Literature year 1997
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Literary prizes
- Vonda N. McIntyre , The Moon and the Sun , At the Court of the Sun King , Category: Best Novel
- Jack Dann , Da Vinci Rising , Category: Best Short Novel
- Nancy Kress , The Flowers of Aulit Prison , Category: Best Narration
- Jane Yolen , Sister Emily's Lightship , Category: Best Short Story
- Kim Stanley Robinson , Blue Mars , Blue Mars , Category: Best Novel
- George RR Martin , Blood of the Dragon , Category: Best Short Novel
- Bruce Sterling , Bicycle Repairman , The Bicycle Mechanic , Category: Best Narration
- Connie Willis , The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective , The soul chooses its own society: Invasion and Aversion , Category: Best short story
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars , Blue Mars , Category: Best SF Novel
- George RR Martin , A Game of Thrones , Iron Throne , Best Fantasy Novel
- Stephen King , Desperation , Desperation , Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
- Sarah Zettel , Reclamation , Best First Novel
- Sage Walker , Whiteout , Best First Novel (Awarded Two Times)
- Connie Willis, Bellwether , Category: Best Short Novel
- Ursula K. Le Guin , Mountain Ways , Category: Best Story
- John Crowley , Gone , Category: Best Short Story
- Joe Haldeman , None So Blind , Category: Best Collection
- Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology
- Andreas Eschbach , Solar Station , Category: Best Novel
- Wolfgang Jeschke , partner for life , category: Best short story / narrative
- Kate Wilhelm , Islands in Chaos , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Ronald M. Hahn , Category: Best Translator
- Wolfgang Jeschke for promoting the SF short story and for editing the yearbook Das Science Fiction Jahr , special award
- Stepan Chapman , The Troika
- Booker Prize : Arundhati Roy for The God of Little Things
- Georg Büchner Prize : HC Artmann
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Yaşar Kemal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Norbert Niemann , How to take it
- Prix Goncourt : Patrick Rambaud for La Bataille
- Prix de la première œuvre : Élisa Brune for Fissures
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Gail Anderson-Dargatz , The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Keith Walden , Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of Late Victorian Culture
- Journey Prize : Gabriella Goliger , Maladies of the Inner Ear and Anne Simpson , Dreaming Snow
- Toronto Book Awards : Anne Michaels , Fugitive Pieces
- Trillium Book Award : Dionne Brand , Land to Light On ; Roger Levac , Petite Crapaude!
- Books in Canada First Novel Award : Margaret Gibson , Opium Dreams
New releases
- Scum - The True Story of Ertan Ongun - Feridun Zaimoglu
- American idyll - Philip Roth
- Attic - Danger from the Deep - Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child
- Unfortunately the bride says no - Kerstin Gier
- Carlos can score goals - Andreas Venzke
- Your room to me alone - Michael Köhlmeier
- Dragon rider - Cornelia Funke
- The third twin - Ken Follett
- The dark side - Frank Schätzing
- The woman in the concrete - Michael Connelly
- Glass (novel) - Stephen King
- To collect in a memorial book ...: Pictures of German resistance fighters - Ricarda Huch
- The Jesus Video (novel) - Andreas Eschbach
- The bone man - Wolf Haas
- Fortuna's smile - Rebecca Gablé
- Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
- Materials for a critique of the most famous form of poetry of Italian origin - Robert Gernhardt
- Nude (novel) - David Sedaris
- No Man's Land (novel) - Pat Barker
- The partner - John Grisham
- A great season - Josef Škvorecký
- The purple rivers (novel) - Jean-Christophe Grangé
- The battle - Patrick Rambaud
- The tailor of Panama - John le Carré
- The beauty of that distant city - Ronald Wright
- Small World - Martin Suter
- Trento 1475. History of a ritual murder trial - Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia
- Chernobyl. A Chronicle of the Future - Svetlana Alexievich
- And they touched the sleep of the world - CS Mahrendorff
- Wolf heart - Wolfgang Hohlbein
Born
- May 14: Aron Boks , German lyricist, storyteller and poetry slammer
Died
- January 15: Boubé Zoumé , Nigerien writer (* 1951)
- February 3: Bohumil Hrabal , Czech writer (* 1914)
- March 27: Charles Lillard , Canadian poet and historian (* 1944)
- April 5: Allen Ginsberg , American poet (* 1926)
- June 13: Al Berto , Portuguese poet (* 1948)
- August 2: William S. Burroughs , American writer (* 1914)
- October 13: Richard Mason , British writer (* 1919)
- October 14: Harold Robbins , American writer (* 1916)
- October 16: James A. Michener , American writer (* 1907)
- December 25: Rui Knopfli , Mozambican poet and writer (* 1932)
