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The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.

New books

Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils
Piers Anthony - Ghost
Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honour
James Axler - Pilgrimage to Hell and Red Holocaust
Iain Banks - The Bridge
Thomas Bernhard - Auslöschung
Anita Brookner - A Misalliance
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead
Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising
James Clavell - Whirlwind
Jackie Collins - Hollywood Husbands
Pat Conroy - The Prince of Tides
Hugh Cook - The Wizards and the Warriors
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Regiment
Bernard & Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) - Coat of Arms (aka The Aristocrats)
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
John Gardner - Nobody Lives For Ever
Jacques Godbout - Une histoire américaine
Carl Hiaasen - Tourist Season
Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle
Stephen King - It
W. P. Kinsella - The Fence Post Chronicles
Judith Krantz - I'll Take Manhattan
Louis L'Amour - Last of the Breed
John le Carré - A Perfect Spy
Tanith Lee - Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee
Gordon Lish - Dear Mr. Capote
H. P. Lovecraft - Dagon and Other Macabre Tales corrected edition
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Supremacy
Amin Maalouf - Leo Africanus
Allan Massie - Augustus
Robert Munsch - Love You Forever
Patrick O'Brian - The Reverse of the Medal
Robert B. Parker - Taming a Sea Horse
Ellis Peters - The Rose Rent
Belva Plain - The Golden Cup
Anthony Powell - The Fisher King
Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
Reynolds Price - Kate Vaiden
James Purdy - In the Hollow of His Hand
José Saramago - O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis
Idries Shah - Kara Kush
Danielle Steel - Wanderlust
Peter Taylor - A Summons to Memphis
James Tiptree, Jr. - Tales of the Quintana Roo
Roger Zelazny - Blood of Amber

New drama

Caryl Churchill& David Lan - A Mouthful of Birds
Willy Russell - Shirley Valentine

Poetry

Kama Sywor Kamanda - Chants de brumes

Non-fiction

Martin Amis - The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America
Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
Adrian Edmondson et al. - How to be a Complete Bastard
Flora Fraser - Beloved Emma
Mark Mathabane - Kaffir Boy
Farley Mowat - My Discovery of America
Marc Reisner - Cadillac Desert
Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Mary Wilson - Dreamgirl: My Life As a Supreme

Births

Caroline Bird, English poet

Deaths

January 1 - Lord David Cecil, critic and biographer
January 4 - Christopher Isherwood, novelist
January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology
February 11 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction author
February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author
March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist
March 18 - Bernard Malamud, novelist
April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and feminist writer
May 15 - Theodore White, writer
June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
August 1 - Lena Kennedy, novelist
August 3 - Beryl Markham, traveller and author
August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
December 17 - J. F. Hendry, poet
December 19 - V. C. Andrews, novelist

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

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
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

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Manuel Vicent, Balada de Caín

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