Overview of the events of 1986 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1986.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 1 – Lord David Cecil, English critic and biographer (born 1902)[11]
- January 4 – Christopher Isherwood, English-born novelist (born 1904)
- January 7
- P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
- Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer, screenwriter and photographer (born 1917)
- January 9 – W. S. Graham, Scottish poet (born 1918)
- January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (born 1911)
- January 26 – Nicholas Moore, English poet (born 1911)
- February 4 – Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Dominican writer (born 1908)
- February 9 – Dora Oake Russell, Newfoundland writer, diarist and journalist (born 1912)
- February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction novelist (born 1920)
- February 27 – Nancy Brysson Morrison, Scottish novelist (born 1903)
- February 28 – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (born 1896)
- March 4
- March 15 – Pandelis Prevelakis, Greek novelist, poet, dramatist and essayist (born 1909)
- March 18 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist (born 1914)
- April 12 – Valentin Kataev, Russian novelist and dramatist (born 1897)
- April 14
- Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and feminist writer (born 1908)
- Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and political activist (born 1910)
- April 17 – Bessie Head, Botswanan fiction writer (born 1937)
- April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian, philosopher and novelist (born 1907)
- May 15 – Theodore H. White, American journalist, historian and novelist (born 1915)
- June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (born 1899)
- July 16 – Stephen Coulter, English writer (born 1914)
- August 1 – Lena Kennedy, English romantic novelist (born 1914)
- August 3 – Beryl Markham, English-born Kenyan aviator and author (born 1902)
- August 18 – Vivian Stuart, English novelist (born 1914)
- August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer and playwright (born 1923)
- September 11 – Noel Streatfeild, English novelist and children's writer (born 1895)[12]
- October 28 – John Braine, English novelist (born 1922)
- December 17 – J. F. Hendry, Scottish poet (born 1912)
- December 19 – V. C. Andrews, American novelist (born 1923)
- December 28 – John D. MacDonald, American novelist and short story writer (born 1916)
Awards
Australia
Canada
France
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
- Cholmondeley Award: Lawrence Durrell, James Fenton, Selima Hill
- Eric Gregory Award: Mick North, Lachlan Mackinnon, Oliver Reynolds, Stephen Romer
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jenny Joseph, Persephone
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: D. Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman MacCaig
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Robley Wilson, Kingdoms of the Ordinary
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Sidney Kingsley
- Frost Medal: Allen Ginsberg / Richard Eberhart
- Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Prometheus Award: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change
- Whiting Awards: Fiction: Kent Haruf, Denis Johnson, Padgett Powell, Mona Simpson; Poetry: John Ash, Hayden Carruth, Frank Stewart, Ruth Stone; Nonfiction: Darryl Pinckney (nonfiction/fiction); Plays: August Wilson
Elsewhere
References
- ^ Orlean, Susan (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.
- ^ Ian Curteis (1987). The Falklands Play: A Television Play. Hutchinson. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-09-170611-1.
- ^ Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1988). RSA Journal. Royal Society of Arts. p. 163.
- ^ Dominic Head (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6.
- ^ a b Studies in Medievalism. D.S. Brewer. 1992. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-85991-348-5.
- ^ "Books of the Times". The New York Times. 1987-06-02.
- ^ Gay, Jane (2003). Languages of theatre shaped by women. Bristol, UK Portland, OR: Intellect. ISBN 9781871516784.
- ^ Erskine, Thomas (2000). Video versions : film adaptations of plays on video. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 312. ISBN 9780313301858.
- ^ George C. Schoolfield (1998). A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press. p. 240.
- ^ "Caroline Bird". Poetry Foundation. 2020-11-02. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- ^ The George Eliot, George Henry Lewes Newsletter. West Midlands College, English Division. 1986. p. 4.
- ^ Patricia Burgess; Trish Burgess (1 August 1989). Annual Obituary, 1986. St James Press. p. 556. ISBN 978-1-55862-013-1.