1986 year of literature

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

Literary prizes

Wole Soyinka, 2008

• Nobel Prize for Literature : Wole Soyinka

• Nebula Award

• Orson Scott Card , Speaker for the Dead , Speaker for the Dead , Category: Best Novel
• Lucius Shepard , R&R , R&R also: Fronturlaub , Category: Best Short Novel
• Kate Wilhelm , The Girl Who Fell into the Sky , The girl who fell into the sky , category: Best story
• Greg Bear , Tangents , Tangents , Category: Best Short Story

• Hugo Award

• Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game , The Big Game , Category: Best Novel
• Roger Zelazny , 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai , 24 Views of Mount Fuji, from Hokusai also: 24 Views of Fujiyama, by Hokusai , Category: Best Short Novel
• Harlan Ellison , Paladin of the Lost Hour , The Guardian of the Lost Hour , Category: Best Narration
• Frederik Pohl , Fermi and Frost , Fermi and Frost , Category: Best Short Story

• Locus Award

• David Brin , The Postman , Gordon's calling also: Postman , Category: Best SF Novel
• Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom , The Trumps of the Last Judgment , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
• Carl Sagan , Contact , Contact , Category: Best First Novel
• James Tiptree, Jr. , The Only Neat Thing to Do , Category: Best Short Novel
• Harlan Ellison, Paladin of the Lost Hour , Category: Best Narration
• Pat Cadigan , Angel , Category: Best Short Story
• Stephen King , Skeleton Crew , Category: Best Collection
• Harlan Ellison, Medea: Harlan's World , Category: Best Anthology

• Kurd Laßwitz Prize

• Herbert W. Franke , Endzeit , Category: Best Novel
• Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn , dream hunters , category: best story
• Reinmar Cunis , aurora , Category: Best Short Story
• Daniel Keyes , The Lives of Billy Milligan , Category: Best Foreign Work
• Lore Straßl , Category: Best Translator

• Philip K. Dick Award

• James P. Blaylock , Homunculus , Homunculus

• Booker Prize : Kingsley Amis , The Old Devils
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Władysław Bartoszewski
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Katja Lange-Müller , Kaspar Mauser - Cowardice in front of a friend
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Michel Host , Valet de nuit
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama : no award this year
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Larry McMurtry , Lonesome Dove
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Henry Taylor , The Flying Change
• Toronto Book Awards : Morley Callaghan , Our Lady of the Snows ; Robertson Davies , What's Bred in the Bone
• Arthur Ellis Award : Eric Wright , Death in the Old Country
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Joe Rosenblatt , Poetry Hotel
• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Leona Gom , Housebroken
• Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Charles M. Johnston , EC Drury: Agrarian Idealist
• Premio Nadal : Manuel Vicent , Balada de Caín
• Georg Brandes Prize : Tania Ørum , Pamelas døtre
• Søren Gyldendal Prize : Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen
• Critic prizes (Denmark) : Bo Green Jensen , Porten til jorden
• Weekendavisens literaturpris : Bent William Rasmussen , En dag i Amerika
• Critic prizes (Norway) : Carl Fredrik Engelstad , De levendes land

New releases

Fiction

• The anatomy lesson - Philip Roth
• Apple - Michael Schulte
• Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
• The Darkness of the Lagoon - Jack Higgins
• The rabbi's grandson - Herman Wouk
• It - Stephen King
• The emotional person - Javier Marías
• Stories of love, madness and death - Horacio Quiroga
• The goldsmith and the thief - Tonke Dragt
• The big booklet - Ágota Kristóf
• Today only the others die - Charlotte Worgitzky
• Crutch - Peter Härtling
• The Land of Laughter - Jonathan Carroll
• The dear fear - Liane Dirks
• The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
• The Lions - Ken Follett
• Man from Apulia - Horst Stern
• The nights of St. Germain - Léo Malet
• The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
• The She-rat - Günter Grass
• Redwall - Brian Jacques
• Sophie in the Wizard's Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
• Tallhover - Hans Joachim Schädlich
• The terrorist - Doris Lessing
• For dessert war - William Boyd

drama

• Ritter, Dene, Voss - Thomas Bernhard

Poetry

• every single life - Reiner Kunze

Non-fiction

• The blind watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
• Lasers - Anthony E. Siegman
• On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt
• Text book 9 - Helmut Heißenbüttel
• Deep dizziness - Dieter E. Zimmer

