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Content
Prizes
International
- The Nobel Prize in Literature - Camilo Jose Sela , "For expressive and powerful prose, which sympathetically and touchingly describes human weaknesses."
- Agatha Award - Elizabeth Peters, , Naked Once More.
Israel
- Israeli State Prize for the Study of Hebrew Literature - Shmuel Verses .
Norway
- Ibsen Award - Julian Garner .
USA
- Peter Straub received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for his Coco novel.
France
- Goncourt Prize - Jean Vautren , "A Great Step Towards a Good God."
Books
- Brothers in Arms is a fantastic work by the American writer Lois Bujold .
- The Pyramids is a fantasy by Terry Pratchett .
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett .
- “The Guard! Sentinel! "- Fantasy Terry Pratchett.
- Evidence is a work of John Banville .
- “I was a ghost” is a work of Boileau-Narsezhak .
Novels
- “ And the Donkey of the Angel of God Behold, ” is a novel by Nick Cave .
- The Game of the Rules is a novel by Dick Francis .
- The Rest of the Day is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro .
- “ A Tale with Details ” is a children's humorous novel by Gregory Oster .
- "Yolk of the Egg" is a novel by Vasily Aksyonov .
Tale
- " Astrid " is the story of Igor Bondarenko .
- “ Atomic Dream ” is the story of Sergey Lukyanenko .
- “ The mistake of citizen Loshakov ” is the story of Yuri Koval .
- “ Straw Hood and Felt Slipper ” is the story of Finnish writers Sinikki and Tiina Nopol .
Small prose
- “ Home birth ” is a story by Stephen King .
Pieces
- " Murlin Murlo " is a play by Nikolai Kolyada .
Poetry
- “Inverse Dependence” ( Nynorsk Det omvendt avhengige ) is a collection of poems by Eldrid Lunden .
Literary Studies
- “A ticket to paradise. Reflections at the theatrical entrances ”- a book by Lev Anninsky .
- “Elbows and wings. Literature of the 80s: hopes, reality, paradoxes ”- a book by Lev Anninsky.
Died
- January 3 - Robert Thoma , French playwright , actor , director ; heart attack (born in 1927 ).
- January 16 - Pierre Boileau , French writer , author of numerous psychological detective stories written, in particular, in collaboration with Tom Narcezhak (creative tandem "Boileau-Narsezhak") (born in 1906 ).
- February 20 - Vasily Ardamatsky , Soviet writer (born in 1911 ).
- April 19 - Daphne Dumorier , English writer , author of novels in the thriller genre (born in 1907 ).
- May 2 - Veniamin Kaverin , Russian Soviet writer (born in 1902 ).
- July 1 - Victor Nekipelov , poet, human rights activist, member of the dissident movement (born in 1928 ).
- July 16 - Nicholas Guillen , Cuban poet (born in 1902 ).
- September 4 - Georges Simenon , French writer, author of novels about Commissioner Megre (born in 1903 ).
- October 27 - Lidia Alekseeva , Russian poetess, translator (born in 1909 ).
- November 7 - Sergey Golitsyn , Russian Soviet writer (born in 1909 ).
- December 30 - Rita Rait-Kovaleva , a Russian Soviet writer and translator, is known for translating the works of Kurt Vonnegut and other writers (born in 1898 ).