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- February – Sisters Vanessa Redgrave (Olga) and Lynn Redgrave (Masha) make their first and only joint appearance on stage, with niece Jemma Redgrave as Irina, in the title rôles of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre, London.
- July 11 – Hitoshi Igarashi (born 1947), Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, is stabbed to death at the University of Tsukuba during The Satanic Verses controversy, in accordance with a fatwa against those involved in circulating the book.[1]
- October – Irvine Welsh's first published fiction, the short story "The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival", appears in New Writing Scotland. It is later incorporated into Trainspotting.[2]
- November 4 – An archaeological expedition is launched, eventually resulting in the discovery of a mass grave and identification of the body of the novelist Alain-Fournier, 77 years after his death as Lieutenant Henri-Alban Fournier in World War I. His bones are interred at Saint-Remy-la-Calonne.[3]
Children and young people
- January 22 – Robert Choquette, Canadian novelist and poet (born 1905)
- January 23 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (born 1912)[7]
- January 29 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese novelist (born 1907)
- February 1 – Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar, Saudi Arabian writer, journalist and poet (born 1916)
- February 16 – Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi, Saudi Arabian journalist, literary critic and official (born 1905) [8]
- February 24 – John Daly, American journalist and game show host (born 1914)
- March 2 – Mary Howard (Mary Mussi), English romance novelist (born 1907)
- March 14 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (born 1905)[9]
- March 22 – Paul Engle, American poet and novelist (born 1908)
- April 3 – Graham Greene, English novelist (born 1904)[10]
- April 4 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (born 1911)[11]
- April 5 – Eve Garnett, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1900)
- April 12 – James Schuyler, American poet (born 1923)
- April 15 – Dante Milano, Brazilian modernist poet (born 1899)
- May 3 – Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (born 1933; suicide)[12]
- May 31 – Angus Wilson, English novelist (born 1913)[13]
- June 24 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American author and playwright (born 1917)
- July 5 – Howard Nemerov, American poet (born 1920)[14]
- July 24 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Jewish-American novelist (born 1902)[15]
- August 1 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (born 1927)
- August 13 – John Sommerfield, English communist writer (born 1908)
- August 17 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (born 1922)
- September 4
- September 24 – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), American children's writer (born 1904)[17]
- September 27 – Roy Fuller, English poet (born 1912)
- October 7 – Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (born 1916)
- October 11 – Steven "Jesse" Bernstein, American performance poet (born 1950; suicide)[18]
- October 12 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writer (born 1925)[19]
- October 16 – Leon Levițchi, Romanian translator (born 1918)
- October 27 – George Barker, English poet (born 1913)
- November 29 – Frank Yerby, African American historical novelist (born 1916)[20]
- December 5 – Jack Trevor Story, English novelist (born 1917)
- December 11 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author (born 1906)[21]
- December 27 – Hervé Guibert, French writer and photographer (born 1955)[22]
- Unknown date – Gogu Rădulescu, Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (born 1914)
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody
- Cholmondeley Award: James Berry, Sujata Bhatt, Michael Hulse, Derek Mahon
- Eric Gregory Award: Roddy Lumsden, Glyn Maxwell, Stephen Smith, Wayne Burrows, Jackie Kay
- Guardian Fiction Award: Alan Judd, The Devil's Own Work
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Iain Sinclair, Downriver
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Judith Wright
- Whitbread Best Book Award: John Richardson, A Life of Picasso
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: Michael Frayn, A Landing on the Sun
Maghribi, Muhammad Ali (1993). Aʻlām al-Ḥijāz fī al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar lil-Hijrah أعلام الحجاز في القرن الرابع عشر والخامس عشر الهجري [Eminents of Hejaz in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AH] (in Arabic). Vol. 4 (first ed.). Jedda: Tahama. p. 240.
Diemert, Brian (1996). Graham Greene's thrillers and the 1930s. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780773566170.
Berwald, Olaf (2013). A companion to the works of Max Frisch. Rochester, New York: Camden House. p. 6. ISBN 9781571134189.
Kumm, Bjorn (12 Dec 1991). "Obituary: Artur Lundkvist". The Independent. London. p. 13.
Wilfrid Laurier University Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction; Previous Winners; 1991: Susan Mayse. Retrieved 2012-11-18.