1986 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1986.

Events

April 29 – A major fire at Los Angeles Public Library caused by arson destroys 400,000 volumes.[1]
July 21 – Michael Grade, Controller of BBC1, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.[2]
September 29 – Bloomsbury Publishing is set up in London by Nigel Newton.[3]
October 9 – The Phantom of the Opera, having been the longest running Broadway show ever, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
December 19 – The Soviet dissident author Andrei Sakharov is allowed to return to Moscow after six years' internal exile.

New books

Poetry

Kama Sywor Kamanda – Chants de brumes (Songs of twilight)

Non-fiction

Martin Amis – The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America
Bernard Bailyn – Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Frank Barlow – Thomas Becket
Marjorie Chibnall – Anglo-Norman England 1066–1166
Richard Dawkins – The Blind Watchmaker
Karlheinz Deschner – Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums (Criminal History of Christianity)
Adrian Edmondson et al. – How to be a Complete Bastard
Sita Ram Goel – History of Hindu–Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996
Temple Grandin (with Margaret Scariano) – Emergence: Labeled Autistic
Patience Gray – Honey from a Weed (cookery)
Robert Irwin – The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamlúk Sultanate 1250–1382
Kumari Jayawardena – Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Mark Mathabane – Kaffir Boy
Farley Mowat – My Discovery of America
Harvey Pekar – American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (graphic autobiography)
Marc Reisner – Cadillac Desert
Richard Rhodes – The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Jonathan Riley-Smith – The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
Roger Scruton – Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
Art Spiegelman – Maus: A Survivor's Tale (I: My Father Bleeds History) (graphic biography/autobiography)
Jean Vercoutter – The Search for Ancient Egypt
Mary Wilson – Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme

Births

July 3 – Chris Bush, English playwright, artistic director and comedian
unknown dates
- Caroline Bird, English poet and dramatist[7]
- Chigozie Obioma, Nigerian novelist

Deaths

January 1 – Lord David Cecil, English critic and biographer (born 1902)[8]
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 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer, founder of Scientology (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 28 – Edith Ditmas, English archivist, historian and writer (born 1896)
March 4
- Ding Ling, Chinese fiction writer (born 1904)
- Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (born 1913)
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)
August 1 – Lena Kennedy, English romantic novelist (born 1914)
August 3 – Beryl Markham, English-born Kenyan aviator and author (born 1902)
August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer and playwright (born 1923)
September 11 – Noel Streatfeild, English novelist and children's writer (born 1895)[9]
December 17 – J. F. Hendry, Scottish poet (born 1912)
December 19 – V. C. Andrews, American novelist (born 1923)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Robin Walton, Glace Fruits
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Rhyll McMaster, Washing the Money and John A. Scott, St. Clair
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Robert Gray Selected Poems 1963–83
Mary Gilmore Prize: Stephen Williams, A Crowd of Voices
Miles Franklin Award: Elizabeth Jolley, The Well

Canada

See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Michel Host, Valet de nuit
Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, Les Funérailles de la Sardine
Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska

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

Premio Nadal: Manuel Vicent, Balada de Caín

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.
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.
"Caroline Bird". Poetry Foundation. 2020-11-02. 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.

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[1] Orlean, Susan (2018). The Library Book. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-4018-8.

[2] Ian Curteis (1987). The Falklands Play: A Television Play. Hutchinson. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-09-170611-1.

[3] Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1988). RSA Journal. Royal Society of Arts. p. 163.

[4] Dominic Head (26 January 2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-521-83179-6.

[Peters-5] Studies in Medievalism. D.S. Brewer. 1992. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-85991-348-5.

[6] "Books of the Times". The New York Times. 1987-06-02.

[7] "Caroline Bird". Poetry Foundation. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2020-11-02.

[8] The George Eliot, George Henry Lewes Newsletter. West Midlands College, English Division. 1986. p. 4.

[9] Patricia Burgess; Trish Burgess (1 August 1989). Annual Obituary, 1986. St James Press. p. 556. ISBN 978-1-55862-013-1.