Editing 1997 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1997'''.
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==Events==
*[[February 20]] – [[Allen Ginsberg]] makes a final public appearance at the [[NYU]] Poetry Slam.<ref name=NYTObit/> He continues to write through his final illness, his last poem being "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgias)" written on March 30.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Allen |last=Ginsberg |title=Collected Poems 1947–1997 |pages=1160–61}}</ref>
*[[May 27]] – [[Shakespeare's Globe]] in London, a reconstruction of the [[Elizabethan]] [[Globe Theatre]], opens with a production of Shakespeare's ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''.
*[[June 3]] – The supposed climax of [[Max Beerbohm]]'s 1916 short story ''[[Enoch Soames]]'' occurs at the old [[British Museum Reading Room]] in London.
*[[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.
*[[July 13]] – The release occurs in Ireland of the [[The Butcher Boy (1997 film)|film]] of [[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]]'s 1992 novel ''[[The Butcher Boy (novel)|The Butcher Boy]]''. The author plays Jimmy The Skite, the town drunk.
*[[September 1]] – ''[[The Adventures of Captain Underpants]]'', the first in [[Dav Pilkey]]'s series of children's novels, is published by [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic]] in the United States.
*October – The online literary magazine ''[[Jacket (magazine)|Jacket]]'' is founded.
*[[November 24]] – The 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".<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=[[CNN]] |title=Harry Potter, 'Huckleberry Finn' among controversial |url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/09/14/banned.books.ap/index.html |work=Banned books |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805171342/http://www.cnn.com/2000/books/news/09/14/banned.books.ap/index.html |archive-date=2004-08-05}}</ref>

''Uncertain dates''
*[[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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television miniseries for $22 million.
*[[Janet Dailey]] admits to [[plagiarism]] of the novels of the fellow American bestselling romance writer [[Nora Roberts]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Jeff |title=Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=1997-07-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Standora |first=Leo |title=Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued |date=1997-08-27 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/08/27/1997-08-27_romance_writer_janet_dailey_.html |access-date=2008-11-18|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801054127/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1997/08/27/1997-08-27_romance_writer_janet_dailey_.html |archive-date=2009-08-01}}</ref>

