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Overview of the events of 1992 in literature
Overview of the events of 1992 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Anthologies
Births
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
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 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
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 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
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
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
^
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 .