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{{short description|Overview of the events of 1988 in literature}}{{Year nav topic5|1988|literature|poetry}}This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Events
- March 7 â Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers.Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988
- May 28â31 â The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches.
- June â The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- August 7 â The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988.
- November 15 â Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 reforms copyright law in the United Kingdom, with special provision for Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children to benefit in perpetuity from royalties in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
- unknown date â Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel Life and Fate (ÐÐ¸Ð·Ð½Ñ Ð¸ ÑÑдÑба) is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine Oktyabr.NEWS, Notes on the Soviet Union,weblink 4 October 2013, The New York Times, 28 January 1988, Bill Keller,
New books
Fiction
- Caio Fernando Abreu â Os dragões não conhecem o paraÃso (Dragons, short stories)
- Margaret Atwood â Cat's Eye
- Bernardo Atxaga â Obabakoak (short stories)
- J. G. Ballard
- Iain M. Banks â The Player of Games
- Clive Barker
- Thomas Berger â The Houseguest
- Michael Blake â Dances with Wolves
- Dionne Brand â Sans Souci and Other Stories
- Ray Bradbury â The Toynbee Convector (short story)BOOK, Martin Seymour-Smith, Andrew C. Kimmens, World Authors, 1900-1950,weblink 1996, H.W. Wilson, 978-0-8242-0899-8, 303,
- Orson Scott Card â Treason
- Peter Carey â Oscar and Lucinda
- Roger Caron â Jojo
- Raymond Carver â (Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories)
- Michael Chabon â The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Tom Clancy â The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Paulo Coelho â The AlchemistBOOK, Christian Smith, Joshua Prokopy, Latin American Religion in Motion,weblink 1999, Psychology Press, 978-0-415-92106-0, 249,
- Hugh Cook â The Walrus and the Warwolf
- Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Wildtrack
- Jim Crace â The Gift of StonesBOOK, Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English,weblink 1996, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-212271-1, 146,
- Tsitsi Dangarembga â Nervous Conditions
- Robertson Davies â The Lyre of Orpheus
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp â The Stones of Nomuru
- Don DeLillo â Libra
- DÆ°Æ¡ng Thu HÆ°Æ¡ng â Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên ÄÆ°á»ng mù)
- Allan W. Eckert â The Dark Green Tunnel
- Umberto Eco â Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
- John Gardner â Scorpius
- Thomas Harris â The Silence of the Lambs
- Joseph Heller â Picture This
- Alan Hollinghurst â The Swimming Pool Library
- William Horwood â Duncton Wood
- Hamid Ismailov â СобÑание УÑонÑÑннÑÑ (Conference of the Refined)
- Judith Krantz â 'Til We Meet Again
- Doris Lessing â The Fifth Child
- Bernard-Henri Lévy â Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire
- Robert Ludlum â The Icarus Agenda
- Javier MarÃas â Todas las almas (All Souls)
- David Markson â Wittgenstein's Mistress
- James A. Michener â Alaska
- Robert B. Parker â Crimson Joy
- Belva Plain â Tapestry
- Ellis Peters
- The Confession of Brother Haluin
- (A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael)
- Richard Powers â Prisoner's Dilemma
- Tim Powers â On Stranger Tides
- Terry Pratchett
- Christoph Ransmayr â The Last World
- Jean Raspail â Blue Island
- Alina Reyes â The Butcher
- David Adams Richards â Nights Below Station Street
- Salman Rushdie â The Satanic Verses
- Richard Russo â The Risk Pool
- R. A. Salvatore â The Crystal Shard (first of The Icewind Dale Trilogy)
- Sidney Sheldon â The Sands of Time
- Clark Ashton Smith â A Rendezvous in Averoigne
