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1993 in literature
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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.
- Year 1993 is the 30th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique by
Betty Friedan .
New books
- Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers
- Martin Amis - Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
- Jeffrey Archer - Honour Among Thieves
- David 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
- Deborah Joy Corey - Losing Eddie
- 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
- Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
- Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box
- 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
- 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
- Nigel Robinson - Birthright
- W.G. Sebald - The Emigrants
- 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
- 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
New drama
Poetry
- Leonard Cohen - Stranger Music
- Paul Durcan - A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems
Non-fiction
- 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)
- Tamala Krishna Goswami - Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi’s Vow
- Steven Pressman - Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile
- Miranda Seymour - Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
- Walter Stewart - Too Big to Fail
Deaths
- January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
- January 22 - Kobo 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
- August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian
- September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist
- September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet
- October 31 - Kashif Latif, poet, aged 17
- 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
- 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
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
- Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
- 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
United States
- 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
- Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
- 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
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal
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