Overview of the events of 1997 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1997 .
February 20 – Allen Ginsberg makes a final public appearance at the NYU Poetry Slam.[ 1] [ 2] May 27 – Shakespeare's Globe in London, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theatre , opens with a production of Shakespeare's Henry V June 3 – The supposed climax of Max Beerbohm 's 1916 short story Enoch Soames British Museum Reading Room in London.June 26 – J. K. Rowling 's first Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Bloomsbury Publishing , in an edition of 500 copies.July 13 – The release occurs in Ireland of the film of Patrick McCabe 's 1992 novel The Butcher Boy September 1 – The Adventures of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 's series of children's novels, is published by Scholastic .October – The online literary magazine Jacket
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 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] 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 ABC television miniseries for $22 million.Janet Dailey admits to plagiarism of the novels of the fellow American bestselling romance writer Nora Roberts .[ 4] [ 5] Children and young people [ edit ] January 19 – James Dickey , American poet and novelist (born 1923 )[ 14] February 3 – Bohumil Hrabal , Czech novelist (born 1914 )February 18 – Emily Hahn , American journalist and author (born 1905 )March 21 - Wilbert Awdry , British Anglican reverend and author (born 1911 )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 )June 11 – Susanna Roth , Swiss bohemist and literary translator (born 1950 )July 26 – Joseph Henry Reason , American librarian (born 1905 )[ 15] August 2 – William S. Burroughs , American novelist (born 1914 [ 16] 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 )[ 17] November 30 – Kathy Acker , American novelist and poet (breast cancer, born 1947 )[ 18] December 14 – Owen Barfield , British philosopher, author and poet (born 1898 )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 1965-1914Cholmondeley 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 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 Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
^ a b 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.^ Wilson, Jeff (1997-07-30). "Romance novelist Janet Dailey apologizes for plagiarism". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ Standora, Leo (1997-08-27). "Romance Writer Janet Dailey Sued" . New York Daily News the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2008-11-18 . ^ The Worlds of Carol Shields . University of Ottawa Press. 2014. p. 113. ISBN 9780776621869 ^ Hahn 2015, p. 14
^ Hahn 2015, p.106
^ "His Dark Materials" . Oxford Reference . Retrieved 11 January 2022 .^ Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
^ Hahn 2015, p. 631
^ Kevin Warwick (1997). March of the Machines: Why the New Race of Robots Will Rule the World ISBN 978-0-7126-7756-1 ^ "L'empire des rois khmers" . livreshebdo.fr (in French). 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2022 .^ Davison, Peter (August 1, 1998). "The Burden of James Dickey" . The Atlantic . ^ Owens, Irene (January 2003). "Reason, Joseph Henry" . In Donald G. Davis (ed.). 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