1993 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993.

Events

September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi.
November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel The Shipping News.
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*Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Cranes' Morning appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree ; its author will commit suicide in 1994.
*Professor Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on The Sunday Times UK bestseller list.
*Reality television contest Million's Poet is launched in the United Arab Emirates.
*Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's Bajazet is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre.
*The Guodian Chu Slips, including the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, a chapter from the Book of Rites, content from the Book of Documents and the previously lost Xing Zi Ming Chu, written on bamboo and dated before 300 BCE, are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen.

New books

Births

July 3 - Hayeon Lim, South Korean author
July 5 - Leah Johnson, American author
August 1 - Tomi Adeyemi, Nigerian–American novelist
August 26 - Nancy Yi Fan, Chinese American author
December 22 - Leema Dhar, Indian poet and novelist
unknown date - Idza Luhumyo, Kenyan short story writer

Deaths

January 6 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter
January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, English historical novelist
January 22 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist and playwright
January 29 – Gustav Hasford, American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief
January 30 – Dorothy Miles, Welsh poet
February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator
March 1 – Ronald McCuaig, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author
March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods
March 10 – Dan Simonescu, Romanian literary historian and bibliographer
March 13 – Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author
March 16 – Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist
March 22 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish writer and Sufi mystic
April 15
*Leslie Charteris, Anglo-American thriller writer
*Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer
April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet
May 6 – Dorothy B. Hughes, American crime writer and critic
June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet
July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet
August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian
September – Leonte Răutu, Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor
September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist
September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet
November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist
November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist
December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist
December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian
December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer
Unknown date – Parijat, Nepalese novelist and poet

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