1988 IN LITERATURE

The year '1988 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

Spain

Events

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New books

★ Margaret Atwood - ''Cat's Eye''

★ J.G. Ballard - ''Memories of the Space Age''

★ Iain M. Banks - ''The Player of Games''

★ Clive Barker

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★ ''Cabal''

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★ ''The Hellbound Heart''

★ Ray Bradbury - ''The Toynbee Convector''

★ Orson Scott Card - ''Treason

★ Peter Carey - ''Oscar and Lucinda''

★ Roger Caron - ''Jojo''

★ Tom Clancy - ''The Cardinal of the Kremlin''

★ Paulo Coelho - ''The Alchemist''

★ Hugh Cook - ''The Walrus and the Warwolf''

★ Tsitsi Dangarembga - ''Nervous Conditions''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - ''The Stones of Nomuru''

★ Allan W. Eckert - ''The Dark Green Tunnel''

★ Umberto Eco - ''Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)''

★ John Gardner - ''Scorpius''

★ Alan Hollinghurst - ''The Swimming Pool Library''

★ William Horwood - ''Duncton Wood''

★ Judith Krantz - ''Til We Meet Again''

★ Doris Lessing - ''The Fifth Child''

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Icarus Agenda''

★ James A. Michener - ''Alaska''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Crimson Joy''

★ Belva Plain - ''Tapestry''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Sourcery''

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★ ''Wyrd Sisters''

★ Alina Reyes - ''The Butcher''

★ Richard Russo - ''The Risk Pool''

★ 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''

New drama

★ 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 - ''

★ Miranda Seymour - ''

Births

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Deaths

★ February 3 - Robert Duncan, poet

★ March - Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet

★ April 12 - Alan Paton, novelist

★ April 21 - I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer

★ May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author

★ June 10 - Louis L'Amour, western novelist

★ July 12 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer

★ August 28 - Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist

★ September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist

★ October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell

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''

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: Erik 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''

★ Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth

★ Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, ''The Comforts of Madness''

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''