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 Abkhazia in Sukhumi 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 Booker in 2018.
  • 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[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1992 in poetry
  • Ben Okri – An African Elegy

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

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)[10]
  • 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)[11]
  • 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[]

Canada[]

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[]

United States[]

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory". Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  2. ^ The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company. April 1994. pp. 26–27.
  3. ^ LeRoy Panek (2000). New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s. Popular Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-87972-820-5.
  4. ^ Carol Jacobs (20 October 2015). Sebald's Vision. Columbia University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-231-54010-0.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ 22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism - Telegraph
  8. ^ "White Lies (for my mother)". Goodreads. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
  9. ^ "Angela Carter". The British Library. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Isaac Asimov obituary". the Guardian. 7 April 1992. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  11. ^ Pace, Eric (1992-11-09). "Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
  12. ^ "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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