This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1988.
Children and young people
Chris Van Allsburg - Two Bad Ants
Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (Bimbo und sein Vogel)
Roald Dahl – Matilda
Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) - In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Elizabeth Laird – Red Sky in the Morning (also as Loving Ben)
Geraldine McCaughrean – A Pack of Lies
Patricia McKissack – Mirandy and Brother Wind
William Joyce – Robots
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (with Willi Glasauer) – Escenas de la Literatura Universal y Retratos de Grandes Autores|Scenes from World Literature and Portraits of Greatest Authors
Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution)
Thomas Bernhard – Heldenplatz
David Henry Hwang – M. Butterfly
Ann-Marie MacDonald – Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Peter Shaffer – Lettice and Lovage
Tom Stoppard – Hapgood
Botho Strauß – Seven Doors
Giannina Braschi – El imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams)
James Merrill – The Inner Room
Grazyna Miller – "Curriculum"
Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon
Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron – Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography)
Lou Mollgaard – Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse
Rosalind Miles – The Women's History of the World
Alanna Nash – Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
Lady Violet Powell – The Life of a Provincial Lady: A Study of E. M. Delafield and Her Works
Philip Roth – The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Miranda Seymour – A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his Literary Circle, 1895–1915
Joe Simpson – Touching the Void
William L. Sullivan – Listening for Coyote
Frédéric Vitoux – Céline: A Biography (La Vie de Céline)
May 18 – Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer
February 3 – Robert Duncan, American poet (born 1919)
February 6 – Marghanita Laski, English biographer, novelist and broadcaster (born 1915)
February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian (born 1912)
March 19 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish-language poet (born 1910)
May 3 – Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist and short story writer (born 1904)
April 12 – Alan Paton, South African novelist and political activist (born 1903)
April 15 – Modest Morariu, Romanian poet, essayist, prose writer and translator (born 1929)
April 21 – I. A. L. Diamond, Bessarabian-born American comedy writer (born 1920)
May 8 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (born 1907)
June 10 – Louis L'Amour, American western novelist (born 1908)
June 21 – George Ivașcu, Romanian journalist, literary critic, and communist militant (born 1911)
July 10 – Enrique Lihn, Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist (cancer, born 1929)
July 12 – Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer (born 1908)
August 20 – Joan G. Robinson, English children's writer and illustrator (born 1910)
August 23 – Menotti Del Picchia, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter (born 1892)
August 28 – Max Shulman, American novelist, short-story writer and dramatist (born 1919)
September 28 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)
October 1 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English art critic (born 1897)
October 16 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet (born 1900)
November 2 – Stewart Parker, Northern Irish poet and playwright (cancer, born 1941)
Unknown date – Frank Bonham, American western and young adult novelist (born 1914)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
Miles Franklin Award: No award presented
See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International: Andrew Vachss, Strega
Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale
Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens
Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies
Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889–1921)
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott
Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
The Sunday Express Book of the Year: David Lodge, Nice Work
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
National Book Award for Fiction: Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
National Book Critics Circle: Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories
Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
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
Whiting Awards:
Fiction: Lydia Davis, Bruce Duffy, Jonathan Franzen, Mary La Chapelle, William T. Vollmann
Nonfiction: Gerald Early, Geoffrey O'Brien
Poetry: Michael Burkard, Li-Young Lee, Sylvia Moss
Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio, Retratos de ambigú
1988 in literature Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
