1992 In Literature

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

EVENTS

'' The Bridges Of Madison County '', originally self-published by author Robert James Waller , will go on to become the largest selling novel in history with more than 60 million copies sold.

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 ''

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 ''

Paulo Coelho - '' The Valkyries ''

Hugh Cook

---'' The Witchlord And The Weaponmaster ''

---'' The Worshippers And The Way ''

Paul Cornell - '' Love And War ''

Douglas Coupland - '' Shampoo Planet ''

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 ''

John Grisham - '' The Pelican Brief ''

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 ''

---'' Mixed Blessings ''

Michael Ondaatje - '' The English Patient ''

Terry Pratchett

---'' Lords And Ladies ''

---'' 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 ''

Sue Townsend - '' The Queen And I ''

Barry Unsworth - '' Sacred Hunger ''

Robert James Waller - '' The Bridges Of Madison County ''

Timothy Zahn - '' Dark Force Rising ''

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

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

DEATHS

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

Australia

, ''The Mule's Foal''

, ''Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems''

, ''Selected Poems''

- ''This is the Stone''

Canada

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

France

, ''Texaco''

, ''La Chasse au trésor'' and Roger Grenier , ''Regardez la neige qui tombe''

, ''Tlacuilo''

, ''Une éducation polonaise''

United Kingdom

, ''The English Patient'' and Barry Unsworth , ''Sacred Hunger''

, Donald Davie , Carol Ann Duffy , Roger Woddis

, Hugh Dunkerley , Christopher Greenhalgh , Marita Maddah , Stuart Paterson , Stuart Pickford

, ''Swing Hammer Swing!''

United States

, ''The Domestic Life''

for ''Ararat'', and Mark Strand for ''The Continuous Life''

, ''Reefsong''

/ David Ignatow

, ''Doomsday Book''

, ''Shiloh''

, ''A Thousand Acres''

, ''Selected Poems''

, ''The Kentucky Cycle''

Elsewhere

, ''Ciegas esperanzas''

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