1993 in literature
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See also: 1992 in literature, other events of 1993, 1994 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
- November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.
- 1993 is the 30th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
New books
- Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years - Sue Townsend
- Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
- Barnyard Dance - Sandra Boynton
- The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
- The Client - John Grisham
- Complicity - Iain Banks
- The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
- The Hope - Herman Wouk
- In the Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif
- Lasher - Anne Rice
- Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
- Losing Eddie - Deborah Joy Corey
- Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
- Moving Mars - Greg Bear
- The Night Manager - John le Carré
- Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
- Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale - Miranda Seymour
- Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
- Le Rocher de Tanios - Amin Maalouf
- The Scorpio Illusion - Robert Ludlum
- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Tariq Ali
- Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
- Too Big To Fail - Walter Stewart
- Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
- The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) - Esther Delisle
- Vanished - Danielle Steel
- Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions - Martin Amis
- The Wicca Spellbook - Gerina Dunwich
- Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
Deaths
- January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert, better known as Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
- January 22 - Kobo Abe, novelist and playwright
- March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law
- April 15 - Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint"
- April 23 - Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet
- June 19 - William G. Golding, novelist and poet
- August 28 - E. P. Thompson, political historian
- September 7 - Eugen Barbu, novelist, playwright and journalist
- September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, poet
- October 31 - Kashif Latif, poet, aged 17
- November 25 - Anthony Burgess, novelist
- December 4 - Margaret Landon, author of Anna and the King of Siam
- December 28 - William L. Shirer, historian
Awards
- Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
- See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
- Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios
- Prix Décembre: René de Obaldia. Exobiographie
- Prix Médicis French: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Sa femme
- Prix Médicis International: Paul Auster, Leviathan
- 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 Gluck, The Wild Iris
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Joan Brady, Theory of War