1988 in literature
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The year 1988 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
Events
- March 7 – 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: One day after rejecting a softened final offer from producers, 9,000 movie and television writers go on strike.[1]
- May 28–31 – First Hay Festival of literature held in the Welsh Marches.
- May 30 - Alaric Hunt and his brother kill student Joyce Austin in Clemson, South Carolina, USA. Hunt is quickly arrested and jailed. While still a prisoner, he becomes a prize-winning crime novelist.[2]
- June - The Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo opens with a presentation of Ingmar Bergman's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- August 7 – Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.[3]
- Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба, completed 1959) is first published in the Soviet Union, originally in the magazine Oktyabr.
New books
- 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
- Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories
- Ray Bradbury – The Toynbee Convector
- Orson Scott Card – Treason
- Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
- Roger Caron – Jojo
- Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
- Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf
- Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Wildtrack
- Jim Crace – The Gift of Stones
- Roald Dahl – Matilda
- Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
- 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
- Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming Pool Library
- William Horwood – Duncton Wood
- Hamid Ismailov – Собрание Утончённых
- Judith Krantz – Til We Meet Again
- Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child
- 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
- Jean Raspail – Blue Island
- Alina Reyes – The Butcher
- 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
- 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
New drama
- Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution)
- Thomas Bernhard – Heldenplatz
- David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly
- Tom Stoppard – Hapgood
Poetry
- James Merrill – The Inner Room
- Grazyna Miller – Curriculum
Non-fiction
- Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon
- Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
- 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
Births
- May 18 - Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer
Deaths
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)
- February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)
- February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912)
- March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910)
- May 3 - Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904)
- April 12 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903)
- 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)
- May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907)
- June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908)
- July 10 - Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)
- July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)
- 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 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)
- October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English art critic (born 1897)
- October 16 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900)
- November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)
- Unknown date – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
- 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
- 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
- Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale
- Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
- Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens
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
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, 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
- Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
Spain
- Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio , Retratos de ambigú
References
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- ↑ Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988
- ↑ "Crime novel by murderer wins literary award", The Guardian, 13 January 2014. Accessed 13 February 2014
- ↑ Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988