1992 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1992.

Events

July – The Goosebumps series of children's horror fiction, penned by R. L. Stine, is first published in the United States.^[1]
August – An attempt is made to set fire to the National Library of Abkhazia in Sukhumi during the 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.^[2]
September – Michael Ondaatje's historiographic metafiction The English Patient is published in Canada. It will win The Golden Man Booker in 2018.

New books

Poetry

Ben Okri – An African Elegy

Non-fiction

Nelson Algren (died 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
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 – Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Elizabeth Hay – The Only Snow in Havana^[6]
Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
Charles Jennings - Up North
Neil Lyndon – No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism^[7]
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)^[8]
Léon Werth (died 1955) – 33 Jours (written 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, 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)
January 9 – Bill Naughton, Irish-born English playwright and novelist (born 1910)
January 4 – John Sparrow, English literary scholar (born 1906)
January 14 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician (born 1909)^[9]
January 28 – Dora Birtles, Australian novelist, poet and children's writer (born 1903)
February 10 – Alex Haley, African-American writer (born 1921)
February 16
- Angela Carter, English novelist (lung cancer, born 1940)^[10]
- George MacBeth, Scottish poet and novelist (motor neurone disease, born 1932)
April 4 – Vintilă Horia, Romanian writer (born 1915)^[11]
April 6 – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction author (born 1920)^[12]
April 21 – Väinö Linna, Finnish novelist (born 1920)^[13]
April 28 – Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), American novelist (born 1918)
May 22 – Elizabeth David, English cookery writer (born 1913)
July 6 – Mary Q. Steele, American novelist (born 1922)
July 22 – Reginald Bretnor, American science fiction writer (born 1911)
July 23 – Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (born 1908)
August 4 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (born 1909)^[14]
August 29 – Mary Norton, English children's writer (born 1903)
September 5 – Fritz Leiber, American writer of fantasy and science fiction (born 1910)
November 7 – Richard Yates, American novelist and short-story writer (emphysema, born 1926)^[15]
November 17 – Audre Lorde, American poet, writer and feminist (born 1934)
December 22 – Ted Willis, English TV dramatist (born 1914)
December 25 – Monica Dickens, English novelist (born 1915)
December 27 – Kay Boyle, American writer, educator and activist (born 1902)