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Ben Aaronovitch]] and [[Kate Orman]] – ''[[So Vile a Sin]]''
*[[Mitch Albom]] – ''[[Tuesdays With Morrie]]''
*[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[Night Train (novel)|Night Train]]''
*[[Iain Banks]] – ''[[A Song of Stone]]''
*[[John Banville]] – ''[[The Untouchable (novel)|The Untouchable]]''
*[[Hazel Barnes]] – ''The Story I Tell Myself''
*[[Marie Bashkirtseff]] (died [[1884 in literature|1884]]) – ''I Am the Most Interesting Book of All'' (translation)
*[[Raymond Benson]]
**''[[Tomorrow Never Dies#Novelisation|Tomorrow Never Dies]]''
**''[[Zero Minus Ten]]''
*[[Jonathan Blum (writer, born 1972)|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 (book)|Sex and the City]]''
*[[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]] – ''[[Jack Maggs]]''
*[[Caleb Carr]] – ''[[The Angel of Darkness]]''
*[[Agatha Christie]] (died [[1976 in literature|1976]]) – collected short stories
**''[[The Harlequin Tea Set]]''
**''[[While the Light Lasts and Other Stories]]''
*[[Daniel Clowes]] – ''[[Ghost World (comics)|Ghost World]]'' (graphic novel)
*[[Warwick Collins]] – ''[[Gents (novel)|Gents]]''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]]
**''[[Sharpe's Tiger]]''
**''[[Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur (novel)|Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur]]''
*[[Patricia Cornwell]]
**''[[Hornet's Nest (novel)|Hornet's Nest]]''
**''[[Unnatural Exposure]]''
*[[Paul Cornell]] – ''[[Oh No It Isn't!]]''
*[[Jim Crace]] – ''[[Quarantine (Jim Crace novel)|Quarantine]]''
*[[Robert Crais]] – ''[[Indigo Slam]]''
*[[Ann C. Crispin]]
**''[[The Hutt Gambit]]''
**''[[The Paradise Snare]]''
*'[[Misha Defonseca]]' – ''[[Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years]]'' (published as non-fiction)
*[[Don DeLillo]] – ''[[Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]''
*[[Anita Diamant]] – ''[[The Red Tent (Anita Diamant novel)|The Red Tent]]''
*[[Terrance Dicks]]
**''[[The Eight Doctors]]''
**''[[Mean Streets (Dicks novel)|Mean Streets]]''
*[[Fernanda Eberstadt]] – ''When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth''
*[[Bernardine Evaristo]] – ''Lara''
*[[Charles Frazier]] – ''[[Cold Mountain (novel)|Cold Mountain]]''
*[[Anthony Frewin]] – ''[[London Blues]]''
*[[Anastasia Gosteva]] – ''Дочь самурая'' (The Samurai's Daughter)
*[[John Grisham]] – ''[[The Partner (Grisham novel)|The Partner]]''
*[[Barbara Hambly]] – ''[[Planet of Twilight]]''
*[[Allison Hedge Coke]] – ''Dog Road Woman''
*[[Matt Jones (writer)|Matt Jones]] – ''[[Beyond the Sun (novel)|Beyond the Sun]]''
*[[Sebastian Junger]] – ''[[The Perfect Storm (book)|The Perfect Storm]]''
*[[Winona LaDuke]] – ''Last Standing Woman''
*[[Joe R. Lansdale]] – ''[[Bad Chili]]''
*[[Paul Leonard (writer)|Paul Leonard]] – ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]''
*[[Melissa Lucashenko]] – ''[[Steam Pigs]]''
*[[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 (McIntee novel)|The Dark Path]]''
*[[Lawrence Miles]]
**''[[Down (novel)|Down]]''
*[[Mark Morris (author)|Mark Morris]] – ''[[The Bodysnatchers (novel)|The Bodysnatchers]]''
*[[Toni Morrison]] – ''[[Paradise (Morrison novel)|Paradise]]''
*[[Jim Mortimore]] – ''[[Eternity Weeps]]''
*[[Herta Müller]] – ''[[The Appointment (novel)|The Appointment]]''
*[[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]]''
*[[Hanne Ørstavik]] – ''Kjærlighet'' (Love)
*[[Lance Parkin]] – ''[[The Dying Days]]''
*[[James Patterson]] – ''[[Cat and Mouse (James Patterson novel)|Cat and Mouse]]''