- Danielle Steel â Zoya
- Thomas Sullivan â The Phases of Harry Moon
- Julian Symons â The Kentish Manor Murders
- Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) â The Return of the Shadow
- Nikolai Tolstoy â The Coming of the King
- Anne Tyler â Breathing Lessons
- Andrew Vachss â Blue Belle
- Mario Vargas Llosa â In Praise of the Stepmother (Elogio de la madrastra)
- Banana Yoshimoto â Kitchen
Children and young people
- Chris Van Allsburg â Two Bad Ants
- Martin Auer â Now, Now, Markus (Bimbo und sein Vogel)
- Lyll Becerra de Jenkins â The Honorable Prison
- Roald Dahl â Matilda
- Janice Elliott â The Empty Throne (second in The Sword and the Dream series)
- Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) â In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
- William Joyce â Robots
- Elizabeth Laird â Red Sky in the Morning (also as Loving Ben)
- Geraldine McCaughrean â A Pack of Lies
- Patricia McKissack â Mirandy and Brother Wind
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (with Eva Moore et al.) â Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
- P. L. Travers â Mary Poppins and the House Next Door
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer) â Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores (Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors)
Drama
- Alan Bennett â Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution)
- Thomas Bernhard â HeldenplatzBOOK, Christine Olga Kiebuzinska, Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama,weblink 2001, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 978-0-8386-3895-8, 320,
- David Henry Hwang â M. Butterfly
- Ann-Marie MacDonald â Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
- Peter Shaffer â Lettice and Lovage
- Tom Stoppard â Hapgood
- Botho Strauà â Seven Doors (Sieben Türen)
Poetry
- Giannina Braschi â El imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams)
- James Merrill â The Inner Room
- Grazyna Miller â "Curriculum"
Non-fiction
- David Herbert Donald â (Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe)
- Albert Goldman â The Lives of John LennonBOOK, Edd Applegate, Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors,weblink 1996, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-29949-0, 101,
- Sita Ram Goel â Catholic Ashrams
- Stephen Hawking â A Brief History of TimeBOOK, Jo Ray McCuen, Anthony C. Winkler, Reading, Writing, and the Humanities,weblink 1991, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 978-0-15-575512-3, 107,
- Chris Killip with John Berger and Sylvia Grant â In Flagrante
- K. S. Lal â The Mughal Harem
- Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron â Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography)
- Michel Maffesoli â The Time of the Tribes (Le Temps des tribus)
- Lou Mollgaard â (Alice Prin|Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse)
- Rosalind Miles â The Women's History of the World
- Alanna Nash â Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
- Lady Violet Powell â The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works
- Philip Roth â (The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography)
- Miranda Seymour â A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle, 1895â1915
- Joe Simpson â Touching the Void
- William L. Sullivan â Listening for Coyote
- Frédéric Vitoux â (Céline: A Biography) (La Vie de Céline)
- Michael Jackson â Moonwalk
Births
- January 28 â Pierce Brown, American science-fiction writer
- May 18 â Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer
- August 19 â Veronica Roth, American young-adult novelist and short story writer
- September 10 â Dominika SÅowik, Polish writer
- October 14 â Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet
- November 9 â Tahereh Mafi, American young-adult novelist
- unknown date â Fiona Mozley, English novelist and medievalistVogue interview, 16 October 2017 Retrieved 24 May 2018.
