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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1992.
Events[edit]
- July– TheGoosebumpsseries of children's horror fiction, penned byR. L. Stine,is first published in the United States.[1]
- August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library ofAbkhaziainSukhumiduring theWar in Abkhaziaby Georgian forces.
- August 25– TheNational and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovinais annihilated during theSiege of Sarajevoby theArmy of Republika Srpska.[2]
- September –Michael Ondaatje'shistoriographic metafictionThe English Patientis published in Canada. It will winThe Golden Man Bookerin2018.
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Ben Aaronovitch–Transit
- Tariq Ali–Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
- 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
- The Worshippers and the Way
- Paul Cornell–Love and War
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland–Shampoo Planet
- Mia Couto–Sleepwalking Land(Terra Sonâmbula)
- Robert Crais–Lullaby Town[3]
- L. Sprague de CampandChristopher Stasheff–The Enchanter Reborn
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés–Women Who Run with the Wolves
- Elena Ferrante–L'amore molesto(Troubling Love)
- Tibor Fischer–Under the Frog
- Leon Forrest–Divine Days
- John Gardner–Death is Forever
- Neil Gaiman–The Sandman: Season of Mists(graphic novel; volume 4 ofThe Sandmanseries)
- Neil GaimanandDave McKean–Signal to Noise(graphic novel)
- Cristina García–Dreaming in Cuban
- 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)
- Victor Headley–Yardie
- Andrew Hunt–Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
- Simon Ings–Hot Head
- P. D. James–The Children of Men
- Denis Johnson–Jesus' Son(short story collection)
- John Kessel–Meeting in Infinity
- Stephen King
- Patrick McCabe–The Butcher Boy
- Cormac McCarthy–All the Pretty Horses(Book 1 of theBorder Trilogy)
- 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
- Caitlin Moran–The Chronicles of Narmo
- Toni Morrison–Jazz
- Michael Ondaatje–The English Patient
- Ellis Peters–The Holy Thief
- Marc Platt–Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
- Terry Pratchett
- Anne Rice–The Tale of the Body Thief
- Mordecai Richler–Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
- Jennifer Roberson–Lady of the Forest
- Robert Schneider–Schlafes Bruder
- Patricia Schonstein–A Time of Angels
- W. G. Sebald–The Emigrants(Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen)[4]
- Gail Sheehy–Silent Passage
- Sidney Sheldon–The Stars Shine Down
- Michael Slade–Cutthroat
- Danielle Steel
- Neal Stephenson–Snow Crash
- Adam Thorpe–Ulverton
- Sue Townsend–The Queen and I
- Rose Tremain–Sacred Country
- Barry Unsworth–Sacred Hunger
- John Updike–Memories of the Ford Administration
- 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 ZelaznyandThomas Thurston Thomas–Flare
- Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
- El último día del mundo(The last day of the world)
- Misterios de las noches y los días(Mysteries of the nights and days; short stories)
Children and young people[edit]
- Pamela Allen–Belinda
- Chris Van Allsburg–The Widow's Broom
- Gillian Cross–The Great Elephant Chase
- Garry Disher–The Bamboo Flute
- Anne Fine–Flour Babies
- Jamila Gavin–The Wheel of Surya(first in theSuryatrilogy)
- Rumer Godden
- Great Grandfather's House
- Listen to the Nightingale
- Virginia Hamilton(withJerry Pinkney) –Drylongso
- William Mayne–Low Tide
- Gerald McDermott–Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa
- Hilary McKay–The Exiles
- Michael Morpurgo–Waiting for Anya
- Barry Moser–Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
- Jim Murphy–The Long Road to Gettysburg
- Barbara Park–Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus(first in theJunie B. Jonesseries)
- Marcus Pfister–Rainbow Fish(Der Regenbogenfisch)
- Gloria Jean Pinkney(withJerry Pinkney) –Back Home
- Marjorie W. Sharmat(withMarc Simont) –Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
- Ulf Stark–Can You Whistle, Johanna?(Kan du vissla Johanna?)[5]
- Christopher Tolkien(withJ. R. R. TolkienandAlan Lee) –Sauron Defeated
- Judith Vigna–Black Like Kyra White Like Me
- Martin Waddell–Owl Babies
- Nancy Willard(withBarry Moser) –Beauty and the Beast
- Douglas Wood–Old Turtle
- Susan Meddaugh–Martha Speaks
Drama[edit]
- Herb Gardner–Conversations with My Father
- Peter Handke–Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten(The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other)
- David Mamet–Oleanna
- Louis Nowra–Così
- Zlatko Topčić–Musa And The Goat(radio version)
- Michael Wall–Women Laughing
- Peter Whelan–The School of Night
Poetry[edit]
- Ben Okri–An African Elegy
Non-fiction[edit]
- Nelson Algren(died1981) –America Eats(travel book, written 1930s)
- Karen Armstrong–Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
- Bill Bryson–Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
- Linda Colley–Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837
- Esther Delisle–The Traitor and the Jew(Le Traître et le Juif: Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929–1939)
- Daniel Dennett–Consciousness Explained
- Eamon Duffy–The Stripping of the Altars:Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400 to c. 1580
- Gerina Dunwich–Secrets of Love Magick
- Christiane Éluère–The Celts: First Masters of Europe
- John Gray–Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- Elizabeth Hay–The Only Snow in Havana[6]
- Nick Hornby–Fever Pitch
- Charles Jennings -Up North
- Neil Lyndon–No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism[7]
- 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)[8]
