1992 In Literature

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The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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

Events

August 25 – The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is completely destroyed during the Siege of Sarajevo by the Army of Republika Srpska.^[1]
The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, are first published in the United States.

New books

Ben Aaronovitch – Transit
Tariq Ali – Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Julia Álvarez – How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
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
A. S. Byatt – Morpho Eugenia
Roger Caron – Dreamcaper
Andrew Cartmel – Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Paulo Coelho – The Valkyries
Michael Connelly – The Black Echo
Hugh Cook – The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster and The Worshippers and the Way
Paul Cornell – Love and War
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Devil and Scoundrel
Douglas Coupland – Shampoo Planet
Robert Crais – Lullaby Town
L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff – The Enchanter Reborn
Elena Ferrante – L'amore molesto ("Troubling Love")
Leon Forrest – Divine Days
John Gardner – Death is Forever
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")
Andrew Hunt – Cat's Cradle: Witchmark
Simon Ings - Hot Head
P. D. James – The Children of Men
John Kessel – Meeting in Infinity
Stephen King – Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game
Val McDermid – Dead Beat
Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
Terry McMillan – Waiting to Exhale
Rohinton Mistry – Tales from Firozsha Baag
Toni Morrison – Jazz
Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
Ellis Peters – The Holy Thief
Marc Platt – Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
Terry Pratchett – Lords and Ladies and Small Gods
Anne Rice – The Tale of the Body Thief
Mordecai Richler – Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
Jennifer Roberson – Lady of the Forest
W. G. Sebald – Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen ("The Emigrants")
Gail Sheehy – Silent Passage
Sidney Sheldon – The Stars Shine Down
Michael Slade – Cutthroat
Danielle Steel – Jewels and Mixed Blessings
Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
Adam Thorpe – Ulverton
Sue Townsend – The Queen and I
Rose Tremain – Sacred Country
Barry Unsworth – Sacred Hunger
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

New drama

Herb Gardner – Conversations with My Father
Peter Handke – Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten (The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other; wordless)
David Mamet – Oleanna
Louis Nowra – Così
Michael Wall – Women Laughing

Poetry

Ben Okri – An African Elegy

Non-fiction

Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Esther Delisle – Le traître et le Juif: Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929-1939 ("The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939")
Gerina Dunwich – Secrets of Love Magick
John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Elizabeth Hay – The Only Snow in Havana^[2]
Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
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)^[3]

Births

April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist

Deaths

January 4 – Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist, 76
January 9 – Bill Naughton, playwright and novelist, 81
February 10 – Alex Haley, Roots author, 70
February 16
- Angela Carter, novelist, 51 (lung cancer)
- George MacBeth, poet and novelist, 60 (motor neurone disease)
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, science fiction author, 72
April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist, 71
April 28 – Iceberg Slim, novelist, 73
May 22 – Elizabeth David, cookery writer, 78
July 22 – Reginald Bretnor, science fiction writer, 80
September 5 – Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer of fantasy and science fiction, 81
November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer, 66 (emphysema)^[4]
December 22 – Ted Willis, TV dramatist, 78
December 25 – Monica Dickens, novelist, 77
December 27 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist, 90

Awards

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

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 ^[5]

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

References

^ "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory". Retrieved 2013-11-11.
^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay".

^ "White Lies (for my mother)". Goodreads. Retrieved 2012-11-20.
^ Pace, Eric (1992-11-09). "Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives".

^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden". Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

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