This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Anthologies
Births
- April 14 â Naoise Dolan, Irish novelist
- August 12 â Naoki Higashida, Japanese autistic author
- September 18 â Jidanun Lueangpiansamut, Thai writer
- October 5 â Rupi Kaur, Indian-born Canadian poet, illustrator, photographer, and author
- October 30 â ÃÂdouard Louis, French writer
- November 11 â Aya Mansour, Iraqi poet, writer, and journalist
Deaths
- January 4 â Alejandro Carrión, Ecuadorian poet and journalist (born 1915)
- January 9 â Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
- January 4 â John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
- January 14 â Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born 1909)
- January 28 â Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
- February 10 â Alex Haley, African-American writer (born 1921)
- February 16
- Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
- April 4 â VintilàHoria, Romanian writer (born 1915)
- April 6 â Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)
- April 21 â Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)
- April 28 â Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
- May 22 â Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
- July 6 â Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
- July 22 â Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
- July 23
- Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (born 1908)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, English children's historical novelist (born 1902)
- August 4 â SeichÃ
 Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born 1909)
- August 29 â Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
- September 5 â Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
- November 7 â Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)
- November 17 â Audre Lorde, American poet, writer and feminist (born 1934)
- December 22 â Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
- December 25 â Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
- December 27 â Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and activist (born 1902)
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
- 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, 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
- 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
Fiction: R.S. Jones, J. S. Marcus, Damien Wilkins
Nonfiction: Eva Hoffman, Katha Pollitt (poetry/nonfiction)
Plays: Suzan-Lori Parks, Keith Reddin, José Rivera
Poetry: Roger Fanning, Jane Mead
Elsewhere
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