1988 in literature 

Events

New Books

• Alaska[?] - James A. Michener
• The Alchemist[?] - Paulo Coelho
• Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse - Lou Mollgaard[?]
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• The Butcher[?] - Alina Reyes[?]
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
• The Coming of the King[?] - Nikolai Tolstoy[?]
• The Dark Green Tunnel[?] - Allan W. Eckert
• The Icarus Agenda[?] - Robert Ludlum
• Love in the Time of Cholera[?] - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
• The Sands of Time[?] - Sidney Sheldon[?]
• The Shell Seekers[?] - Rosamunde Pilcher
• Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
• Tapestry[?] - Belva Plain[?]
• Til We Meet Again[?] - Judith Krantz[?]
• Zoya[?] - Danielle Steel

Births

Deaths

• May 8 - Robert Heinlein, science fiction author
• September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist

Awards

• Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman[?], Lincoln: A Photobiography
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Alfred Uhry[?], Driving Miss Daisy
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Toni Morrison, Beloved
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William Meredith[?]: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems

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