Born

• 0March 5: Sarah J. Maas , American fantasy writer
• April 14th: Margarete Stokowski , German author and columnist
• April 22nd: André Herrmann , German author
• 0July 2nd: Maarja Pärtna , Estonian poet and translator
• 0August 3: Thilo Corzilius , German writer
• November 22nd: Lana Lux , German-speaking writer and illustrator

Exact date unknown

• Fatma Aydemir , German journalist and writer
• Christoffer Carlsson , Swedish writer and criminologist
• Yannic Han Biao Federer , German writer
• Thomas Köck , Austrian playwright
• Chigozie Obioma , Nigerian writer

Died

Frank Herbert, 1978

Jorge Luis Borges, 1969

• January 4 : Christopher Isherwood , British-American writer (* 1904 )
• January 10 : Jaroslav Seifert , Czech writer (* 1901 )
• January 12 : Marcel Arland , French writer and literary critic (* 1899 )
• January 24th : L. Ron Hubbard , American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (* 1911 )
• January 29 : Jörg Mauthe , Austrian journalist, writer and cultural politician (* 1924 )
• February 11 : Frank Herbert , American science fiction and fantasy writer (* 1920 )
• March 8 : Hubert Fichte , German writer (* 1935 )
• March 18 : Bernard Malamud , American writer (* 1914 )
• April 14 : Horst Bastian , German writer (* 1939 )
• April 14th : Simone de Beauvoir , French writer, philosopher and feminist (* 1908 )
• April 15 : Jean Genet , French novelist, playwright and poet (* 1910 )
• April 26 : Günter Karau , East German writer, screenwriter and journalist (* 1929 )
• May 7 : Haldun Taner , Turkish writer (* 1915 )
• May 16 : Friedrich Franz von Unruh , German writer (* 1893 )
• May 29 : Onelio Jorge Cardoso , Cuban writer and journalist (* 1914 )
• June 6 : Herbert Eisenreich , Austrian writer (* 1925 )
• June 10 : Merle Miller , American writer and screenwriter (* 1919 )
• June 14 : Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer (* 1899 )
• June 14th : Wilhelm Szabo , poet, poet, author, translator and teacher (* 1901 )
• July 22 : Floyd Gottfredson , American comic artist and writer, cartoonist and painter (* 1905 )
• August 1 : Robert Wolfgang Schnell , German writer (* 1916 )
• August 6 : Manfred Hausmann , German writer (* 1898 )
• August 10 : Vratislav Effenberger , Czech literary theorist (* 1923 )
• August 19 : Willy Kramp , German writer (* 1909 )
• August 22 : Elfriede Mechnig , German literary agent , author and translator (* 1901 )
• August 31 : Goffredo Parise , Italian writer (* 1929 )
• September 29th : Helmut Qualtinger , Austrian cabaret artist and writer (* 1928 )
• October 1 : Emil Maier-Dorn , German writer (* 1908 )
• October 10 : Antonio di Benedetto , Argentine writer (* 1922 )
• October 14 : Bilal Xhaferr Xhaferri , Albanian writer and publicist (* 1935 )
• October 20 : Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian writer (* 1911 )
• November 22nd : Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich , German writer (* 1932 )
• November 26th : Ingeborg Drewitz , German writer (* 1923 )
• December 19 : VC Andrews , American writer (* 1923 )
• December 28 : John D. MacDonald , American writer (born 1916 )
• December 31 : Piero Chiara , Italian writer (* 1913 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An Olympic Gold Medal in Literature? . In: Der Spiegel , 43/1986, October 20, 1986.
2. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1986/