1987 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987.

Events[]

  • January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication.[1]
  • April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field.
  • June – Virago Press of London publishes Down the Road, Worlds Away, a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus turning it into an expensive bibliographical rarity."[2]
  • July 31 – The United Kingdom Attorney General takes legal proceedings on security grounds against the London paper The Daily Telegraph to prevent it publishing details of the book Spycatcher.[3] On September 23, an Australian court lifts its ban on the book's publication.[4]
  • August – A new building for the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington opens.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

  • Chris Van Allsburg – The Z Was Zapped (alphabet book)
  • Tedd Arnold – No Jumping on the Bed!
  • Janice Elliott – The King Awakes (first in The Sword and the Dream series)
  • Anne Fine – Madame Doubtfire
  • Willi Glasauer – Grüße aus der Fremde (Greetings from the Surreal)
  • Julius Lester – The Tales of Uncle Remus: the Adventures of Brer Rabbit
  • Bill Peet – Jethro and Joel Were a Troll
  • Ruth Thomas – The Runaways
  • Theresa Tomlinson – The Flither Pickers (first in the Against the Tide trilogy)
  • Audrey Wood – Heckedy Peg
  • Jane Yolen – Owl Moon

Drama[]

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • December 15 – Mayra Dias Gomes, Brazilian journalist and columnist
  • unknown dates
    • Mina Adampour, Norwegian journalist, politician and activist of Iranian origin
    • Katherine Rundell, English children's writer and academic brought up in Zimbabwe and Belgium

Deaths[]

  • January 15 – George Markstein, German-born English journalist and thriller writer (kidney failure, born 1926)
  • February 2 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish thriller writer (heart attack, born 1922)
  • February 4 – Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Welsh journalist and broadcaster (born 1908)
  • February 10 – William Rose, American screenwriter (born 1918)
  • February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (cardiac arrhythmia, born 1928)[12]
  • March 4 – Maria Jolas (Maria McDonald), American-born French publisher and campaigner (born 1893)
  • April 4 – C. L. Moore, American science fiction author (born 1911)[13]
  • April 11 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (born 1903)
  • May 13 – Richard Ellmann, American-born biographer (born 1918)
  • May 18 – Heðin Brú, Faroese fiction writer and translator (born 1901)
  • May 30 – Norman Nicholson, English poet (born 1914)
  • June 6 – Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright (born 1922)
  • June 7 – Humberto Costantini, Argentinian writer (cancer, born 1924)
  • July 26 – Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian novelist and dramatist (born 1898)
  • September 1 – Alan Reid ("Red Fox"), English-born Australian journalist (cancer, born 1914)
  • September 25 – Emlyn Williams, Welsh dramatist (born 1905)
  • September 30 – Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (born 1913)
  • October 3 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (born 1910)
  • October 8 – Roger Lancelyn Green, English biographer and children's author (born 1918)
  • October 31 – Joseph Campbell, American author and mythology expert (born 1904)
  • November 29 – Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet (alcohol-related, born 1941)
  • December 1 – James Baldwin, African American novelist (stomach cancer, born 1924)
  • December 17 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist and essayist (born 1903)[14]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Joseph Brodsky[15]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Fiction: Joan Chase, Pam Durban, Deborah Eisenberg, Alice McDermott, David Foster Wallace
Poetry: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan
Nonfiction: Mindy Aloff, Gretel Ehrlich
Plays: Reinaldo Povod

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ "1987". Those were the days. Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  2. ^ Dalrymple, Theodore (2010). Spoilt Rotten. London: Gibson Square. p. 244.
  3. ^ "Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row". BBC. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  4. ^ "Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs". BBC. 1987-09-23. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  5. ^ "Tom Wolfe". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  6. ^ John Connolly; Declan Burke (2 October 2012). Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels. Simon and Schuster. p. 455. ISBN 978-1-4516-9658-5.
  7. ^ Philip Darby (31 May 1998). Fiction of Imperialism. A&C Black. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-0-304-70159-9.
  8. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
  9. ^ Luke Strongman (2002). The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire. Rodopi. p. 116. ISBN 90-420-1488-1.
  10. ^ Jorge Marcone (1997). La oralidad escrita: sobre la reivindicación y re-inscripción del discurso oral (in Spanish). Fondo Editorial PUCP. p. 165. ISBN 978-9972-42-026-9.
  11. ^ Elana Gomel (2003). Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject. Ohio State University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8142-0949-3.
  12. ^ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13). "Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
  13. ^ Congress, The Library of. "Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  14. ^ John Taylor (31 December 2011). Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Transaction Publishers. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-4128-0951-1.
  15. ^ Emily Lygo (2010). Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation. Peter Lang. p. 1. ISBN 978-3-03911-370-5.
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