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 authorApril 14 - Naoise Dolan , Irish novelistAugust 12 - Naoki Higashida, Japanese autistic authorSeptember 18 - Jidanun Lueangpiansamut , Thai writerOctober 5 - Rupi Kaur , Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and authorOctober 30 - Édouard Louis , French writerNovember 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 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 ^ "The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory" . Retrieved 11 November 2013 .^ LeRoy Panek (2000). New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s ISBN 978-0-87972-820-5 ^ Carol Jacobs (20 October 2015). Sebald's Vision ISBN 978-0-231-54010-0 ^ W. Michelle Wang; Daniel K. Jernigan; Neil Murphy (7 December 2020). The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature 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 .