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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Children and young people 2.3 Drama 2.4 Poetry 2.5 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 Spain 6 References Events[edit] March 7 – Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers.[1] 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.[2] 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 (Жизнь и судьба) is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine Oktyabr.[3] New books[edit] Fiction[edit] Caio Fernando Abreu – 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 Orson Scott Card – Treason Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda Roger Caron – Jojo Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Rifles Wildtrack Jim Crace – The Gift of Stones 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 (Những thiên đường mù) Allan W. Eckert – The Dark Green Tunnel Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (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 – Duncton Wood Hamid Ismailov – Собрание Утончённых Judith Krantz – 'Til We Meet Again Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child Bernard-Henri Lévy – Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire Robert Ludlum – The Icarus Agenda Javier Marías – 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 Nikolai Tolstoy – The Coming of the King Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons Andrew Vachss – Blue Belle Mario Vargas Llosa – In Praise of the Stepmother (Elogio de la madrastra) Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen Children and young people[edit] Chris Van Allsburg – Two Bad Ants Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (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 Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – The Return of the Shadow P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins and the House Next Door Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer) – Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores (Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors) Drama[edit] Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution) Thomas Bernhard – Heldenplatz 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 (Sieben Türen) Poetry[edit] Giannina Braschi – El imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams) James Merrill – The Inner Room Grazyna Miller – "Curriculum" Non-fiction[edit] David Herbert Donald – Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon Sita Ram Goel – Catholic Ashrams Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time K. S. Lal – The Mughal Harem Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron – Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography) 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 (La Vie de Céline) Births[edit] May 18 – Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer October 14 – Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet unknown date – Fiona Mozley, English novelist and medievalist[4] Deaths[edit] February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919) February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)[5] February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912) March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910) May 3 – Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904) April 12 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903) 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) May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907) June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908) June 21 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born 1911) July 10 – Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929) July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908) 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 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912) October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English art critic (born 1897)[6] October 16 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900) November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941) December 16 – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)[7] Awards[edit] Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz Australia[edit] 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 Miles Franklin Award: No award presented Canada[edit] See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France[edit] Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International: Andrew Vachss, Strega Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale[8] Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens United Kingdom[edit] 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[edit] 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, Beloved[9] 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[edit] Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio [es], Retratos de ambigú References[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1988 in literature. ^ Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988 ^ Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988. ^ Bill Keller (28 January 1988). "Notes on the Soviet Union". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 October 2013. ^ Vogue interview, 16 October 2017 Retrieved 24 May 2018. ^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (1999). Women in World History: Laa-Lyud. Yorkin Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2. ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. University Microfilms. 1988. p. 1076. ^ Frank Bonham (1989). The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-8040-0929-4. ^ Peter C. Hoy (March 1991). French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885. Susquehanna University Press. p. 12029. ISBN 978-0-945636-12-0. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 244–5. 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