1994 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
- November 11 : The Codex Leicester (also known as Codex Hammer ), a bound collection of sheets of scientific writings, notes, sketches, and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci , is sold by Christie's auction house to entrepreneur Bill Gates for $ 30.8 million auctioned. This makes the code the most expensive manuscript ever sold in the world.
Literary prizes
- Greg Bear , Moving Mars , Home Mars , Category: Best Novel
- Mike Resnick , Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge , Seven Views of the Olduvai Gorge , Category: Best Short Novel
- David Gerrold , The Martian Child , Category: Best Narration
- Martha Soukup , A Defense of the Social Contracts , Category: Best Short Story
- Kim Stanley Robinson , Green Mars , Green Mars , Category: Best Novel
- Harry Turtledove , Down in the Bottomlands , Category: Best Short Novel
- Charles Sheffield , Georgia on My Mind , The South Georgia Adding Machine , Category: Best Narration
- Connie Willis , Death on the Nile , Category: Best Short Story
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars , Green Mars , Category: Best SF Novel
- Peter S. Beagle , The Innkeeper's Song , There were three ladies in the sunset , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Lucius Shepard , The Golden , The Trail of the Golden Sacrifice , Category: Best Horror Novel
- Patricia Anthony , Cold Allies , Cold Allies , Category: Best First Novel
- Harlan Ellison , Mefisto in Onyx , Mephisto in Onyx , Category: Best Short Novel
- Dan Simmons , Death in Bangkok , Category: Best Story
- Connie Willis , Close Encounter , Category: Best Short Story
- Connie Willis, Impossible Things , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Thomas Ziegler , The Voices of the Night , Category: Best Novel
- Wolfgang Jeschke , Bad news from the Vatican , Category: Best story
- Gert Prokop , love, you tender, trembling bird , category: best short story
- Connie Willis , The Years of the Black Death , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Walter Brumm , Category: Best Translator
- Robert Charles Wilson , Mystery
- Booker Prize : James Kelman , How Late It Was, How Late
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Jorge Semprún
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize : Thomas Ziegler , The Voices of the Night
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Reto Hänny , Guai
- Prix Goncourt : Didier van Cauwelaert , Un Aller simple
- 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
- Nebula Award : Greg Bear , Moving Mars
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Caroline Adderson , Bad Imaginings
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : RD Gidney , WPJ Millar , Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth Century Ontario
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Sharon Brown , Some Become Flowers: Living With Dying at Home
- Journey Prize : Melissa Hardy , Long Man the River
- Toronto Book Awards : Timothy Findley , Headhunter
- Premio Nadal : Rosa Regàs , Azul
- Georg Brandes Prize : Inge Eriksen , Skytsengle
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Hanne Engberg
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Christian Skov , Høstnætter
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Pia Tafdrup , Territorial sang, en Jerusalem-composition
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Torgeir Schjerven , Omvei til Venus
New releases
Fiction
- Heart animal - Herta Müller
- The Chamber - John Grisham
- Melancolia Americana - Jürg Federspiel
- The night of Jesi - Peter Berling
- The Prophecies of Celestine - James Redfield
- And Nietzsche wept - Irvin D. Yalom
- Rampant - Dick Francis
drama
Books for children and young readers
- Abdel - Enrique Páez
- When Santa Claus fell from the sky - Cornelia Funke
- Adults talk. Marco did something. - Kirsten Boie
Autobiography
Born
- March 16 : Lukas Rietzschel , German writer
Died
- January 1 : Marianne Bruns , German writer (* 1897)
- January 1 : Werner Schwab , Austrian writer (* 1958)
- January 3 : Frank Belknap Long , American author of horror, science fiction (* 1903)
- January 13 : FR Boschvogel , Belgian writer (* 1902)
- January 26 : Wilhelm Muster , Austrian writer and literary translator (* 1916)
- January 30th : Pierre Boulle , French writer (* 1912)
- January 31 : Erwin Strittmatter , German writer (* 1912)
- March 1 : Gert Prokop , writer (* 1932)
- March 5 : Jan Dobraczyński , Polish writer and politician (* 1910)
- March 9 : Charles Bukowski , American poet and writer (* 1920)
- March 10 : Robert Shea , American writer (* 1933)
- March 13 : Sandra Paretti , writer (* 1935)
- March 28 : Eugène Ionesco , French playwright (* 1909)
- April 7th : Golo Mann , German historian, writer and philosopher (* 1909)
- April 14 : Bernt Engelmann , German writer and journalist (* 1921)
- April 16 : Ralph Ellison , American author (born 1914)
- April 19 : Jochen Ziem , German writer (* 1932)
- June 29th : Jack Unterweger , Austrian criminal and writer (* 1950)
- July 4th : Hedda Zinner , German writer, actress, cabaret artist (* 1907)
- July 14th : Robert Jungk , publicist, journalist and one of the first futurologists (* 1913)
- July 16 : Kurt Morawietz , German writer (* 1930)
- July 27 : Rosa Chacel , Spanish writer (* 1898)
- August 19 : Robert Roshdestvensky , Russian writer (* 1932)
- August 24 : Wolf von Aichelburg , Romanian-German writer (* 1912)
- September 8 : Barry Graves , journalist, author and radio presenter (* 1942)
- September 23 : Robert Bloch , American author (born 1917)
- September 24 : Otto F. Walter , Swiss writer (* 1928)
- October 2 : Ron Herron , British architect and author (born 1930)
- October 10 : Germain Muller , French cultural politician, cabaret artist and poet (* 1923)
- October 14 : Egon von Vietinghoff , painter, textbook author, philosopher (* 1903)
- October 24 : Erich Wustmann , German ethnologist and travel writer (* 1907)
- November 27 : Hans Günter Michelsen , German playwright (* 1920)
- December 5 : Robert Lowry , writer (born 1919)
- December 10 : Jiří Marek , Czech writer (* 1914)
- December 24th : John Osborne , English author (born 1929)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Leonardo da Vinci Codex Hammer , christies.com
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 , nobelprize.org