1993 in literature

Events

• Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times of London, England.

New Books

• Barnyard Dance[?] - Sandra Boynton[?]
• The Christmas Box[?] - Richard Paul Evans[?]
• The Client[?] - John Grisham
• 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[?]
• Moving Mars[?] - Greg Bear
• The Night Manager[?] - John le Carré
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
• 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[?]
• Vanished[?] - Danielle Steel
• Without Remorse - Tom Clancy

Births

Deaths

• January 22 - Abe Kobo[?], writer
• February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz[?], director, producer, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Roody Doyle[?], Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant[?], Missing May
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
• 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