1997 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1997.

Events

February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam.^[1] He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30.^[2]
May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre, opens to the public with a production of Shakespeare's Henry V.
June 26 – J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published in London by Bloomsbury Publishing in an edition of 500 copies.
October – Jacket online literary magazine founded
November 24 – New British Library building in London designed by Colin St John Wilson opens to readers.
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, for portraying "white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people".^[3]
Tom Clancy signs a deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. giving him US $50 million for the world English rights to two new books. A second agreement pays another $25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal, and a third, with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with an ABC television miniseries for $22 million.

New books

Fiction

Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman – So Vile a Sin
Mitch Albom – Tuesdays With Morrie
Martin Amis – Night Train
Iain Banks – A Song of Stone
John Banville – The Untouchable
Hazel Barnes – The Story I Tell Myself
Marie Bashkirtseff (died 1884) – I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation)
Raymond Benson – Tomorrow Never Dies and Zero Minus Ten
Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman – Vampire Science
Roberto Bolaño – Last Evenings on Earth (Llamadas Telefonicas)
Pascal Bruckner – Les Voleurs de beauté
Simon Bucher-Jones – Ghost Devices
Christopher Bulis – A Device of Death
Tim Burton – The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
Candace Bushnell – Sex and the City
Peter Carey – Jack Maggs
Caleb Carr – The Angel of Darkness
Agatha Christie
- The Harlequin Tea Set
- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Mary Higgins Clark – Pretend You Don't See Her
Daniel Clowes – Ghost World (graphic novel)
Warwick Collins – Gents
Bernard Cornwell
- Sharpe's Tiger
- Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
Patricia Cornwell
- Hornet's Nest
- Unnatural Exposure
Paul Cornell – Oh No It Isn't!
Jim Crace – Quarantine
Robert Crais – Indigo Slam
Ann C. Crispin
- The Hutt Gambit
- The Paradise Snare
Don DeLillo – Underworld
Anita Diamant – The Red Tent
Terrance Dicks
- The Eight Doctors
- Mean Streets
Fernanda Eberstadt – When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
Anthony Frewin – London Blues
Anastasia Gosteva – Дочь самурая (The Samurai's Daughter)
John Grisham – The Partner
Barbara Hambly – Planet of Twilight
Allison Hedge Coke – Dog Road Woman
Matt Jones – Beyond the Sun
Sebastian Junger – The Perfect Storm
Winona LaDuke – Last Standing Woman
Joe R. Lansdale – Bad Chili
Paul Leonard – Genocide
Ann-Marie MacDonald – Fall on Your Knees
Bernard MacLaverty – Grace Notes
Ian R. MacLeod – Voyages by Starlight
Norman Mailer – The Gospel According to the Son
Ian McEwan – Enduring Love
David A. McIntee – The Dark Path
Lawrence Miles
- Alien Bodies
- Down
Mark Morris – The Bodysnatchers
Toni Morrison – Paradise
Jim Mortimore – Eternity Weeps
Ryū Murakami (村上龍) – In the Miso Soup (インザ・ミソスープ, English translation 2005)
Courttia Newland – The Scholar
Kate Orman – The Room with No Doors
Lance Parkin – The Dying Days
James Patterson – Cat and Mouse
Cyril Pearl – Morisson of Peking
John Peel – War of the Daleks
Pepetela – A Gloriosa Família
Marc Platt – Lungbarrow
Terry Pratchett – Jingo
Annie Proulx – "Brokeback Mountain" (short story)
Thomas Pynchon – Mason & Dixon
Kathy Reichs – Déjà Dead
Nina Revoyr – The Necessary Hunger
Justin Richards – Dragons' Wrath
Mordecai Richler – Barney's Version
Gareth Roberts – The Well-Mannered War
Philip Roth – American Pastoral
Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things
Don Miguel Ruiz – The Four Agreements
Gary Russell
- Deadfall
- Instruments of Darkness
Will Self – Great Apes
Carol Shields – Larry's Party
Sidney Sheldon – The Best Laid Plans
Michael Stackpole – The Bacta War
Danielle Steel
- The Ghost
- The Ranch
- Special Delivery
Dave Stone
- Burning Heart
- Ship of Fools
William Sutcliffe – Are You Experienced?
Antonio Tabucchi – The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro)
Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
Zlatko Topčić – Nightmare
Kurt Vonnegut – Timequake
Lulu Wang – Het Lelietheater (The Lily Theatre)
Connie Willis – To Say Nothing of the Dog
Timothy Zahn – Specter of the Past
Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold – Donnerjack

