1988 In Literature

Events

New books

• Alaska - James A. Michener
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse - Lou Mollgaard
• Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• The Butcher - Alina Reyes
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
• Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
• The Coming of the King - Nikolai Tolstoy
• The Dark Green Tunnel - Allan W. Eckert
• The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
• The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum
• Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garca Mrquez
• Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
• The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
• - Miranda Seymour
• The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
• The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
• Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
• Tapestry - Belva Plain
• Til We Meet Again - Judith Krantz
• The Toynbee Convector - Ray Bradbury
• Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
• Zoya - Danielle Steel

Births

Deaths

• May 8 - Robert Heinlein, science fiction author
• September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist

Awards

• Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
• See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
• Prix Goncourt: Erik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale
• Prix Mdicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
• Prix Mdicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Matres anciens
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, Beloved
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness

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