1994 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1994.

Events

November 26 - The Ministry of Culture and Art in Poland orders exhumation of the presumed grave of painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (suicide 1939) in Zakopane. Genetic tests on the remaining bones prove that the body belongs to an unknown woman – a final absurdist joke, fifty years after the publication of Witkacy's last novel.

December 1 - The National and University Library of Iceland (Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn) is established in Reykjavík by merger of the former national library, Landsbókasafn Íslands (established 1818) and the university library (1940).

Penguin Books offer Peter James' novel Host on two floppy disks as "the world's first electronic novel".

The first Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction is awarded.

New books

Peter Ackroyd - Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Kevin J. Anderson - Champions of the Force, Dark Apprentice and Jedi Search

Reed Arvin - The Wind in the Wheat

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