Literature year 1987
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- Pat Murphy , The Falling Woman , The Ghost Seer , Category: Best Novel
- Kim Stanley Robinson , The Blind Geometer , The Blind Geometer , Category: Best Short Novel
- Pat Murphy, Rachel in Love , Rachel also falls in love : Rachel is in love , Category: Best story
- Kate Wilhelm , Forever Yours, Anna , In Liebe, Anna , Category: Best Short Story
- Orson Scott Card , Speaker for the Dead , Speaker for the Dead , Category: Best Novel
- Robert Silverberg , Gilgamesh in the Outback , Gilgamesh in the Outback , Category: Best Short Novel
- Roger Zelazny , Permafrost , Leopard on Kilimanjaro , Category: Best Story
- Greg Bear , Tangents , Tangents , Category: Best Short Story
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead , Speaker for the Dead , Category: Best SF Novel
- Gene Wolfe , Soldier of the Mist , Soldier of the Mist , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Jack McDevitt , The Hercules Text , First Contact , Category: Best First Novel
- Lucius Shepard , R&R , R&R also: Fronturlaub , Category: Best Short Novel
- David Brin , Thor Meets Captain America , Category: Best Narration
- Isaac Asimov , Robot Dreams , Category: Best Short Story
- John Varley , Blue Champagne , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Carl Amery , The Pilgrims , Category: Best Novel
- Karl Michael Armer , Circulations , Category: Best Story
- Rainer Erler , Play Future , Category: Best Short Story
- Jerry Yulsman , Elleander Morning , Elleander Morning or: The War That Did n't Happen , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Lore Straßl , Category: Best Translator
- Ute Bauer , Olaf Rappold and Thomas Tilsner for SCIENCE FICTION MEDIA , special award
- Patricia Geary , Strange Toys
- Booker Prize : Penelope Lively , Moon Tiger , German Moon Tiger
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Hans Jonas
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Uwe Saeger , Without Disabilities, Without Wrong Movement
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize : Carl Amery , The Pilgrims
- Prix Goncourt : Tahar Ben Jelloun , La Nuit sacrée
- 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
- Nebula Award : Pat Murphy , The Falling Woman
- Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award : Doris Shadbolt , Bill Reid
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Diana Hartog , Candy from Strangers
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Doris Shadbolt , Bill Reid
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Ian Radforth , Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario 1900–1980
- Marian Engel Award : Audrey Thomas
- Trillium Book Award : Michael Ondaatje , In the Skin of a Lion
- Premio Nadal : Juan José Saer , La ocasión
- Georg Brandes Prize : Bodil Wamberg , Johanne Luise Heiberg
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Bjarne Reuter
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Vita Andersen , Hva'for en hånd
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Peter Bastian , Ind i musikken, en bog om musik og bevidsthed
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Odd Kvaal Pedersen , Narren og hans mester
New releases
Fiction
- Bischoff - a career - Theodor Schübel
- Blue lines on transparent skin - Ryū Murakami
- The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
- A clochard with bad cards - Léo Malet
- The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
- Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
- One day now or why will Elisabeth Schleifenbaum change her life - Rumjana Zacharieva
- Simply irresistible - Bret Easton Ellis
- The Unicorn Stalk - Mike Resnick
- The Electric Monk - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
- The dog is coming! - Christine Nöstlinger
- In the fog - Wassil Bykau
- No ticket to death - Léo Malet
- The last day of youth - Antonio Delfini
- With one foot in life - Cordula Zickgraf
- The monster - Stephen King
- Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
- Porte aperte - Leonardo Sciascia
- Replay - The Second Game - Ken Grimwood
- Sarum - Edward Rutherfurd
- The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
- The Patriot's Hour - Tom Clancy
- The taboo of the dead spirits - Tony Hillerman
- About the circumstances - Barbara Frischmuth
- White noise - Don DeLillo
drama
- Elisabeth II (drama) - Thomas Bernhard
- No beautiful country (play) - Felix Mitterer
- Toscana Therapy - Robert Gernhardt
Documentary or non-fiction literature
- The war has no female face - Svetlana Alexievich
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
Born
- May 6: Max Czollek , German poet and essayist
- May 13: Nadja Spiegelman , American writer
- July 2: Joachim Schnerf , French writer
Exact date unknown
- Akwaeke Emezi , fiction writer of Nigerian nationality
- Angela Lehner , Austrian writer
- Demian Lienhard , Swiss writer and archaeologist
- Barney Norris , British novelist and playwright
Died
James Baldwin, photographed by Carl Van Vechten , 1955
- January 31 : Benno von Wiese , German Germanist (* 1903 )
- February 2 : Alistair MacLean , Scottish writer (* 1922 )
- February 12 : Rudolf Henz , Austrian writer; Program Director of Austrian Broadcasting (* 1897 )
- February 22nd : Glenway Wescott , American writer (* 1901 )
- February 28 : Karl Emerich Krämer , German writer (* 1918 )
- March 31 : Eugen Andergassen , Austrian writer (* 1907 )
- April 4 : Catherine Lucile Moore , American science fiction and fantasy author (* 1911 )
- May 1 : Walther G. Oschilewski , German publicist, poet and cultural historian (* 1904 )
- May 18 : Heðin Brú , Faroese writer (* 1901 )
- May 19 : James Tiptree junior , American science fiction writer (born 1915 )
- June 23 : Helmut Stellrecht , German politician and writer (* 1898 )
- August 5 : Tatsuhiko Shibusawa , Japanese writer (* 1928 )
- August 10 : Uys Krige , South African poet, writer and translator (* 1910 )
- August 11 : Alexander Ziegler , Swiss actor, publicist and writer (* 1944 )
- August 17th : Carlos Drummond de Andrade , Brazilian lyric poet (* 1902 )
- September 23 : Maria Müller-Gögler , German writer (* 1900 )
- September 26th : Herbert Tichy , Austrian writer, mountaineer (* 1912 )
- September 30th : Alfred Bester , American science fiction author (* 1913 )
- October 3 : Jean Anouilh , French writer (* 1910 )
- October 19 : Igor Newerly , Polish writer and educator (* 1903 )
- October 31 : Natalie Beer , Austrian poet and writer (* 1903 )
- November 6th : Sydney Morris Cockerell , British bookbinder, book restorer and paper designer (* 1906 )
- December 1 : James Baldwin , American writer (* 1924 )
- December 3 : Christine Busta , Austrian poet (* 1915 )
- December 13th : Klaus Schädelin , pastor, politician, writer (* 1918 )
- December 17th : Marguerite Yourcenar , writer (* 1903 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Brodsky . In: Der Spiegel , 44/1987, October 26, 1987. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/