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==Events==
*[[July]] – The ''[[Goosebumps]]'' series of children's horror fiction, penned by [[R. L. Stine]], is first published in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New York Times Book Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Km4gAQAAMAAJ|date=April 1994|publisher=New York Times Company|pages=26–27}}</ref>
*August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of [[Abkhazia]] in [[Sukhumi]] during the [[War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)|War in Abkhazia]] by Georgian forces.
*[[August 25]] – The [[National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] is annihilated during the [[Siege of Sarajevo]] by the [[Army of Republika Srpska]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bmip.info/articles/articles.html |title=The Bosnian Manuscript Ingathering Project: Fighting the Destruction of Memory |access-date=11 November 2013}}</ref>
*September – [[Michael Ondaatje]]'s [[historiographic metafiction]] ''[[The English Patient]]'' is published in Canada. It will win [[The Golden Man Booker]] in [[2018 in literature|2018]].

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Ben Aaronovitch]] – ''[[Transit (Aaronovitch novel)|Transit]]''
*[[Tariq Ali]] – ''[[Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree]]''
*[[Paul Auster]] – ''[[Leviathan (Auster novel)|Leviathan]]''
*[[Iain Banks]] – ''[[The Crow Road]]''
*[[Clive Barker]] – ''[[The Thief of Always]]''
*[[Julian Barnes]] – ''[[The Porcupine]]''
*[[Greg Bear]] – ''[[Anvil of Stars]]''
*[[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''[[Meeting Evil]]''
*[[Louis de Bernières]] – ''[[The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman]]''
*[[James P. Blaylock]] – ''[[Lord Kelvin's Machine]]''
*[[Pascal Bruckner]] – ''[[The Divine Child (novel)|The Divine Child]]''
*[[A. S. Byatt]] – ''[[Morpho Eugenia]]''
*[[Roger Caron]] – ''Dreamcaper''
*[[Andrew Cartmel]] – ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]''
*[[Patrick Chamoiseau]] – ''[[Texaco (novel)|Texaco]]''
*[[Paulo Coelho]] – ''[[The Valkyries]]''
*[[Michael Connelly]] – ''[[The Black Echo]]''
*[[Hugh Cook (science fiction author)|Hugh Cook]]
**''The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster''
**''The Worshippers and the Way''
*[[Paul Cornell]] – ''[[Love and War (Cornell novel)|Love and War]]''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]]
**''[[Sharpe's Devil]]''
**''[[Scoundrel (novel)|Scoundrel]]''
*[[Douglas Coupland]] – ''[[Shampoo Planet]]''
*[[Mia Couto]] – ''[[Sleepwalking Land]]'' (''Terra Sonâmbula'')
*[[Robert Crais]] – ''[[Lullaby Town]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=LeRoy Panek|title=New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s–1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcujfJ0WHhYC&pg=PA141|year=2000|publisher=Popular Press|isbn=978-0-87972-820-5|page=141}}</ref>
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Christopher Stasheff]] – ''[[The Enchanter Reborn]]''
*[[Clarissa Pinkola Estés]] – ''[[Women Who Run with the Wolves]]''
*[[Elena Ferrante]] – ''[[Troubling Love (novel)|Troubling Love]]'' (''L'amore molesto''
*[[Tibor Fischer]] – ''[[Under the Frog]]''
*[[Leon Forrest]] – ''Divine Days''
*[[John Gardner (British writer)|John Gardner]] – ''[[Death Is Forever]]''
*[[Neil Gaiman]] – ''[[The Sandman: Season of Mists]]'' (graphic novel; volume 4 of ''[[The Sandman (comic book)|The Sandman]]'' series)
*[[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Dave McKean]] – ''[[Signal to Noise (comics)|Signal to Noise]]'' (graphic novel)
