Events New Books American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis As the Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer Damage - Josephine Hart Dead Certainties - Simon Schama Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart Dirty Weekend - Helen Zahavi The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon Druids - Morgan Llywelyn The Firm - John Grisham Heartbeat - Danielle Steel Jernigan - David Gates The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan A Life of Picasso - John Richardson Loves Music, Loves to Dance - Mary Higgins Clark Mexico - James A. Michener Possession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett The Secret Pilgrim - John le Carré Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley Through the Vast Halls of Memory - Haifa Zangana The Van - Roddy Doyle Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett Births Deaths January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host April 29 - Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate Awards Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du Calvaire Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, Eau de café Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, La Dérive des sentiments Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit At Rest Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso