Events November 18 - Alice McDermott wins the National Book Award with her novel Charming Billy. New Books About a Boy - Nick Hornby African Exploits - Roy MacLaren All Through the Night - Mary Higgins Clark Amsterdam - Ian McEwan Bag of Bones - Stephen King The Bay of Love and Sorrows - David Adams Richards The Book of Saladin - Tariq Ali Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam - Alan I. Marcus Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett Dinosaur Summer - Greg Bear England, England - Julian Barnes Foundation and Chaos - Greg Bear Greater Than Angels - Carol Matas Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling Hellfire - Diana Gabaldon I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops - Hanan al-Shaykh The Klone and I - Danielle Steel The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett The Long Road Home - Danielle Steel The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe The Memory of Hands - Reshman Baig A Midwinter's Tale - Andrew Greeley Mirror Image - Danielle Steel Muhammad - Driss Chraibi Paradise - Toni Morrison Point of Origin - Patricia Cornwell Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy Return to Hawk's Hill - Allan W. Eckert Seize the Night - Dean R. Koontz The Street Lawyer - John Grisham Tomcat in Love - Tim O'Brien Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho A Widow for One Year - John Irving The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America - Jules Witcover, David Halberstam Births Deaths February 7 - Lawrence Sanders, author April 27 - Pauline Réage, author Awards Booker Prize: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam See 1998 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Alice Munro: The Love of a Good Woman IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Herta Muller, The Grand of Green Plums Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace Newbery Medal for children's literature: Keran Hess, Out of the Dust Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago Orange Prize for Fiction: Carol Shields, Larry's Party Prix Goncourt: Paule Constant, Confidence pour confidence Prix Décembre: Michel Houellebecq, Les Particules élémentaires Prix Médicis French: Le Loup mongol Prix Médicis International: The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Philip Roth, American Pastoral Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Charles Wright, Black Zodiac Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters