1986 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1986.

Events[]

  • April 29 – A major fire at Los Angeles Public Library caused by arson destroys 400,000 volumes.[1]
  • July 21 – Michael Grade, Controller of BBC1, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.[2]
  • September 29 – Bloomsbury Publishing is set up in London by Nigel Newton.[3]
  • October 9 – The Phantom of the Opera, having been the longest running Broadway show ever, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
  • December 19 – The Soviet dissident author Andrei Sakharov is allowed to return to Moscow after six years' internal exile.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Kama Sywor Kamanda – Chants de brumes (Songs of twilight)

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • July 3 – Chris Bush, English playwright, artistic director and comedian
  • unknown dates

Deaths[]

  • January 1 – Lord David Cecil, English critic and biographer (born 1902)[11]
  • January 4 – Christopher Isherwood, English-born novelist (born 1904)
  • January 7
    • P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
    • Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer (born 1917)
  • January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (born 1911)
  • February 4 – Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Dominican writer (born 1908)
  • February 9 – Dora Oake Russell, Newfoundland writer, diarist and journalist (born 1912)
  • February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction novelist (born 1920)
  • February 28 – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (born 1896)
  • March 4
    • Ding Ling, Chinese fiction writer (born 1904)
    • Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (born 1913)
  • March 15 – Pandelis Prevelakis, Greek novelist, poet, dramatist and essayist (born 1909)
  • March 18 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist (born 1914)
  • April 12 – Valentin Kataev, Russian novelist and dramatist (born 1897)
  • April 14
    • Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and feminist writer (born 1908)
    • Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and political activist (born 1910)
  • April 17 – Bessie Head, Botswanan fiction writer (born 1937)
  • April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian, philosopher and novelist (born 1907)
  • May 15 – Theodore H. White, American journalist, historian and novelist (born 1915)
  • June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (born 1899)
  • August 1 – Lena Kennedy, English romantic novelist (born 1914)
  • August 3 – Beryl Markham, English-born Kenyan aviator and author (born 1902)
  • August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer and playwright (born 1923)
  • September 11 – Noel Streatfeild, English novelist and children's writer (born 1895)[12]
  • December 17 – J. F. Hendry, Scottish poet (born 1912)
  • December 19 – V. C. Andrews, American novelist (born 1923)

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Orlean, Susan (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
  2. ^ Ian Curteis (1987). The Falklands Play: A Television Play. Hutchinson. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-09-170611-1.
  3. ^ Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1988). RSA Journal. Royal Society of Arts. p. 163.
  4. ^ Dominic Head (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6.
  5. ^ a b Studies in Medievalism. D.S. Brewer. 1992. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-85991-348-5.
  6. ^ "Books of the Times". The New York Times. 1987-06-02.
  7. ^ Gay, Jane (2003). Languages of theatre shaped by women. Bristol, UK Portland, OR: Intellect. ISBN 9781871516784.
  8. ^ Erskine, Thomas (2000). Video versions : film adaptations of plays on video. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 312. ISBN 9780313301858.
  9. ^ George C. Schoolfield (1998). A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press. p. 240.
  10. ^ "Caroline Bird". Poetry Foundation. 2020-11-02. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  11. ^ The George Eliot, George Henry Lewes Newsletter. West Midlands College, English Division. 1986. p. 4.
  12. ^ Patricia Burgess; Trish Burgess (1 August 1989). Annual Obituary, 1986. St James Press. p. 556. ISBN 978-1-55862-013-1.
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