See also: 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
- February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a three-million-US dollar bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
- A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Births
Deaths
- February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
Awards
- Camilo José Cela won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989.