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The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

New books

• Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
• J.G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age
• Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
• Clive Barker
  • Cabal
  • The Hellbound Heart
• Ray Bradbury - The Toynbee Convector
• Orson Scott Card - Treason
• Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda
• Roger Caron - Jojo
• Tom Clancy - The Cardinal of the Kremlin
• Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
• Hugh Cook - The Walrus and the Warwolf
• Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Rifles and Wildtrack
• Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions
• L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - The Stones of Nomuru
• Allan W. Eckert - The Dark Green Tunnel
• Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
• John Gardner - Scorpius
• Alan Hollinghurst - The Swimming Pool Library
• William Horwood - Duncton Wood
• Judith Krantz - Til We Meet Again
• Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child
• Robert Ludlum - The Icarus Agenda
• James A. Michener - Alaska
• Robert B. Parker - Crimson Joy
• Belva Plain - Tapestry
• Richard Powers - Prisoner's Dilemma
• Terry Pratchett
  • Sourcery
  • Wyrd Sisters
• Alina Reyes - The Butcher
• Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses
• Richard Russo - The Risk Pool
• Sidney Sheldon - The Sands of Time
• Clark Ashton Smith - A Rendezvous in Averoigne
• Danielle Steel - Zoya
• Thomas Sullivan - The Phases of Harry Moon
• Nikolai Tolstoy - The Coming of the King
• Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
• Andrew Vachss - Blue Belle

New drama

• David Henry Hwang - M. Butterfly
• Tom Stoppard - Hapgood

Poetry

• James Merrill - The Inner Room
• Grazyna Miller - Curriculum

Non-fiction

• Albert Goldman - The Lives of John Lennon
• Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
• Lou Mollgaard - Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse
• Rosalind Miles - The Women's History of the World
• Alanna Nash - Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
• Philip Roth - The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
• Miranda Seymour - A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915

Births

Deaths

• February 3 - Robert Duncan, poet
• February 28 – Kylie Tennant, Australian novelist, playwright and historian
• March - Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish language poet
• April 12 - Alan Paton, novelist
• April 21 - I. A. L. Diamond, comedy writer
• May 8 - Robert A. 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

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Tom Flood, Oceana Fine
• C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes
• Mary Gilmore Prize: Judith Beveridge, The Domesticity of Giraffes

Canada

• See 1988 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International: Andrew Vachss, Strega
• Prix Goncourt: Erik Orsenna, L'Exposition coloniale
• Prix Médicis French: Christiane Rochefort, La Porte du fond
• Prix Médicis International: Thomas Bernhard, les Maîtres anciens

United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
• Cholmondeley Award: John Heath-Stubbs, Sean O'Brien, John Whitworth
• Eric Gregory Award: Michael Symmons Roberts, Gwyneth Lewis, Adrian Blackledge, Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921)
• Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Derek Walcott
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Paul Sayer, The Comforts of Madness
• The Sunday Express Book of the Year: David Lodge, Nice Work

United States

• Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Maxine Scates, Toluca Street
• Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry: Richard Wilbur
• Frost Medal: Carolyn Kizer
• Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography
• 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

Spain

• Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio, Retratos de ambigú