*[[Cyril Pearl]] – ''Morisson of Peking''
*[[John Peel (writer)|John Peel]] – ''[[War of the Daleks]]''
*[[Pepetela]] – ''[[A Gloriosa Família]]''
*[[Marc Platt (writer)|Marc Platt]] – ''[[Lungbarrow]]''
*[[Terry Pratchett]] – ''[[Jingo (novel)|Jingo]]''
*[[Annie Proulx]] – [[Brokeback Mountain (short story)|"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 (novel)|Barney's Version]]''
*[[Gareth Roberts (writer)|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 (novel)|Deadfall]]''
**''[[Instruments of Darkness]]''
*[[Will Self]] – ''[[Great Apes (novel)|Great Apes]]''
*[[Carol Shields]] – ''[[Larry's Party]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=The Worlds of Carol Shields|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|year=2014|ISBN=9780776621869|page=113}}</ref>
*[[Sidney Sheldon]] – ''[[The Best Laid Plans (novel)|The Best Laid Plans]]''
*[[Michael Stackpole]] – ''[[The Bacta War]]''
*[[Danielle Steel]]
**''The Ghost''
**''The Ranch''
**''[[Special Delivery (novel)|Special Delivery]]''
*[[Dave Stone]]
**''[[Burning Heart (novel)|Burning Heart]]''
**''[[Ship of Fools (Stone novel)|Ship of Fools]]''
*[[William Sutcliffe]] – ''Are You Experienced?''
*[[Antonio Tabucchi]] – ''[[The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro]] (La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro)''
*[[Kaoru Takamura]] – ''{{nihongo3|Lady Joker|レディ・ジョーカー|Redi joka}}'' (book publication completed)
*[[Eckhart Tolle]] – ''[[The Power of Now]]''
*[[Zlatko Topčić]] – ''[[Nightmare (Topčić novel)|Nightmare]]''
*[[Kurt Vonnegut]] – ''[[Timequake]]''
*[[Lulu Wang (novelist)|Lulu Wang]] – ''Het Lelietheater'' (The Lily Theatre)
*[[Niall Williams (writer)|Niall Williams]] – ''Four Letters of Love''
*[[Connie Willis]] – ''[[To Say Nothing of the Dog]]''
*[[Timothy Zahn]] – ''[[Specter of the Past]]''
*[[Roger Zelazny]] and [[Jane Lindskold]] – ''[[Donnerjack]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Lloyd Alexander]] – ''[[The Iron Ring]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 14</ref>
*[[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]]''
*Nancy Butts - ''[[The Door in the Lake]]''
*[[Cao Wenxuan]] (曹文軒) – The Grass House (草房子)
*[[Sarah, Duchess of York|Sarah Ferguson]] – ''[[Budgie the Little Helicopter]]'' (first in an eponymous series of 5 books)
*[[Mem Fox]] – ''[[Whoever You Are]]''
*[[Cornelia Funke]] – ''[[Dragon Rider (novel)|Dragon Rider]]''
*[[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]]''
*[[Mary Pope Osborne]] (with [[Ned Bittinger]]) – ''[[Rocking Horse Christmas]]''
*[[Dav Pilkey]] – ''[[The Adventures of Captain Underpants]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p.106</ref> (first in the ''[[Captain Underpants]]'' series of 12 books)
*[[Philip Pullman]] – ''[[The Subtle Knife]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=His Dark Materials |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095938401 |website=Oxford Reference |access-date=11 January 2022 |language=en }}</ref>
*[[Rick Riordan]] – ''[[Big Red Tequila]]''
*[[J. K. Rowling]] – ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265</ref> (first book in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series)
*[[Ron Roy]] – ''The Absent Author'' (first in the ''A to Z Mysteries'' series of 26 books)
*[[Simms Taback]] – ''[[There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly]]''
*[[Vivian Walsh (author)|Vivian Walsh]] – ''[[Olive, the Other Reindeer]]''
*[[Jacqueline Wilson]] – ''[[Girls in Love (novel)|Girls in Love]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 631</ref>

