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1987
 
    
US author Toni Morrison publishes her novel Beloved, loosely based on a real incident among freed slaves after the Civil War       
1987
 
    
US author Tom Wolfe gives a bleak view of contemporary New York in his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities       
1988
 
     
Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses        
1988
 
     
Australian author Peter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda wins the Booker Prize        
1991
 
    
Canadian poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje publishes The English Patient       
1991
 
    
Regeneration is the first volume of English author Pat Barker's trilogy of novels set during World War I       
1992
 
    
US author Jane Smiley retells the Lear story in A Thousand Acres       
1992
 
    
US-born Canadian author Carol Shields' novel The Republic of Love is set in her home town of Winnipeg       
1992
 
    
All the Pretty Horses is the first volume of US author Cormac McCarthy's trilogy set in Mexico       
1993
 
    
English novelist Sebastian Faulks publishes Birdsong, set partly in the trenches of World War I