This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993 .
Events New books Fiction Children and young people Drama Poetry Non-fiction Martin Amis – Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions Khursheed Kamal Aziz – The Murder of History in Pakistan: A critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan Malcolm Bradbury – The Modern British Novel Richard Dawkins – Viruses of the Mind Shobha De and Khushwant Singh – Uncertain Liaisons Alexandre Farnoux – Cnossos : L'archéologie d'un rêve Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary Bob Flowerdew – The Organic Gardener Tamala Krishna Goswami – Happiness is a Science – Aditi 's Vow Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson and Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes [8] Laënnec Hurbon – Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life [9] Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi – The God Particle James Lees-Milne – People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust Jean Marigny – Vampires: The World of the Undead Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics [10] Ram Swarup – Hindu View of Christianity and Islam 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 Deaths 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 )[11] January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部 公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924 )January 29 – Gustav Hasford , American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (born 1947 )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 )[12] April 15 April 23 – Bertus Aafjes , Dutch poet (born 1914 )May 6 – Dorothy B. Hughes , American crime writer and critic (born 1904 )June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911 )[13] 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 )[14] November 22 – Anthony Burgess , English novelist (born 1917 )[15] 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 )[16] Unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937 )Awards Australia Canada See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Liza Potvin (co-winner), White Lies (for my mother) [19] Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Elizabeth Hay (co-winner), The Only Snow in Havana [20] France United Kingdom 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 HardwickBernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry : Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide"Compton Crook Award : Holly Lisle , Fire in the Mist Frost Medal : William StaffordNational 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 Elsewhere References ^ Moore, Molly (1994-04-27). "Plagiarism and mystery" . Washington Post Foreign Service. Archived from the original on 2012-08-12. Retrieved 2012-11-11 . ^ Ungureanu, Larisa; Sadovici, Maia; Volcov, Alexandr (2004). "Bucurii care se duc și speranțe care vin (note despre teatrul găgăuz)" . Contrafort (in Romanian) (12). Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. ^ Chan, Alan (2013-05-02). "Laozi" . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Retrieved 2017-12-31 . ^ Harry G. Summers Jr. (September 6, 1992). "The Men of Company E" . The New York Times . Retrieved March 17, 2017 . ^ Brian M. Stableford (2006). Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia 978-0-415-97460-8 . ^ Butler, Catherine; Reynolds, Kimberley (2014). Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction 978-1-137-35745-8 . ^ Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive ^ Holmen, Linda; Santella-Johnson, Mary; Watterson, Bill (1993). Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes . Cover and supplementary art by Jan Roebken. Fargo, North Dakota: Playground Publishing. ISBN 1-878849-15-8 . Lay summary (2004). ^ "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction" . Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2012-11-22 .^ "scottmccloud.com – Understanding Comics" . scottmccloud.com .^ "Obituary: Jean Plaidy" . The Independent . 20 January 1993. Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ The Annual Obituary 978-1-55862-320-0 .^ "William Golding Is Dead at 81; The Author of Lord of the Flies " . www.nytimes.com . Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ "Author Profile: Maeve Brennan" . thresholds.chi.ac.uk . Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ "A brief life - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation" . The International Anthony Burgess Foundation . Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine , Civil Georgia , March 31, 2007.^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993" . www.nobelprize.org . Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ "Camoes Prize - literary award" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 27 December 2016 .^ Wilfrid Laurier University ^ Wilfrid Laurier University Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay , (retrieved 11/20/2012)^ "Joan Brady:Author" . www.joanbrady.co.uk . Retrieved 27 December 2016 . This article is copied from an
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