1987 in literature

none 1987 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Events January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication.http://static.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1987.html 1987 Those were the days Express & Star Wolverhampton 2020-01-11 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. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus turning it into an expensive bibliographical rarity."Theodore Dalrymple Theodore Dalrymple Spoilt Rotten London Gibson Square 2010 244 July 31 – The United Kingdom Attorney General takes legal proceedings on security grounds against the London paper The Daily Telegraph to prevent it publishing details of the book Spycatcher.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2492000/2492169.stm Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row BBC 2007-07-02 1987-07-31 On September 23, an Australian court lifts its ban on the book's publication.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23/newsid_2528000/2528695.stm Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs BBC 2007-07-02 1987-09-23 August – A new building for the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington opens. unknown dates 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.http://gawker.com/550825/tom-wolfe Gawker Tom Wolfe 2012-10-28 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140317194641/http://gawker.com/550825/tom-wolfe 2014-03-17 Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses, first of the Inspector Rebus detective novels set around Edinburgh, is published in London.John Connolly Declan Burke Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels https://books.google.com/books?id=e2gHIRmcMn0C&pg=PA455 2 October 2012 Simon and Schuster 978-1-4516-9658-5 455 New books Fiction Chinua Achebe – Anthills of the SavannahPhilip Darby Fiction of Imperialism https://books.google.com/books?id=DTStAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA236 31 May 1998 A&C Black 978-0-304-70159-9 236– Peter Ackroyd – Chatterton (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987) Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyHahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 3 2nd 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) Espedair Street Clive Barker – Weaveworld Greg Bear – The Forge of God Saul Bellow - More Die of Heartbreak Thomas Berger – Being Invisible William Boyd – The New Confessions T.C. Boyle – World's End (1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Firebrand James Lee Burke – The Neon Rain 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 – The Black Dahlia Carlos Fuentes – Christopher UnbornWho's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists Taylor & Francis 2008 9781134709915 129 Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – Violent Cases (graphic novel) John Gardner – No Deals, Mr. Bond Kaye Gibbons – Ellen FosterHoffman Alice Summer Reading; Shopping for a New Family https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/bsp/7852.html 13 April 2023 The New York Times 31 May 1987 Ken Grimwood – Replay Suzette Haden Elgin– The Judas Rose Larry Heinemann – Paco's Story (1987 National Book Award for Fiction) Tom Holt – Expecting Someone Tallerhttps://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/books/wotan-wants-his-toys-back.html Wotan Wants His Toys Back Martin Kirby the New York Times February 28, 1988 April 14, 2019 Josephine Humphreys – Rich in Love Dương Thu Hương – Bên kia bờ ảo vọng (Beyond Illusions)Duong Thu Huong Huy Đường Phan Beyond Illusions: A Novel Hyperion 2002 9780786864171 245 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 – UalalapiPortuguese Studies Review https://books.google.com/books?id=1JtIAQAAIAAJ 2008 Baywolf Press fr Stephen King Misery The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three The Tommyknockers The Eyes of the Dragon Penelope Lively – Moon TigerLuke Strongman The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=PLwASJC0ga4C&pg=PA116 2002 Rodopi 90-420-1488-1 116 Ian McEwan – The Child in Time Betty Mahmoody – Not Without My Daughter James A. Michener – Legacy Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – Watchmen (graphic novel) Finola Moorhead – Remember the Tarantella Toni Morrison – Beloved (1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) V. S. Naipaul – The Enigma of Arrival 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 Mort Paul Quarrington – King Leary Edward Rutherfurd – Sarum José Saramago – Baltasar and BlimundaHarold Bloom Novelists and Novels https://books.google.com/books?id=Kw4sGGS0wQcC&pg=PA455 2009 Infobase Publishing 978-0-7910-9373-3 455 Leonardo Sciascia – Porte aperte Michael Shea – Polyphemus Sidney Sheldon – Windmills of the Gods Lucius Shepard – The Jaguar Hunter Carol Shields – Swann: A Mystery Danielle Steel Fine Things Kaleidoscope Scott Turow – Presumed Innocent Andrew Vachss – Strega Gore Vidal – Empire1987-05-01 Empire by