1988 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1988.

Events

March 7 – 1988 Writers Guild of America strike: One day after rejecting a softened final offer from producers, 9,000 movie and television writers go on strike.^[1]
May 28–31 – First Hay Festival of literature held in the Welsh Marches.
May 30 - Alaric Hunt and his brother kill student Joyce Austin in Clemson, South Carolina, USA. Hunt is quickly arrested and jailed. While still a prisoner, he becomes a prize-winning crime novelist.^[2]
June - The Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo opens with a presentation of Ingmar Bergman's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
August 7 – Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.^[3]
Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба, completed 1959) is first published in the Soviet Union, originally in the magazine Oktyabr.

New books

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
Roald Dahl – Matilda
Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
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
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
Jean Raspail – Blue Island
Alina Reyes – The Butcher
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

New drama

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)
Tom Stoppard – Hapgood

Poetry

Giannina Braschi – El imperio de los sueños ("Empire of Dreams")
James Merrill – The Inner Room
Grazyna Miller – Curriculum

Non-fiction

Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon
Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
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

Births

May 18 – Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer

Deaths

February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)
February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)
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)
July 10 - Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)
July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)
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)
October 16 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900)
November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)
Unknown date – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

Australia

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

See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

References

↑ Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988
↑ "Crime novel by murderer wins literary award", The Guardian, 13 January 2014. Accessed 13 February 2014
↑ Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988

[1] Strike Announced By Writers For TV, New York Times, March 7, 1988

[2] "Crime novel by murderer wins literary award", The Guardian, 13 January 2014. Accessed 13 February 2014

[3] Writers Ratify Contract, Ending Longest Strike, New York Times, August 8, 1988

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