1993 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Literary prizes
- Kim Stanley Robinson , Red Mars , Red Mars , Category: Best Novel
- Jack Cady , The Night We Buried Road Dog , The night we buried the slope stallion , Category: Best short novel
- Charles Sheffield , Georgia on My Mind , The South Georgia Adding Machine , Category: Best Narration
- Joe Haldeman , Graves , Graves , Category: Best Short Story
- Connie Willis , Doomsday Book , The Years of the Black Death , Category: Best Novel
- Vernor Vinge , A Fire Upon the Deep , A Fire on the Deep , Category: Best Novel (awarded twice)
- Lucius Shepard , Barnacle Bill the Spacer , Muschelkratzer-Bill , Category: Best Short Novel
- Janet Kagan , The Nutcracker Coup , Category: Best Narration
- Connie Willis, Even the Queen , Even the Queen , Category: Best Short Story
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book , The Years of the Black Death , Category: Best SF Novel
- Tim Powers , Last Call , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Dan Simmons , Children of the Night , Children of the Night , Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
- Maureen F. McHugh , China Mountain Zhang , ABC Zhang , Category: Best First Novel
- Lucius Shepard , Barnacle Bill the Spacer , Muschelkratzer-Bill , Category: Best Short Novel
- Pamela Sargent , Danny Goes to Mars , Category: Best Story
- Connie Willis, Even the Queen , Even the Queen , Category: Best Short Story
- Robert Silverberg , The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 1: Secret Sharers , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Herbert Rosendorfer , The golden saints or Columbus discovers Europe , Category: Best novel
- Erik Simon , From Time, From Memory , Category: Best Story
- Angela Steinmüller , The Candle Maker , Category: Best Short Story
- Iain M. Banks , Use of Arms , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Irene Bonhorst , Category: Best Translator
- Waldemar Kumming for the MUNICH-ROUND-UP editorial team and his life's work, special prize
- John M. Ford , Growing up Weightless
- Jack Womack , Elvissey , Elvissey
- Booker Prize : Roddy Doyle , Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Friedrich Schorlemmer
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Kurt Drawert , House Without People. A condition
- Prix Goncourt : Amin Maalouf , Le Rocher de Tanios
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Tony Kushner , Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Robert Olen Butler , A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Louise Glück , The Wild Iris
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize , The Girl with the Botticelli Face
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Douglas McCalla , Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada 1784-1870
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize , Lynne Bowen , Muddling Through. The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists.
- Journey Prize : Gayla Reid , Sister Doyle's Men
- Trillium Book Award : Jane Urquhart , Away and Margaret Atwood , The Robber Bride
- Premio Nadal : Rafael Argullol Murgadas , La razón del mal
- Georg Brandes Prize : Carsten Jensen , Forsømmelsernes bog
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Ib Michael
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Peter Høeg , De måske egnede
- Weekendavisens literaturpris : Benny Andersen , Denne come og gåen
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Øystein Lønn , Thranes method and other noveller
New releases
Fiction
- Nightmares - Stephen King
- Explosion. Roman of Ethnology - Hubert Fichte
- The enemy - Erich Maria Remarque
- A part-time job in Pompeii - Jürg Federspiel
- The client - John Grisham
- The Last Command - Timothy Zahn
- Moscoviada - Yury Andrukhovych
- The night manager - John le Carré
- Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
- Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Non-fiction
- Life goes on - The last film of the Third Reich - Hans-Christoph Blumenberg
- Private Parts - Howard Stern
Born
- January 12th: Ronya Othmann , German writer
- Date unnamed: Enis Maci , German writer
Died
- January 1 : Anna Wimschneider , German farmer and writer (* 1919 )
- January 5 : Juan Benet , Spanish writer (* 1927 )
- January 29 : Walter Kolbenhoff , German writer, journalist and radio editor (* 1908 )
- February 26 : Beaumont Newhall , American author, photo historian and curator (* 1908 )
- February 27 : Marģeris Zariņš , Latvian composer and writer (* 1910)
- February 28 : Karl Richard Tschon , German writer and radio play author (* 1923 )
- March 24th : John Hersey , American writer and journalist (* 1914 )
- April 6 : Inge von Wangenheim , German writer and actress (* 1912 )
- April 7 : Willi Meinck , German writer (* 1914 )
- April 15 : Eduard Rhein , inventor, publicist and writer (* 1900 )
- April 22 : Bertus Aafjes , Dutch writer (* 1914 )
- April 27 : Hans Sahl , German writer and critic (* 1902 )
- May 9 : Freya Madeline Stark , British traveler to the Orient and research and travel writer (* 1893 )
- June 3 : Abdoulaye Mamani , Nigerien writer (* 1932 )
- June 21 : André Frénaud , French poet and essayist (* 1907 )
- June 27 : Kurt Mahr , German writer (* 1934 )
- July 1 : Gert Hofmann , German writer (* 1931 )
- July 13 : AK Ramanujan , Indian-American Indologist, writer, poet and translator (* 1929 )
- August 17th : Hermann Gerstner , German librarian and writer (* 1903 )
- August 20 : Hans Lebert , Austrian writer and opera singer (* 1919 )
- September 22 : Niklaus Meienberg , Swiss writer and investigative journalist (* 1940 )
- September 30 : Jenny Aloni , German-Israeli writer (* 1917 )
- November 1 : Maeve Brennan , Irish-American journalist and writer (* 1917 )
- November 19 : Kenneth Burke , American writer, philosopher (* 1897 )
- November 22nd : Anthony Burgess , British writer (* 1917 )
- December 4 : Margaret Landon , American writer (* 1903 )
- December 11th : Klaus Nonnenmann , German writer (* 1922 )
- December 28 : William L. Shirer , American writer, journalist and historian (* 1904 )