This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1993.
Children and young people
Janet and Allan Ahlberg – It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Chris Van Allsburg - The Sweetest Fig
Malorie Blackman – Operation Gadgetman!
Susan Cooper – The Boggart
Mem Fox - Time for Bed
Jim Murphy - Across America on an Emigrant Train
Rodman Philbrick – Freak the Mighty
Allen Say – Grandfather's Journey
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Nate the Great and the Pillowcase
Francisco Calvo Serraller (with Willi Glasauer) – Grandes Maestros de la Pintura|The Greatest Masters of Art and its Paintings
Theresa Tomlinson – The Forestwife (first in the Forestwife trilogy)
April De Angelis – Playhouse Creatures
David Hare – The Absence of War
Tom Stoppard – Arcadia
Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems
Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 ("Circling: 1978–1987")
Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
Malcolm Bradbury – The Modern British Novel
Richard Dawkins – Viruses of the Mind
Shobha De and Khushwant Singh – Uncertain Liaisons
Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary
Bob Flowerdew – The Organic Gardener
Tamala Krishna Goswami – Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson, Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes
Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life
Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics
Miranda Seymour – Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
Howard Stern – Private Parts
Walter Stewart – Too Big to Fail
Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years
Gordon S. Wood – The Radicalism of the American Revolution
January 6 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter (born 1918)
January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, etc.), English historical novelist (born 1906)
January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部 公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924)
February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods (born 1909)
April 15
Leslie Charteris, Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907)
Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (born 1929)
April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (born 1914)
June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911)
July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (born 1901)
August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian (born 1924)
September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1924)
September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet (born 1920)
November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist (born 1917)
November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)
December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist (born 1903)
December 28 – William L. Shirer, historian (born 1904)
December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer (possible suicide, born 1913)
Undated – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
Camões Prize: Rachel de Queiroz
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
Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete lLiza Potvin wins the 1993
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Liza Potvin (co-winner), White Lies (for my mother)
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in Havana
Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios
Prix Décembre: René de Obaldia. Exobiographie
Prix Médicis French: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Sa femme
Prix Médicis International: Paul Auster, Leviathan
Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley
Whitbread Book Award: Joan Brady, Theory of War
The Sunday Express Book of the Year: William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Saj, Red Under the Skin
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck
American Academy of Arts and Letters gold Medal for Belles Lettres, Elizabeth Hardwick
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"
Compton Crook Award: Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist
Frost Medal: William Stafford
National Book Award for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
National Book Critics Circle Award: Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
Whiting Awards:
Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Dagoberto Gilb, Sigrid Nunez, Janet Peery, Lisa Shea
Plays: Kevin Kling
Poetry: Mark Levine, Nathaniel Mackey (poetry/fiction), Dionisio D. Martinez, Kathleen Peirce
Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 (March 13): Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Schindler's List
Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal
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