1992 in literature

1992 in literature

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

Events

*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 - "The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster" and "The Worshippers and the Way"
*Paul Cornell - "Love and War"
*Bernard Cornwell - "Sharpe's Devil" and "Scoundrel"
*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"
*Ann Granger - "Cold in the Earth"
*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 - "Jewels" and "Mixed Blessings"
*Michael Ondaatje - "The English Patient"
*Marc Platt - ""
*Terry Pratchett - "Lords and Ladies" and "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"
*Adam Thorpe - "Ulverton"
*Sue Townsend - "The Queen and I"
*Barry Unsworth - "Sacred Hunger"
*Robert James Waller - "The Bridges of Madison County"
*Timothy Zahn - "Dark Force Rising"
*Michael Connelly - "The Black Echo"
*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

*Quamar Quazi

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"
* 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"

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"


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