1988 in literature
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See also: 1987 in literature, other events of 1988, 1989 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
New books
- Alaska - James A. Michener
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse - Lou Mollgaard
- Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
- The Butcher - Alina Reyes
- Candlelight Spells - Gerina Dunwich
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
- Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
- The Coming of the King - Nikolai Tolstoy
- The Dark Green Tunnel - Allan W. Eckert
- Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch - Alanna Nash
- The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
- The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
- Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
- The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
- A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 - Miranda Seymour
- The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
- The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
- Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
- Tapestry - Belva Plain
- Til We Meet Again - Judith Krantz
- The Toynbee Convector - Ray Bradbury
- Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
- Zoya - Danielle Steel
Births
Deaths
- February 3 - Robert Duncan, poet
- March - Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet
- April 12 - Alan Paton, novelist
- April 21 - I.A.L.Diamond, comedy writer
- May 8 - Robert Heinlein, science fiction author
- June 10 - Louis L'Amour, western novelist
- July 12 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer
- August 28 - Max Shulman, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist
- September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, art critic, brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell
Awards
- Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
- See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz
- Prix Goncourt: Erik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale
- Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
- Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens
- 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
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness