1988 year of literature
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
The American social scientist and consumer researcher Grant McCracken coined the term Diderot Effect in his book "Culture and Consumption" to describe the endeavors of humans to select the things of daily life with which they surround themselves in such a way that they form a meaningful whole result, with each object that is consumed having a culturally influenced connotation . The term is named after an essay by the French enlightener and philosopher Denis Diderot with the title Reasons to mourn my old dressing gown, or: A warning to all who have more taste than money (1772).
Libraries
The Leipzig Environmental Library is founded as a literature collection for the church opposition in the GDR in order to counteract state information on environmental issues. The project was awarded in 2005 as the “official project of the World Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” by UNESCO and in 2011 with the positive prize of the Climate Alliance Germany Leipzig.
Literary prizes
- Nobel Prize for Literature : Nagib Mahfuz as "pioneer of new (socially critical) Egyptian storytelling between tradition and modernity"
- Lois McMaster Bujold , Falling Free , The Quaddies of Cay Habitat , Category: Best Novel
- Connie Willis , The Last of the Winnebagos , The Last Winnebago , Category: Best Short Novel
- George Alec Effinger , Schrödinger's Kitten , Schrödinger's Cat , Category: Best Story
- James Morrow , Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge , Biblical Stories for Adults # 7: The Deluge , Category: Best Short Story
- David Brin , The Uplift War , Development War , Best Novel
- Orson Scott Card , Eye for Eye , Eye for Eye , Category: Best Short Novel
- Ursula K. Le Guin , Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight , Hey, Buffalo Girls, are n't you guys coming out tonight? also: Buffalo girls, won't you guys come out tonight? , Category: Best Story
- Lawrence Watt-Evans , Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers , Why I left Harry's night-day dining restaurant hamburger , Category: Best Short Story
- David Brin, The Uplift War , Development War , Category: Best SF Novel
- Orson Scott Card, Seventh Son , The Seventh Son , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Emma Bull , War for the Oaks , Category: Best First Novel
- Robert Silverberg , The Secret Sharer , Vox , Category: Best Short Novel
- Pat Murphy , Rachel in Love , Rachel is in love , Category: Best Story
- Pat Cadigan , Angel , Category: Best Short Story
- Lucius Shepard , The Jaguar Hunter , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Gudrun Pausewang , The Cloud , Category: Best Novel
- Karl Michael Armer , The Final Solution of the Unemployment Question , Category: Best Story
- Christopher Priest , Der Schöne Schein , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Lore Straßl , Category: Best Translator
- Wolfgang Jeschke , The Science Fiction Year , special award
- Paul J. McAuley , 400 billion stars , four hundred billion stars
- Rudy Rucker , Wetware , Wetware
- Booker Prize : Peter Carey : Oscar and Lucinda , German Oscar and Lucinda
- Georg Büchner Prize : Albert Drach
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Siegfried Lenz
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Angela Krauss for Der Dienst
- Prix Goncourt : Érik Orsenna , L'Exposition coloniale ; dt. Gabriel II or What costs the world . 1989 etc.
- 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
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : George McWhirter , Cage
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Bruce Elliot , Irish Immigrants in the Canadas: A New Approach
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Patricia Young , All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
- Toronto Book Awards : Michael Ondaatje , In the Skin of a Lion
- Trillium Book Award : Timothy Findley , Stones
- Premio Nadal : Juan Pedro Aparicio , Retratos de ambigú
- Georg Brandes Prize : Torben Brostrøm , Visse øjeblikke
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Else Roesdahl
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Mette Winge , Skriverjomfruen
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Peter Høeg , Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede , (German: Presentation of the 20th century )
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Lars Saabye Christensen , Herman
New releases
Fiction
- The alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Ways out - Elisabeth Augustin
- The Beginning of Spring - Penelope Fitzgerald
- A Costa dos Murmúrios - Lídia Jorge
- Death in the Square
- One - Norbert Gstrein
- Counterlife - Philip Roth
- Hunt - Martin Walser
- The gravel pit - Wassil Bykau
- Kilroy. Voices in the subway - Jürg Federspiel
- The last samurai - CW Nicol
- A man of many names - Graham Greene
- Matilda - Roald Dahl
- The Night of the Skinwalkers - Tony Hillerman
- The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
- Pontlatz.Court.Literature - Helmuth Schönauer
- Qushtumur - Nagib Mahfuz
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- The sad detective (in the original: Печальный детектив) - Viktor Astafjew
- A fateful summer - Michael Chabon
- We have always lived in the castle - Shirley Jackson
drama
- Heldenplatz - Thomas Bernhard
- Peter the Great (libretto, 1937) - Mikhail Bulgakov (posthumous)
Non-fiction
Born
- March 15: Nele Pollatschek , German writer
- September 7th: Leona Stahlmann , German writer and journalist
- September 20: Angie Thomas , American writer
- December 21: Vea Kaiser , Austrian writer
- anonymous: Gianna Molinari , Swiss writer
- anonymous: Simon Strauss , German writer and journalist
Died
- February 7 : Lin Carter , American writer of science fiction and fantasy (* 1930 )
- February 15 : Neil R. Jones , science fiction writer (born 1909 )
- February 19 : René Char , French poet (* 1907 )
- March 11 : Christianna Brand , British writer (* 1907 )
- April 12 : Alan Stewart Paton , South African writer and opponent of apartheid (* 1903 )
- April 1 : Tsuruta Tomoya , Japanese writer (* 1902 )
- April 3 : Milton Caniff , American comic book artist and author (* 1907 )
- April 18 : Oktay Rifat , Turkish writer and lawyer (* 1914 )
- May 9 : Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer (* 1907 )
- May 22 : Heinrich Zillich , German writer and poet (* 1898 )
- June 23 : Martin Gregor-Dellin , German writer (* 1926 )
- July 12 : Nakamura Mitsuo , Japanese writer and literary critic (* 1911 )
- August 2 : Raymond Carver , American writer of short stories and poems (* 1938 )
- August 10 : Adela Rogers St. Johns , American journalist, writer and screenwriter (* 1894 )
- August 14 : Robert Calvert , British all-round artist, poet, actor and musician (* 1945 )
- September 4 : Oda Schaefer , German writer (* 1900 )
- September 5 : Ann-Charlott Settgast , German writer (* 1921 )
- October 7th : Kurt Honolka , German musicologist, journalist, music and theater critic
- September 21 : Walter Vogt , writer (* 1927 )
- November 22nd : Erich Fried , Austrian, primarily poet, translator and essayist (* 1921 )
- November 23 : Wieland Herzfelde , German publicist, author and publisher (* 1896 )
- November 29 : Hans Scholz , German writer, journalist and painter (* 1911 )
- December 14 : Kurt Wagenseil , German translator (* 1904 )
- December 25th : Ōoka Shōhei , Japanese writer (* 1909 )
- December 26 : John Loder , British-American actor (* 1898 )