The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article and discuss the issue on the talk page. (December 2010)             List of years in literature       (table) … 1979 .  1980 .  1981 .  1982  . 1983  . 1984  . 1985 … 1986 1987 1988 -1989- 1990 1991 1992 … 1993 .  1994 .  1995 .  1996  . 1997  . 1998  . 1999 …      In poetry: 1986 1987 1988 -1989- 1990 1991 1992      Related time period  or  subjects … 1986 . 1987 . 1988 - 1989 - 1990 . 1991 . 1992 … … 1950s . 1960s . 1970s -1980s- 1990s . 2000s . 2010s

… 19th century . 20th century . 21st century … Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Science +... The year 1989 in literature involved some significant events and new books. Contents 1 Events 2 Books 2.1 Literature 2.2 Horror fiction 2.3 Children's and young adults' fiction 2.4 Drama 2.5 Poetry 2.6 Non-fiction 3 Deaths 4 Awards 4.1 Australia 4.2 Canada 4.3 France 4.4 United Kingdom 4.5 United States 4.6 Japan Events February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. Books Literature Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh (Misk al–ghazal) Martin Amis – London Fields Piers Anthony – Total Recall Clive Barker – The Great and Secret Show Julian Barnes - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters 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 and 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 L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt – The Complete Compleat Enchanter E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate Katherine Dunn – Geek Love Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum 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 and Win, Lose or Die Charles Gill - The Boozer Challenge John Grisham – A Time to Kill 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 Stephen King – The Dark Half John le Carré – The Russia House H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions corrected edition H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands – 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 Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! and Pyramids Paul Quarrington – Whale Music Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time Dan Simmons – Hyperion Danielle Steel - Daddy and 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 Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar Roger Zelazny - Frost & Fire and Knight of Shadows Horror fiction John Skipp and Craig Spector - Book of the Dead Joe R. Lansdale - By Bizarre Hands Children's and young adults' fiction Anne Fine - Bill's New Frock Yoshi Kogo - Big Al 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 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 Warhole and Pat Hackett - The Andy Warhol Diaries Jeremy Wilson - Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence Bob Wood - Big Ten Country Deaths January 8 - Bruce Chatwin, travel writer and novelist February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer March 14 - Edward Abbey, essayist March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, novelist and poet April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer April 25 - Norma Klein, author May 19 - C. L. R. James, journalist August 23 - R. D. Laing, psychologist and author August 26 - Irving Stone, novelist September 4 - Georges Simenon, Maigret author September 4 - Sir Ronald Syme, Classicist September 15 - Robert Penn Warren, poet and novelist September 30 - Horace Alexander, pacifist writer, 100 October 13 - Cesare Zavattini, screenwriter December 19 - Stella Gibbons, novelist December 22 - Samuel Beckett, writer December 26 - Paul Jennings, humorist December - George Selden Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela 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 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 Manoeuvres 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 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 Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise 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 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.