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The year 1992 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

The Goosebumps series of books, penned by R.L. Stine, are first published.

New books

Ben Aaronovitch - Transit
Julia Álvarez - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Paul Auster - Leviathan
Iain Banks - The Crow Road
Clive Barker - The Thief of Always
Greg Bear - Anvil of Stars
James P. Blaylock - Lord Kelvin's Machine
A. S. Byatt - Morpho Eugenia
Roger Caron - Dreamcaper
Andrew Cartmel - Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Paulo Coelho - The Valkyries
Hugh Cook - The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster and The Worshippers and the Way
Paul Cornell - Love and War
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Devil and Scoundrel
Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet
Robert Crais - Lullaby Town
L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff - The Enchanter Reborn
Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
John Gardner - Death is Forever
Mark Gatiss - Nightshade
Ann Granger - Cold in the Earth
John Grisham - The Pelican Brief
Andrew Hunt - Cat's Cradle: Witchmark
P. D. James - The Children of Men
John Kessel - Meeting in Infinity
Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne
Val McDermid - Dead Beat
Terry McMillan - Waiting to Exhale
Rohinton Mistry - Tales from Firozsha Baag
Toni Morrison - Jazz
Danielle Steel - Jewels and Mixed Blessings
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
Marc Platt - Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies and Small Gods
Anne Rice - The Tale of the Body Thief
Mordecai Richler - Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
Gail Sheehy - Silent Passage
Sidney Sheldon - The Stars Shine Down
Michael Slade - Cutthroat
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Adam Thorpe - Ulverton
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I
Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger
Gore Vidal - Live from Golgotha
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
Robert James Waller - The Bridges of Madison County
Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
Timothy Zahn - Dark Force Rising
Michael Connelly - The Black Echo
Roger Zelazny and Thomas Thurston Thomas - Flare

New drama

David Mamet - Oleanna
Herb Gardner - Conversations with My Father
Louis Nowra - Così
Michael Wall - Women Laughing

Poetry

Main article: 1992 in poetry

Ben Okri - An African Elegy

Non-fiction

Gerina Dunwich - Secrets of Love Magick
John Gray - Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Andrew Morton - Diana: Her True Story

Births

- June 13 - Sam Ainsworth

Deaths

January 9 - Bill Naughton, playwright and novelist
February 10 - Alex Haley, Roots author
February 16 - Angela Carter, author
April 6 - Isaac Asimov, author
April 21 - Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist
April 28 - Iceberg Slim, novelist
May 22 - Elizabeth David, cookery writer
July 22 - Reginald Bretnor, science fiction writer
September 5 - Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., American writer of fantasy and science fiction
November 7 - Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer
December 25 - Monica Dickens, novelist
December 27 - Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Derek Walcott

Australia

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

Canada

See 1992 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

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

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
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

United States

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
Nebula Award: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh
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

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Alejandro Gándara, Ciegas esperanzas

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