*[[Cristina García (novelist)|Cristina García]] – ''[[Dreaming in Cuban]]''
*[[Mark Gatiss]] – ''[[Nightshade (Gatiss novel)|Nightshade]]''
*[[Ann Granger]] – ''[[Cold in the Earth]]''
*[[Alasdair Gray]] – ''[[Poor Things]]''
*[[John Grisham]] – ''[[The Pelican Brief]]''
*[[Hella Haasse]] – ''Heren van de thee'' (''The Tea Lords'')
*[[Victor Headley]] – ''[[Yardie (novel)|Yardie]]''
*[[Andrew Hunt (writer)|Andrew Hunt]] – ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]''
*[[Simon Ings]] – ''[[Hot Head (novel)|Hot Head]]''
*[[P. D. James]] – ''[[The Children of Men]]''
*[[Denis Johnson]] – ''[[Jesus' Son (short story collection)|Jesus' Son]]'' (short story collection)
*[[John Kessel]] – ''[[Meeting in Infinity]]''
*[[Stephen King]]
**''[[Dolores Claiborne]]''
**''[[Gerald's Game]]''
*[[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]] – ''[[The Butcher Boy (novel)|The Butcher Boy]]''
*[[Cormac McCarthy]] – ''[[All the Pretty Horses (novel)|All the Pretty Horses]]'' (book 1 of ''[[The Border Trilogy]]'')
*[[Val McDermid]] – ''Dead Beat''
*[[Ian McEwan]] – ''[[Black Dogs]]''
*[[Terry McMillan]] – ''[[Waiting to Exhale]]''
*[[Javier Marías]] – ''[[A Heart So White]]'' (''Corazón tan blanco'')
*[[Andrés L. Mateo]] – ''La Balada de Alfonsina Bairán''
*[[Rohinton Mistry]] – ''[[Tales from Firozsha Baag]]''
*[[Caitlin Moran]] – ''The Chronicles of Narmo''
*[[Toni Morrison]] – ''[[Jazz (novel)|Jazz]]''
*[[Michael Ondaatje]] – ''[[The English Patient]]''
*[[Ellis Peters]] – ''[[The Holy Thief]]''
*[[Marc Platt (writer)|Marc Platt]] – ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''
*[[Terry Pratchett]]
**''[[Lords and Ladies (novel)|Lords and Ladies]]''
**''[[Small Gods]]''
*[[Anne Rice]] – ''[[The Tale of the Body Thief]]''
*[[Mordecai Richler]] – ''[[Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!]]''
*[[Jennifer Roberson]] – ''[[Lady of the Forest]]''
*[[Robert Schneider (writer)|Robert Schneider]] – ''[[Schlafes Bruder]]''
*[[Patricia Schonstein]] – ''[[A Time of Angels]]''
*[[W. G. Sebald]] – ''[[The Emigrants (Sebald novel)|The Emigrants]]'' (''Die Ausgewanderten: Vier lange Erzählungen'')<ref>{{cite book|author=Carol Jacobs|title=Sebald's Vision|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQVaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR14|date=20 October 2015|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-54010-0|page=14}}</ref>
*[[Gail Sheehy]] – ''Silent Passage''
*[[Sidney Sheldon]] – ''The Stars Shine Down''
*[[Michael Slade]] – ''[[Cutthroat (Slade)|Cutthroat]]''
*[[Danielle Steel]]
**''[[Jewels (novel)|Jewels]]''
**''[[Mixed Blessings (novel)|Mixed Blessings]]''
*[[Neal Stephenson]] – ''[[Snow Crash]]''
*[[Adam Thorpe]] – ''[[Ulverton (novel)|Ulverton]]''
*[[Sue Townsend]] – ''[[The Queen and I (novel)|The Queen and I]]''
*[[Rose Tremain]] – ''[[Sacred Country]]''
*[[Barry Unsworth]] – ''[[Sacred Hunger]]''
*[[John Updike]] – ''[[Memories of the Ford Administration]]''
*[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal]]''
*[[Vernor Vinge]] – ''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]''
*[[Robert James Waller]] – ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]''
*[[Connie Willis]] – ''[[Doomsday Book (novel)|Doomsday Book]]''
*[[Timothy Zahn]] – ''[[Dark Force Rising]]''
*[[Roger Zelazny]] and [[Thomas Thurston Thomas]] – ''[[Flare (novel)|Flare]]''
*[[Juan Eduardo Zúñiga]]
**''El último día del mundo'' (The last day of the world)
**''Misterios de las noches y los días'' (Mysteries of the nights and days; short stories)

