Chinese Awards and honors Australia C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World Dinny O'Hearn Poetry Prize: At the Florida by John Tranter Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Translations from the Natural World Mary Gilmore Prize: Jill Jones - The Mask and Jagged StarCanada Gerald Lampert Award: Elisabeth Harvor, Fortress of Chairs and Roberta Rees, Eyes Like Pigeons Archibald Lampman Award: Marianne Bluger, Summer Grass 1993 Governor General's Awards: Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (English); Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange Pat Lowther Award: Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk Prix Alain-Grandbois: Anne Hébert, Le Jour n'a d'égal que la nuit Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Bill Bissett, Prix Émile-Nelligan: Martin-Pierre Tremblay, Le Plus Petit DésertIndia Poetry Society India National Poetry Competition : Shampa Sinha for Siesta United Kingdom Cholmondeley Award: Patricia Beer, George Mackay Brown, P. J. Kavanagh, Michael Longley Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Anvil Press) Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection: Don Paterson, Nil Nil (Faber and Faber) T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Ciaran Carson, First Language: Poems Whitbread Award for poetry: Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time National Poetry Competition : Sam Gardiner for Protestant WindowsUnited States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Natasha Sajé, Red Under the Skin Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: George Starbuck AML Award for poetry to Linda Sillitoe for "Crazy Living" Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Stephen Yenser, "Blue Guide" Bollingen Prize (United States): Mark Strand Frost Medal: William Stafford National Book Award for poetry (United States): A.R. Ammons, Garbage (will also win 1994 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry) Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress: Rita Dove appointed Pulitzer Prize for poetry (United States): Louise Glück, The Wild Iris Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück, The Wild Iris Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Charles Wright Whiting Awards: Mark Levine, Nathaniel Mackey, Dionisio D. Martinez, Kathleen Peirce Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Gerald Stern Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 23 – Bertus Aafjes, 89 (born 1914), Dutch poet June 19 – William Golding, 82 (born 1919), English novelist, poet, and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature June 22 – Jerry Estrin, 46 (born 1947 in poetry), American poet (Rome, A Mobile Home) and magazine editor (Vanishing Cab'') August 28 – William Stafford,