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1992 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.

Events

August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of AbkhaziainSukhumi during the War in Abkhazia by Georgian forces.
August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is annihilated during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska.^[1]
September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction The English Patient is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Bookerin2018.
unknown date – The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States.^[2]

New books

Poetry

Ben Okri – An African Elegy

Non-fiction

Nelson Algren (died 1981) – America Eats (travel book, written 1930s)
Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Bill Bryson – Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
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
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 – L'Europe des Celtes
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 (died 1955) – 33 Jours (written 1940)

Births

May 12 – Kyra Halland, American fantasy novelist

Deaths

January 4 – Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born 1915)
January 9 – Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
January 4 – John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
January 28 – Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
February 10 – Alex Haley, African-American writer (born 1921)
February 16
- Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)^[9]
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)
April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)
April 28 – Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
May 22 – Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
July 6 – Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
July 22 – Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
July 23 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (born 1908)
September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
August 29 – Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)^[10]
November 17 – Audre Lorde, American poet, writer and feminist (born 1934)
December 22 – Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
December 25 – Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
December 27 – 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 ^[11]

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 HorsesbyCormac McCarthy
National Book Critics Circle Award: to Young Men and FirebyNorman Maclean
Nebula Award: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Mao 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

Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, Ciegas esperanzas

References

^ "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory". Retrieved 2013-11-11.

^ The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company. April 1994. pp. 26–27.

^ LeRoy Panek (2000). New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s. Popular Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-87972-820-5.

^ Carol Jacobs (20 October 2015). Sebald's Vision. Columbia University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-231-54010-0.

^ W. Michelle Wang; Daniel K. Jernigan; Neil Murphy (7 December 2020). The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-00-022074-2.

^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay". Wilfrid Laurier University. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

^ 22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism - Telegraph

^ "White Lies (for my mother)". Goodreads. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

^ "Angela Carter". The British Library. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

^ Pace, Eric (1992-11-09). "Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2008-03-31.

^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden". Wilfrid Laurier University. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

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