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 [ ] Chris Van Allsburg – Two Bad Ants Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (Bimbo und sein Vogel) - The Honorable Prison
Roald Dahl – Matilda Janice Elliott – The Empty Throne (second in The Sword and the Dream series)Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser ) – In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World William Joyce – Robots Elizabeth Laird – Red Sky in the Morning Loving Ben Geraldine McCaughrean – A Pack of Lies Patricia McKissack – Mirandy and Brother Wind Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (with Eva Moore et al.) – Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee ) – The Return of the Shadow P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins and the House Next Door Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer ) – Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores (Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors) Drama [ ] Poetry [ ] Non-fiction [ ] Births [ ] May 18 – Luu Quang Minh , Vietnamese writer and singerOctober 14 – Ocean Vuong , Vietnamese-American poetunknown date – Fiona Mozley , English novelist and medievalist[10] Deaths [ ] February 3 – Robert Duncan , American poet (born 1919 )[11] February 6 – Marghanita Laski , English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915 )[12] 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 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] December 16 – Frank Bonham , American western and young adult novelist (born 1914 )[30] Awards [ ] Nobel Prize for Literature : Naguib Mahfouz 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 , , 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 [36] 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 ISBN 978-0-8242-0899-8 ^ Christian Smith; Joshua Prokopy (1999). Latin American Religion in Motion ISBN 978-0-415-92106-0 ^ Jenny Stringer; John Sutherland (1996). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1 ^ Christine Olga Kiebuzinska (2001). Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama ISBN 978-0-8386-3895-8 ^ Edd Applegate (1996). Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors ISBN 978-0-313-29949-0 ^ Jo Ray McCuen; Anthony C. Winkler (1991). Reading, Writing, and the Humanities ISBN 978-0-15-575512-3 ^ Vogue interview, 16 October 2017 Retrieved 24 May 2018. ^ Contact II ^ Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (1999). Women in World History: Laa-Lyud ISBN 978-0-7876-4068-2 ^ The Annual Obituary ISBN 978-1-55862-050-6 ^ Irish University Review ^ South African Outlook ^ 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 ISBN 978-81-86339-31-2 ^ Harold Bloom (1995). Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age 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 ISBN 978-0-8057-7649-2 ^ Romania Yearbook ISBN 978-973-29-0098-7 ^ Barbara A. Tenenbaum (1996). Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture: Gabeira to Mesta ISBN 978-0-684-19754-8 ^ Frank Manchel (1990). Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography ISBN 978-0-8386-3412-7 ^ Carol Sklenicka (24 November 2009). Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life 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 ^ "Making Britain - Bhabani Bhattacharya" . Open University . Retrieved September 2, 2021 .^ The Annual Obituary ISBN 978-1-55862-050-6 ^ The Annual Obituary ISBN 978-1-55862-050-6 ^ Frank Bonham (1989). The Best Western Stories of Frank Bonham 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 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 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
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