- Léon Werth(died1955) –33 Jours(written1940)
- Michael Jackson–Dancing the Dream
Anthologies[edit]
- Margaret Busby(ed.) –Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present
Births[edit]
- March 4-Gaurav Sharma,Indian author
- April 14-Naoise Dolan,Irish novelist
- August 12- Naoki Higashida, Japaneseautisticauthor
- September 18-Jidanun Lueangpiansamut,Thai writer
- October 5-Rupi Kaur,Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
- October 30-Édouard Louis,French writer
- November 11-Aya Mansour,Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist
Deaths[edit]
- January 4–Alejandro Carrión,Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born1915)
- January 9–Bill Naughton,Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born1910)
- January 4–John Sparrow,English literary scholar (born1906)
- January 14–Irakli Abashidze,Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born1909)[9]
- January 28–Dora Birtles,Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born1903)
- February 10–Alex Haley,African-American writer (born1921)
- February 16
- Angela Carter,English novelist (lung cancer, born1940)[10]
- George MacBeth,Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born1932)
- April 4–Vintilă Horia,Romanian writer (born1915)[11]
- April 6–Isaac Asimov,American science fiction author (born1920)[12]
- April 21–Väinö Linna,Finnish novelist (born1920)[13]
- April 28–Iceberg Slim(Robert Beck), American novelist (born1918)
- May 22–Elizabeth David,English cookery writer (born1913)
- July 6–Mary Q. Steele,American novelist (born1922)
- July 22–Reginald Bretnor,American science fiction writer (born1911)
- July 23–Robert Liddell,English biographer, novelist and poet (born1908)
- August 4–Seichō Matsumoto,Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born1909)[14]
- August 29–Mary Norton,English children's writer (born1903)
- September 5–Fritz Leiber,American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born1910)
- November 7–Richard Yates,American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born1926)[15]
- November 17–Audre Lorde,American poet, writer and feminist (born1934)
- December 22–Ted Willis,English TV dramatist (born1914)
- December 25–Monica Dickens,English novelist (born1915)
- December 27–Kay Boyle,American writer, educator and activist (born1902)
Awards[edit]
Australia[edit]
- 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[edit]
- See1992 Governor General's Awardsfor 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[16]
France[edit]
- Prix Goncourt:Patrick Chamoiseau,Texaco
- Prix Décembre:Henri Thomas,La Chasse au trésorandRoger Grenier,Regardez la neige qui tombe
- Prix MédicisFrench:Michel Rio,Tlacuilo
- Prix MédicisInternational:Louis Begley,Une éducation polonaise
United Kingdom[edit]
- Booker Prize:Michael Ondaatje,The English PatientandBarry Unsworth,Sacred Hunger
- Carnegie Medalforchildren's literature:Anne Fine,Flour Babies
- James Tait Black Memorial Prizefor fiction:Rose Tremain,Sacred Country
- James Tait Black Memorial Prizefor biography:Charles Nicholl,The Reckoning: The Murder ofChristopher 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[edit]
- 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 GlückforArarat,andMark StrandforThe Continuous Life
- Compton Crook Award:Carol Severance,Reefsong
- Frost Medal:Adrienne Rich/David Ignatow
- National Book Award for Fiction:toAll the Pretty HorsesbyCormac McCarthy
- National Book Critics Circle Award:toYoung Men and FirebyNorman Maclean
- Nebula Award:Connie Willis,Doomsday Book
- Newbery Medalforchildren's literature:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,Shiloh
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:toMao IIbyDon 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[edit]
- Premio Nadal:Alejandro Gándara,Ciegas esperanzas
References[edit]
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- ^"The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory".Retrieved11 November2013.
- ^LeRoy Panek (2000).New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s.Popular Press. p. 141.ISBN978-0-87972-820-5.
- ^Carol Jacobs (20 October 2015).Sebald's Vision.Columbia University Press. p. 14.ISBN978-0-231-54010-0.
- ^W. Michelle Wang; Daniel K. Jernigan; Neil Murphy (7 December 2020).The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature.Taylor & Francis. p. 123.ISBN978-1-00-022074-2.
- ^"Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay".Wilfrid Laurier University.Archived fromthe originalon 6 June 2014.
- ^Lyndon, Neil (10 November 2014)."22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism".The Telegraph.
- ^"White Lies (for my mother)".Goodreads.Retrieved20 November2012.
- ^Martin MacCauley (1997),Who's Who in Russia Since 1900,p. 2. Routledge,ISBN0-415-13898-1.
- ^"Angela Carter".The British Library.Retrieved27 March2019.
- ^"Radio Romania International - Vintila Horia y el escándalo del Premio Goncourt".Radio Romania International(in Spanish).Retrieved10 June2022.
- ^Aldiss, Brian(7 April 1992)."Isaac Asimov obituary".The Guardian.Retrieved10 March2022.
- ^Nummi, Jyrki (2003–2007)."Linna, Väinö (1920–1992)".100 Faces from Finland – a Biographical Kaleidoscope.the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society.Retrieved9 December2020.
- ^Kirkup, James (11 August 1992)."Obituary: Seicho Matsumoto".The Independent.Retrieved10 June2022.
- ^Pace, Eric (9 November 1992)."Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives".The New York Times.Retrieved31 March2008.
- ^"Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden".Wilfrid Laurier University. Archived fromthe originalon 6 June 2014.Retrieved19 November2012.