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. 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 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 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 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: Emmanučle 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
Deaths January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer February 6 - Joseph Mankiewicz, director, producer, writer Awards Booker Prize: Roody 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: Emmanučle 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