Deaths
- February 3 â Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)BOOK, Contact II.,weblink 1988, Contact II Publications, 64,
- February 6 â Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)BOOK, Anne Commire, Deborah Klezmer, Women in World History: Laa-Lyud,weblink 1999, Yorkin Publications, 978-0-7876-4068-2, 178,
- February 27 â Basil Boothroyd, English poet and humorist (born 1910)
- February 28 â Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912)BOOK, The Annual Obituary,weblink 1988, St. Martin's, 978-1-55862-050-6, 118,
- March 19 â MáirtÃn à Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910)BOOK, Irish University Review,weblink 1988, Irish University Press, 190,
- April 12 â Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903)BOOK, South African Outlook,weblink 1988, Outlook Publications, 88,
- April 15 â Modest Morariu, Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator (born 1929)
- April 21 â I. A. L. Diamond, Bessarabian-born American comedy writer (born 1920)WEB, The New York Times, I. A. L. Diamond Is Dead at 67; Won Oscar for 'The Apartment', Bennetts, Leslie, April 22, 1988,weblink
- May 3 â Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904)BOOK, Biswajit Sinha, Ashok Kumar Choudhury, Encyclopaedia of Indian Writers: Bengali,weblink 1996, Eastern Book Linkers, 978-81-86339-31-2, 100,
- May 8 â Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907)BOOK, Harold Bloom, Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age,weblink 1995, Chelsea House, 978-0-7910-2199-6, 111,
- May 10 â Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (born 1902)NEWS, Obituaries: Shen Congwen; Chinese Author Provided Vivid Picture of Rural Life in Chaotic Era,weblink 10 January 2014, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1988, Times Wire Services,
- May 23 â Aya KitÅ, Japanese diarist (born 1962)
- June 6 â Gheorghe Eminescu, Romanian historian and memoirist (lung disease, born 1890)
- June 10 â Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908)BOOK, Robert L. Gale, Louis L'Amour,weblink 1992, Twayne Publishers, 978-0-8057-7649-2, 14,
- June 21 â George IvaÈcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born 1911)BOOK, Romania Yearbook,weblink 1989, Editura ÈtiinÈificÄ Èi EnciclopedicÄ., 978-973-29-0098-7, 132,
- July 10 â Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)BOOK, Barbara A. Tenenbaum, Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Gabeira to Mesta,weblink 1996, C. Scribner's Sons, 978-0-684-19754-8, 418,
- July 12 â Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)BOOK, Frank Manchel, Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography,weblink 1990, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 978-0-8386-3412-7, 1264,
- August 2 â Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (born 1938)BOOK, Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life,weblink 24 November 2009, Simon and Schuster, 978-1-4391-6058-9, 478,
- August 20 â Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1910)
- August 23 â Menotti Del Picchia, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter (born 1892)
- August 28 â Max Shulman, American novelist, short-story writer and dramatist (born 1919)
- September 11 â Roger Hargreaves, English children's author and illustrator (born 1935)
- September 28 â Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)NEWS, Pace, Eric, September 30, 1988, Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre, The New York Times, October 11, 2009,weblink
- October 1 â Sacheverell Sitwell, English art critic (born 1897)BOOK, The New York Times Biographical Service,weblink 1988, University Microfilms, 1076,
- October 10 â Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian fiction writer (born 1906)WEB,weblink Making Britain - Bhabani Bhattacharya, Open University, September 2, 2021,
- October 12 â Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (born 1895)BOOK, The Annual Obituary,weblink 1988, St. Martin's, 978-1-55862-050-6, 491,
- October 16 â Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900)
- November 2 â Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)BOOK, The Annual Obituary,weblink 1988, St. Martin's, 978-1-55862-050-6, 579,
- November 8 â Hamad al-Hajji, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1939)JOURNAL, ÙÙاة اÙشاعر اÙØجÙ, Al-Faisal Magazine, December 1989, 143, 110,
- December 16 â Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)BOOK, Frank Bonham, The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham,weblink 1989, Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 978-0-8040-0929-4, 269,
Awards
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana FineBOOK, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney, American English Association, 1990, 541,
- 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 GiraffesBOOK, Head, Dominic, The Cambridge guide to literature in English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK New York, 2006, 9780521831796, 98,
- 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, StregaBOOK, Bloom, Harold, Modern crime and suspense writers, Chelsea House, New York, 1995, 9780791022221, 174,
- Prix Goncourt: Ãrik Orsenna, L'Exposition colonialeBOOK, Peter C. Hoy, French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885,weblink March 1991, Susquehanna University Press, 978-0-945636-12-0, 12029,
- Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
- Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciensJOURNAL, In Camera Austria, Creative Camera, Coo Press Limited, 1989, 34,
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 (1889â1921)
- 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)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, BelovedBOOK, Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage, Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners,weblink 1999, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-1-57356-111-2, 244-5,
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: 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: {{Interlanguage link multi|Juan Pedro Aparicio|es}}, Retratos de ambigúBOOK, DÃez, Ma. Asunción, La narrativa de Juan Pedro Aparicio, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca Spain, 2002, 9788484272250, 277,
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