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Template:Refimprove The year 1993 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
  • November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.

New books[]

  • Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers
  • Jeffrey Archer - Honour Among Thieves
  • Davis Banks - Iceberg
  • Iain Banks - Complicity
  • Pat Barker - The Eye in the Door
  • Greg Bear - Moving Mars
  • Daniel Blythe - The Dimension Riders
  • Sandra Boynton - Barnyard Dance!
  • Christopher Bulis - Shadowmind
  • Ramsey Campbell - Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
  • Tom Clancy - Without Remorse
  • Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
  • Deborah Joy Corey - Losing Eddie
  • Bernard Cornwell - Rebel
  • Robert Crais - Free Fall
  • Peter Darvill-Evans - Deceit
  • Hollace Davids and Paul Davids - Mission from Mount Yoda
  • Lindsey Davis - Poseidon's Gold
  • L. Sprague de Camp - Rivers of Time
  • Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises
  • Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
  • Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
  • Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box
  • Amanda Filipacchi - Nude Men
  • John Gardner - Never Send Flowers
  • Ernest Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
  • John Grisham - The Client
  • Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  • Nancy Kress - The Aliens of Earth
  • John le Carré - The Night Manager
  • Lois Lowry - The Giver
  • Robert Ludlum - The Scorpio Illusion
  • Amin Maalouf - Le Rocher de Tanios
  • David A. McIntee - White Darkness
  • Jim Mortimore (and Andy Lane) - Lucifer Rising
    • Blood Heat
  • Patrick O'Brian - Clarissa Oakes
  • Kate Orman - The Left-Handed Hummingbird
  • Neil Penswick - The Pit
  • Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
  • Anne Rice - Lasher
  • Gareth Roberts - The Highest Science
  • J. Jill Robinson - Lovely In Her Bones
  • Nigel Robinson - Birthright
  • W.G. Sebald - The Emigrants
  • Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy
  • Ahdaf Soueif - In the Eye of the Sun
  • Danielle Steel - Vanished
  • Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
  • Scott Turow - Pleading Guilty
  • Kathy Tyers - The Truce at Bakura
  • Buket Uzuner - The Sound of Fishsteps
  • Andrew Vachss - Shella
  • Robert James Waller - Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
  • Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
  • Herman Wouk - The Hope
  • Timothy Zahn - The Last Command
  • Roger Zelazny - A Night in the Lonesome October
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval - The Museum of Happiness

New drama[]

  • Tom Stoppard - Arcadia

Poetry[]

Main article: 1993 in poetry
  • Leonard Cohen - Stranger Music
  • Paul Durcan - A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems
  • Dejan Stojanović - Krugovanje: 1978–1987 ("Circling: 1978–1987"),[1] first edition, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd

Non-fiction[]

  • Martin Amis - Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
  • Bija Bennett - Breathing into Life: Recovering Wholeness Through Body, Mind, and Breath
  • Richard Dawkins - Viruses of the Mind
  • Shobha De and Khushwant Singh - Uncertain Liaisons
  • Esther Delisle - The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939)
  • John Grey - Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
  • Tamala Krishna Goswami - Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
  • Miranda Seymour - Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
  • Walter Stewart - Too Big to Fail
  • Howard Stern - Private Parts

Deaths[]

  • January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
  • January 22 - Kōbō Abe, novelist and playwright
  • March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law
  • April 15 - Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint"
  • April 23 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet
  • June 19 - William Golding, novelist and poet
  • July 10 - Ruth Krauss, children's book author and poet
  • August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian
  • September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist
  • September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet
  • November 25 - Anthony Burgess, novelist
  • December 4 - Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam
  • December 28 - William L. Shirer, historian

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

  • See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France[]

  • 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

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal

References[]

  1. ↑ Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive

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