1993 in literature

Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1993.

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September 24 – Former president and writer Zviad Gamsakhurdia returns to Georgia to establish a government in exile in the city of Zugdidi.
November 17 – Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award in the United States for her novel The Shipping News.
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- Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen's novel Cranes' Morning appears in India, but proves to be plagiarized from Elizabeth Goudge's The Rosemary Tree (1956); its author will commit suicide in 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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- Professor Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on The Sunday Times UK bestseller list.
- Reality television contest Million's Poet (شاعر المليون) is launched in the United Arab Emirates.
- Todur Zanet's translation of Jean Racine's Bajazet is produced by Moldova 1, a seminal moment in the development of Gagauz-language theatre.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- The Guodian Chu Slips, including the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching, a chapter from the Book of Rites, content from the Book of Documents and the previously lost Xing Zi Ming Chu, written on bamboo and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period), are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China).<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

Leonard Cohen – Stranger Music
Paul Durcan – A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems
Dejan Stojanović – Krugovanje: 1978–1987 (Circling: 1978–1987)<ref>Web page titled Dejan Stojanović, Krugovanje, Front Cover by Dejan Stojanović at the Internet Archive</ref>

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January 6 – Ștefan Baciu, Romanian and Brazilian poet, novelist and literary promoter (born 1918)
January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, etc.), English historical novelist (born 1906)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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January 22 – Kōbō Abe (安部公房), Japanese novelist and playwright (born 1924)
January 29 – Gustav Hasford, American marine, novelist, journalist, poet and book thief (born 1947)
January 30 – Dorothy Miles, Welsh poet (born 1931)
February 5 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
March 1 – Ronald McCuaig, Australian poet, journalist, and children's author (born 1908)
March 9 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English naval historian and critic of business methods (born 1909)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 10 – Dan Simonescu, Romanian literary historian and bibliographer (born 1902)
March 13 – Claire Huchet Bishop, Swiss children's author (born 1898)<ref>Claire Huchet Bishop</ref>
March 16 – Natália Correia, Portuguese writer, poet and social activist (b. 1923)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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April 15
- Leslie Charteris, Anglo-American thriller writer (born 1907)
- Robert Westall, English novelist and children's writer (born 1929)
April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (born 1914)
May 6 – Dorothy B. Hughes, American crime writer and critic (born 1904)
June 19 – Sir William Golding, English novelist and poet (born 1911)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
July 10 – Ruth Krauss, American children's author and poet (born 1901)
August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English political historian (born 1924)
September – Leonte Răutu, Bessarabian-born Romanian propagandist and censor (born 1910)
September 7 – Eugen Barbu, Romanian novelist, playwright and journalist (born 1924)
September 16 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, aboriginal Australian poet (born 1920)
November 1 – Maeve Brennan, Irish short story writer and journalist (born 1917)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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November 22 – Anthony Burgess, English novelist (born 1917)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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December 4 – Margaret Landon, American historical novelist (born 1903)
December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (born 1904)
December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian dissident, scientist and writer (possible suicide, born 1913)<ref>Thousands Pay Tribute to the First President Template:Webarchive, Civil Georgia, March 31, 2007.</ref>
Unknown date – Parijat (Bishnu Kumari Waiba), Nepalese novelist and poet (born 1937)