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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1993.

Events

September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia, establishing a "government in exile" in the city of Zugdidi.
November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.
Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Crane's Morning is published in India; it proves to have been plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree (1956), and the author will commit suicide in 1994.^[1]
Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
Reality television contest Million's Poet (Arabic: شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates.

New books

Stephen Ambrose – Band of Brothers
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
William Boyd – The Blue Afternoon
Sandra Boynton – Barnyard Dance!
Christopher Bulis – Shadowmind
Anthony Burgess – A Dead Man in Deptford
Ramsey Campbell – Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
Tom Clancy – Without Remorse
Deborah Joy Corey – Losing Eddie
Bernard Cornwell – Rebel
Robert Crais – Free Fall
Maurice G. Dantec – La Sirène rouge
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
Jeffrey Eugenides – The Virgin Suicides
Richard Paul Evans – The Christmas Box
Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong
Amanda Filipacchi – Nude Men
John Gardner – Never Send Flowers
Ernest Gaines – A Lesson Before Dying
William Gibson – Virtual Light
John Grisham – The Client
'Hal' (a Macintosh IIcx computer) and Scott French (programmer) – Just This Once
Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Museum of Happiness
Stephen King – Nightmares & 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
Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero
Gita Mehta – A River Sutra (short stories)
Jim Mortimore
- Lucifer Rising (with Andy Lane)
- Blood Heat
Taslima Nasrin – Lajja
Patrick O'Brian – Clarissa Oakes
Kate Orman – The Left-Handed Hummingbird
Neil Penswick – The Pit
Terry Pratchett – Men at Arms
E. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News
Jean Raspail – Sept cavaliers
Anne Rice – Lasher
Gareth Roberts – The Highest Science
J. Jill Robinson – Lovely In Her Bones
Nigel Robinson – Birthright
W. G. Sebald – The Emigrants
Will Self – My Idea of Fun
Vikram Seth – A Suitable Boy
Ahdaf Soueif – In the Eye of the Sun
Danielle Steel – Vanished
'Emil Tode' (Tõnu Õnnepalu) – Piiririik ("Border State")
Sue Townsend – Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Scott Turow – Pleading Guilty
Kathy Tyers – The Truce at Bakura
Buket Uzuner – The Sound of Fishsteps (Balık İzlerinin Sesi)
Andrew Vachss – Shella
Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes)
Ivan Vladislavic – The Folly
Robert James Waller – Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
Irvine Welsh – Trainspotting
Herman Wouk – The Hope
Austin Wright – Tony and Susan
Timothy Zahn – The Last Command
Roger Zelazny – A Night in the Lonesome October

New drama

April De Angelis – Playhouse Creatures
Tom Stoppard – Arcadia

Poetry

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime. New and Selected Poems
Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 ("Circling: 1978–1987"),^[2] 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
Zlata Filipović – Zlata's Diary
Tamala Krishna Goswami – Aditi commentary Happiness is a Science – Aditi's Vow
Linda Holmen, Mary Santella-Johnson, Bill Watterson – Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes^[3]
Linda Johns – Sharing a Robin's Life ^[4]
Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics^[5]
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 8 – 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, Singapore-born Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907)
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 25 – 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)^[6]
Undated – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)

Awards

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Rafael Argullol Murgadas, La razón del mal

References

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↑ Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous Winners, 1994: Linda Johns, (retrieved 11/21/2012)
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↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012)
↑ Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012)

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[6] Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President, Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007.

[7] Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Liza Potvin, (retrieved 11/20/2012)

[8] Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay, (retrieved 11/20/2012)

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