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1994 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1994.

EventsEdit

  • October 11 – The choice of James Kelman's book How Late It Was, How Late as the year's Booker Prize winner proves controversial.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> One of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, declares it "a disgrace" and leaves the event, later calling the book "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager calls the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstone's in Glasgow (where it is set) sells a mere 13 copies of Kelman's "Mogadon" the following week.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
  • November 26 – Poland's Ministry of Culture and Art orders the exhumation of the presumed grave of the absurdist painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remains show they belonged to an unknown woman.<ref>"...Przeprowadzone badania wykazują, że szczątki kostne, przywiezione w 1988 roku ze wsi Jeziory na Ukrainie należą do kobiety w wieku 25–30 lat, o wzroście około 164 cm...." (The tests conducted indicate that the bone remains, brought in 1988 from the village Jeziory in the Ukraine, belong to a woman 25–30 years old and about 164 cm tall....") from the protocol of the commission called by the Ministry of Culture and Art after the exhumation on 26 November 1994 of the presumed grave of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz at Pęksowy Brzyzek cemetery in Zakopane. From:{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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New booksEdit

FictionEdit

Children and young peopleEdit

DramaEdit

PoetryEdit

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Non-fictionEdit

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United StatesEdit

Fiction: Louis Edward, Mary Hood, Randall Kenan (fiction/nonfiction), Kate Wheeler
Nonfiction: Kennedy Fraser, Wayne Koestenbaum (nonfiction/poetry), Rosemary Mahoney, Claudia Roth Pierpont
Poetry: Mark Doty, Mary Swander (poetry/nonfiction)

ElsewhereEdit

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