1997 in literature

See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature.

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 Ovid