1997 in literature
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The year 1997 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- Tom Clancy signs a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), giving him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . A second agreement gives him another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy follows this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million.
- December 30 - The memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, is removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, because it "portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people" [CNN].[1]
- Jacket online literary magazine founded.
[edit] New books
- Norman Mailer - The Gospel According to the Son
- Ben Aaronovitch & Kate Orman - So Vile a Sin
- Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
- Martin Amis - Night Train
- John Banville - The Untouchable
- Marie Bashkirtseff - I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (Translation)
- Raymond Benson - Tomorrow Never Dies and Zero Minus Ten
- Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman - Vampire Science
- Simon Bucher-Jones - Ghost Devices
- Christopher Bulis - A Device of Death
- Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City
- Mary Higgins Clark - Pretend You Don't See Her
- Warwick Collins - Gents
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger and Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
- Patricia Cornwell - Hornet's Nest and Unnatural Exposure
- Paul Cornell - Oh No It Isn't!
- Ann C. Crispin - The Hutt Gambit and The Paradise Snare
- Don DeLillo - Underworld
- Anita Diamant - The Red Tent
- Terrance Dicks - The Eight Doctors and Mean Streets
- Alan Downs -"Beyond the Looking Glass: Overcoming the Seductive Culture of Corporate Narcissism"
- Fernanda Eberstadt - When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
- Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
- Anthony Frewin - London Blues
- John Grisham - The Partner
- Barbara Hambly - Planet of Twilight
- Allison Hedge Coke - Dog Road Woman American Book Award winner 1998
- Nancy Huston - Instruments of Darkness
- Matt Jones - Beyond the Sun
- Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm
- Winona LaDuke - Last Standing Woman
- Paul Leonard - Genocide
- Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
- Ian R. MacLeod - Voyages by Starlight
- David A. McIntee - The Dark Path
- Lawrence Miles - Alien Bodies and Down
- Mark Morris - The Bodysnatchers
- Jim Mortimore - Eternity Weeps
- Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum - The Room With No Doors, So Vile a Sin and Vampire Science
- Lance Parkin - The Dying Days
- James Patterson - Cat and Mouse
- Cyril Pearl - Morisson of Peking
- John Peel - War of the Daleks
- Marc Platt - Lungbarrow
- Terry Pratchett - Jingo
- Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
- Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon
- Kathy Reichs - Déjà Dead
- Justin Richards - Dragons' Wrath
- Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
- Gareth Roberts - The Well-Mannered War
- Philip Roth - American Pastoral
- J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Gary Russell - Deadfall
- Sarah Ferguson - Budgie the Little Helicopter
- Carol Shields - Larry's Party
- Sidney Sheldon - The Best Laid Plans
- Michael Stackpole - The Bacta War
- Danielle Steel - The Ghost, The Ranch and Special Delivery
- Dave Stone - Burning Heart and Ship of Fools
- William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced?
- Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
- Timothy Zahn - Specter of the Past
- Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold - Donnerjack
- Binod Bihari Verma - Nayanmani Maithili Novel
[edit] New drama
- Thomas Kilroy - The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde
- Peter Whelan - The Herbal Bed
[edit] Poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Karen Armstrong - Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
- Dave Barry - Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
- Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Cari Beauchamp - Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
- Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
- Michael Drosnin - The Bible Code
- Gerina Dunwich - A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination
- Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (autobiography)
- Reinhold Heller - Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre
- James McBride - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Maria Todorova - Imagining the Balkans
- Jesse Lee Kercheval - Building Fiction
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
- February 3 - Bohumil Hrabal, author
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, poet
- August 2 - William S. Burroughs, novelist
- August 27 - Johannes Edfelt, poet, translator and critic
- October 14 - Harold Robbins, novelist
- October 16 - James A. Michener, novelist and historian
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Eva Sallis, Hiam
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, Subhuman Redneck Poems
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Anthony Lawrence, The Viewfinder
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Morgan Yasbincek, Night Reversing
[edit] Canada
- Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award: Rachel Rose
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler: - Barney's Version
- See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Patrick Rambaud, La Bataille
- Prix Décembre: Lydie Salvayre, La Compagnie des spectres
- Prix Médicis International: T. Coraghessan Boyle, America
- Prix Médicis French: Les Sept Noms du peintre - Philippe Le Guillou
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: R. F. Foster, William Butler Yeats: A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914
- Cholmondeley Award: Alison Brackenbury, Gillian Clarke, Tony Curtis, Anne Stevenson
- Eric Gregory Award: Matthew Clegg, Sarah Corbett, Polly Clark, Tim Kendall, Graham Nelson, Matthew Welton
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid
[edit] United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Richard Blanco, City of a Hundred Fires
- Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Fred Chappell
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, John Ashbery
- Compton Crook Award: Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
- Hugo Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Steven Millhauser - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Lisel Mueller: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
- Wallace Stevens Award: Anthony Hecht
[edit] Elsewhere
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Javier Marias, A Heart So White
- Premio Nadal: Carlos Cañeque, Quién
[edit] Notes
- ^ "CNN.com: Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial.." webpage: CNN-banned-books.