Gore Vidal https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780394561233 2024-10-07 Publishers Weekly Barbara Vine – A Fatal InversionElana Gomel Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject https://books.google.com/books?id=M4HX7PB3mL4C&pg=PA73 2003 Ohio State University Press 978-0-8142-0949-3 73 William T. Vollmann – You Bright and Risen AngelsPool Gail 'You Bright and Risen Angels' (Published 1987) https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/you-bright-and-risen-angels.html 10 January 2021 The New York Times 21 June 1987 Kurt Vonnegut – Bluebeard Moynahan Julian Julian Moynahan A Prisoner of War in the Hamptons The New York Times Book Review New York 12 1987 http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/31020622 13 March 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20170510205034/http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=11&hid=19&sid=e1c64475-44b2-415a-ab2a-a2220ea2a2ea%40sessionmgr12&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLGN1c3R1aWQmY3VzdGlkPXM4NDU1ODYxJnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=31020622 10 May 2017 dead Gene Wolfe – The Urth of the New Sun Tom Wolfe – The Bonfire of the VanitiesHoby Hermione The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/10/bonfire-of-vanities-tom-wolfe 29 October 2014 The Guardian 10 January 2010 Gamel Woolsey (posthumously) – One Way of Love (written 1930) Jonathan Wylie – The First Named Roger Zelazny – Sign of Chaos Children and young people Lloyd Alexander – The El Dorado AdventureHahn 2015, p. 14 Chris Van Allsburg – The Z Was Zapped (alphabet book) Tedd Arnold – No Jumping on the Bed! Janice Elliott – The King Awakes (first in The Sword and the Dream series) Anne Fine – Madame DoubtfireHahn 2015, p. 206 Willi Glasauer – Grüße aus der Fremde (Greetings from the Surreal) Witi Ihimaera – The Whale Rider Julius Lester – The Tales of Uncle Remus: the Adventures of Brer Rabbit Bill Peet – Jethro and Joel Were a Troll Ruth Thomas – The Runaways Theresa Tomlinson – The Flither Pickers (first in the Against the Tide trilogy) Audrey Wood – Heckedy Peg 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 OffTheatre review: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off / Our Teacher's a Troll / Mull Theatre https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/apr/22/lochhead-theatre-review-mary-scots the Guardian 12 January 2022 en 21 April 2009 Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Stephen Mallatratt (adapted from Susan Hill) – The Woman in Black Warren Manzi – Perfect Crime Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage Non-fiction Claude-François Baudez & Sydney Picasso – Lost Cities of the Maya 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 Joan Didion – Miami Andrea Dworkin – Intercourse Sita Ram Goel – The Calcutta Quran Petition C. Z. Guest – First Garden (approximate year – book undated) Robert Hughes – The Fatal Shore Georges Jean – Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts Paul Kennedy – The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000 Nicholas Kenyon (editor) – Authenticity and Early Music Steven Long – Death Without Dignity: The Story of the First Nursing Home Corporation Indicted for Murder Salman Rushdie – The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey Randy Shilts – And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Donald Trump (attrib.) and Tony Schwartz – Trump: The Art of the Deal Peter Wright – Spycatcher Births February 11 – Julio Torres, Salvadoran writer, comedian, and actorhttps://www.vulture.com/2019/06/julio-torres-on-hbos-los-espookys.html Julio Torres, Rising Weirdo: SNL's Otherworldly Secret Weapon Is about to Take over HBO Yuan Jada Vulture en-US June 11, 2019 June 25, 2019 February 27 – Alexandra Bracken, American young-adult novelist April 12 – Ilana Glazer, American comedian, director, producer, writer, and actressDecember 19, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141208234608/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ilana-glazer/bio/622863 https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ilana-glazer/bio/622863 Ilana Glazer: Biography dead TV Guide December 8, 2014 December 15 – Mayra Dias Gomes, Brazilian journalist and columnist unknown dates Mina Adampour, Norwegian journalist, politician and activist of Iranian origin Katherine Rundell, English children's writer and academic brought up in Zimbabwe and Belgium Deaths January 15 – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure, born 1926)Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Locus Press 1987 413 February 2 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish thriller writer (heart attack, born 1922)Norman Barry And Why Not?: Memoirs of a Film Lover 2003 Simon and Schuster NY 978-0684020884 211–14 https://books.google.com/books?id=45zivIQLgkEC&q=MacLean%20alistair%20alcoholism&pg=PA211 11 April 2017 February 4 – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Welsh journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died https://books.google.com/books?id=5YkUAQAAIAAJ 1981 A. & C. Black 978-0-7136-3336-8 776 February 10 – William Rose, American screenwriter (born 1918) February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (cardiac arrhythmia, born 1928)https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/13/nyregion/hospital-asserts-it-gave-warhol-adequate-care.html Robert O. Boorstin Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care 1987-04-13 2009-01-02 The New York Times 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)Congress The Library of Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028286.html id.loc.gov 15 March 2019 April 7 – John Lehmann, English poet, biographer and publisher (born 1907) April 11 Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (born 1903) Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (born 1919)Intern 2012-07-09 Primo Levi's Last Moments http://bostonreview.net/diego-gambetta-primo-levi-last-moments 2021-01-12 Boston Review en April 12 – Oliver Stonor, English novelist (born 1903) April 24 – Josephine Bell, English novelist (born 1897) May 13 – Richard Ellmann, American-born biographer (born 1918) May 18 – Heðin Brú, Faroese fiction writer and translator (born 1901) May 30 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (born 1914)Reference Guide to English Literature: Writers H-Z St. James Press 1991 1029 June 6 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (born 1922) June 7 – Humberto Costantini, Argentinian writer (cancer, born 1924) June 22 – John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (born 1907) June 29 – C. Hamilton Ellis, English writer (born 1909) July 26 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (born 1898)Arthur Goldschmidt Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt Lynne Rienner 2000 9781555872298 67 August 6 – Peter Whigham, English poet and translator (road accident; born 1925) August 18 – Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean writer (born 1952)Dambudzo Marechera Dambudzo Marechera, 4 June 1952-18 August 1987: Pictures, Poems, Prose, Tributes Baobab Books 1988 9780797408388 12–15 September 1 – Alan Reid ("Red Fox"), English-born Australian journalist (cancer, born 1914) September 25 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh dramatist (born 1905)Krebs Albin September 26, 1987 Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/obituaries/emlyn-williams-welsh-actor-and-writer-dies.html The New York Times 2016-10-18 September 30 – Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (born 1913) October 3 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (born 1910)https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/05/obituaries/jean-anouilh-the-french-playwright-is-dead-at-77.html Jean Anouilh, the French Playwright, Is Dead at 77 October 5, 1987 Jane Gross New York Times 30 May 2022 October 8 – Roger Lancelyn Green, English biographer and children's author (born 1918) October 9 – Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright (born 1903)October 9, 1987 Clare Boothe Luce, one of America's most versatile and... en United Press International https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/09/Clare-Boothe-Luce-one-of-Americas-most-versatile-and/7882560750400/ October 7, 2021 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)https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/20/books/james-baldwin-his-voice-remembered.html?ref=james_baldwin James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered The New York Times December 20, 1987 December 4 – Arnold Lobel, American children's writer and illustrator (born 1933) December 9 – Diana Forbes-Robertson, English writer and biographer (born 1914) December 17 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist and essayist (born 1903)John Taylor Paths to Contemporary French Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=dZs9OMIdx4YC&pg=PA261 31 December 2011 Transaction Publishers 978-1-4128-0951-1 261 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph BrodskyEmily Lygo Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation https://books.google.com/books?id=T-Wz4nJ_aWQC&pg=PA1 2010 Peter Lang 978-3-03911-370-5 1 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 DrumHahn 2015, p. 660 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 BoyFox Margalit Sid Fleischman, Children's Author, Dies at 90 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html 19 October 2021 The New York Times 24 March 2010 subscription 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 Europe Theatre Prize: Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Hans Jonas Premio Nadal: Juan José Saer, La ocasión Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. University Press 9780198715542 2nd References 30em 1980s Literature External links Popular Books of 1987 at Goodreads Published 1987 Books at Goodreads 1987 Books at Goodreads