1992 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
The Tabula Cortonensis , a 2300 year old bronze plaque with an Etruscan inscription, is discovered in Italy and handed over to the Cortona police . The 32-line text is the third longest written evidence of the Etruscan language found so far.
Literary prizes
- Connie Willis , Doomsday Book , The Years of the Black Death , Category: Best Novel
- James Morrow , City of Truth , The City of Truth , Category: Best Short Novel
- Pamela Sargent , Danny Goes to Mars , Danny Flies to Mars , Category: Best Story
- Connie Willis, Even the Queen , Even the Queen , Category: Best Short Story
- Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar , Barrayar , Category: Best Novel
- Nancy Kress , Beggars in Spain , Beggars in Spain , Category: Best Short Novel
- Isaac Asimov , Gold , Gold , Category: Best Story
- Geoffrey A. Landis , A Walk in the Sun , Racing with the Sun , Category: Best Short Story
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar , Barrayar , Category: Best SF Novel
- Sheri S. Tepper , Beauty , The Beautiful , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Dan Simmons , Summer of Night , Summer of Night , Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
- Kathe Koja , The Cipher , Best First Novel
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch , The Gallery of His Dreams , The gallery of his dreams , Category: Best Short Novel
- Dan Simmons, All Dracula's Children , Category: Best Narration
- John Kessel , Buffalo , Category: Best Short Story
- Howard Waldrop , Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories , Category: Best Collection
- Lou Aronica & Amy Stout & Betsy Mitchell , Full Spectrum 3 , Category: Best Anthology
- Christian Mähr , Fatous Staub , Category: Best Novel
- Horst Pukallus , The lead of time , Category: Best story
- Peter Schattschneider , Easy to care for , Category: Best short story
- Iain M. Banks , The Wasp Factory , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Irene Bonhorst , Category: Best Translator
- Richard Grant , Through the Heart
- Booker Prize : Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient and Barry Unsworth , Sacred Hunger
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Amos Oz
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Alissa Walser , gift
- Prix Goncourt : Patrick Chamoiseau , Texaco
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Robert Schenkkan , The Kentucky Cycle
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Jane Smiley , A Thousand Acres
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : James Tate , Selected Poems
- Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award : Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer (photography), The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Barry McKinnon , Pulplog
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Don Dickinson , The Crew
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Franca Iacovetta , Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Rosemary Neering , Down the Road: Journeys through Small-Town British Columbia
- Journey Prize : Rozena Maart , No Rosa, No District Six
- Marian Engel Award : Joan Barfoot
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize : Herb Hammond , Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
- Trillium Book Award : Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient
- Premio Nadal : Alejandro Gándara , Ciegas esperanzas
- Georg Brandes Prize : Frederik Julius Billeskov Jansen , Kierkegaard-monografi
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Jørgen Jensen
- Critic awards (Denmark) : Peer Hultberg , Byen og verden
- Weekendavisens literaturpris : Birgitte Possing , Viljens styrke. Natalie Zahle - En biografi om køn, then and magtfuldkommenhed
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Dag Solstad , Ellevte roman, bok atten
New releases
Fiction
- The file - John Grisham
- The bridges on the river - Robert James Waller
- Dark Force Rising - Timothy Zahn
- Dolores - Stephen King
- The English patient - Michael Ondaatje
- The fox was already the hunter back then - Herta Müller
- Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
- Leviathan - Paul Auster
- The thing with B. - Hans Joachim Schädlich
- Sleep brother - Robert Schneider
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- Anyway and in general - Christine Nöstlinger
- The game - Stephen King
Autobiography
Further literature
- Mouse - The Story of a Survivor (Vol. 2: And here my misfortune began ) - Art Spiegelman
- Zinc Boys - Svetlana Alexievich
Born
- October 30: Édouard Louis , French writer
- Date unnamed: Ben Brooks , British writer
- Date unnamed: Elisa Shua Dusapin , Swiss writer
- Date unnamed: Leander Fischer , Austrian writer
Died
- February 6 : Felix Rexhausen , German journalist, author and satirist (* 1932 )
- February 10 : Alex Haley , American writer (* 1921 )
- February 14 : Elisabeth Schnack , Swiss writer (* 1899 )
- February 16 : George MacBeth , Scottish poet and writer (* 1932 )
- March 17 : Monika Mann , German writer (* 1910 )
- March 25 : William Sears , American author (born 1911 )
- March 30th : Werner Koch , German writer (* 1926 )
- April 25 : Werner Steinberg , German writer (* 1913 )
- May 13 : Gisela Elsner , German writer (* 1937 )
- June 17 : Frederick Exley , American writer (* 1929 )
- July 25 : Kurt Lütgen , German writer (* 1911 )
- August 29 : Mary Norton , British children's author (* 1903 )
- September 8 : Hans-Otto Meissner , German diplomat and writer (* 1909 )
- September 14 : Bruce Hutchison , Canadian writer and journalist (* 1901 )
- September 20 : Rudolf Jacquemien , German writer and journalist in the Soviet Union (* 1908 )
- October 24 : Mohammad Ibraheem Khwakhuzhi , Afghan writer and poet (* 1928 )
- November 7 : Richard Yates , American writer (* 1926 )
- December 4 : Walter Hasenclever , German-American author and literary translator (* 1910 )
- December 17 : Günther Anders , German-speaking philosopher and essayist (* 1902 )