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Events relating to literature
Australian author Peter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda wins the Booker Prize
M. Butterfly, by US author and composer David Henry Hwang, uses Puccini's opera as its inspiration
Racing Demon launches a trilogy on the British establishment by English playwright David Hare
West Indian author Derek Walcott publishes Omeros, an epic poem of the Caribbean
Alan Bennett's play The Madness of George III is performed at the National Theatre in London
Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient
Regeneration is the first volume of English author Pat Barker's trilogy of novels set during World War I
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg
David Mamet's play Oleanna dramatizes the ambiguities of sexual politics
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico
English poet Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats deals openly with AIDS
English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of World War I
US author A.R. Ammons publishes a book-length poem, Garbage, typed on narrow strips of adding-machine paper
US author Annie Proulx wins major awards with her second novel, The Shipping News
Millennium Approaches, the first part of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, is premiered in London
Vikram Seth publishes his novel A Suitable Boy, a family saga in post-independence India
Scottish author Irvine Welsh publishes his first novel, Trainspotting
Irish author Roddy Doyle publishes a novel that wins the Booker Prize, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Italian-occupied Cephalonia
Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin
US poet Philip Levine wins a Pulitzer Prize with his volume of poems Simple Truth
Irish author Marina Carr's play Portia Coughlin is performed at the Abbey Theatre
Irish author Martin McDonagh's play The Beauty Queen of Leenane is the first in a trilogy
The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath
