1988 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988.
Events
- March 7 – Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers.[1]
- May 28–31 – The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches.
- June – The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- August 7 – The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.[2]
- Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
- unknown date – Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба) is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine Oktyabr.[3]
New books
Fiction
- Caio Fernando Abreu – Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso (Dragons, short stories)
- Margaret Atwood – Cat's Eye
- Bernardo Atxaga – Obabakoak (short stories)
- J. G. Ballard
- Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
- Clive Barker
- Thomas Berger – The Houseguest
- Michael Blake – Dances with Wolves
- Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories
- Ray Bradbury – The Toynbee Convector (short story)[4]
- Orson Scott Card – Treason
- Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
- Roger Caron – Jojo
- Raymond Carver – Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
- Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- The Alchemist[5]
- Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf
- Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Wildtrack
- Jim Crace – The Gift of Stones[6]
- Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
- Robertson Davies – The Lyre of Orpheus
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Stones of Nomuru
- Don DeLillo – Libra
- Dương Thu Hương – Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên đường mù)
- Allan W. Eckert – The Dark Green Tunnel
- Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
- John Gardner – Scorpius
- Thomas Harris – The Silence of the Lambs
- Joseph Heller – Picture This
- The Swimming Pool Library
- William Horwood – Duncton Wood
- Hamid Ismailov – Собрание Утончённых (Conference of the Refined)
- 'Til We Meet Again
- Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child
- Bernard-Henri Lévy – Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire
- Robert Ludlum – The Icarus Agenda
- Javier Marías – Todas las almas (All Souls)
- David Markson – Wittgenstein's Mistress
- James A. Michener – Alaska
- Robert B. Parker – Crimson Joy
- Belva Plain – Tapestry
- Ellis Peters
- Richard Powers – Prisoner's Dilemma
- Tim Powers – On Stranger Tides
- Terry Pratchett
- Christoph Ransmayr – The Last World
- Jean Raspail – Blue Island
- Alina Reyes – The Butcher
- David Adams Richards – Nights Below Station Street
- Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
- Richard Russo – The Risk Pool
- R. A. Salvatore – The Crystal Shard (first of The Icewind Dale Trilogy)
- Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
- Clark Ashton Smith – A Rendezvous in Averoigne
- Danielle Steel – Zoya
- Thomas Sullivan – The Phases of Harry Moon
- Julian Symons – The Kentish Manor Murders
- The Return of the Shadow
- Nikolai Tolstoy – The Coming of the King
- Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
- Andrew Vachss – Blue Belle
- Mario Vargas Llosa – In Praise of the Stepmother (Elogio de la madrastra)
- Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen
Children and young people
- Chris Van Allsburg – Two Bad Ants
- Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (Bimbo und sein Vogel)
- Lyll Becerra de Jenkins – The Honorable Prison
- Roald Dahl – Matilda
- Janice Elliott – The Empty Throne (second in The Sword and the Dream series)
- Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) – In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
- William Joyce – Robots
- Loving Ben)
- Geraldine McCaughrean – A Pack of Lies
- Patricia McKissack – Mirandy and Brother Wind
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (with Eva Moore et al.) – Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
- Mary Poppins and the House Next Door
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer) – Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores (Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors)
Drama
- Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution)
- Thomas Bernhard – Heldenplatz[7]
- David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly
- Ann-Marie MacDonald – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
- Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage
- Tom Stoppard – Hapgood
- Botho Strauß – Seven Doors(Sieben Türen)
Poetry
- El imperio de los sueños(Empire of Dreams)
- James Merrill – The Inner Room
- Grazyna Miller– "Curriculum"
Non-fiction
- David Herbert Donald – Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
- Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon[8]
- Sita Ram Goel – Catholic Ashrams
- Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time[9]
- Chris Killip with John Berger and Sylvia Grant – In Flagrante
- K. S. Lal – The Mughal Harem
- Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron – Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography)
- Michel Maffesoli – The Time of the Tribes (Le Temps des tribus)
- Lou Mollgaard – Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse
- Rosalind Miles – The Women's History of the World
- Alanna Nash – Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
- Lady Violet Powell – The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works
- Philip Roth – The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
- Miranda Seymour – A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle, 1895–1915
- Joe Simpson – Touching the Void
- William L. Sullivan – Listening for Coyote
- Frédéric Vitoux – Céline: A Biography (La Vie de Céline)
Births
- January 28 – Pierce Brown, American science-fiction writer
- Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer
- August 19 – Veronica Roth, American young-adult novelist and short story writer
- September 10 – Dominika Słowik, Polish writer
