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Everything about 1987 In Literature totally explainedThe year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
- Tom Wolfe was paid $5 million for the film rights to his novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the most ever earned by an author, at the time.
Published books
Chinua Achebe - Anthills of the Savannah
Peter Ackroyd - Chatterton (shortlisted for Booker Prize 1987)
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Martin Amis - Einstein's Monsters
Gilles Archambault - L'Obsédante obèse et autres agressions
Iain Banks - Consider Phlebas (as Iain M. Banks) and Espedair Street
Clive Barker - Weaveworld
Greg Bear - The Forge of God
Truddi Chase - When Rabbit Howls
Tom Clancy - Patriot Games
Hugh Cook - The Wordsmiths and the Warguild and The Women and the Warlords
Bernard Cornwell - Redcoat and Sharpe's Rifles
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - The Incorporated Knight
Jenny Diski - Rainforest
Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction
James Ellroy - Black Dahlia
John Gardner - No Deals, Mr. Bond
Kaye Gibbons - Ellen Foster
Ken Grimwood - Replay
Tom Holt - Expecting Someone Taller
Josephine Humphreys - Rich in Love
John Jakes - Heaven and Hell
Garrison Keillor - Leaving Home
Stephen King - Misery, The Tommyknockers, and 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
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of A Lion
Robert B. Parker - Pale Kings and Princes
Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers
Peter Pohl - Vi kallar honom Anna
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites and 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 -
Michael Slade - Ghoul
Danielle Steel - Fine Things and Kaleidoscope
Ruth Thomas - The Runaways
Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent
Andrew Vachss - Strega
Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion
Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New Sun
Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities
Roger Zelazny - Sign of Chaos
Gary Paulsen - Hatchet
Non-fiction
Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind
Bruce Chatwin - The Songlines
Bill Cosby - Time Flies
Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse
Paul Kennedy - The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
Nien Cheng - Life and Death in Shanghai
Salman Rushdie -
Peter Wright - Spycatcher
Births
Deaths
February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British thriller writer, heart attack
February 10 - William Rose, screenwriter
February 22 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer
March 4 - Maria Jolas, literary publisher
April 4 - C. L. Moore, science fiction author
April 11 - Erskine Caldwell, novelist
May 30 - Norman Nicholson, poet
September 25 - Emlyn Williams, dramatist
September 30 - Alfred Bester, science fiction writer
October 3 - Jean Anouilh, dramatist
October 8 - Roger Lancelyn Green, biographer and children's author
October 31 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology
November 29 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet
December 1 - James Baldwin, novelist
December 17 - Marguerite Yourcenar, novelist
Awards
Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky
Australia
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
Canada
See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
Prix Goncourt: Tahar ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée
Prix Médicis French: Pierre Mertens, Les Éblouissements
Prix Médicis International: Antonio Tabucchi, Nocturne indien
United Kingdom
Booker Prize: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
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
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
Nebula Award: Pat Murphy, The Falling Woman
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Sid Fleischman The Whipping Boy
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
Elsewhere
Premio Nadal: Juan José Saer, La ocasión
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