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1992 in literature
Overview of the events of 1992 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.
- July – The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States.[1]
- 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.[2]
- September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction The English Patient is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018.
Fiction
- Ben Aaronovitch – Transit
- Tariq Ali – Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
- Paul Auster – Leviathan
- Iain Banks – The Crow Road
- Clive Barker – The Thief of Always
- Julian Barnes – The Porcupine
- Greg Bear – Anvil of Stars
- Thomas Berger – Meeting Evil
- Louis de Bernières – The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
- James P. Blaylock – Lord Kelvin's Machine
- Pascal Bruckner – The Divine Child
- A. S. Byatt – Morpho Eugenia
- Roger Caron – Dreamcaper
- Andrew Cartmel – Cat's Cradle: Warhead
- Patrick Chamoiseau – Texaco
- Paulo Coelho – The Valkyries
- Michael Connelly – The Black Echo
- Hugh Cook
- The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster
- The Worshippers and the Way
- Paul Cornell – Love and War
- Bernard Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland – Shampoo Planet
- Mia Couto – Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula)
- Robert Crais – Lullaby Town[3]
- L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – The Enchanter Reborn
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run with the Wolves
- Elena Ferrante – L'amore molesto (Troubling Love)
- Tibor Fischer – Under the Frog
- Leon Forrest – Divine Days
- John Gardner – Death is Forever
- Neil Gaiman – The Sandman: Season of Mists (graphic novel; volume 4 of The Sandman series)
- Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – Signal to Noise (graphic novel)
- Cristina García – Dreaming in Cuban
- Mark Gatiss – Nightshade
- Ann Granger – Cold in the Earth
- Alasdair Gray – Poor Things
- John Grisham – The Pelican Brief
- Hella Haasse – Heren van de thee (The Tea Lords)
- Victor Headley – Yardie
- Andrew Hunt – Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
- Simon Ings – Hot Head
- P. D. James – The Children of Men
- Denis Johnson – Jesus' Son (short story collection)
- John Kessel – Meeting in Infinity
- Stephen King
- Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy
- Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses (Book 1 of the Border Trilogy)
- Val McDermid – Dead Beat
- Ian McEwan – Black Dogs
- Terry McMillan – Waiting to Exhale
- Javier Marías – A Heart So White (Corazón tan blanco)
- Andrés L. Mateo – La Balada de Alfonsina Bairán
- Rohinton Mistry – Tales from Firozsha Baag
- Caitlin Moran – The Chronicles of Narmo
- Toni Morrison – Jazz
- Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
- Ellis Peters – The Holy Thief
- Marc Platt – Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
- Terry Pratchett
- Anne Rice – The Tale of the Body Thief
- Mordecai Richler – Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
- Jennifer Roberson – Lady of the Forest
- Robert Schneider – Schlafes Bruder
- Patricia Schonstein – A Time of Angels
- W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen)[4]
- Gail Sheehy – Silent Passage
- Sidney Sheldon – The Stars Shine Down
- Michael Slade – Cutthroat
- Danielle Steel
- Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
- Adam Thorpe – Ulverton
- Sue Townsend – The Queen and I
- Rose Tremain – Sacred Country
- Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
- John Updike – Memories of the Ford Administration
- Gore Vidal – Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal
- Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep
- Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County
- Connie Willis – Doomsday Book
- Timothy Zahn – Dark Force Rising
- Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas – Flare
- Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
- El último día del mundo (The last day of the world)
- Misterios de las noches y los días (Mysteries of the nights and days; short stories)
Children and young people
- Pamela Allen – Belinda
- Chris Van Allsburg – The Widow's Broom
- Gillian Cross – The Great Elephant Chase
- Garry Disher – The Bamboo Flute
- Anne Fine – Flour Babies
- Jamila Gavin – The Wheel of Surya (first in the Surya trilogy)
- Rumer Godden
- Great Grandfather's House
- Listen to the Nightingale
- Virginia Hamilton (with Jerry Pinkney) – Drylongso
- William Mayne – Low Tide
- Gerald McDermott – Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa
- Hilary McKay – The Exiles
- Michael Morpurgo – Waiting for Anya
- Barry Moser – Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
- Jim Murphy – The Long Road to Gettysburg
- Barbara Park – Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (first in the Junie B. Jones series)
- Marcus Pfister – Rainbow Fish (Der Regenbogenfisch)
- Gloria Jean Pinkney (with Jerry Pinkney) – Back Home
- Marjorie W. Sharmat (with Marc Simont) – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
- Ulf Stark – Can You Whistle, Johanna? (Kan du vissla Johanna?)[5]
- Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – Sauron Defeated
- Judith Vigna – Black Like Kyra White Like Me
- Martin Waddell – Owl Babies
- Nancy Willard (with Barry Moser) – Beauty and the Beast
- Douglas Wood – Old Turtle
- Susan Meddaugh – Martha Speaks
Drama
- Herb Gardner – Conversations with My Father
- Peter Handke – Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other)
- David Mamet – Oleanna
- Louis Nowra – Così
- Zlatko Topčić – Musa And The Goat (radio version)
- Michael Wall – Women Laughing
- Peter Whelan – The School of Night
Poetry
Main article: 1992 in 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
- 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 – The Celts: First Masters of Europe
- 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)
Anthologies
- March 4 - Gaurav Sharma, Indian author
- April 14 - Naoise Dolan, Irish novelist
- August 12 - Naoki Higashida, Japanese autistic author
- September 18 - Jidanun Lueangpiansamut, Thai writer
- October 5 - Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
- October 30 - Édouard Louis, French writer
- November 11 - Aya Mansour, Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist
- 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 14 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born 1909)[9]
- 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)[10]
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
- April 4 – Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer (born 1915)[11]
- April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)[12]
- April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)[13]
- 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)
- August 4 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born 1909)[14]
- August 29 – Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
- September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
- November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)[15]
- 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)
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 [16]
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 Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
- Nebula Award: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Mao II by Don 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
- The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company. April 1994. pp. 26–27.
- "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory". Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- 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 6 June 2014.
- Lyndon, Neil (10 November 2014). "22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism". The Telegraph.
- "White Lies (for my mother)". Goodreads. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- Martin MacCauley (1997), Who's Who in Russia Since 1900, p. 2. Routledge, ISBN 0-415-13898-1.
- "Angela Carter". The British Library. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- "Radio Romania International - Vintila Horia y el escándalo del Premio Goncourt". Radio Romania International (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- Aldiss, Brian (7 April 1992). "Isaac Asimov obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- Nummi, Jyrki (2003–2007). "Linna, Väinö (1920–1992)". 100 Faces from Finland – a Biographical Kaleidoscope. the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- Kirkup, James (11 August 1992). "Obituary: Seicho Matsumoto". The Independent. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- Pace, Eric (9 November 1992). "Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
- "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden". Wilfrid Laurier University. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2012.