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{{short description|Overview of the events of 1992 in literature}}{{Year nav topic5|1992|literature|poetry}}This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Events
- July â The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States.BOOK, The New York Times Book Review,weblink April 1994, New York Times Company, 26â27,
- August â An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of Abkhazia in Sukhumi during the War in Abkhazia by Georgian forces.
- August 25 â The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annihilated during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska.WEB,weblink The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory, 11 November 2013,
- September â Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction The English Patient is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018.
New books
Fiction
- Ben Aaronovitch â Transit
- Tariq Ali â Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
- Paul Auster â Leviathan
- Iain Banks â The Crow Road
- Clive Barker â The Thief of Always
- Julian Barnes â The Porcupine
- Greg Bear â Anvil of Stars
- Thomas Berger â Meeting Evil
- Louis de Bernières â The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
- James P. Blaylock â Lord Kelvin's Machine
- Pascal Bruckner â The Divine Child
- A. S. Byatt â Morpho Eugenia
- Roger Caron â Dreamcaper
- Andrew Cartmel â (Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
- Patrick Chamoiseau â Texaco
- Paulo Coelho â The Valkyries
- Michael Connelly â The Black Echo
- Hugh Cook
- The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster
- The Worshippers and the Way
- Paul Cornell â Love and War
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland â Shampoo Planet
- Mia Couto â Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula)
- Robert Crais â Lullaby TownBOOK, LeRoy Panek, New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s,weblink 2000, Popular Press, 978-0-87972-820-5, 141,
- L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff â The Enchanter Reborn
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés â Women Who Run with the Wolves
- Elena Ferrante â L'amore molesto (Troubling Love)
- Tibor Fischer â Under the Frog
- Leon Forrest â Divine Days
- John Gardner â Death is Forever
- Neil Gaiman â (The Sandman: Season of Mists) (graphic novel; volume 4 of The Sandman series)
- Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean â Signal to Noise (graphic novel)
- Cristina GarcÃa â Dreaming in Cuban
- Mark Gatiss â Nightshade
- Ann Granger â Cold in the Earth
- Alasdair Gray â Poor Things
- John Grisham â The Pelican Brief
- Hella Haasse â Heren van de thee (The Tea Lords)
- Victor Headley â Yardie
- Andrew Hunt â (Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark)
- Simon Ings â Hot Head
- P. D. James â The Children of Men
- Denis Johnson â Jesus' Son (short story collection)
- John Kessel â Meeting in Infinity
- Stephen King
- Patrick McCabe â The Butcher Boy
- Cormac McCarthy â All the Pretty Horses (Book 1 of the Border Trilogy)
- Val McDermid â Dead Beat
- Ian McEwan â Black Dogs
- Terry McMillan â Waiting to Exhale
- Javier MarÃas â A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco)
- Andrés L. Mateo â La Balada de Alfonsina Bairán
- Rohinton Mistry â Tales from Firozsha Baag
- Caitlin Moran â The Chronicles of Narmo
- Toni Morrison â Jazz
- Michael Ondaatje â The English Patient
- Ellis Peters â The Holy Thief
- Marc Platt â (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
- Terry Pratchett
- Anne Rice â The Tale of the Body Thief
- Mordecai Richler â Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
- Jennifer Roberson â Lady of the Forest
- Robert Schneider â Schlafes Bruder
- Patricia Schonstein â A Time of Angels
- W. G. Sebald â The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen)BOOK, Carol Jacobs, Sebald's Vision,weblink 20 October 2015, Columbia University Press, 978-0-231-54010-0, 14,
- Gail Sheehy â Silent Passage
- Sidney Sheldon â The Stars Shine Down
- Michael Slade â Cutthroat
- Danielle Steel
- Neal Stephenson â Snow Crash
- Adam Thorpe â Ulverton
- Sue Townsend â The Queen and I
- Rose Tremain â Sacred Country
- Barry Unsworth â Sacred Hunger
- John Updike â Memories of the Ford Administration
- Gore Vidal â (Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal)
- Vernor Vinge â A Fire Upon the Deep
- Robert James Waller â The Bridges of Madison County
- Connie Willis â Doomsday Book
- Timothy Zahn â Dark Force Rising
- Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas â Flare
- Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
- El último dÃa del mundo (The last day of the world)
- Misterios de las noches y los dÃas (Mysteries of the nights and days; short stories)
Children and young people
- Pamela Allen â Belinda
- Chris Van Allsburg â The Widow's Broom
- Gillian Cross â The Great Elephant Chase
- Garry Disher â The Bamboo Flute
- Anne Fine â Flour Babies
- Jamila Gavin â The Wheel of Surya (first in the Surya trilogy)
- Rumer Godden
- Great Grandfather's House
- Listen to the Nightingale
- Virginia Hamilton (with Jerry Pinkney) â Drylongso
- William Mayne â Low Tide
- Gerald McDermott â (Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa)
- Hilary McKay â The Exiles
- Michael Morpurgo â Waiting for Anya
- Barry Moser â Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
- Jim Murphy â The Long Road to Gettysburg
- Barbara Park â Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (first in the Junie B. Jones series)
- Marcus Pfister â Rainbow Fish (Der Regenbogenfisch)
- Gloria Jean Pinkney (with Jerry Pinkney) â Back Home
