1988 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1988.
- March 7 – Nine thousand movie and television writers of the Writers' Guild of America go on strike a day after rejecting a final offer from producers.[1]
- May 28–31 – The first Hay Festival of literature is held in the Welsh Marches.
- June – The Panasonic Globe Theatre, Tokyo, opens with an Ingmar Bergman production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- August 7 – The Writers Guild of America strike formally ends.[2]
- November 15 – Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 reforms copyright law in the United Kingdom, with special provision for Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children to benefit in perpetuity from royalties in J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
- unknown date – Vasily Grossman's 1960 novel Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба) is published for the first time in the Soviet Union, in the magazine Oktyabr.[3]
New books
Fiction
- Caio Fernando Abreu – Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso (Dragons, short stories)
- Margaret Atwood – Cat's Eye
- Bernardo Atxaga – Obabakoak (short stories)
- J. G. Ballard
- Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
- Clive Barker
- Thomas Berger – The Houseguest
- Michael Blake – Dances with Wolves
- Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories
- Ray Bradbury – The Toynbee Convector (short story)[4]
- Orson Scott Card – Treason
- Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
- Roger Caron – Jojo
- Raymond Carver – Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
- Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist[5]
- Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf
- Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Rifles
- Wildtrack
- Jim Crace – The Gift of Stones[6]
- Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
- Robertson Davies – The Lyre of Orpheus
- L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Stones of Nomuru
- Don DeLillo – Libra
- Dương Thu Hương – Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên đường mù)
- Allan W. Eckert – The Dark Green Tunnel
- Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
- John Gardner – Scorpius
- Thomas Harris – The Silence of the Lambs
- Joseph Heller – Picture This
- Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming Pool Library
- William Horwood – Dunction Quest
- Hamid Ismailov – Собрание Утончённых (Conference of the Refined)
- Judith Krantz – 'Til We Meet Again
- Ágota Kristóf – The Proof
- Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child
- Bernard-Henri Lévy – Les Derniers Jours de Charles Baudelaire
- Robert Ludlum – The Icarus Agenda
- Javier Marías – Todas las almas (All Souls)
- David Markson – Wittgenstein's Mistress
- James A. Michener – Alaska
- Robert B. Parker – Crimson Joy
- Belva Plain – Tapestry
- Ellis Peters
- Richard Powers – Prisoner's Dilemma
- Tim Powers – On Stranger Tides
- Terry Pratchett
- Christoph Ransmayr – The Last World
- Jean Raspail – Blue Island
- Alina Reyes – The Butcher
- David Adams Richards – Nights Below Station Street
- Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
- Richard Russo – The Risk Pool
- R. A. Salvatore – The Crystal Shard (first of The Icewind Dale Trilogy)
- Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
- Clark Ashton Smith – A Rendezvous in Averoigne
- Danielle Steel – Zoya
- Thomas Sullivan – The Phases of Harry Moon
- Julian Symons – The Kentish Manor Murders
- Christopher Tolkien (with J. R. R. Tolkien and Alan Lee) – The Return of the Shadow
- Nikolai Tolstoy – The Coming of the King
- Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
- Andrew Vachss – Blue Belle
- Mario Vargas Llosa – In Praise of the Stepmother (Elogio de la madrastra)
- Banana Yoshimoto – Kitchen
Children and young people
- Chris Van Allsburg – Two Bad Ants
- Martin Auer – Now, Now, Markus (Bimbo und sein Vogel)
- Lyll Becerra de Jenkins – The Honorable Prison
- Roald Dahl – Matilda
- Janice Elliott – The Empty Throne (second in The Sword and the Dream series)
- Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) – In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
- William Joyce – Robots
- Elizabeth Laird – Red Sky in the Morning (also as Loving Ben)
- Geraldine McCaughrean – A Pack of Lies
- Patricia McKissack – Mirandy and Brother Wind
- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (with Eva Moore et al.) – Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
- P. L. Travers – Mary Poppins and the House Next Door
- 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)
Drama
- Alan Bennett – Single Spies (stage versions of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution)
- Thomas Bernhard – Heldenplatz[7]
- 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 (Sieben Türen)
Poetry
- Giannina Braschi – El imperio de los sueños (Empire of Dreams)
- James Merrill – The Inner Room
- Grazyna Miller – "Curriculum"
Non-fiction
- Peter A. Clayton and Martin Price – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- David Herbert Donald – Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
- Albert Goldman – The Lives of John Lennon[8]
- Sita Ram Goel – Catholic Ashrams
- Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time[9]
- Michael Jackson – Moonwalk
- Chris Killip with John Berger and Sylvia Grant – In Flagrante
- K. S. Lal – The Mughal Harem
- Patrick Macnee and Marie Cameron – Blind in One Ear: The Avenger Returns (Macnee's autobiography)
- Michel Maffesoli – The Time of the Tribes (Le Temps des tribus)
- 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)
- Edgar C. Whisenant – 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988
Births
- January 28 – Pierce Brown, American science-fiction writer
- May 18 – Luu Quang Minh, Vietnamese writer and singer
- August 19 – Veronica Roth, American young-adult novelist and short story writer
- September 10 – Dominika Słowik, Polish writer
- October 14 – Ocean Vuong, Vietnamese-American poet
- November 9 – Tahereh Mafi, American young-adult novelist
- unknown date – Fiona Mozley, English novelist and medievalist[10]