===Children and young people===
*[[Pamela Allen]] – ''[[Belinda (Allen book)|Belinda]]''
*[[Chris Van Allsburg]] – ''[[The Widow's Broom]]''
*[[Gillian Cross]] – ''[[The Great Elephant Chase]]''
*[[Garry Disher]] – ''[[The Bamboo Flute]]''
*[[Anne Fine]] – ''[[Flour Babies]]''
*[[Jamila Gavin]] – ''The Wheel of Surya'' (first in the ''[[Surya]]'' trilogy)
*[[Rumer Godden]]
**''Great Grandfather's House''
**''Listen to the Nightingale''
*[[Virginia Hamilton]] (with [[Jerry Pinkney]]) – ''[[Drylongso (Hamilton book)|Drylongso]]''
*[[William Mayne]] – ''Low Tide''
*[[Gerald McDermott]] – ''[[Zomo The Rabbit: A Trickster Tale From West Africa]]''
*[[Hilary McKay]] – ''The Exiles''
*[[Michael Morpurgo]] – ''[[Waiting for Anya]]''
*[[Barry Moser]] – ''Polly Vaughn: A Traditional British Ballad''
*[[Jim Murphy (author)|Jim Murphy]] – ''[[The Long Road to Gettysburg]]''
*[[Barbara Park]] – ''Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus'' (first in the [[Junie B. Jones]] series)
*[[Marcus Pfister]] – ''[[The Rainbow Fish]]'' (''Der Regenbogenfisch'')
*[[Gloria Jean Pinkney]] (with [[Jerry Pinkney]]) – ''[[Back Home (Pinkney book)|Back Home]]''
*[[Marjorie W. Sharmat]] (with [[Marc Simont]]) – ''[[Nate the Great and the Stolen Base]]''
*[[Ulf Stark]] – ''[[Can You Whistle, Johanna?]]'' (''Kan du vissla Johanna?'')<ref>{{cite book|author1=W. Michelle Wang|author2=Daniel K. Jernigan|author3=Neil Murphy|title=The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxEIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT123|date=7 December 2020|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-00-022074-2|page=123}}</ref>
*[[Christopher Tolkien]] (with [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and [[Alan Lee (illustrator)|Alan Lee]]) – ''[[Sauron Defeated]]''
*[[Judith Vigna]] – ''[[Black Like Kyra, White Like Me]]''
*[[Martin Waddell]] &ndash; ''[[Owl Babies]]''
*[[Nancy Willard]] (with [[Barry Moser]]) – ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''
*[[Douglas Wood (naturalist)|Douglas Wood]] – ''[[Old Turtle]]''
*[[Susan Meddaugh]] – ''[[Martha Speaks (book)|Martha Speaks]]''

===Drama===
*[[Herb Gardner]] – ''[[Conversations with My Father]]''
*[[Peter Handke]] – ''Die Stunde, da wir nichts voneinander wußten'' (''[[The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other]]'')
*[[David Mamet]] – ''[[Oleanna (play)|Oleanna]]''
*[[Louis Nowra]] – ''[[Così]]''
*[[Zlatko Topčić]] – ''Musa And The Goat'' (radio version)
*[[Michael Wall (playwright)|Michael Wall]] – ''[[Women Laughing]]''
*[[Peter Whelan]] – ''[[The School of Night (play)|The School of Night]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1992 in poetry}}
*[[Ben Okri]] – ''An African Elegy''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Nelson Algren]] (died [[1981 in literature|1981]]) – ''America Eats'' (travel book, written 1930s)
*[[Karen Armstrong]] – ''[[Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet]]''
*[[Bill Bryson]] – ''[[Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe]]''
*[[Linda Colley]] – ''[[Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837]]''
*[[Esther Delisle]] – ''[[The Traitor and the Jew]]'' (''Le Traître et le Juif: Lionel Groulx, le Devoir et le délire du nationalisme d'extrême droite dans la province de Québec, 1929–1939'')
*[[Daniel Dennett]] – ''Consciousness Explained''
*[[Joan Didion]] – ''[[After Henry (book)|After Henry]]''
*[[Eamon Duffy]] – ''[[The Stripping of the Altars]]: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400 to c. 1580''
*[[Gerina Dunwich]] – ''Secrets of Love Magick''
*[[Christiane Éluère]] – ''[[The Celts: First Masters of Europe]]''
*[[John Gray (U.S. author)|John Gray]] – ''[[Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus]]''
*[[Elizabeth Hay (novelist)|Elizabeth Hay]] – ''[[The Only Snow in Havana]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11321 |publisher=[[Wilfrid Laurier University]] |title=Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous Winners – 1993: Elizabeth Hay |access-date= |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164249/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11321 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Nick Hornby]] – ''[[Fever Pitch]]''
*Charles Jennings – ''[[Up North (book)|Up North]]''
*[[Neil Lyndon]] – ''No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11216787/22-years-on-Im-republishing-my-controversial-book-on-the-failings-of-feminism.html |title=22 years on, I'm republishing my controversial book on the failings of feminism |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|location=London|first=Neil |last=Lyndon|date=10 November 2014}}</ref>
*[[Andrew Morton (writer)|Andrew Morton]] – ''Diana: Her True Story''
*[[Mark E. Neely Jr.]] – ''[[The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties]]''
*[[Liza Potvin]] – ''[[White Lies (for My Mother)]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2992445-white-lies|title=''White Lies (for My Mother)''|work=Goodreads|access-date=20 November 2012}}</ref>
*[[Léon Werth]] (died [[1955 in literature|1955]]) – ''33 Jours'' (written [[1940 in literature|1940]])
*[[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Dancing the Dream]]''

