1997 in literature
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See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
- Tom Clancy signed a book deal with Pearson Custom Publishing and Penguin Putnam Inc. (both part of Pearson Education), that paid him US$50 million for the world-English rights to two new books . He then signed a second agreement for another US$25 million for a four-year book/multimedia deal. Clancy followed this up with an agreement with Berkley Books for 24 paperbacks to tie in with the an ABC television miniseries in an agreement worth US$22 million bringing the total value of the package to US$97 million.
- 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, because it "portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people."
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New books
- American Pastoral - Philip Roth
- Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe
- Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
- The Best Laid Plans - Sidney Sheldon
- The Bible Code - Michael Drosnin
- Budgie: The Little Helicopter - Sarah Ferguson
- Cat & Mouse - James Patterson
- Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
- Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs - Dave Barry
- Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs
- Everyday Wicca - Gerina Dunwich
- Fall On Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
- The Ghost - Danielle Steel
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
- Hornet's Nest - Patricia Cornwell
- I Am the Most Interesting Book of All (translation) - Marie Bashkirtseff
- Instruments of Darkness - Nancy Huston
- Jingo - Terry Pratchett
- Larry's Party - Carol Shields
- Last Standing Woman - Winona LaDuke
- London Blues - Anthony Frewin
- Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
- Morisson of Peking - Cyril Pearl
- Night Train - Martin Amis
- The Partner - John Grisham
- Pretend You Don't See Her - Mary Higgins Clark
- The Ranch - Danielle Steel
- The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
- Special Delivery - Danielle Steel
- The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
- Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
- Tomorrow Never Dies - Raymond Benson
- Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
- Underworld - Don DeLillo
- Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
- When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth - Fernanda Eberstadt
- Zero Minus Ten - Raymond Benson
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New drama
- Thomas Kilroy - The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde
- Peter Whelan - The Herbal Bed
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Non-fiction
- Karen Armstrong - Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
- Cari Beauchamp - Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
- Gerina Dunwich - A Wiccan's Guide to Prophecy and Divination
- Stephen Fry - Moab Is My Washpot (autobiography)
- Reinhold Heller - Toulouse-Lautrec: The Soul of Montmartre
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Births
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Deaths
- January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
- April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, poet
- October 14 - Harold Robbins, novelist
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Awards
- Booker Prize: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
- Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Mordecai Richler: - Barney's Version
- See 1997 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Javier Marias, A Heart So White
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, The Moon and the Sun
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: E. L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Dario Fo
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
- 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
- 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: Live Together: New and Selected Poems
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovidfr:1997 en littérature