1997 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997.

Events[]

  • February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam.[1] He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30.[2]
  • May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens with a production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
  • June 3 – The supposed climax of Max Beerbohm's 1916 short story "Enoch Soames" occurs at the old British Museum Reading Room in London.
  • June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies.
  • July 13 – The release occurs in Ireland) of the film of Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel The Butcher Boy. The author plays Jimmy The Skite, the town drunk.
  • October – The online literary magazine Jacket is founded.
  • November 24 – The new British Library building in London designed by Colin St John Wilson opens to readers.
  • December 30 – The memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for portraying "white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people".[3]

Uncertain dates

  • Tom Clancy signs a deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. giving him US $50 million for the world English rights to two new books. A second agreement pays another $25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal, and a third, with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with an ABC television miniseries for $22 million.
  • Janet Dailey admits to plagiarism of the novels of the fellow American bestselling romance writer Nora Roberts.[4][5]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1997 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)[12]
  • February 3 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech novelist (born 1914)
  • February 18 – Emily Hahn, American journalist and author (born 1905)
  • March 21 - Wilbert Awdry, British Anglican reverend and author (born 1911)
  • April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (liver cancer, born 1926)[1]
  • May 9 – Rina Lasnier, Canadian poet (born 1915)
  • May 23 – Alison Adburgham, English social historian and journalist (born 1912)
  • June 8 – George Turner, Australian novelist and critic (born 1916)
  • July 26 – Joseph Henry Reason, American librarian (born 1905)[13]
  • August 2 – William S. Burroughs, American novelist (born 1914[14]
  • August 16 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish actor and playwright (born 1915)
  • August 27 – Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (born 1904)
  • October 14 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (born 1916)
  • October 16 – James A. Michener, American novelist and historian (born 1907)
  • November 6 – Leon Forrest, African American novelist and essayist (cancer, born 1937)[15]
  • November 30 – Kathy Acker, American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born 1947)[16]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Patrick Rambaud, La Bataille
  • Prix Décembre: Lydie Salvayre, La Compagnie des spectres
  • Prix Médicis International: T. Coraghessan Boyle, America
  • Prix Médicis French: Les Sept Noms du peintre – Philippe Le Guillou

Spain[]

  • Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Fiction: Josip Novakovich (fiction/nonfiction), Melanie Rae Thon
Nonfiction: Jo Ann Beard, Suketu Mehta (fiction/nonfiction), Ellen Meloy
Plays: Erik Ehn
Poetry: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin

Elsewhere[]

Notes[]

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
  2. ^ Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997. pp. 1160–61.
  3. ^ "Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial". Banned books. CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-08-05.
  4. ^ Wilson, Jeff (1997-07-30). "Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. ^ Standora, Leo (1997-08-27). "Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
  6. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
  7. ^ Hahn 2015, p.106
  8. ^ "His Dark Materials". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  9. ^ Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
  10. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 631
  11. ^ Kevin Warwick (1997). March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World. Century. ISBN 978-0-7126-7756-1.
  12. ^ Davison, Peter (August 1, 1998). "The Burden of James Dickey". The Atlantic.
  13. ^ Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry". In Donald G. Davis (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-56308-868-1.
  14. ^ 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.
  15. ^ Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.
  16. ^ Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
  17. ^ Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012
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