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The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- March 13 – The Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 are presented. The best adapted screenplay award goes to Steven Zaillian for Schindler's List.
- September 24 – Former president Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia, establishing a "government in exile" in the city of Zugdidi.
- November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.
- Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Crane's Morning is published in India; it proves to have been plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree (1956), and the author will commit suicide in 1994.[1]
- Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
- Reality television contest Million's Poet (Arabic: شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates.
New books
- Stephen Ambrose – Band of Brothers
- Jeffrey Archer – Honour Among Thieves
- David Banks – Iceberg
- Iain Banks – Complicity
- Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door
- Greg Bear – Moving Mars
- Daniel Blythe – The Dimension Riders
- William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon
- Sandra Boynton – Barnyard Dance!
- Christopher Bulis – Shadowmind
- Anthony Burgess - A Dead Man in Deptford
- Ramsey Campbell – Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
- Tom Clancy – Without Remorse
- Deborah Joy Corey – Losing Eddie
- Bernard Cornwell – Rebel
- Robert Crais – Free Fall
- Peter Darvill-Evans – Deceit
- Hollace Davids and Paul Davids – Mission from Mount Yoda
- Lindsey Davis – Poseidon's Gold
- L. Sprague de Camp – Rivers of Time
- Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
- Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate
- Richard Paul Evans – The Christmas Box
- Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
- Amanda Filipacchi – Nude Men
- John Gardner – Never Send Flowers
- Ernest Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying
- William Gibson – Virtual Light
- John Grisham – The Client
- 'Hal' (a Macintosh IIcx computer) and Scott French (programmer) – Just This Once
- Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Museum of Happiness
- Stephen King – Nightmares & Dreamscapes
- Nancy Kress – The Aliens of Earth
- John le Carré – The Night Manager
- Lois Lowry – The Giver
- Robert Ludlum – The Scorpio Illusion
- Amin Maalouf – Le Rocher de Tanios
- Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics [2]
- David A. McIntee – White Darkness
- Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero
- Jim Mortimore (and Andy Lane) – Lucifer Rising
- Taslima Nasrin – Lajja
- Patrick O'Brian – Clarissa Oakes
- Kate Orman – The Left-Handed Hummingbird
- Neil Penswick – The Pit
- Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms
- Jean Raspail – Sept cavaliers
- Anne Rice – Lasher
- Gareth Roberts – The Highest Science
- J. Jill Robinson – Lovely In Her Bones
- Nigel Robinson – Birthright
- W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants
- Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
- Ahdaf Soueif – In the Eye of the Sun
- Danielle Steel – Vanished
- 'Emil Tode' (Tõnu Õnnepalu) – Piiririik ("Border State")
- Sue Townsend – Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
- Scott Turow – Pleading Guilty
- Kathy Tyers – The Truce at Bakura
- Buket Uzuner – The Sound of Fishsteps
- Andrew Vachss – Shella
- Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes)
- Ivan Vladislavic – The Folly
- Robert James Waller – Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
- Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting
- Herman Wouk – The Hope
- Austin Wright – Tony and Susan
- Timothy Zahn – The Last Command
- Roger Zelazny – A Night in the Lonesome October
New drama
Poetry
Main article: 1993 in poetry
- Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
- Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems
- Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 ("Circling: 1978–1987"),[3] first edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd
Non-fiction
- Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
- Bija Bennett – Breathing into Life: Recovering Wholeness Through Body, Mind, and Breath
- Richard Dawkins – Viruses of the Mind
- Shobha De and Khushwant Singh – Uncertain Liaisons
- Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary
- Tamala Krishna Goswami – Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
- Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson, Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes[4]
- Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life [5]
- Miranda Seymour – Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
- Walter Stewart – Too Big to Fail
- Howard Stern – Private Parts
- Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years
- Gordon S. Wood – The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Deaths
- January 8 – Eleanor Hibbert, historical novelist, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt, 86
- January 22 – Kōbō Abe, novelist and playwright, 68
- March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law, 83
- April 15 – Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint", 85
- April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet, 78
- June 19 – Sir William Golding, novelist and poet, 81
- July 10 – Ruth Krauss, children's author and poet, 91
- August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian, 69
- September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist, 69
- September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet, 72
- November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish-born short story writer and journalist, 76
- November 25 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist, 76
- December 4 – Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam, 90
- December 28 – William L. Shirer, historian, 89
- December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer, 54 (possible suicide)[6]
- Undated – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet, c.56
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
- Camões Prize: Rachel de Queiroz
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Helen Demidenko, The Hand That Signed The Paper
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Jill Jones, The Mask and Jagged Star
- Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
Canada
- See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete lLiza Potvin wins the 1993 "
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Liza Potvin (co-winner), White Lies (for my mother) [7]
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in Havana [8]
France
- Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios
- Prix Décembre: René de Obaldia. Exobiographie
- Prix Médicis French: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Sa femme
- Prix Médicis International: Paul Auster, Leviathan
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
- Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
- Whitbread Book Award: Joan Brady, Theory of War
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Saj, Red Under the Skin
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck
- American Academy of Arts and Letters gold Medal for Belles Lettres, Elizabeth Hardwick
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"
- Compton Crook Award: Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
- Frost Medal: William Stafford
- National Book Award for Fiction: to The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax
- Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Postcards by E. Annie Proulx
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal
References
- ↑ Moore, Molly (1994-04-27). "Plagiarism and mystery". Washington Post Foreign Service. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
- ↑ http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html
- ↑ Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
- ↑ Holmen, Linda; Santella-Johnson, Mary; Watterson, Bill (1993). Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes. Cover and supplementary art by Jan Roebken. Fargo, North Dakota: Playground Publishing. ISBN 1-878849-15-8. Lay summary (2004).
- ↑ Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous Winners, 1994: Linda Johns, (retrieved 11/21/2012)
- ↑ Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President, Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007.
- ↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012)
- ↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012)