1993 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1993.
Events
- September 24 – Former president and writer 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
- Maurice G. Dantec – La Sirène rouge
- 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
- Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
- 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
- David A. McIntee – White Darkness
- Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero
- Gita Mehta – A River Sutra (short stories)
- Jim Mortimore
- Lucifer Rising (with Andy Lane)
- Blood Heat
- Taslima Nasrin – Lajja
- Patrick O'Brian – Clarissa Oakes
- Kate Orman – The Left-Handed Hummingbird
- Neil Penswick – The Pit
- Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms
- E. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News
- 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
- Will Self – My Idea of Fun
- 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 (Balık İzlerinin Sesi)
- 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"),[2] 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
- Malcolm Bradbury – The Modern British Novel
- 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[3]
- Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life [4]
- Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics[5]
- Miranda Seymour – Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
- Howard Stern – Private Parts
- Walter Stewart – Too Big to Fail
- Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years
- Gordon S. Wood – The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Deaths
- January 8 – Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, etc.), English historical novelist (born 1906)
- January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部 公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924)
- February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
- March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods (born 1909)
- April 15 – Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907)
- April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (born 1914)
- June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911)
- July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (born 1901)
- August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian (born 1924)
- September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1924)
- September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet (born 1920)
- November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist (born 1917)
- November 25 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)
- December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist (born 1903)
- December 28 – William L. Shirer, historian (born 1904)
- December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer (possible suicide, born 1913)[6]
- Undated – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)
Awards
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: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
- National Book Critics Circle Award: Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
- Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
- 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
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Dagoberto Gilb, Sigrid Nunez, Janet Peery, Lisa Shea
- Plays: Kevin Kling
- Poetry: Mark Levine, Nathaniel Mackey (poetry/fiction), Dionisio D. Martinez, Kathleen Peirce
- Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 (March 13): Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Schindler's List
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.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ http://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html
- ↑ 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)
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