1988 in literature

none 1988 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988. Events March 7 – 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers.Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988 May 28–31 – The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches. June – The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. August 7 – The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988. November 15 – Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 reforms copyright law in the United Kingdom, with special provision for Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children to benefit in perpetuity from royalties in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. unknown date – Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel Life and Fate (ru Жизнь и судьба) is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine Oktyabr.Notes on the Soviet Union https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/28/world/notes-soviet-union-once-more-unto-breach-ink-stained-warriors-rush-citadel-anew.html 4 October 2013 The New York Times 28 January 1988 Bill Keller New books Fiction Caio Fernando Abreu – pt Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso (Dragons, short stories) Margaret Atwood – Cat's Eye Bernardo Atxaga – Obabakoak (short stories) J. G. Ballard Memories of the Space Age Running Wild Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games Clive Barker Cabal The Hellbound Heart Thomas Berger – The Houseguest Michael Blake – Dances with Wolves Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories Ray Bradbury – The Toynbee Convector (short story)Martin Seymour-Smith Andrew C. Kimmens World Authors, 1900-1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=3TsOAQAAMAAJ 1996 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-0899-8 303 Orson Scott Card – Treason Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda Roger Caron – Jojo Raymond Carver – Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin Paulo Coelho – The AlchemistChristian Smith Joshua Prokopy Latin American Religion in Motion https://books.google.com/books?id=XAXffd71eLoC&pg=PA249 1999 Psychology Press 978-0-415-92106-0 249 Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Rifles Wildtrack Jim Crace – The Gift of StonesJenny Stringer John Sutherland The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English https://books.google.com/books?id=_HEoxN_I4NAC&pg=PA146 1996 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-212271-1 146 Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions Robertson Davies – The Lyre of Orpheus L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Stones of Nomuru Don DeLillo – Libra Dương Thu Hương – Paradise of the Blind (vi Những thiên đường mù) Allan W. Eckert – The Dark Green Tunnel Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (it Il pendolo di Foucault) John Gardner – Scorpius Thomas Harris – The Silence of the Lambs Joseph Heller – Picture This Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming Pool Library William Horwood – Dunction Quest Hamid Ismailov – ru Собрание Утончённых (Conference of the Refined) Judith Krantz – 'Til We Meet Again Ágota Kristóf – The Proof Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child Bernard-Henri Lévy – Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire Robert Ludlum – The Icarus Agenda Javier Marías – es Todas las almas (All Souls) David Markson – Wittgenstein's Mistress James A. Michener – Alaska Robert B. Parker – Crimson Joy Belva Plain – Tapestry Ellis Peters The Confession of Brother Haluin A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael Richard Powers – Prisoner's Dilemma Tim Powers – On Stranger Tides Terry Pratchett Sourcery Wyrd Sisters Christoph Ransmayr – The Last World Jean Raspail – Blue Island Alina Reyes – The Butcher David Adams Richards – Nights Below Station Street Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses Richard Russo – The Risk Pool R. A. Salvatore – The Crystal Shard (first of The Icewind Dale Trilogy) Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time Clark Ashton Smith – A Rendezvous in Averoigne Danielle Steel – Zoya Thomas Sullivan – The Phases of Harry Moon Julian Symons – The Kentish Manor Murders Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – The Return of the Shadow Nikolai Tolstoy – The Coming of the King Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons Andrew Vachss – Blue Belle Mario Vargas Llosa – In Praise of the Stepmother (es Elogio de la madrastra) Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen Children and young people Chris Van Allsburg – Two Bad Ants Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (de Bimbo und sein Vogel) Lyll Becerra de Jenkins – The Honorable Prison Roald Dahl – Matilda Janice Elliott – The Empty Throne (second in The Sword and the Dream series) Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) – In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World William Joyce – Robots Elizabeth Laird – Red Sky in the Morning (also as Loving Ben) Geraldine McCaughrean – A Pack of Lies Patricia McKissack – Mirandy and Brother Wind Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (with Eva Moore et al.) – Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins and the House Next Door Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer) – es Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores (Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors) Drama Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution) Thomas Bernhard – HeldenplatzChristine Olga Kiebuzinska Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama https://books.google.com/books?id=tHtGFf7W40AC&pg=PA320 2001 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3895-8 320 David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly Ann-Marie MacDonald – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage Tom Stoppard – Hapgood Botho Strauß – Seven Doors (de Sieben Türen) Poetry Giannina Braschi – El imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams) James Merrill – The Inner Room Grazyna Miller – "Curriculum" Non-fiction Peter A. Clayton and Martin Price – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World David Herbert Donald – Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe Albert Goldman – The Lives of John LennonEdd Applegate Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors https://books.google.com/books?id=dWQpXRudQPwC&pg=PA101 1996 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29949-0 101 Sita Ram Goel – Catholic Ashrams Suzette Haden Elgin – A First Dictionary & Grammar of Láadan Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of TimeJo Ray McCuen Anthony C. Winkler Reading, Writing, and the Humanities https://books.google.com/books?id=a3NLNBrlyM8C 1991 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 978-0-15-575512-3 107 Michael Jackson – Moonwalk Chris Killip with John Berger and Sylvia Grant – In Flagrante K. S. Lal – The Mughal Harem Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron – Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography) Michel Maffesoli – The Time of the Tribes (fr Le Temps des tribus) Lou Mollgaard – Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse Rosalind Miles – The Women's History of the World Alanna Nash – Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch Lady Violet Powell – The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works Philip Roth – The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography Miranda Seymour – A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle, 1895–1915 Joe Simpson – Touching the Void William L. Sullivan – Listening for Coyote Frédéric Vitoux – Céline: A Biography (fr La Vie de Céline) Edgar C. Whisenant – 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 Births January 28 – Pierce Brown, American science-fiction writer May 18 – Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer August 19 – Veronica Roth, American young-adult novelist and short story writer September 10 – Dominika Słowik, Polish writer October 14 – Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet November 9 – Tahereh Mafi, American young-adult novelist unknown date – Fiona Mozley, English novelist and medievalistVogue interview, 16 October 2017 Retrieved 24 May 2018. Deaths January 6 – L. P. Davies, English novelist (born 1914) February 1 – Gerald Butler, English crime writer (born 1907) February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)Contact II. https://books.google.com/books?id=xN0rAQAAIAAJ 1988 Contact II Publications 64 February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)Anne Commire Deborah Klezmer Women in World History: Laa-Lyud https://books.google.com/books?id=hTwOAQAAMAAJ 1999 Yorkin Publications 978-0-7876-4068-2 178 February 27 – Basil Boothroyd, English poet and humorist (born 1910) February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912)The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ 1988 St. Martin's 978-1-55862-050-6 118 March 11 – Christianna Brand (Mary Christianna Lewis), British crime novelist (born 1907) March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910)Irish University Review https://books.google.com/books?id=e-QTAQAAMAAJ 1988 Irish University Press 190 April 12 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903)South African Outlook https://books.google.com/books?id=EPhQAQAAIAAJ 1988 Outlook Publications 88 April 15 – Modest Morariu, Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator (born 1929) April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, Bessarabian-born American comedy writer (born 1920)The New York Times I. A. L. Diamond Is Dead at 67; Won Oscar for 'The Apartment' Bennetts, Leslie April 22, 1988 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/22/obituaries/i-a-l-diamond-is-dead-at-67-won-oscar-for-the-apartment.html May 3 – Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904)Biswajit Sinha Ashok Kumar Choudhury Encyclopaedia of Indian Writers: Bengali https://books.google.com/books?id=9uBjAAAAMAAJ 1996 Eastern Book Linkers 978-81-86339-31-2 100 May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907)Harold Bloom Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age https://books.google.com/books?id=1JsfAQAAIAAJ 1995 Chelsea House 978-0-7910-2199-6 111 May 10 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (born 1902)Obituaries: Shen Congwen; Chinese Author Provided Vivid Picture of Rural Life in Chaotic Era https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-14-mn-2727-story.html 10 January 2014 Los Angeles Times 14 May 1988 Times Wire Services May 23 – Aya Kitō, Japanese diarist (born 1962) June 6 – Gheorghe Eminescu, Romanian historian and memoirist (lung disease, born 1890) June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908)Robert L. Gale Louis L'Amour https://books.google.com/books?id=F_daAAAAMAAJ 1992 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-7649-2 14 June 21 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born 1911)Romania Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=cvHTAAAAMAAJ 1989 Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică. 978-973-29-0098-7 132 July 10 Noel Barber, British novelist (born 1909) Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)Barbara A. Tenenbaum Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Gabeira to Mesta https://books.google.com/books?id=D7lo4iBY48wC 1996 C. Scribner's Sons 978-0-684-19754-8 418 July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)Frank Manchel Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=ID4E3Lm8TsgC&pg=PA1264 1990 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 978-0-8386-3412-7 1264 August 2 – Raymond Carver, American short-story writer and poet (born 1938)Carol Sklenicka Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life https://books.google.com/books?id=WYgw_JYmnQYC&pg=PA478 24 November 2009 Simon and Schuster 978-1-4391-6058-9 478 August 20 – Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1910) August 23 – Menotti Del Picchia, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter (born 1892) August 28 – Max Shulman, American novelist, short-story writer and dramatist (born 1919) September 11 – Roger Hargreaves, English children's author and illustrator (born 1935) September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)Pace Eric September 30, 1988 Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre The New York Times October 11, 2009 https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/30/obituaries/charles-addams-dead-at-76-found-humor-in-the-macabre.html October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer and art critic (born 1897)The New York Times Biographical Service https://books.google.com/books?id=_j4oAQAAIAAJ 1988 University Microfilms 1076 October 10 – Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian fiction writer (born 1906)https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/bhabani-bhattacharya Making Britain - Bhabani Bhattacharya Open University September 2, 2021 October 12 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British children's author (born 1895)The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ 1988 St. Martin's 978-1-55862-050-6 491 October 16 John Gwilym Jones, Welsh dramatist and writer (born 1904) Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900) November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ 1988 St. Martin's 978-1-55862-050-6 579 November 8 – Hamad al-Hajji, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1939)وفاة الشاعر الحجي Al-Faisal Magazine December 1989 143 110 November 9 – Rosemary Timperley, British novelist (born 1920) December 11 – Thomas Owen Beachcroft, English novelist (born 1902) December 16 – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)Frank Bonham The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham https://books.google.com/books?id=KpuwAAAAIAAJ 1989 Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 978-0-8040-0929-4 269 Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz Australia The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana FineSoutherly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney American English Association 1990 541 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 Head Dominic The Cambridge guide to literature in English Cambridge University Press Cambridge UK New York 2006 9780521831796 98 Miles Franklin Award: No award presented 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 Bloom Harold Modern crime and suspense writers Chelsea House New York 1995 9780791022221 174 Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L'Exposition colonialePeter C. Hoy French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885 https://books.google.com/books?id=wC-BwPnwAScC&pg=PA12029 March 1991 Susquehanna University Press 978-0-945636-12-0 12029 Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciensIn Camera Austria Creative Camera Coo Press Limited 1989 34 United Kingdom Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889–1921) Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness The Sunday Express Book of the Year: David Lodge, Nice Work United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer National Book Award for Fiction: Pete Dexter, Paris Trout National Book Critics Circle: Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, BelovedElizabeth A. Brennan Elizabeth C. Clarage Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA247 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-1-57356-111-2 244-5 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems Whiting Awards: Fiction: Lydia Davis, Bruce Duffy, Jonathan Franzen, Mary La Chapelle, William T. Vollmann. Nonfiction: Gerald Early, Geoffrey O'Brien. Poetry: Michael Burkard, Li-Young Lee, Sylvia Moss Spain Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio es, Retratos de ambigú Díez Ma. Asunción La narrativa de Juan Pedro Aparicio Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Cuenca Spain 2002 9788484272250 277 Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Siegfried Lenz References 30em External links Popular Books of 1988 at Goodreads Published 1988 Books at Goodreads 1988 Books at Goodreads 1980s Literature