1987 in literature

Overview of the events of 1987 in literature
Overview of the events of 1987 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1987.

Events

  • January 2 – Golliwogs in Enid Blyton children's books are replaced by the British publisher with gnomes after complaints of a racial offence implication.[1]
  • April – K. W. Jeter coins the term "Steampunk" in a letter published in Locus: the magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field.
  • June – Virago Press of London publishes Down the Road, Worlds Away, a collection of short stories ostensibly by Rahila Khan, a young Muslim woman living in England. Three weeks later, Toby Forward, an Anglican clergyman, admits to writing them and the publisher withdraws the book. "He, unlike the editors at Virago, had grown up in precisely the kind of area and social conditions that the book described.... Although the book never claimed to be other than a work of fiction, the publishers destroyed the stock still in the warehouse and recalled all unsold copies from the bookshops, thus turning it into an expensive bibliographical rarity."[2]
  • July 31 – The United Kingdom Attorney General takes legal proceedings on security grounds against the London paper The Daily Telegraph to prevent it publishing details of the book Spycatcher.[3] On September 23, an Australian court lifts its ban on the book's publication.[4]
  • August – A new building for the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington opens.
  • unknown dates

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Fiction: Joan Chase, Pam Durban, Deborah Eisenberg, Alice McDermott, David Foster Wallace
Poetry: Mark Cox, Michael Ryan
Nonfiction: Mindy Aloff, Gretel Ehrlich
Plays: Reinaldo Povod

Elsewhere

Notes

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

  1. ^ "1987". Those were the days. Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  2. ^ Dalrymple, Theodore (2010). Spoilt Rotten. London: Gibson Square. p. 244.
  3. ^ "Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row". BBC. 1987-07-31. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  4. ^ "Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs". BBC. 1987-09-23. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
  5. ^ "Tom Wolfe". Gawker. Archived from the original on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
  6. ^ John Connolly; Declan Burke (2 October 2012). Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels. Simon and Schuster. p. 455. ISBN 978-1-4516-9658-5.
  7. ^ Philip Darby (31 May 1998). Fiction of Imperialism. A&C Black. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-0-304-70159-9.
  8. ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
  9. ^ Portuguese Studies Review (in French). Baywolf Press. 2008.
  10. ^ Luke Strongman (2002). The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire. Rodopi. p. 116. ISBN 90-420-1488-1.
  11. ^ Harold Bloom (2009). Novelists and Novels. Infobase Publishing. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-7910-9373-3.
  12. ^ Elana Gomel (2003). Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject. Ohio State University Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8142-0949-3.
  13. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
  14. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 206
  15. ^ "Theatre review: Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off / Our Teacher's a Troll / Mull Theatre". the Guardian. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  16. ^ Yuan, Jada (June 11, 2019). "Julio Torres, Rising Weirdo: SNL's Otherworldly Secret Weapon Is about to Take over HBO". Vulture. Retrieved June 25, 2019.
  17. ^ "Ilana Glazer: Biography". TV Guide. Archived from the original on December 8, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
  18. ^ Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror. Locus Press. 1987. p. 413.
  19. ^ Norman, Barry (2003). And Why Not?: Memoirs of a Film Lover. NY: Simon and Schuster. pp. 211–14. ISBN 978-0684020884. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  20. ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 1981. p. 776. ISBN 978-0-7136-3336-8.
  21. ^ Boorstin, Robert O. (1987-04-13). "Hospital Asserts it Gave Warhol Adequate Care". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
  22. ^ Congress, The Library of. "Moore, C. L. (Catherine Lucile), 1911-1987". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  23. ^ Intern (2012-07-09). "Primo Levi's Last Moments". Boston Review. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  24. ^ Reference Guide to English Literature: Writers H-Z. St. James Press. 1991. p. 1029.
  25. ^ Arthur Goldschmidt (2000). Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt. Lynne Rienner. p. 67. ISBN 9781555872298.
  26. ^ Dambudzo Marechera (1988). Dambudzo Marechera, 4 June 1952-18 August 1987: Pictures, Poems, Prose, Tributes. Baobab Books. pp. 12–15. ISBN 9780797408388.
  27. ^ Krebs, Albin (September 26, 1987). "Emlyn Williams, Welsh Actor and Writer, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
  28. ^ Jane Gross (October 5, 1987). "Jean Anouilh, the French Playwright, Is Dead at 77". New York Times. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  29. ^ "Clare Boothe Luce, one of America's most versatile and..." United Press International. October 9, 1987. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
  30. ^ "James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered". The New York Times. December 20, 1987.
  31. ^ John Taylor (31 December 2011). Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Transaction Publishers. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-4128-0951-1.
  32. ^ Emily Lygo (2010). Leningrad Poetry 1953-1975: The Thaw Generation. Peter Lang. p. 1. ISBN 978-3-03911-370-5.
  33. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
  34. ^ Fox, Margalit (24 March 2010). "Sid Fleischman, Children's Author, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
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