1887 in literature
See also: 1886 in literature,
other events of 1887,
1888 in literature,
list of years in literature.
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Events
\n*Futabatei Shimei writes Drifting Clouds, the first modern novel in Japan.
\nNew Books
\n*Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard \n*Cut by the County - Mary Elizabeth Braddon\n*The Deemster - Hall Caine \n*Un dilemme, En Rade - Joris-Karl Huysmans\n*Drifting Clouds - Futabatei Shimei\n*Jess - H. Rider Haggard\n*Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson\n*La Terre - Emile Zola\n*She - H. Rider Haggard\n*A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle\n*Thelma - Marie Corelli\n*The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
\nBirths
\n* February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (+ 1947)\n* February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (+ 1914)\n* February 11 - John van Melle, South African writer\n* February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957)\n* March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet\n* March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher\n* June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright\n* September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer (+ 1961)
Deaths
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Awards
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