Events February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. New Books The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al Daddy - Danielle Steel The Face of Battle - John Keegan Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco Guards! Guards - Terry Pratchett It's Always Something - Gilda Radner Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving Pyramids - Terry Pratchett Red Phoenix - Larry Bond The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro The Russia House - John le Carré The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie Six Days in Havana - James A. Michener Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler Star - Danielle Steel The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker A Time to Kill - John Grisham Total Recall - Piers Anthony While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark Births Deaths February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer Awards Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu Prix Décembre: Guy Dupré, Les Manoeuvres d'automne Prix Médicis French: Serge Dubrovsky , Le Livre brisé Prix Médicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral 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 Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions
Deaths February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer April 19 - Daphne du Maurier, writer Awards Booker Prize: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War Newbery Medal for children's literature: Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela Prix Goncourt: Jean Vautrin, Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu Prix Décembre: Guy Dupré, Les Manoeuvres d'automne Prix Médicis French: Serge Dubrovsky , Le Livre brisé Prix Médicis International: Alvaro Mutis, La Neige de l'amiral 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 Whitbread Best Book Award: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions