1992 in literature
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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1992.
Events
- August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is completely destroyed during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska.[1]
- The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, are first published in the United States.
New books
Fiction
- Ben Aaronovitch – Transit
- Tariq Ali – Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
- Julia Álvarez – How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- Paul Auster – Leviathan
- Iain Banks – The Crow Road
- Clive Barker – The Thief of Always
- Julian Barnes – The Porcupine
- Greg Bear – Anvil of Stars
- Thomas Berger – Meeting Evil
- Louis de Bernières – The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
- James P. Blaylock – Lord Kelvin's Machine
- Pascal Bruckner – The Divine Child
- A. S. Byatt – Morpho Eugenia
- Roger Caron – Dreamcaper
- Andrew Cartmel – Cat's Cradle: Warhead
- Patrick Chamoiseau – Texaco
- Paulo Coelho – The Valkyries
- Michael Connelly – The Black Echo
- Hugh Cook – The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster and The Worshippers and the Way
- Paul Cornell – Love and War
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Devil and Scoundrel
- Douglas Coupland – Shampoo Planet
- Mia Couto – Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula)
- Robert Crais – Lullaby Town
- L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – The Enchanter Reborn
- Elena Ferrante – L'amore molesto (Troubling Love)
- Leon Forrest – Divine Days
- John Gardner – Death is Forever
- Mark Gatiss – Nightshade
- Ann Granger – Cold in the Earth
- Alasdair Gray – Poor Things
- John Grisham – The Pelican Brief
- Hella Haasse – Heren van de thee (The Tea Lords)
- Andrew Hunt – Cat's Cradle: Witchmark
- Simon Ings - Hot Head
- P. D. James – The Children of Men
- John Kessel – Meeting in Infinity
- Stephen King – Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game
- Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy
- Val McDermid – Dead Beat
- Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
- Terry McMillan – Waiting to Exhale
- Javier Marías – A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco)
- Andrés L. Mateo – La Balada de Alfonsina Bairán
- Rohinton Mistry – Tales from Firozsha Baag
- Toni Morrison – Jazz
- Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
- Ellis Peters – The Holy Thief
- Marc Platt – Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
- Terry Pratchett – Lords and Ladies and Small Gods
- Anne Rice – The Tale of the Body Thief
- Mordecai Richler – Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
- Jennifer Roberson – Lady of the Forest
- W. G. Sebald – Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen (The Emigrants)
- Gail Sheehy – Silent Passage
- Sidney Sheldon – The Stars Shine Down
- Michael Slade – Cutthroat
- Danielle Steel – Jewels and Mixed Blessings
- Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
- Adam Thorpe – Ulverton
- Sue Townsend – The Queen and I
- Rose Tremain – Sacred Country
- Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
- Gore Vidal – Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal
- Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep
- Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County
- Connie Willis – Doomsday Book
- Timothy Zahn – Dark Force Rising
- Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas – Flare
Children and young adults
- Rumer Godden
- Great Grandfather's House
- Listen to the Nightingale
- William Mayne – Low Tide
- Michael Morpurgo – Waiting for Anya
- Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
Drama
- Herb Gardner – Conversations with My Father
- Peter Handke – Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other; wordless)
- David Mamet – Oleanna
- Louis Nowra – Così
- Michael Wall – Women Laughing
Poetry
- Ben Okri – An African Elegy
Non-fiction
- Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
- Esther Delisle – Le traître et le Juif: Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929-1939
- Gerina Dunwich – Secrets of Love Magick
- John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- Elizabeth Hay – The Only Snow in Havana[2]
- Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
- Andrew Morton – Diana: Her True Story
- Mark E. Neely, Jr. – The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
- Liza Potvin – White Lies (for my mother)[3]
- Léon Werth (died 1955) – 33 Jours (written 1940)
Births
- April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist
Deaths
- January 4 – Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born 1915)
- January 9 – Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
- January 4 – John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
- January 28 – Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
- February 10 – Alex Haley, African American writer (born 1921)
- February 16
- Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
- April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)
- April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)
- April 28 – Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
- May 22 – Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
- July 6 – Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
- July 22 – Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
- September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
- November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)[4]
- December 22 – Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
- December 25 – Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
- December 27 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and activist (born 1902)
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Fotini Epanomitis, The Mule's Foal
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Robert Harris, Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Elizabeth Riddell, Selected Poems
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Alison Croggon, This is the Stone
- Miles Franklin Award: Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
Canada
- See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Marie Wadden, Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland [5]
France
- Prix Goncourt: Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco
- Prix Décembre: Henri Thomas, La Chasse au trésor and Roger Grenier, Regardez la neige qui tombe
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Rio, Tlacuilo
- Prix Médicis International: Louis Begley, Une éducation polonaise
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Anne Fine, Flour Babies
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rose Tremain, Sacred Country
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
- Cholmondeley Award: Allen Curnow, Donald Davie, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Woddis
- Eric Gregory Award: Jill Dawson, Hugh Dunkerley, Christopher Greenhalgh, Marita Maddah, Stuart Paterson, Stuart Pickford
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Kathleen Raine
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
- Forward Prizes for Poetry (first awards): Thom Gunn, The Man with Night Sweats (collection); Simon Armitage, Kid (first collection); Jackie Kay, "Black Bottom" (single poem)
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Hunt Hawkins, The Domestic Life
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Sam Shepard
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life
- Compton Crook Award: Carol Severance, Reefsong
- Frost Medal: Adrienne Rich / David Ignatow
- National Book Award for Fiction: to All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
- Nebula Award: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Mao II by Don DeLillo
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Tate, Selected Poems
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: R.S. Jones, J.S. Marcus, Damien Wilkins
- Nonfiction: Eva Hoffman, Katha Pollitt (poetry/nonfiction)
- Plays: Suzan-Lori Parks, Keith Reddin, José Rivera
- Poetry: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, Ciegas esperanzas
References
- ^ "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory". Retrieved 2013-11-11.
- ^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay". Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
- ^ "White Lies (for my mother)". Goodreads. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
- ^ Pace, Eric (1992-11-09). "Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
- ^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden". Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-19.