A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

The main literary award winners of 1986 were as follows: the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka of Nigeria; the Booker Prize, Kingsley Amis; the Prix Goncourt, Michel Host; the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award, Marguerite Duras.