1986 in literature
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See also: 1985 in literature, other events of 1986, 1987 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New books
- Extinction - Thomas Bernhard
- The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
- The Bridge - Iain Banks
- Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner
- The Fence Post Chronicles - W.P. Kinsella
- The Fisher King - Anthony Powell
- Ghost - Piers Anthony
- The Golden Cup - Belva Plain
- Hollywood Husbands - Jackie Collins
- I'll Take Manhattan - Judith Krantz
- In the Hollow of His Hand - James Purdy
- It - Stephen King
- Kara Kush - Idries Shah
- Kate Vaiden - Reynolds Price
- Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
- Leo Africanus - Amin Maalouf
- The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
- Love You Forever - Robert Munsch
- A Matter of Honour - Jeffrey Archer
- A Misalliance - Anita Brookner
- The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America - Martin Amis
- Nobody Lives For Ever - John Gardner
- The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
- A Perfect Spy - John le Carré
- The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
- Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
- Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
- Sportswriter - Richard Ford
- Taming a Sea Horse - Robert B. Parker
- Tourist Season - Carl Hiaasen
- Wanderlust - Danielle Steel
- Whirlwind - James Clavell
- The Wizards and the Warriors - Hugh Cook
New drama
Non-fiction
- Flora Fraser - Beloved Emma
- Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Births
Deaths
- January 1 - Lord David Cecil, critic and biographer
- January 4 - Christopher Isherwood, novelist
- January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology
- February 11 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction author
- February 26 - Robert Penn Warren, poet, author
- March 4 - Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist
- March 18 - Bernard Malamud, novelist
- April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and feminist writer
- May 15 - Theodore H. White, writer
- June 14 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
- August 3 - Beryl Markham, traveller and author
- August 20 - Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright
- December 17 - J. F. Hendry, poet
- December 19 - Virginia C. Andrews, novelist
Awards
- Booker Prize: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
- See 1986 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka
- Prix Goncourt: Michel Host, Valet de nuit
- Prix Médicis French: Pierre Combescot, Les Funérailles de la Sardine
- Prix Médicis International: John Hawkes, Aventures dans le commerce des peaux en Alaska
- Prometheus Award: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Henry Taylor, The Flying Change
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
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