- October 14 – Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet
- November 9 – Tahereh Mafi, American young-adult novelist
- unknown date – Fiona Mozley, English novelist and medievalist[10]
Deaths
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)[11]
- February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)[12]
- February 27 – Basil Boothroyd, English poet and humorist (born 1910)
- February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912)[13]
- March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910)[14]
- April 12 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903)[15]
- April 15 – Modest Morariu, Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator (born 1929)
- April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, Bessarabian-born American comedy writer (born 1920)[16]
- May 3 – Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904)[17]
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907)[18]
- May 10 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (born 1902)[19]
- May 23 – Aya Kitō, Japanese diarist (born 1962)
- June 6 – Gheorghe Eminescu, Romanian historian and memoirist (lung disease, born 1890)
- June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908)[20]
- June 21 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born 1911)[21]
- July 10 – Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)[22]
- July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)[23]
- August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (born 1938)[24]
- August 20 – Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1910)
- August 23 – Menotti Del Picchia, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter (born 1892)
- August 28 – Max Shulman, American novelist, short-story writer and dramatist (born 1919)
- September 11 – Roger Hargreaves, English children's author and illustrator (born 1935)
- September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)[25]
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English art critic (born 1897)[26]
- October 10 – Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian fiction writer (born 1906)[27]
- October 12 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (born 1895)[28]
- October 16 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900)
- November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)[29]
- November 8 – Hamad al-Hajji, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1939)[30]
- December 16 – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)[31]
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine[32]
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes[33]
- Miles Franklin Award: No award presented
Canada
- See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International: Andrew Vachss, Strega[34]
- Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale[35]
- Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
- Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens[36]
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies
- Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
- Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West
- Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889–1921)
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
- The Sunday Express Book of the Year: David Lodge, Nice Work
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
- Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
- National Book Award for Fiction: Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
- National Book Critics Circle: Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories
- Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
- T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, Beloved[37]
- William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- Whiting Awards: Fiction: Lydia Davis, Bruce Duffy, Jonathan Franzen, Mary La Chapelle, William T. Vollmann. Nonfiction: Gerald Early, Geoffrey O'Brien. Poetry: Michael Burkard, Li-Young Lee, Sylvia Moss
Spain
- Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio , Retratos de ambigú[38]
References
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- ^ Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988
- ^ Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988.
- ^ Bill Keller (28 January 1988). "Notes on the Soviet Union". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
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- ^ Vogue interview, 16 October 2017 Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ Contact II. Contact II Publications. 1988. p. 64.
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- ^ Irish University Review. Irish University Press. 1988. p. 190.
- ^ South African Outlook. Outlook Publications. 1988. p. 88.
- ^ Bennetts, Leslie (April 22, 1988). "I. A. L. Diamond Is Dead at 67; Won Oscar for 'The Apartment'". The New York Times.
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- ^ "Obituaries: Shen Congwen; Chinese Author Provided Vivid Picture of Rural Life in Chaotic Era". Los Angeles Times. Times Wire Services. 14 May 1988. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
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- ^ Pace, Eric (September 30, 1988). "Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre". The New York Times. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
- ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1988. p. 1076.
- ^ "Making Britain - Bhabani Bhattacharya". Open University. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
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- ^ "وفاة الشاعر الحجي". Al-Faisal Magazine (143): 110. December 1989.
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- ^ Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney. American English Association. 1990. p. 541.
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- ^ "In Camera Austria". Creative Camera. Coo Press Limited: 34. 1989.
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