Events New Books Alaska - James A. Michener The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse - Lou Mollgaard A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking The Butcher - Alina Reyes The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy The Coming of the King - Nikolai Tolstoy The Dark Green Tunnel - Allan W. Eckert The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher Sourcery - Terry Pratchett Tapestry - Belva Plain Til We Meet Again - Judith Krantz Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett Zoya - Danielle Steel Births Deaths May 8 - Robert Heinlein, science fiction author September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist Awards Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz Prix Goncourt: Erik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, Beloved Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness