1993 in literature

none 1993 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993. Events September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government-in-exile in the city of Zugdidi. November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel The Shipping News. unknown dates Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Cranes' Morning appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994.Molly Moore http://www.sawnet.org/news/aikath_gyaltsen.html Plagiarism and mystery Washington Post Foreign Service 1994-04-27 2012-11-11 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120812022351/http://www.sawnet.org/news/aikath_gyaltsen.html 2012-08-12 Professor Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on The Sunday Times UK bestseller list. Reality television contest Million's Poet (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates. Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's Bajazet is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre.Larisa Ungureanu Maia Sadovici Alexandr Volcov http://www.contrafort.md/old/2004/122/790.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170625104857/http://www.contrafort.md/old/2004/122/790.html dead 2017-06-25 Bucurii care se duc și speranțe care vin (note despre teatrul găgăuz) Contrafort 12 2004 ro The Guodian Chu Slips, including the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, a chapter from the Book of Rites, content from the Book of Documents and the previously lost Xing Zi Ming Chu, written on bamboo and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period), are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China).http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi/ Laozi Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Stanford University 2013-05-02 2017-12-31 Alan Chan New books Fiction Stephen Ambrose – Band of BrothersThe New York Times Harry G. Summers Jr. September 6, 1992 The Men of Company E https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/ambrose-band.html March 17, 2017 Jeffrey Archer – Honour Among Thieves David Banks – Iceberg Iain Banks – Complicity Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door Greg Bear – Moving MarsBrian M. Stableford Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=uefwmdROKTAC&pg=PA283 2006 Taylor & Francis 978-0-415-97460-8 283 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 Helen Dunmore – Zennor in Darkness Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – Deep River (深い河) Steve Erickson – Arc d'X Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides Richard Paul Evans – The Christmas Box Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong Amanda Filipacchi – Nude Men Neil Gaiman The Sandman: A Game of You (graphic novel; fifth in The Sandman series) The Sandman: Fables & Reflections (graphic novel; sixth in The Sandman series) 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 Saken Omur – Before Dawn Robert Ludlum – The Scorpio Illusion Amin Maalouf – Le Rocher de Tanios David A. McIntee – White Darkness Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero David Malouf – Remembering Babylon Gita Mehta – A River Sutra (short stories) Jim Mortimore Blood Heat (with Andy Lane) – Lucifer Rising Taslima Nasrin – Lajja Patrick O'Brian – Clarissa Oakes Kate Orman – The Left-Handed Hummingbird Tim Pears – In the Place of Fallen Leaves Neil Penswick – The Pit Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms E. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News Jean Raspail – Sept cavaliers Ishmael Reed – Japanese by Spring 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 Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries Ahdaf Soueif – In the Eye of the Sun Danielle Steel – Vanished Emil Tode (Tõnu Õnnepalu) – Piiririik (Border State) Jesús Torbado – El peregrino 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 Children and young people Janet and Allan Ahlberg – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Nelson Algren (posthumous) – He Swung and He Missed Chris Van Allsburg – The Sweetest Fig Malorie Blackman – Operation Gadgetman! Susan Cooper – The Boggart Richard Dalby – Mistletoe & Mayhem: Horrific Tales for the Holidays Mem Fox – Time for Bed Cornelia Funke – Wild Chicks Johanna Hurwitz – New Shoes for Silvia Jim Murphy – Across America on an Emigrant Train Larry Niven (with Alicia Austin) – Bridging the Galaxies Rodman Philbrick – Freak the Mighty Allen Say – Grandfather's Journey Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great and the Pillowcase Francisco Calvo Serraller (with Willi Glasauer) – Grandes Maestros de la Pintura Theresa Tomlinson – The Forestwife (first in the Forestwife trilogy)Butler Catherine Reynolds Kimberley Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction 2014 Palgrave London 978-1-137-35745-8 154 2nd https://books.google.com/books?id=X5y7BgAAQBAJ&q=forestwife+trilogy+1993&pg=PA154 Nancy Willard – A Starlit Somersault Downhill Drama Parv Bancil – Ungrateful Dead April De Angelis – Playhouse Creatures David Hare – The Absence of War Tom Stoppard – Arcadia Poetry 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)Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive Non-fiction Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions Karen Armstrong – A History of God Khursheed Kamal Aziz – The Murder of History in Pakistan: A critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan Malcolm Bradbury – The Modern British Novel Richard Dawkins – Viruses of the Mind Shobha De and Khushwant Singh – Uncertain Liaisons Alain Erlande-Brandenburg – Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages Alexandre Farnoux – Cnossos : L'archéologie d'un rêve Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary Bob Flowerdew – The Organic Gardener Tamala Krishna Goswami – Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson and Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and HobbesHolmen Linda Santella-Johnson Mary Watterson Bill Bill Watterson Cover and supplementary art by Jan Roebken Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes 1993 Playground Publishing Fargo, North Dakota 1-878849-15-8 cite web Teaching With Calvin and Hobbes 2004 http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cteaching.