===Drama===
*[[Jon Fosse]] – ''[[Nightsongs (play)|Nightsongs]]''
*[[Lee Hall (playwright)|Lee Hall]] – ''[[Spoonface Steinberg]]'' (radio monologue)
*[[Moisés Kaufman]] – ''[[Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde]]''
*[[Thomas Kilroy]] – ''The Secret Fall of [[Constance Wilde]]''
*[[Conor McPherson]] – ''[[The Weir]]''
*[[Patrick Marber]] – ''[[Closer (play)|Closer]]''
*[[Richard Nelson (playwright)|Richard Nelson]] – ''[[Goodnight Children Everywhere]]''
*[[Peter Whelan (playwright)|Peter Whelan]] – ''[[The Herbal Bed]]''

===Poetry===
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*[[Ted Hughes]] – ''[[Tales from Ovid]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Dave Barry]] – ''[[Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs]]''
*[[Jean-Dominique Bauby]] – ''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]'' (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)
*[[Cari Beauchamp]] – ''Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood''
*[[Jan Bondeson]] – ''A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities''
*[[Bill Bryson]] – ''[[A Walk in the Woods (book)|A Walk in the Woods]]''
*[[D. K. Chakrabarti]] – ''Colonial Indology : sociopolitics of the ancient Indian past''
*[[Iris Chang]] – ''[[The Rape of Nanking]]''
*[[Jared Diamond]] – ''[[Guns, Germs and Steel]]''
*[[Jenny Diski]] – ''Skating to Antarctica''
*[[Michael Drosnin]] – ''[[The Bible Code]]''
*[[Gerina Dunwich]] – ''A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination''
*[[Geoff Dyer]] – ''Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence''
*[[Timothy Ferris]] – ''The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report''
*[[Benjamin Fondane]] (died 1944) – ''Le Voyageur n'a pas fini de voyager''
*[[Stephen Fry]] – ''[[Moab Is My Washpot]]'' (autobiography)
*[[Charlotte Gray (author)|Charlotte Gray]] – ''[[Mrs. King]]''
*[[Alan Guth]] – ''[[The Inflationary Universe]]''
*[[Robert Hughes (critic)|Robert Hughes]] – ''[[American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America]]''
*[[Jesse Lee Kercheval]] – ''[[Building Fiction]]''
*[[Betty Kobayashi Issenman]] – ''[[Sinews of Survival]]''
*[[Geneviève Lacambre]] – ''[[Geneviève Lacambre#Gustave Moreau : Maître sorcier|Gustave Moreau : Maître sorcier]]''
*[[B. B. Lal (archaeologist)|B. B. Lal]] – ''The Earliest civilization of South Asia: rise, maturity, and decline''
*[[Peter Maas]] – ''[[Underboss (book)|Underboss]]''
*[[Deborah Madison]] &ndash; ''[[Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone]]''
*[[James McBride (writer)|James McBride]] – ''[[The Color of Water]]''
*[[Adele Morales]] – ''[[The Last Party|The Last Party: Scenes From My Life with Norman Mailer]]''
*[[Penguin Random House]] – ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''
*E. Wayne Ross – ''The Social Studies Curriculum''
*[[Ian Smith]] – ''[[The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith|The Great Betrayal]]''
*[[Alan Sokal]] and [[Jean Bricmont]] – ''[[Fashionable Nonsense]]''
*[[Maria Todorova]] – ''[[Imagining the Balkans]]''
*[[Larry Trask]] –  ''The Penguin Guide to Punctuation''
*[[Kevin Warwick]] – ''[[March of the Machines]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Kevin Warwick|title=March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxTcAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Century|isbn=978-0-7126-7756-1}}</ref>
*[[Thierry Zéphir]] – ''[[Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.livreshebdo.fr/livres/lempire-des-rois-khmers-gallimard-9782070533947 |title=L'empire des rois khmers |date=1997 |website=livreshebdo.fr |language=fr |access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref>

==Births==
*[[February 12]] – [[Alexander Nikolov (poet)|Alexander Nikolov]], Bulgarian poet
*[[June 22]] – [[Aqiil Gopee]], Mauritian writer and poet
*[[November 28]] – [[Franz Mherryon Robles]], Filipino novelist and [[aphorism|aphorist]]

