1988 in literature
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The American social scientist and consumer researchers Grant McCracken impressed in his book "Culture and Consumption" the term Diderot effect to describe the tendency of people to choose the things of everyday life, with whom he surrounds himself so that they have a meaningful whole rates, where a culturally connotation is included in every article that is consumed. Namesake of the term is an essay by the French Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot and entitled reasons to mourn my old house rock, or: A warning to all who have more taste than money ( 1772).
New Books
Fiction
- Margaret Atwood - Cat 's Eye
- Viktor Petrovich Astafyev - The Sad detective ( in the original: Печальный детектив )
- Elisabeth Augustin - ways out
- J. G. Ballard - Memories of the Space Age
- Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
- Clive Barker Cabal
- The Hellbound Heart
- Sourcery
- Wyrd Sisters
Non-fiction
- Albert Goldman - The Lives of John Lennon
- Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
- Joachim S. Hohmann - The pedosexual complex
- Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country ( shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers ' Choice Award)
- Granz McCracken - Culture and Consumption
- 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
- Robin Ridington - Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community
- Philip Roth - The Facts: A Novelist 's Autobiography
- Miranda Seymour - A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915
Died
Prices
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz as " a pioneer of new ( social commentary ) Egyptian narrative art between tradition and modernity "
- Booker Prize: Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda dt
- Georg Büchner Prize: Albert Drach
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Siegfried Lenz
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: Angela Krauss for the service
- Kurd - Laßwitz Price: Gudrun Pausewang, The cloud
- Prix Goncourt: Érik Orsenna, L' Exposition coloniale; German Gabriel II or What cost the earth. 1989 passim
- 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
- Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: George McWhirter, Cage
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History: Bruce Elliot, Irish Immigrants in the Canadas: A New Approach
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize: Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
- Toronto Book Awards: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
- Trillium Book Award: Timothy Findley, Stones
- Premio Nadal: Juan Pedro Aparicio, Retratos de Ambigú
- Georg Brandes Price: Torben Brostrøm, Visse øjeblikke
- Søren - Sansoni Price: Else Roesdahl
- Critics pinches (Denmark): Mette Winge, Skriverjomfruen
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris: Peter Høeg, Forest Illing om det tyvende århundrede, (German: Presentation of the 20th century )
- Critics pinches (Norway): Lars Saabye Christensen, Herman