Children and young people

Lynne Reid Banks – Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm (first in the Harry the Poisonous Centipede trilogy)
'Asta Bowen – Wolf: A Journey Home
Cao Wenxuan (曹文軒) – The Grass House (草房子)
Sarah Ferguson – Budgie the Little Helicopter (first in an eponymous series of five books)
Virginia Hamilton (with Barry Moser) - A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa
Mark Helprin (with Chris Van Allsburg) – The Veil of Snows
William Mayne – Lady Muck (illustrated by Jonathan Heale)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw – The Moorchild
Junko Morimoto – The Two Bullies
Barbara Nichol (with Barry Moser) – Dippers
Dav Pilkey – The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife
Rick Riordan – Big Red Tequila
J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Ron Roy – The Absent Author (first in the A to Z Mysteries series of 26 books)
Vivian Walsh – Olive, the Other Reindeer
Jacqueline Wilson – Girls in Love

Births

Deaths

January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)
February 3 – Bohumil Hrabal, Czech novelist (born 1914)
February 18 – Emily Hahn, American journalist and author (born 1905)
April 5 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (liver cancer, born 1926)^[1]
May 9 – Rina Lasnier, Canadian poet (born 1915)
May 23 – Alison Adburgham, English social historian and journalist (born 1912)
June 8 – George Turner, Australian novelist and critic (born 1916)
July 26 – Joseph Henry Reason, American librarian (born 1905)^[4]
August 2 – William S. Burroughs, American novelist (born 1914^[5]
August 16 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish actor and playwright (born 1915)
August 27 – Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet, translator and critic (born 1904)
October 14 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (born 1916)
October 16 – James A. Michener, American novelist and historian (born 1907)
November 6 – Leon Forrest, African American novelist and essayist (cancer, born 1937)^[6]
November 30 – Kathy Acker, American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born 1947)^[7]

Awards

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
Miles Franklin Award: David Foster, The Glade Within the Grove

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.
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Anne Mullens, Timely Death^[8]

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

Spain

Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Tim Bowler, River Boy
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

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
Whiting Awards:

Fiction: Josip Novakovich (fiction/nonfiction), Melanie Rae Thon

Nonfiction: Jo Ann Beard, Suketu Mehta (fiction/nonfiction), Ellen Meloy

Plays: Erik Ehn

Poetry: Connie Deanovich, Forrest Gander, Jody Gladding, Mark Turpin

Elsewhere

International Dublin Literary Award: Javier Marías, A Heart So White
Premio Nadal: Carlos Cañeque, Quién

Notes

1 2 Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
↑ Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997. pp. 1160–61.
↑ "Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial". Banned books. CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-08-05.
↑ Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry". In Donald G. Davis. Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-56308-868-1.
↑ 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.
↑ Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.
↑ Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)
↑ Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012

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[NYTObit-1] 1 2 Hampton, Wilborn (April 6, 1997). "Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved April 14, 2008.

[2] Ginsberg, Allen. Collected Poems 1947–1997. pp. 1160–61.

[3] "Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial". Banned books. CNN. Archived from the original on 2004-08-05.

[4] Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry". In Donald G. Davis. Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 182–186. ISBN 978-1-56308-868-1.

[5] 2003 Penguin Modern Classics edition of Junky.

[6] Onishi, Norimitsu. "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History", The New York Times, November 10, 1997.

[7] Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)

[8] Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012