===Anthologies===
*[[Margaret Busby]] (ed.) – ''[[Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present]]''

==Births==
*[[March 4]] – [[Gaurav Sharma (author)|Gaurav Sharma]], Indian author
*[[April 14]] – [[Naoise Dolan]], Irish novelist
*[[August 12]] – Naoki Higashida, Japanese [[autistic]] author
*[[September 18]] – [[Jidanun Lueangpiansamut]], Thai writer
*[[October 5]] – [[Rupi Kaur]], Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
*[[October 30]] – [[Édouard Louis]], French writer
*[[November 11]] – [[Aya Mansour]], Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist

==Deaths==
*[[January 4]] – [[Alejandro Carrión]], Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[January 9]] – [[Bill Naughton]], Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[January 4]] – [[John Sparrow (academic)|John Sparrow]], English literary scholar (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[January 14]] – [[Irakli Abashidze]], Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>Martin MacCauley (1997), ''Who's Who in Russia Since 1900'', p. 2. Routledge, {{ISBN|0-415-13898-1}}.</ref>
*[[January 28]] – [[Dora Birtles]], Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[February 10]] – [[Alex Haley]], African-American writer (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
*[[February 16]]
**[[Angela Carter]], English novelist (lung cancer, born [[1940 in literature|1940]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angela Carter |url=https://www.bl.uk/people/angela-carter |publisher=[[British Library]]|access-date=27 March 2019}}</ref>
**[[George MacBeth]], Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born [[1932 in literature|1932]])
*[[April 4]] – [[Vintilă Horia]], Romanian writer (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rri.ro/es_es/vintila_horia_y_el_escandalo_del_premio_goncourt-15687|language=es|title=Radio Romania International – Vintila Horia y el escándalo del Premio Goncourt|access-date=10 June 2022|website=Radio Romania International}}</ref>
*[[April 6]] – [[Isaac Asimov]], American science fiction author (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Isaac Asimov obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1992/apr/07/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.isaacasimov |first=Brian|last= Aldiss|author-link=Brian Aldiss|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=10 March 2022 |language=en |date=7 April 1992}}</ref>
*[[April 21]] – [[Väinö Linna]], Finnish novelist (born [[1920 in literature|1920]])<ref>{{cite web |author=Nummi, Jyrki|title=Linna, Väinö (1920–1992)|work=100 Faces from Finland – a Biographical Kaleidoscope |publisher=the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society |date=2003–2007 |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/701 |access-date=9 December 2020 }}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Iceberg Slim]] (Robert Beck), American novelist (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])
*[[May 22]] – [[Elizabeth David]], English cookery writer (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[July 6]] – [[Mary Q. Steele]], American novelist (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[July 22]] – [[Reginald Bretnor]], American science fiction writer (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[July 23]] – [[Robert Liddell]], English biographer, novelist and poet (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Seichō Matsumoto]], Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-seicho-matsumoto-1539784.html|title=Obituary: Seicho Matsumoto|date=11 August 1992|first=James|last= Kirkup|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|location=London|access-date=10 June 2022}}</ref>
*[[August 29]] – [[Mary Norton (writer)|Mary Norton]], English children's writer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[September 5]] – [[Fritz Leiber]], American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[November 7]] – [[Richard Yates (novelist)|Richard Yates]], American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born [[1926 in literature|1926]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Pace |title=Richard Yates, Novelist, 66, Dies; Chronicler of Disappointed Lives |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DD1138F93AA35752C1A964958260 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=9 November 1992 |access-date=31 March 2008}}</ref>
*[[November 17]] – [[Audre Lorde]], American poet, writer and feminist (born [[1934 in literature|1934]])
*[[December 22]] – [[Ted Willis, Baron Willis|Ted Willis]], English TV dramatist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[December 25]] – [[Monica Dickens]], English novelist (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[December 27]] – [[Kay Boyle]], American writer, educator and activist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Derek Walcott]]
*[[Camões Prize]]: [[Vergílio Ferreira]]

