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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

Fiction

• Stephen Ambrose – Band of Brothers ^[4]
• Jeffrey Archer – Honour Among Thieves
• David Banks – Iceberg
• Iain Banks – Complicity
• Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door
• Greg Bear – Moving Mars ^[5]
• 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) ^[6]
• 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

Main article: 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) ^[7]

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 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

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison ^[19]
• Camões Prize: Rachel de Queiroz ^[20]

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

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