1987 in literature - Wikipedia 1987 in literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Overview of the events of 1987 in literature Overview of the events of 1987 in literature List of years in literature (table) … 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 … In poetry 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +... This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987. Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Children and young people 2.3 Drama 2.4 Non-fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards 5.1 Australia 5.2 Canada 5.3 France 5.4 United Kingdom 5.5 United States 5.6 Elsewhere 6 References Events[edit] January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication.[1] 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."[2] 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.[3] On September 23, an Australian court lifts its ban on the book's publication.[4] 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.[5] Ian Rankin's Knots and Crosses, first of the Inspector Rebus detective novels set around Edinburgh, is published in London.[6] New books[edit] Fiction[edit] Chinua Achebe – Anthills of the Savannah[7] Peter Ackroyd – Chatterton (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987) Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency[8] 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 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 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 Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – Violent Cases (graphic novel) John Gardner – No Deals, Mr. Bond Kaye Gibbons – Ellen Foster Ken Grimwood – Replay Larry Heinemann – Paco's Story (1987 National Book Award for Fiction) 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 Misery The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three The Tommyknockers The Eyes of the Dragon Penelope Lively – Moon Tiger 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) Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) 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 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 Fine Things Kaleidoscope 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 Gamel Woolsey (posthumously) – One Way of Love (written 1930) Roger Zelazny – Sign of Chaos Children and young people[edit] 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 Doubtfire Willi Glasauer – Grüße aus der Fremde (Greetings from the Surreal) 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[edit] Nezihe Araz – Afife Jale Caryl Churchill – Serious Money Robert Harling – Steel Magnolias Liz Lochhead – Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Warren Manzi – Perfect Crime Yasmina Reza – Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial) Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage Non-fiction[edit] 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 Andrea Dworkin – Intercourse Sita Ram Goel – The Calcutta Quran Petition C. Z. Guest – First Garden (approximate year – book undated) Robert Hughes – The Fatal Shore 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[edit] 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[edit] 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)[9] 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)[10] April 11 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (born 1903) 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) 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)[11] Awards[edit] Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky[12] Australia[edit] 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[edit] See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France[edit] Prix Goncourt: Tahar ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée Prix Médicis French: Pierre Mertens, Les Éblouissements Prix Médicis International: Antonio Tabucchi, Indian Nocturne United Kingdom[edit] 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[edit] 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[edit] Europe Theatre Prize: Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil Premio Nadal: Juan José Saer, La ocasión References[edit] ^ "1987". Those were the days. Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2020-01-11. ^ Dalrymple, Theodore (2010). Spoilt Rotten. London: Gibson Square. p. 244. ^ "Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row". BBC. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2007-07-02. ^ "Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs". BBC. 1987-09-23. Retrieved 2007-07-02. ^ "Tom Wolfe". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2012-10-28. ^ John Connolly; Declan Burke (2 October 2012). Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels. Simon and Schuster. p. 455. ISBN 978-1-4516-9658-5. ^ Philip Darby (31 May 1998). Fiction of Imperialism. A&C Black. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-0-304-70159-9. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542. ^ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13). "Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-02. ^ Congress, The Library of. "Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 March 2019. ^ John Taylor (31 December 2011). Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Transaction Publishers. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-4128-0951-1. ^ Emily Lygo (2010). Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation. Peter Lang. p. 1. 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