- Marjorie W. Sharmat (with Marc Simont) â Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
- Ulf Stark â Can You Whistle, Johanna? (Kan du vissla Johanna?)BOOK, W. Michelle Wang, Daniel K. Jernigan, Neil Murphy, The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature,weblink 7 December 2020, Taylor & Francis, 978-1-00-022074-2, 123,
- Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) â Sauron Defeated
- Judith Vigna â Black Like Kyra White Like Me
- Martin Waddell – Owl Babies
- Nancy Willard (with Barry Moser) â Beauty and the Beast
- Douglas Wood â Old Turtle
- Susan Meddaugh â Martha Speaks
Drama
- Herb Gardner â Conversations with My Father
- Peter Handke â Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wuÃten (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other)
- David Mamet â Oleanna
- Louis Nowra â Così
- Zlatko TopÄiÄ â Musa And The Goat (radio version)
- Michael Wall â Women Laughing
- Peter Whelan â The School of Night
Poetry
- Ben Okri â An African Elegy
Non-fiction
- Nelson Algren (died 1981) â America Eats (travel book, written 1930s)
- Karen Armstrong â (Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet)
- Bill Bryson â (Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe)
- Linda Colley â (Britons: Forging the Nation 1707â1837)
- Esther Delisle â 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, 1929â1939)
- Daniel Dennett â Consciousness Explained
- Eamon Duffy â The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400 to c. 1580
- Gerina Dunwich â Secrets of Love Magick
- Christiane Ãluère â (The Celts: First Masters of Europe)
- John Gray â Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
- Elizabeth Hay â The Only Snow in HavanaWEB,weblink Wilfrid Laurier University, Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction â Previous Winners â 1993: Elizabeth Hay,weblink 6 June 2014, dead,
- Nick Hornby â Fever Pitch
- Charles Jennings - Up North
- Neil Lyndon â No More Sex War: The Failures of FeminismNEWS,weblink 22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism, The Telegraph, Neil, Lyndon, 10 November 2014,
- Andrew Morton â Diana: Her True Story
- Mark E. Neely, Jr. â (The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties)
- Liza Potvin â White Lies (for my mother)WEB,weblink White Lies (for my mother), Goodreads, 20 November 2012,
- Léon Werth (died 1955) â 33 Jours (written 1940)
- Michael Jackson â Dancing the Dream
Anthologies
- Margaret Busby (ed.) â (Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present)
Births
- March 4 - Gaurav Sharma, Indian author
- April 14 - Naoise Dolan, Irish novelist
- August 12 - Naoki Higashida, Japanese autistic author
- September 18 - Jidanun Lueangpiansamut, Thai writer
- October 5 - Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
- October 30 - Ãdouard Louis, French writer
- November 11 - Aya Mansour, Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist
Deaths
- January 4 â Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born 1915)
- January 9 â Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
- January 4 â John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
- January 14 â Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born 1909)Martin MacCauley (1997), Who's Who in Russia Since 1900, p. 2. Routledge, {{ISBN|0-415-13898-1}}.
- January 28 â Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
- February 10 â Alex Haley, African-American writer (born 1921)
- February 16
- Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)WEB, Angela Carter,weblink The British Library, 27 March 2019,
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
- April 4 â VintilÄ Horia, Romanian writer (born 1915)WEB,weblink es, Radio Romania International - Vintila Horia y el escándalo del Premio Goncourt, 10 June 2022, Radio Romania International,
- April 6 â Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)NEWS, Isaac Asimov obituary,weblink Brian, Aldiss, Brian Aldiss, The Guardian, 10 March 2022, en, 7 April 1992,
- April 21 â Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)WEB, Nummi, Jyrki, Linna, Väinö (1920â1992), 100 Faces from Finland â a Biographical Kaleidoscope, the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society, 2003â2007,weblink 9 December 2020,
- April 28 â Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
- May 22 â Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
- July 6 â Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
- July 22 â Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
- July 23 â Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (born 1908)
- August 4 â SeichÅ Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born 1909)WEB,weblink Obituary: Seicho Matsumoto, 11 August 1992, James, Kirkup, The Independent, 10 June 2022,
- August 29 â Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
- September 5 â Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
- November 7 â Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)NEWS, Eric, Pace, Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives,weblink The New York Times, 9 November 1992, 31 March 2008,
- November 17 â Audre Lorde, American poet, writer and feminist (born 1934)
- December 22 â Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
- December 25 â Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
- December 27 â 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|Nitassinan): The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland WEB,weblink Wilfrid Laurier University, Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction â Previous winners â 1992: Marie Wadden, 19 November 2012,weblink 6 June 2014, dead,
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
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