1987 in literature

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The year 1987 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

Events

February 28 – British socialite Stephen Tennant dies at his English family manor at Wilsford cum Lake aged 80 having failed to finish (or perhaps start) his novel Lascar, A Story of the Maritime Boulevard – A Story You Must Forget.
April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field.
Tom Wolfe is paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (published in book format in October), the most ever earned by an author at this time.^[1]
Publication in London of Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses, first of the Inspector Rebus detective novels, set around Edinburgh.

Published books

Fiction

Chinua Achebe – Anthills of the Savannah
Peter Ackroyd – Chatterton (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987)
Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Martin Amis – Einstein's Monsters
Gilles Archambault – L'Obsédante obèse et autres agressions
Paul Auster – The New York Trilogy & In the Country of Last Things
Iain Banks – Consider Phlebas (as Iain M. Banks) and Espedair Street
Clive Barker – Weaveworld
Greg Bear – The Forge of God
Thomas Berger – Being Invisible
William Boyd – The New Confessions
Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Firebrand
Truddi Chase – When Rabbit Howls
Tom Clancy – Patriot Games
Hugh Cook – The Wordsmiths and the Warguild and The Women and the Warlords
Robin Cook - Outbreak
Bernard Cornwell – Redcoat and Sharpe's Rifles
Robert Crais – The Monkey's Raincoat
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Incorporated Knight
Jenny Diski – Rainforest
Jim Dodge – Not Fade Away
Roddy Doyle – The Commitments
Bret Easton Ellis – The Rules of Attraction
James Ellroy – Black Dahlia
Carlos Fuentes – Christopher Unborn
John Gardner – No Deals, Mr. Bond
Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster
Ken Grimwood – Replay
Tom Holt – Expecting Someone Taller
Josephine Humphreys – Rich in Love
Dương Thu Hương – Bên kia bờ ảo vọng ("Beyond Illusions")
John Jakes – Heaven and Hell
Garrison Keillor – Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
Stephen King – Misery, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three, The Tommyknockers, and The Eyes of the Dragon
Penelope Lively – Moon Tiger
Ian McEwan – The Child in Time
Betty Mahmoody – Not Without My Daughter
James A. Michener – Legacy
Finola Moorhead – Remember the Tarantella
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood
V. S. Naipaul – The Enigma of Arrival
Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of A Lion
Robert B. Parker – Pale Kings and Princes
Ellis Peters – The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Rosamunde Pilcher – The Shell Seekers
Peter Pohl – Vi kallar honom Anna
Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites and Mort
Paul Quarrington – King Leary
Edward Rutherfurd – Sarum
José Saramago – Baltasar and Blimunda
Leonardo Sciascia – Porte aperte
Michael Shea – Polyphemus
Sidney Sheldon – Windmills of the Gods
Lucius Shepard – The Jaguar Hunter
Carol Shields – Swann: A Mystery
Michael Slade – Ghoul
Danielle Steel – Fine Things and Kaleidoscope
Hồ Anh Thái – Người và xe chạy dưới ánh trăng ("Men and Vehicles Run in the Moonlight")
Ruth Thomas – The Runaways
Scott Turow – Presumed Innocent
Andrew Vachss – Strega
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Storyteller (El hablador)
Gore Vidal – Empire
Barbara Vine – A Fatal Inversion
William T. Vollmann – You Bright and Risen Angels
Kurt Vonnegut – Bluebeard
Gene Wolfe – The Urth of the New Sun
Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the Vanities
Roger Zelazny – Sign of Chaos
Gary Paulsen – Hatchet
Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Dogeater

Non-fiction

Allan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind
Robert V. Bruce – The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876
Bruce Chatwin – The Songlines
Nien Cheng – Life and Death in Shanghai
Bill Cosby – Time Flies
Andrea Dworkin – Intercourse
Paul Kennedy – The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
Steven Long – Death Without Dignity: The Story of the First Nursing Home Corporation Indicted for Murder
Salman Rushdie – The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
Peter Wright – Spycatcher

New drama

Caryl Churchill – Serious Money
Robert Harling – Steel Magnolias
Liz Lochhead – Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Warren Manzi – Perfect Crime

Births

December 15 - Mayra Dias Gomes, Brazilian journalist and columnist
date unknown - Mina Adampour, Norwegian-Iranian journalist, politician, writer and activist

Deaths

January 15 – George Markstein, German-born British journalist and thriller writer, 57 (kidney failure)
February 2 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish thriller writer, 64 (heart attack)
February 4 – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Welsh journalist and broadcaster, 78
February 10 – William Rose, American screenwriter, 68
February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer, 58 (post-operative cardiac arrhythmia)^[2]
March 4 – Maria Jolas, American-born literary publisher and political campaigner, 94
April 4 – C. L. Moore, American science fiction author, 76
April 11 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist, 83
May 13 – Richard Ellmann, American-born literary biographer, 69
May 30 – Norman Nicholson, English poet, 72
June 6 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright, 64
June 7 – Humberto Costantini, Argentinian writer, 63 (cancer)
September 1 – Alan Reid ("The Red Fox"), English-born Australian political journalist, 72 (cancer)
September 25 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh dramatist, 81
September 30 – Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer, 73
October 3 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist, 77
October 8 – Roger Lancelyn Green, English biographer and children's author, 68
October 31 – Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology, 83
November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet, 46 (alcohol-related)
December 1 – James Baldwin, African American novelist, 63 (stomach cancer)
December 17 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist and essayist, 84

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jim Sakkas, Ilias
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Lily Brett, The Auschwitz Poems
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Philip Hodgins, Blood and Bone
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jan Owen, Boy with Telescope
Miles Franklin Award: Glenda Adams, Dancing on Coral

Canada

See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Tahar ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée
Prix Médicis French: Pierre Mertens, Les Éblouissements
Prix Médicis International: Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Susan Price, The Ghost Drum
Cholmondeley Award: Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, George Szirtes
Eric Gregory Award: Peter McDonald, Maura Dooley, Stephen Knight, Steve Anthony, Jill Maughan, Paul Munden
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography
Whitbread Best Book Award: Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
Sunday Express Book of the Year: Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood

United States

Elsewhere

Europe Theatre Prize: Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil
Premio Nadal: Juan José Saer, La ocasión

References

↑ Gawker: Tom Wolfe. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
↑ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13). "Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-02.