1987 in literature
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The year 1987 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
Events
- 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 (1987 novel)
- 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
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, British 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
- 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
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
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
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Rivard, Torque
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Howard Nemerov
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Jacques Barzun
- Frost Medal: Robert Creeley / Sterling Brown
- Nebula Award: Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: August Wilson, Fences
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah
Elsewhere
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.
