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Last updated January 30, 2025

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 .
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- 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.^[1]
- 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.^[2]
- 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).^[3]

New books

Poetry

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems
Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling: 1978–1987)^[7]

Non-fiction

Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
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 Hobbes ^[8]
Laënnec Hurbon – Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy
Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life ^[9]
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 Comics ^[10]
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)^[11]
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)^[12]
March 10 – Dan Simonescu, Romanian literary historian and bibliographer (born 1902)
March 13 – Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author (born 1898)^[13]
March 16 – Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist (b. 1923)^[14]
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)^[15]
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)^[16]
November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)^[17]
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)^[18]
Unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)

Awards

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) ^[21]
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in Havana ^[22]

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 War^[23]
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

Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal

References

↑ Moore, Molly (1994-04-27). "Plagiarism and mystery". Washington Post Foreign Service. Archived from the original on 2012-08-12. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
↑ Ungureanu, Larisa; Sadovici, Maia; Volcov, Alexandr (2004). "Bucurii care se duc și speranțe care vin (note despre teatrul găgăuz)". Contrafort (in Romanian) (12). Archived from the original on 2017-06-25.
↑ Chan, Alan (2013-05-02). "Laozi". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford University. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
↑ Harry G. Summers Jr. (September 6, 1992). "The Men of Company E". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
↑ Brian M. Stableford (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8.
↑ Butler, Catherine; Reynolds, Kimberley (2014). Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Palgrave. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-137-35745-8.
↑ Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive
↑
Holmen, Linda; Santella-Johnson, Mary; Watterson, Bill (1993). Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes. Cover and supplementary art by Jan Roebken. Fargo, North Dakota: Playground Publishing. ISBN 1-878849-15-8.
- Lay summary in: "Teaching With Calvin and Hobbes". ignatz.brinkster.net. 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-08-20.
↑ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction". Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
↑ "scottmccloud.com – Understanding Comics". scottmccloud.com.
↑ "Obituary: Jean Plaidy" . The Independent. 20 January 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1993. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-55862-320-0.
↑ Claire Huchet Bishop
↑ "Natalia Correia; Poet, 69". New York Times. March 17, 1993. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
↑ "William Golding Is Dead at 81; The Author of Lord of the Flies". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ "Author Profile: Maeve Brennan". thresholds.chi.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ "A brief life - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation". The International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine , Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007.
↑ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ "Camoes Prize - literary award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012)
↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012)
↑ "Joan Brady:Author". www.joanbrady.co.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

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[1] Moore, Molly (1994-04-27). "Plagiarism and mystery". Washington Post Foreign Service. Archived from the original on 2012-08-12. Retrieved 2012-11-11.

[2] Ungureanu, Larisa; Sadovici, Maia; Volcov, Alexandr (2004). "Bucurii care se duc și speranțe care vin (note despre teatrul găgăuz)". Contrafort (in Romanian) (12). Archived from the original on 2017-06-25.

[3] Chan, Alan (2013-05-02). "Laozi". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford University. Retrieved 2017-12-31.

[4] Harry G. Summers Jr. (September 6, 1992). "The Men of Company E". The New York Times. Retrieved March 17, 2017.

[5] Brian M. Stableford (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-415-97460-8.

[6] Butler, Catherine; Reynolds, Kimberley (2014). Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Palgrave. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-137-35745-8.

[7] Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive

[holmen1993-8] Holmen, Linda; Santella-Johnson, Mary; Watterson, Bill (1993). Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes. Cover and supplementary art by Jan Roebken. Fargo, North Dakota: Playground Publishing. ISBN 1-878849-15-8.
Lay summary in: "Teaching With Calvin and Hobbes". ignatz.brinkster.net. 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-08-20.

[mwBEM] Lay summary in: "Teaching With Calvin and Hobbes". ignatz.brinkster.net. 2004. Archived from the original on 2004-08-20.

[9] "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction". Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-11-22.

[10] "scottmccloud.com – Understanding Comics". scottmccloud.com.

[11] "Obituary: Jean Plaidy" . The Independent. 20 January 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[12] The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1993. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-55862-320-0.

[13] Claire Huchet Bishop

[14] "Natalia Correia; Poet, 69". New York Times. March 17, 1993. Retrieved May 19, 2021.

[15] "William Golding Is Dead at 81; The Author of Lord of the Flies". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[16] "Author Profile: Maeve Brennan". thresholds.chi.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[17] "A brief life - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation". The International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[18] Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine , Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007.

[19] "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[20] "Camoes Prize - literary award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[21] Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012)

[22] Wilfrid Laurier University Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012)

[23] "Joan Brady:Author". www.joanbrady.co.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2016.

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