See also: 1990 in literature, other events of 1991, 1992 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation.
New books*A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
*American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
*As the Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer
*Damage - Josephine Hart
*Dead Certainties - Simon Schama
*Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart
*Dirty Weekend - Helen Zahavi
*The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon
*Druids - Morgan Llywelyn
*The Firm - John Grisham
*For Love of the Game - Michael Shaara (posthumous)
*Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland
*Gojiro - Mark Jacobson
*He, She and It - Marge Piercy
*Heartbeat - Danielle Steel
*Imajica - Clive Barker
*Jernigan - David Gates
*The Kitchen God's Wife - Amy Tan
*A Life of Picasso - John Richardson
*Loves Music, Loves to Dance - Mary Higgins Clark
*The Man from Barbarossa - John Gardner
*Mao II - Don DeLillo
*Mexico - James A. Michener
*Possession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt
*Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
*Say It With Poison - Ann Granger
*Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley
*The Secret Pilgrim - John le Carré
*SEX - Madonna
*Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
*Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
*The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy
*A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
*Through the Vast Halls of Memory - Haifa Zangana
*Time's Arrow, or The Nature of the Offense - Martin Amis
*The Van - Roddy Doyle
*The Werewolf and the Wormlord - Hugh Cook
*Wicca Craft - Gerina Dunwich
*Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
New drama*Ariel Dorfman - Death and the Maiden
*Neil Simon - Lost in Yonkers
Births*
Deaths* January 22 - Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet
* January 23 - Northrop Frye, literary critic
* January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, historian
* February 24 - John Daly, journalist, game show host
* April 3 - Graham Greene
* April 12 - James Schuyler, poet
* April 29 - Claude Gallimard, French publishing magnate
* July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
* September 24 - Dr. Seuss
* October 11 - Steven Jesse Bernstein, performance poet
*October 12 - Arkady Strugatsky, science fiction writer
* October 27 - George Barker, poet
* November 29 - Frank Yerby, historical novelist
Awards* Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
* See 1991 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
* Nebula Award: Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide
* Newbery Medal for children's literature: Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee
* Nobel Prize for Literature: Nadine Gordimer
* Prix Goncourt: Pierre Combescot, Les Filles du Calvaire
* Prix Décembre: Raphaël Confiant, Eau de café
* Prix Médicis: Pierre Simon, La Dérive des sentiments
* Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
* Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike: Rabbit At Rest
* Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Edward O. Wilson: The Ants
* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mona Van Duyn: Near Changes
* Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
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