1993 in literature

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The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.

New books

Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers
Martin Amis - Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
Jeffrey Archer - Honour Among Thieves
David Banks - Iceberg
Iain Banks - Complicity
Pat Barker - The Eye in the Door
Greg Bear - Moving Mars
Daniel Blythe - The Dimension Riders
Sandra Boynton - Barnyard Dance!
Christopher Bulis - Shadowmind
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
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
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box
Amanda Filipacchi - Nude Men
John Gardner - Never Send Flowers
Ernest Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
John Grisham - The Client
Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Nancy Kress - The Aliens of Earth
John le Carré - The Night Manager
Lois Lowry - The Giver
Robert Ludlum - The Scorpio Illusion
Amin Maalouf - Le Rocher de Tanios
David A. McIntee - White Darkness
Jim Mortimore (and Andy Lane) - Lucifer Rising
- Blood Heat
Patrick O'Brian - Clarissa Oakes
Kate Orman - The Left-Handed Hummingbird
Neil Penswick - The Pit
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
Anne Rice - Lasher
Gareth Roberts - The Highest Science
Nigel Robinson - Birthright
W.G. Sebald - The Emigrants
Ahdaf Soueif - In the Eye of the Sun
Danielle Steel - Vanished
Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Scott Turow - Pleading Guilty
Kathy Tyers - The Truce at Bakura
Andrew Vachss - Shella
Robert James Waller - Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Herman Wouk - The Hope
Timothy Zahn - The Last Command
Roger Zelazny - A Night in the Lonesome October

New drama

Tom Stoppard - Arcadia

Poetry

Leonard Cohen - Stranger Music
Paul Durcan - A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems

Non-fiction

Bija Bennett - Breathing into Life: Recovering Wholeness Through Body, Mind, and Breath
Richard Dawkins - Viruses of the Mind
Shobha De and Khushwant Singh - Uncertain Liaisons
Esther Delisle - The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939)
Tamala Krishna Goswami - Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
Steven Pressman - Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile
Miranda Seymour - Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
Walter Stewart - Too Big to Fail

Deaths

January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
January 22 - Kōbō Abe, novelist and playwright
March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law
April 15 - Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint"
April 23 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet
June 19 - William Golding, novelist and poet
August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian
September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist
September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet
November 25 - Anthony Burgess, novelist
December 4 - Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam
December 28 - William L. Shirer, historian

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison

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

Canada

See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal

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