1992 IN LITERATURE

The year '1992 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ ''The Bridges of Madison County'', originally self-published by author Robert James Waller, will go on to become the largest selling novel in history with more than 60 million copies sold.

★ The ''Goosebumps'' series of books, penned by R.L. Stine, are first published.

New books

★ Ben Aaronovitch - ''Transit''

★ Julia Álvarez - ''How the García Girls Lost Their Accents''

★ Iain Banks - ''The Crow Road''

★ Clive Barker - ''The Thief of Always''

★ Greg Bear - ''Anvil of Stars''

★ James P. Blaylock - ''Lord Kelvin's Machine''

★ A. S. Byatt - ''Morpho Eugenia''

★ Roger Caron - ''Dreamcaper''

★ Andrew Cartmel - ''

★ Paulo Coelho - ''The Valkyries''

★ Hugh Cook

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★ ''The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster''

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★ ''The Worshippers and the Way''

★ Paul Cornell - ''Love and War''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''Shampoo Planet''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff - ''The Enchanter Reborn''

★ Roddy Doyle - ''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha''

★ John Gardner - ''Death is Forever''

★ Mark Gatiss - ''Nightshade''

★ John Grisham - ''The Pelican Brief''

★ Andrew Hunt - ''

★ P. D. James - ''The Children of Men''

★ John Kessel - ''Meeting in Infinity''

★ Stephen King - ''Dolores Claiborne''

★ Val McDermid - ''Dead Beat''

★ Terry McMillan - ''Waiting to Exhale''

★ Rohinton Mistry - ''Tales from Firozsha Baag''

★ Toni Morrison - ''Jazz''

★ Danielle Steel

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★ ''Jewels''

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★ ''Mixed Blessings''

★ Michael Ondaatje - ''The English Patient''

★ Marc Platt - ''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Lords and Ladies''

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★ ''Small Gods''

★ Anne Rice - ''The Tale of the Body Thief''

★ Mordecai Richler - ''Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!''

★ Gail Sheehy - ''Silent Passage''

★ Sidney Sheldon - ''The Stars Shine Down''

★ Michael Slade - ''Cutthroat''

★ Neal Stephenson - ''Snow Crash''

★ Sue Townsend - ''The Queen and I''

★ Barry Unsworth - ''Sacred Hunger''

★ Robert James Waller - ''The Bridges of Madison County''

★ Timothy Zahn - ''Dark Force Rising''

★ Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas - ''Flare''

New drama

★ David Mamet - ''Oleanna''

★ Herb Gardner - ''Conversations with My Father''

★ Louis Nowra - ''Così''

★ Michael Wall - ''Women Laughing''

Poetry

★ Ben Okri - ''An African Elegy''

Non-fiction

★ Gerina Dunwich - ''Secrets of Love Magick''

★ John Gray - ''Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus''

★ Andrew Morton - ''Diana: Her True Story''

Births

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Deaths

★ February 10 - Alex Haley, ''Roots'' author

★ February 16 - Angela Carter, author

★ April 6 - Isaac Asimov, author

★ April 21 - Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist

★ April 28 - Iceberg Slim, novelist

★ May 22 - Elizabeth David, cookery writer

★ July 22 - Reginald Bretnor, science fiction writer

★ September 5 - Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer of fantasy and science fiction

★ November 7 - Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer

★ December 25 - Monica Dickens, novelist

★ December 27 - Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Derek Walcott

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''

Canada

★ See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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''

★ 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!''

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

★ Nebula Award: Connie Willis, ''Doomsday Book''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, ''Shiloh''

★ 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''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, ''Ciegas esperanzas''