===Australia===
*[[The Australian/Vogel Literary Award]]: [[Fotini Epanomitis]], ''The Mule's Foal''
*[[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Harris (poet)|Robert Harris]], ''Jane, Interlinear and Other Poems''
*[[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Elizabeth Riddell]], ''Selected Poems''
*[[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Alison Croggon]], ''This is the Stone''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Tim Winton]], ''[[Cloudstreet]]''

===Canada===
*See [[1992 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
*[[Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction]]: [[Marie Wadden]], ''[[Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland|Nitassinan]]: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland''&nbsp;<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11322 |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University |title=Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction – Previous winners – 1992: Marie Wadden |access-date=19 November 2012 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164255/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11322 |archive-date=6 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Patrick Chamoiseau]], ''Texaco''
*[[Prix Décembre]]: [[Henri Thomas]], ''La Chasse au trésor'' and [[Roger Grenier]], ''Regardez la neige qui tombe''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Michel Rio]], ''Tlacuilo''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Louis Begley]], ''Une éducation polonaise''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Michael Ondaatje]], ''[[The English Patient]]'' and [[Barry Unsworth]], ''[[Sacred Hunger]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Anne Fine]], ''[[Flour Babies]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Rose Tremain]], ''Sacred Country''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Charles Nicholl (author)|Charles Nicholl]], ''The Reckoning: The Murder of [[Christopher Marlowe]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Allen Curnow]], [[Donald Davie]], [[Carol Ann Duffy]], [[Roger Woddis]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Jill Dawson]], [[Hugh Dunkerley]], [[Christopher Greenhalgh]], [[Marita Maddah]], [[Stuart Paterson]], [[Stuart Pickford]]
*[[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]]: [[Kathleen Raine]]
*[[1992 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[Jeff Torrington]], ''Swing Hammer Swing!''
*[[The Sunday Express Book of the Year]]: [[Hilary Mantel]], ''[[A Place of Greater Safety]]''
*[[Forward Prizes for Poetry]] (first awards): [[Thom Gunn]], ''The Man with Night Sweats'' (collection); [[Simon Armitage]], ''Kid'' (first collection); [[Jackie Kay]], "Black Bottom" (single poem)

===United States===
*[[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: [[Hunt Hawkins]], ''The Domestic Life''
*[[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]]: [[Gwendolyn Brooks]]
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Drama|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama]]: [[Sam Shepard]]
*[[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry]]: [[Louise Glück]] for ''Ararat'', and [[Mark Strand]] for ''The Continuous Life''
*[[Compton Crook Award]]: [[Carol Severance]], ''Reefsong''
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[Adrienne Rich]] / [[David Ignatow]]
*[[National Book Award for Fiction]]: to [[All the Pretty Horses (novel)|All the Pretty Horses]] by [[Cormac McCarthy]]
*[[National Book Critics Circle Award]]: to [[Young Men and Fire]] by [[Norman Maclean]]
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Connie Willis]], ''[[Doomsday Book (novel)|Doomsday Book]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Phyllis Reynolds Naylor]], ''[[Shiloh (Naylor novel)|Shiloh]]''
*[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction]]: to [[Mao II]] by [[Don DeLillo]]
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[Jane Smiley]], ''[[A Thousand Acres]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[James Tate (writer)|James Tate]], ''Selected Poems''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Robert Schenkkan]], ''[[The Kentucky Cycle]]''
*[[Whiting Awards]]:
:Fiction: [[R.S. Jones]], [[J. S. Marcus]], [[Damien Wilkins (writer)|Damien Wilkins]]
:Nonfiction: [[Eva Hoffman]], [[Katha Pollitt]] (poetry/nonfiction)
:Plays: [[Suzan-Lori Parks]], [[Keith Reddin]], [[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]]
:Poetry: [[Roger Fanning]], [[Jane Mead]]

===Elsewhere===
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Alejandro Gándara]], ''Ciegas esperanzas''

==References==
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