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Overview of the events of 1987 in literature
Overview of the events of 1987 in literature
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
Drama
Non-fiction
Births
February 11 –
Julio Torres , Salvadoran writer, comedian, and actor
[16]
February 27 –
Alexandra Bracken , American young-adult novelist
April 12 –
Ilana Glazer , American comedian, director, producer, writer, and actress
[17]
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 )
[18]
February 2 –
Alistair MacLean , Scottish thriller writer (heart attack, born
1922 )
[19]
February 4 –
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas , Welsh journalist and broadcaster (born
1908 )
[20]
February 10 –
William Rose , American screenwriter (born
1918 )
February 22 –
Andy Warhol , American artist, director and writer (cardiac arrhythmia, born
1928 )
[21]
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 )
[22]
April 11
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 )
[24]
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 )
[25]
August 18 –
Dambudzo Marechera , Zimbabwean writer (born
1952 )
[26]
September 1 –
Alan Reid ("Red Fox"), English-born Australian journalist (cancer, born
1914 )
September 25 –
Emlyn Williams , Welsh dramatist (born
1905 )
[27]
September 30 –
Alfred Bester , American science fiction writer (born
1913 )
October 3 –
Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (born
1910 )
[28]
October 8 –
Roger Lancelyn Green , English biographer and children's author (born
1918 )
October 9 –
Clare Boothe Luce , American playwright (born
1903 )
[29]
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 )
[30]
December 4 –
Arnold Lobel , American children's writer and illustrator (born
1933 )
December 17 –
Marguerite Yourcenar , French novelist and essayist (born
1903 )
[31]
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Penelope Lively ,
Moon Tiger
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Susan Price ,
The Ghost Drum
[33]
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
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
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
References
^
"1987" . Those were the days . Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2020-01-11 .
^
Dalrymple, Theodore (2010). Spoilt Rotten . London: Gibson Square. p. 244.
^
"Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row" . BBC. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2007-07-02 .
^
"Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs" . BBC. 1987-09-23. Retrieved 2007-07-02 .
^
"Tom Wolfe" . Gawker . Archived from
the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2012-10-28 .
^ 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 .
^ Philip Darby (31 May 1998).
Fiction of Imperialism . A&C Black. pp. 236–.
ISBN
978-0-304-70159-9 .
^ Hahn, Daniel (2015).
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
9780198715542 .
^
Portuguese Studies Review (in French). Baywolf Press. 2008.
^ Luke Strongman (2002).
The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire . Rodopi. p. 116.
ISBN
90-420-1488-1 .
^ Harold Bloom (2009).
Novelists and Novels . Infobase Publishing. p. 455.
ISBN
978-0-7910-9373-3 .
^ Elana Gomel (2003).
Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject . Ohio State University Press. p. 73.
ISBN
978-0-8142-0949-3 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
^ Hahn 2015, p. 206
^
"Theatre review: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off / Our Teacher's a Troll / Mull Theatre" . the Guardian . 21 April 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^ Yuan, Jada (June 11, 2019).
"Julio Torres, Rising Weirdo: SNL's Otherworldly Secret Weapon Is about to Take over HBO" .
Vulture . Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
^
"Ilana Glazer: Biography" .
TV Guide .
Archived from the original on December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014 .
^ Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror . Locus Press. 1987. p. 413.
^ Norman, Barry (2003).
And Why Not?: Memoirs of a Film Lover . NY: Simon and Schuster. pp. 211–14.
ISBN
978-0684020884 . Retrieved 11 April 2017 .
^
Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died . A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 776.
ISBN
978-0-7136-3336-8 .
^ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13).
"Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-01-02 .
^ Congress, The Library of.
"Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987" . id.loc.gov . Retrieved 15 March 2019 .
^ Intern (2012-07-09).
"Primo Levi's Last Moments" . Boston Review . Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
^ Reference Guide to English Literature: Writers H-Z . St. James Press. 1991. p. 1029.
^ Arthur Goldschmidt (2000). Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt . Lynne Rienner. p. 67.
ISBN
9781555872298 .
^ Dambudzo Marechera (1988). Dambudzo Marechera, 4 June 1952-18 August 1987: Pictures, Poems, Prose, Tributes . Baobab Books. pp. 12–15.
ISBN
9780797408388 .
^ Krebs, Albin (September 26, 1987).
"Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-10-18 .
^ Jane Gross (October 5, 1987).
"Jean Anouilh, the French Playwright, Is Dead at 77" . New York Times . Retrieved 30 May 2022 .
^
"Clare Boothe Luce, one of America's most versatile and..." United Press International . October 9, 1987. Retrieved October 7, 2021 .
^
"James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered" . The New York Times . December 20, 1987.
^ John Taylor (31 December 2011).
Paths to Contemporary French Literature . Transaction Publishers. p. 261.
ISBN
978-1-4128-0951-1 .
^ Emily Lygo (2010).
Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation . Peter Lang. p. 1.
ISBN
978-3-03911-370-5 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
^ Fox, Margalit (24 March 2010).
"Sid Fleischman, Children's Author, Dies at 90" . The New York Times . Retrieved 19 October 2021 .