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040820231715/http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cteaching.html 2004-08-20 ignatz.brinkster.net Laënnec Hurbon – Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Lifehttps://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11319 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction 2012-11-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20121001115341/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11319 2012-10-01 dead Susanna Kaysen – Girl, Interrupted Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi – The God Particle James Lees-Milne – People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust Michel Maffesoli – The Contemplation of the World Jean Marigny – Vampires: The World of the Undead Scott McCloud – Understanding Comicshttp://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/index.html scottmccloud.com – Understanding Comics scottmccloud.com Ram Swarup – Hindu View of Christianity and Islam 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 Births July 3 - Hayeon Lim, South Korean author July 5 - Leah Johnson, American author August 1 - Tomi Adeyemi, Nigerian–American novelist August 26 - Nancy Yi Fan, Chinese American author December 22 - Leema Dhar, Indian poet and novelist unknown date - Idza Luhumyo, Kenyan short story writer Deaths January 6 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter (born 1918) January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, etc.), English historical novelist (born 1906)Obituary: Jean Plaidy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jean-plaidy-1479699.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-jean-plaidy-1479699.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 27 December 2016 20 January 1993 January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部 公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924) January 29 – Gustav Hasford, American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (born 1947) January 30 – Dorothy Miles, Welsh poet (born 1931) February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (born 1916) March 1 – Ronald McCuaig, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author (born 1908) March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods (born 1909)The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=pVMYAAAAIAAJ 1993 St. Martin's 978-1-55862-320-0 264 March 10 – Dan Simonescu, Romanian literary historian and bibliographer (born 1902) March 13 – Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author (born 1898)Claire Huchet Bishop March 16 – Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist (b. 1923)https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/17/obituaries/natalia-correia-poet-69.html Natalia Correia; Poet, 69 March 17, 1993 New York Times May 19, 2021 March 22 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish writer and Sufi mystic (b. 1905) April 15 Leslie Charteris, Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907) Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (born 1929) April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (born 1914) May 6 – Dorothy B. Hughes, American crime writer and critic (born 1904) June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911)William Golding Is Dead at 81; The Author of Lord of the Flies https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0919.html The New York Times 27 December 2016 July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (born 1901) August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian (born 1924) September – Leonte Răutu, Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor (born 1910) 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)Author Profile: Maeve Brennan http://thresholds.chi.ac.uk/maeve-brennan/ thresholds.chi.ac.uk 27 December 2016 28 December 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161228033346/http://thresholds.chi.ac.uk/maeve-brennan/ dead November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)A brief life - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation https://www.anthonyburgess.org/about-anthony-burgess/burgess-a-brief-life/ The International Anthony Burgess Foundation 27 December 2016 December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist (born 1903) December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (born 1904) December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer (possible suicide, born 1913)Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President https://web.archive.org/web/20081201194141/http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=14893 2008-12-01 , Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007. Unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni MorrisonThe Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/ www.nobelprize.org 27 December 2016 Camões Prize: Rachel de QueirozCamoes Prize - literary award https://www.britannica.com/biography/Camoes-Prize Encyclopædia Britannica 27 December 2016 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 list Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Liza Potvin (co-winner), White Lies (for my mother) Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012) Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in HavanaWilfrid Laurier University https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164249/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11321 2014-06-06 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012) 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 WarJoan Brady:Author http://www.joanbrady.co.uk/whitbread.htm www.joanbrady.co.uk 27 December 2016 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 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Friedrich Schorlemmer Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal References External links Popular Books of 1993 at Goodreads Published 1993 Books at Goodreads 1993 Books at Goodreads