – Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Lily Brett – Just Like That

George Mackay Brown – Beside the Ocean of Time

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

Goth Opera

No Future

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

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

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!, Spring)

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

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

John Peel – Evolution

Ellis Peters – Brother Cadfael's Penance

Terry Pratchett

Interesting Times

Soul Music

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

Sidney Sheldon – Nothing Lasts Forever

Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries

Michael Slade – Ripper

S. P. Somtow – Jasmine Nights

Danielle Steel

Accident

The Gift

Wings

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

Binod Bihari Verma – Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi

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

Sam McBratney – Guess How Much I Love You (board book)

Mem Fox - Tough Boris

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)

Amy Tan - Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat

Jacqueline Wilson – Freddy's Teddy (first in the eponymous series of four books)

Carlos García Gual (with Willi Glasauer) – Dioses, Héroes, Mortales: Mitos y Leyendas de la Grecia Clásica|Gods, Heroes, Immortals: The Greatest Stories and Legends of Ancient Greek Mythology