- 1987 in literature
The year 1987 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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.Published books
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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 andCatherine 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 - ""
*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 "Non-fiction
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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 - ""
*Peter Wright - "Spycatcher "Births
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Deaths
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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 onmythology
*November 29 -Gwendolyn MacEwen , Canadian poet
*December 1 - James Baldwin, novelist
*December 17 -Marguerite Yourcenar , novelistAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Joseph Brodsky Australia
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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"Canada
* See
1987 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.France
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Prix Goncourt :Tahar ben Jelloun , "La Nuit sacrée"
*Prix Médicis French:Pierre Mertens , "Les Éblouissements"
* Prix Médicis International:Antonio Tabucchi , "Nocturne indien"United Kingdom
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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 "United States
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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 forchildren'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 "Elsewhere
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Premio Nadal :Juan José Saer , "La ocasión"
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