1987 in literature
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications of 1987.
Events
- April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field.
- June – Virago Press of London publishes Down the Road, Worlds Away, a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book.
- August – New building for the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington opens.
- Tom Wolfe is paid US $5 million for the film rights to his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (published in book format in October), a record fee to an author at this time.[1]
- Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses, first of the Inspector Rebus detective novels set around Edinburgh is published in London.
New 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
- Iain Banks
- Consider Phlebas (as Iain M. Banks)
- 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
- The Women and the Warlords
- Robin Cook - Outbreak
- Bernard Cornwell
- Redcoat
- 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
- Tahar Ben Jelloun – La Nuit sacrée (The Sacred Night)
- Garrison Keillor – Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories
- Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Dogeater
- Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa – Ualalapi
- Stephen King
- 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 (村上 春樹) – Norwegian Wood
- V. S. Naipaul – The Enigma of Arrival
- Silvina Ocampo – Y así sucesivamente (stories)
- Michael Ondaatje – In the Skin of A Lion
- Robert B. Parker – Pale Kings and Princes
- Gary Paulsen – Hatchet
- 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
- Hồ Anh Thái – Người và xe chạy dưới ánh trăng (Men and Vehicles Run in the Moonlight)
- 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
Children and young adults
- Tedd Arnold – No Jumping on the Bed!
- Anne Fine – Madame Doubtfire
- Ruth Thomas – The Runaways
- Theresa Tomlinson – The Flither Pickers (first in the Against the Tide trilogy)
- Jane Yolen – Owl Moon
Drama
- Nezihe Araz – Afife Jale
- Caryl Churchill – Serious Money
- Robert Harling – Steel Magnolias
- Liz Lochhead – Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
- Warren Manzi – Perfect Crime
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Allan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind
- David Bohm - Science, Order, and Creativity
- 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
Births
- December 15 – Mayra Dias Gomes, Brazilian journalist and columnist
- Unknown date – Mina Adampour, Norwegian journalist, politician and activist of Iranian origin
Deaths
- January 15 – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure, born 1926)
- February 2 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish thriller writer (heart attack, born 1922)
- February 4 – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Welsh journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)
- February 10 – William Rose, American screenwriter (born 1918)
- February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (cardiac arrhythmia, born 1928)[2]
- March 4 – Maria Jolas (Maria McDonald), American-born French publisher and campaigner (born 1893)
- April 4 – C. L. Moore, American science fiction author (born 1911)
- April 11 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (born 1903)
- May 13 – Richard Ellmann, American-born biographer (born 1918)
- May 30 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (born 1914)
- June 6 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (born 1922)
- June 7 – Humberto Costantini, Argentinian writer (cancer, born 1924)
- July 26 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (born 1898)
- September 1 – Alan Reid ("Red Fox"), English-born Australian journalist (cancer, born 1914)
- September 25 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh dramatist (born 1905)
- September 30 – Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (born 1913)
- October 3 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (born 1910)
- October 8 – Roger Lancelyn Green, English biographer and children's author (born 1918)
- October 31 – Joseph Campbell, American author and mythology expert (born 1904)
- November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet (alcohol-related, born 1941)
- December 1 – James Baldwin, African American novelist (stomach cancer, born 1924)
- December 17 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist and essayist (born 1903)
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
- 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
- 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
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- National Book Award for Fiction: to Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
- Nebula Award: Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley
- 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
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Joan Chase, Pam Durban, Deborah Eisenberg, Alice McDermott, David Foster Wallace
- Poetry: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan
- Nonfiction: Mindy Aloff, Gretel Ehrlich
- Plays: Reinaldo Povod
Elsewhere
References
- ^ "Tom Wolfe". Gawker. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
- ^ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13). "Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
