1993 IN LITERATURE

The year '1993 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ Professor Stephen Hawking's book, ''A Brief History of Time'', becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of ''The Sunday Times''.

★ November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel ''The Shipping News''.

★ Year 1993 is the 30th anniversary of ''The Feminine Mystique'' by Betty Friedan.

New books

★ Stephen Ambrose - ''Band of Brothers''

★ Martin Amis - ''Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions''

★ 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''

★ Sandra Boynton - ''Barnyard Dance!''

★ Christopher Bulis - ''Shadowmind''

★ Ramsey Campbell - ''

★ Tom Clancy - ''Without Remorse''

★ Deborah Joy Corey - ''Losing Eddie''

★ 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''

★ Laura Esquivel - ''Like Water for Chocolate''

★ Richard Paul Evans - ''The Christmas Box''

★ John Gardner - ''Never Send Flowers''

★ John Grisham - ''The Client''

★ Stephen King - ''Nightmares and 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''

★ Jim Mortimore (and Andy Lane) - ''Lucifer Rising''

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★ ''Blood Heat''

★ Patrick O'Brian - ''Clarissa Oakes''

★ Kate Orman - ''The Left-Handed Hummingbird''

★ Neil Penswick - ''The Pit''

★ Terry Pratchett - ''Men at Arms''

★ Anne Rice - ''Lasher''

★ Gareth Roberts - ''The Highest Science''

★ Nigel Robinson - ''Birthright''

★ W.G. Sebald - ''The Emigrants''

★ Ahdaf Soueif - ''In the Eye of the Sun''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Vanished''

★ Sue Townsend - ''

★ Scott Turow - ''Pleading Guilty''

★ Kathy Tyers - ''The Truce at Bakura''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Shella''

★ Robert James Waller - ''Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend''

★ Irvine Welsh - ''Trainspotting''

★ Herman Wouk - ''The Hope''

★ Timothy Zahn - ''The Last Command''

★ Roger Zelazny - ''A Night in the Lonesome October''

New drama

★ Tom Stoppard - ''Arcadia''

Poetry

★ Leonard Cohen - ''Stranger Music''

★ Paul Durcan - ''A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems''

Non-fiction

★ Bija Bennett - ''

★ Richard Dawkins - ''Viruses of the Mind''

★ Shobha De and Khushwant Singh - ''Uncertain Liaisons''

★ Esther Delisle - '' (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939)

★ Tamala Krishna Goswami - Aditi commentary ''Happiness is a Science – Aditi’s Vow''

★ Steven Pressman - ''Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile''

★ Miranda Seymour - ''

★ Walter Stewart - ''Too Big to Fail''

Deaths

★ January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as 'Jean Plaidy' and 'Victoria Holt'

★ January 22 - Kobo Abe, novelist and playwright

★ March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law

★ April 15 - Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint"

★ April 23 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet

★ June 19 - William Golding, novelist and poet

★ August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian

★ September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist

★ September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet

★ October 31 - Kashif Latif, poet, aged 17

★ November 25 - Anthony Burgess, novelist

★ December 4 - Margaret Landon, author of ''Anna and the King of Siam''

★ December 28 - William L. Shirer, historian

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison

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''

Canada

★ See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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 Clark Ha Ha Ha''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P.J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Joan Brady, ''Theory of War''

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

★ Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, ''Red Mars''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, ''Missing May''

★ 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''