1986 IN LITERATURE

The year '1986 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

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New books

★ Kingsley Amis - ''The Old Devils''

★ Piers Anthony - ''Ghost''

★ Jeffrey Archer - ''A Matter of Honour''

★ James Axler - ''Pilgrimage to Hell''

★
★ ''Red Holocaust''

★ Iain Banks - ''The Bridge''

★ Thomas Bernhard - ''Auslöschung''

★ Anita Brookner - ''A Misalliance''

★ Orson Scott Card - ''Speaker for the Dead''

★ Tom Clancy - ''Red Storm Rising''

★ James Clavell - ''Whirlwind''

★ Jackie Collins - ''Hollywood Husbands''

★ Pat Conroy - ''The Prince of Tides''

★ Hugh Cook - ''The Wizards and the Warriors''

★ Bernard Cornwell - ''Sharpe's Regiment''

★ Richard Ford - ''The Sportswriter''

★ John Gardner - ''Nobody Lives For Ever''

★ Jacques Godbout - ''Une histoire américaine''

★ Carl Hiaasen - ''Tourist Season''

★ Stephen King - ''It''

★ W. P. Kinsella - ''The Fence Post Chronicles''

★ Judith Krantz - ''I'll Take Manhattan''

★ Louis L'Amour - ''Last of the Breed''

★ John le Carré - ''A Perfect Spy''

★ Tanith Lee - ''

★ Gordon Lish - ''Dear Mr. Capote''

★ H.P. Lovecraft - ''Dagon and Other Macabre Tales'' corrected edition

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Bourne Supremacy''

★ Amin Maalouf - ''Leo Africanus''

★ Robert Munsch - ''Love You Forever''

★ Patrick O'Brian - ''The Reverse of the Medal''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Taming a Sea Horse''

★ Belva Plain - ''The Golden Cup''

★ Anthony Powell - ''The Fisher King''

★ Terry Pratchett - ''The Light Fantastic''

★ Reynolds Price - ''Kate Vaiden''

★ James Purdy - ''In the Hollow of His Hand''

★ José Saramago - ''O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis''

★ Idries Shah - ''Kara Kush''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Wanderlust''

★ Peter Taylor - ''A Summons to Memphis''

★ James Tiptree, Jr. - ''Tales of the Quintana Roo''

★ Roger Zelazny - ''Blood of Amber''

New drama

★ Caryl Churchill& David Lan - ''A Mouthful of Birds''

★ Willy Russell - ''Shirley Valentine''

Poetry

★ Kama Sywor Kamanda - ''Chants de brumes''

Non-fiction

★ Martin Amis - ''The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America''

★ Richard Dawkins - ''The Blind Watchmaker''

★ Adrian Edmondson et al - ''How to be a Complete Bastard''

★ Flora Fraser - ''Beloved Emma''

★ Mark Mathabane - ''Kaffir Boy''

★ Farley Mowat - ''My Discovery of America''

★ Marc Reisner - ''Cadillac Desert''

★ Richard Rhodes - ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb''

★ Mary Wilson - ''

Births

Deaths

★ January 1 - Lord David Cecil, critic and biographer

★ January 4 - Christopher Isherwood, novelist

★ January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology

★ February 11 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction author

★ February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author

★ March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist

★ March 18 - Bernard Malamud, novelist

★ April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and feminist writer

★ May 15 - Theodore White, writer

★ June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer

★ August 3 - Beryl Markham, traveller and author

★ August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright

★ December 17 - J. F. Hendry, poet

★ December 19 - Virginia C. Andrews, novelist

★ ''date unknown''

★
★ Lena Kennedy, novelist

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Robin Walton, ''Glace Fruits''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Rhyll McMaster, ''Washing the Money'' and John A. Scott, ''St. Clair''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray ''Selected Poems 1963-83''

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams - ''A Crowd of Voices''

Canada

★ See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Goncourt: Michel Host , ''Valet de nuit''

★ Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, ''Les Funérailles de la Sardine''

★ Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, ''Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, ''The Old Devils''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton, Selima Hill

★ Eric Gregory Award: Mick North, Lachlan Mackinnon, Oliver Reynolds, Stephen Romer

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman MacCaig

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, ''An Artist of the Floating World''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, ''Kingdoms of the Ordinary''

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Sidney Kingsley

★ Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart

★ Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, ''Speaker For the Dead''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, ''Sarah, Plain and Tall''

★ Prometheus Award: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, ''The Illuminatus! Trilogy''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: ''no award given''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, ''Lonesome Dove''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, ''The Flying Change''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Manuel Vicent, ''Balada de Caín''