1987 in literature
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The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 - Swann: A Mystery
- 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
[edit] 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 - The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
- Peter Wright - Spycatcher
[edit] Births
[edit] 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
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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
[edit] Canada
- See 1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Tahar ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée
- Prix Médicis French: Pierre Mertens, Les Éblouissements
- Prix Médicis International: Antonio Tabucchi, Nocturne indien
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Juan José Saer, La ocasión
