This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1992.
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.
The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, are first published in the United States.
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
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
Sharpe's Devil
Scoundrel
Douglas Coupland – Shampoo Planet
Mia Couto – Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula)
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
Gerald's Game
Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy
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
Lords and Ladies
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 – The Emigrants (Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen)
Gail Sheehy – Silent Passage
Sidney Sheldon – The Stars Shine Down
Michael Slade – Cutthroat
Danielle Steel
Jewels
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
Children and young people
Pamela Allen – Belinda
Chris Van Allsburg - The Widow's Broom
Joaquín Araújo (with Willi Glasauer) – ¡Viva la Vida! Fraternidad con la Naturaleza|Long Live Life!: The Fraternity with Nature and the Natural World
Gillian Cross – The Great Elephant Chase
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
Hilary McKay – The Exiles
Michael Morpurgo – Waiting for Anya
Barry Moser – Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad
Jim Murphy – The Long Road to GETTYSBURG
Mary Norton – The Borrowers (first in the eponymous series of six novels)
Gloria Jean Pinkney – Back Home
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
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
Michael Wall – Women Laughing
Ben Okri – An African Elegy
Karen Armstrong – Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
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
John Gray – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Elizabeth Hay – The Only Snow in Havana
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)
Léon Werth (died 1955) – 33 Jours (written 1940)
April 18 – Alexandra Adornetto, Australian children's novelist
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 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)
George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)
April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)
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)
September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
August 29 – Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)
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)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Derek Walcott
Camões Prize: Vergílio Ferreira
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
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
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
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)
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
Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, Ciegas esperanzas
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