==Deaths==
*[[January 19]] – [[James Dickey]], American poet and novelist (born [[1923 in literature|1923]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/08/the-burden-of-james-dickey/377173/|title=The Burden of James Dickey|first=Peter|last=Davison|date=August 1, 1998|website=The Atlantic}}</ref>
*[[February 3]] – [[Bohumil Hrabal]], Czech novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[February 18]] – [[Emily Hahn]], American journalist and author (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[March 21]] - [[Wilbert Awdry]], British Anglican reverend and author (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[April 5]] – [[Allen Ginsberg]], American poet (liver cancer, born [[1926 in literature|1926]])<ref name=NYTObit>{{Cite news |first=Wilborn |last=Hampton |title=Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/nyregion/allen-ginsberg-master-poet-of-beat-generation-dies-at-70.html |work=New York Times |date=April 6, 1997 |access-date=April 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311032659/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6D7143CF935A35757C0A961958260 |archive-date=March 11, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Rina Lasnier]], Canadian poet (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[May 23]] – [[Alison Adburgham]], English social historian and journalist (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])
*[[June 8]] – [[George Turner (writer)|George Turner]], Australian novelist and critic (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[June 11]] – [[Susanna Roth]], Swiss bohemist and literary translator (born [[1950 in literature|1950]])
*[[July 26]] – [[Joseph Henry Reason]], American librarian (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Owens |first=Irene |editor=Donald G. Davis |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography: Second supplement |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91UjM6TLRJgC&pg=PR182 |date=January 2003 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=978-1-56308-868-1 |pages=182–186 |chapter=Reason, Joseph Henry}}</ref>
*[[August 2]] – [[William S. Burroughs]], American novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]]<ref>2003 ''Penguin Modern Classics'' edition of ''Junky''.</ref>
*[[August 16]] – [[Gerard McLarnon]], Irish actor and playwright (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[August 27]] – [[Johannes Edfelt]], Swedish poet, translator and critic (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[October 14]] – [[Harold Robbins]], American novelist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[October 16]] – [[James A. Michener]], American novelist and historian (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[November 6]] – [[Leon Forrest]], African American novelist and essayist (cancer, born [[1937 in literature|1937]])<ref>Onishi, Norimitsu. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/10/nyregion/leon-forrest-60-a-novelist-who-explored-black-history.html?scp=1&sq=%22leon+forrest%22&st=nyt "Leon Forrest, 60, a Novelist Who Explored Black History"], ''The New York Times'', November 10, 1997.</ref>
*[[November 30]] – [[Kathy Acker]], American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born [[1947 in literature|1947]])<ref>Kathy Acker and Transnationalism, ed. Polina Mackay and Kathryn Nicol (Cambridge Scholars, 2009)</ref>
*[[December 14]] – [[Owen Barfield]], British philosopher, author and poet (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Dario Fo]]
*[[Europe Theatre Prize]]: [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]
*[[Camões Prize]]: [[Pepetela]]

===Australia===
*[[The Australian/Vogel Literary Award]]: [[Eva Sallis]], ''Hiam''
*[[C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''Subhuman Redneck Poems''
*[[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Anthony Lawrence (poet)|Anthony Lawrence]], ''The Viewfinder''
*[[Mary Gilmore Prize]]: [[Morgan Yasbincek]], ''Night Reversing''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[David Foster (novelist)|David Foster]], ''[[The Glade Within the Grove]]''

===Canada===
*[[Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award]]: [[Rachel Rose]]
*[[Giller Prize|Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction]]: [[Mordecai Richler]], ''[[Barney's Version (novel)|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]]''<ref>Faculty of Arts, 1997, <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11316 Edna Staebler Award] {{Webarchive |url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164223/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11316 |date=2014-06-06 }}</span>, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Previous winners, Anne Mullens, Retrieved 11/17/2012</ref>

===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 (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Tim Bowler]], ''[[River Boy]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[Andrew Miller (novelist)|Andrew Miller]], ''[[Ingenious Pain]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[R. F. Foster (historian)|R. F. Foster]], ''[[William Butler Yeats]]: A Life, Volume 1 – The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Alison Brackenbury]], [[Gillian Clarke]], [[Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)|Tony Curtis]], [[Anne Stevenson]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Matthew Clegg]], [[Sarah Corbett (poet)|Sarah Corbett]], [[Polly Clark]], [[Tim Kendall]], [[Graham Nelson]], [[Matthew Welton]]
*[[Orange Prize for Fiction]]: [[Anne Michaels]], ''[[Fugitive Pieces]]''
*[[2000 Whitbread Book Awards|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 Medals#Poetry|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry]], [[John Ashbery]]
*[[Compton Crook Award]]: [[Richard Garfinkle]], ''[[Celestial Matters]]''
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Kim Stanley Robinson]], ''[[Mars trilogy|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 (poet)|Mark Turpin]]

===Elsewhere===
*[[International Dublin Literary Award]]: [[Javier Marías]], ''[[A Heart So White]]''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Carlos Cañeque]], ''Quién''

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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