Events First Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction awarded. New Books Accident - Danielle Steel The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield The Chamber - John Grisham Creatures of the Kingdom - James A. Michener Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean R. Koontz Daughter of Damascus - Shiham Turjuman Dead Right - David Frum The Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy Disclosure - Michael Crichton The Gift - Danielle Steel The Ice Storm - Rick Moody In Search of CHURCHILL - Martin Gilbert Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien Insomnia - Stephen King Just Like That - Lily Brett Nothing Lasts Forever - Sidney Sheldon Point de côté - Judith Godrèche Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner Recessional - James A. Michener Songs of Earth and Power - Greg Bear Soul Music - Terry Pratchett The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle La Virevolte - Nancy Huston The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin Wings - Danielle Steel Births Deaths January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer March 28 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright April 16 - Ralph Ellison, scholar, writer Awards Booker Prize: James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets See 1994 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Greg Bear, Moving Mars Newbery Medal for children's literature: Lois Lowry, The Giver Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe Prix Goncourt: Didier Van Cauwelaert, Un Aller simple Prix Décembre: Jean Hatzfeld, L'Air de guerre and Éric Holder, La Belle Jardinière Prix Médicis French: Yves Berger , Immobile dans le courant du fleuve Prix Médicis International: Robert Schneider, Frère Sommeil Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Three Tall Women Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems Whitbread Best Book Award: William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey