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Overview of the events of 1988 in literature
Overview of the events of 1988 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
February 3 –
Robert Duncan , American poet (born
1919 )
[11]
February 6 –
Marghanita Laski , English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born
1915 )
[12]
February 27 –
Basil Boothroyd , English poet and humorist (born
1910 )
February 28 –
Kylie Tennant , Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born
1912 )
[13]
March 19 –
Máirtín Ó Direáin , Irish-language poet (born
1910 )
[14]
April 12 –
Alan Paton , South African novelist and political activist (born
1903 )
[15]
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 )
[16]
May 3 –
Premendra Mitra , Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born
1904 )
[17]
May 8 –
Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer (born
1907 )
[18]
May 10 –
Shen Congwen , Chinese writer (born
1902 )
[19]
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 )
[20]
June 21 –
George Ivașcu , Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born
1911 )
[21]
July 10 –
Enrique Lihn , Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born
1929 )
[22]
July 12 –
Joshua Logan , American stage and film writer (born
1908 )
[23]
August 2 –
Raymond Carver , American short-story writer and poet (born
1938 )
[24]
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 )
[25]
October 1 –
Sacheverell Sitwell , English art critic (born
1897 )
[26]
October 10 –
Bhabani Bhattacharya , Indian fiction writer (born
1906 )
[27]
October 12 –
Ruth Manning-Sanders , British children's author (born
1895 )
[28]
October 16 –
Christian Matras , Faroese poet (born
1900 )
November 2 –
Stewart Parker , Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born
1941 )
[29]
November 8 –
Hamad al-Hajji , Saudi Arabian poet (born
1939 )
[30]
December 16 –
Frank Bonham , American western and young adult novelist (born
1914 )
[31]
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
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 ,
Beloved
[37]
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
References
^
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 .
^ Martin Seymour-Smith; Andrew C. Kimmens (1996).
World Authors, 1900-1950 . H.W. Wilson. p. 303.
ISBN
978-0-8242-0899-8 .
^ Christian Smith; Joshua Prokopy (1999).
Latin American Religion in Motion . Psychology Press. p. 249.
ISBN
978-0-415-92106-0 .
^ Jenny Stringer; John Sutherland (1996).
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English . Oxford University Press. p. 146.
ISBN
978-0-19-212271-1 .
^ Christine Olga Kiebuzinska (2001).
Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 320.
ISBN
978-0-8386-3895-8 .
^ Edd Applegate (1996).
Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 101.
ISBN
978-0-313-29949-0 .
^ Jo Ray McCuen; Anthony C. Winkler (1991).
Reading, Writing, and the Humanities . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 107.
ISBN
978-0-15-575512-3 .
^ Vogue interview, 16 October 2017
Retrieved 24 May 2018.
^
Contact II . Contact II Publications. 1988. p. 64.
^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (1999).
Women in World History: Laa-Lyud . Yorkin Publications. p. 178.
ISBN
978-0-7876-4068-2 .
^
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's. 1988. p. 118.
ISBN
978-1-55862-050-6 .
^
Irish University Review . Irish University Press. 1988. p. 190.
^
South African Outlook . Outlook Publications. 1988. p. 88.
^ Bennetts, Leslie (April 22, 1988).
"I. A. L. Diamond Is Dead at 67; Won Oscar for 'The Apartment' " .
The New York Times .
^ Biswajit Sinha; Ashok Kumar Choudhury (1996).
Encyclopaedia of Indian Writers: Bengali . Eastern Book Linkers. p. 100.
ISBN
978-81-86339-31-2 .
^ Harold Bloom (1995).
Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age . Chelsea House. p. 111.
ISBN
978-0-7910-2199-6 .
^
"Obituaries: Shen Congwen; Chinese Author Provided Vivid Picture of Rural Life in Chaotic Era" . Los Angeles Times . Times Wire Services. 14 May 1988. Retrieved 10 January 2014 .
^ Robert L. Gale (1992).
Louis L'Amour . Twayne Publishers. p. 14.
ISBN
978-0-8057-7649-2 .
^
Romania Yearbook . Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică. 1989. p. 132.
ISBN
978-973-29-0098-7 .
^ Barbara A. Tenenbaum (1996).
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Gabeira to Mesta . C. Scribner's Sons. p. 418.
ISBN
978-0-684-19754-8 .
^ Frank Manchel (1990).
Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography . Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 1264.
ISBN
978-0-8386-3412-7 .
^ Carol Sklenicka (24 November 2009).
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life . Simon and Schuster. p. 478.
ISBN
978-1-4391-6058-9 .
^ Pace, Eric (September 30, 1988).
"Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre" . The New York Times . Retrieved October 11, 2009 .
^
The New York Times Biographical Service . University Microfilms. 1988. p. 1076.
^
"Making Britain - Bhabani Bhattacharya" . Open University . Retrieved September 2, 2021 .
^
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's. 1988. p. 491.
ISBN
978-1-55862-050-6 .
^
The Annual Obituary . St. Martin's. 1988. p. 579.
ISBN
978-1-55862-050-6 .
^ "وفاة الشاعر الحجي". Al-Faisal Magazine (143): 110. December 1989.
^ Frank Bonham (1989).
The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham . Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. p. 269.
ISBN
978-0-8040-0929-4 .
^ Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney . American English Association. 1990. p. 541.
^ Head, Dominic (2006). The Cambridge guide to literature in English . Cambridge UK New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 98.
ISBN
9780521831796 .
^ Bloom, Harold (1995). Modern crime and suspense writers . New York: Chelsea House. p. 174.
ISBN
9780791022221 .
^ 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 .
^ "In Camera Austria". Creative Camera . Coo Press Limited: 34. 1989.
^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999).
Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners . Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 244–5.
ISBN
978-1-57356-111-2 .
^ Díez, Ma. Asunción (2002). La narrativa de Juan Pedro Aparicio . Cuenca Spain: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. p. 277.
ISBN
9788484272250 .