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Overview of the events of 1997 in literature
Overview of the events of 1997 in literature
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.
September 1 –
The Adventures of Captain Underpants , the first in
Dav Pilkey 's series of children's novels, is published by
Scholastic .
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
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 19 –
James Dickey , American poet and novelist (born
1923 )
[14]
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 )
June 11 –
Susanna Roth , Swiss bohemist and literary translator (born
1950 )
July 26 –
Joseph Henry Reason , American librarian (born
1905 )
[15]
August 2 –
William S. Burroughs , American novelist (born
1914
[16]
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 )
[17]
November 30 –
Kathy Acker , American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born
1947 )
[18]
December 14 –
Owen Barfield , British philosopher, author and poet (born
1898 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Arundhati Roy ,
The God of Small Things
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Tim Bowler ,
River Boy
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Andrew Miller ,
Ingenious Pain
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
R. F. Foster ,
William Butler Yeats : A Life, Volume 1 – The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914
Cholmondeley Award :
Alison Brackenbury ,
Gillian Clarke ,
Tony Curtis ,
Anne Stevenson
Eric Gregory Award :
Matthew Clegg ,
Sarah Corbett ,
Polly Clark ,
Tim Kendall ,
Graham Nelson ,
Matthew Welton
Orange Prize for Fiction :
Anne Michaels ,
Fugitive Pieces
Whitbread Best Book Award :
Ted Hughes ,
Tales from Ovid
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
^
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 .
^ Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997 . pp. 1160–61.
^
"Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial" . Banned books .
CNN . Archived from
the original on 2004-08-05.
^ Wilson, Jeff (1997-07-30). "Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism".
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
^ 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 .
^ The Worlds of Carol Shields . University of Ottawa Press. 2014. p. 113.
ISBN
9780776621869 .
^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
^ Hahn 2015, p.106
^
"His Dark Materials" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .
^ Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
^ Hahn 2015, p. 631
^ Kevin Warwick (1997).
March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World . Century.
ISBN
978-0-7126-7756-1 .
^
"L'empire des rois khmers" . livreshebdo.fr (in French). 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2022 .
^ Davison, Peter (August 1, 1998).
"The Burden of James Dickey" . The Atlantic .
^ 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 .
^ 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky .
^ Onishi, Norimitsu.
"Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History" , The New York Times , November 10, 1997.
^ Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
^ 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