- 1985 in literature
The year 1985 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
*A memorial to
Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home atLangholm , Scotland.New books
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Isaac Asimov - "Robots and Empire "
*Margaret Atwood - "The Handmaid's Tale "
*Jean M. Auel - "The Mammoth Hunters "
*Iain Banks - "Walking on Glass "
*Clive Barker - "The Damnation Game"
*Greg Bear - "Blood Music " and "Eon"
*M. C. Beaton - "Death of a Gossip "
*Orson Scott Card - "Ender's Game "
*Bernard Cornwell - "Sharpe's Honour"
*Elizabeth Darrell - "At the Going Down of the Sun "
*Bret Easton Ellis - "Less Than Zero "
*Imil Habibi - "The Secret Life of Saeed "
*Amy Hempel - "Reasons to Live "
*Frank Herbert - "Chapterhouse Dune "
*John Irving - "The Cider House Rules "
*Garrison Keillor - "Lake Wobegon Days "
*Stephen King - "Skeleton Crew "
*H. P. Lovecraft - "At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels " and "The Dunwich Horror and Others " (corrected edition)
*Richard A. Lupoff - "Lovecraft's Book "
*Cormac McCarthy - "Blood Meridian "
*Larry McMurtry - "Lonesome Dove "
*Naguib Mahfouz - "Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth "
*Gabriel García Márquez - "Love in the Time of Cholera "
*James A. Michener - "Texas"
*Brian Moore - "Black Robe "
*Bharati Mukherjee - "Darkness"
*Robert B. Parker - "Catskill Eagle "
*Caryl Phillips - "The Final Passage "
*Peter Pohl - "Johnny, My Friend (Janne, min vän)"
*Carl Sagan - "Contact"
*Sidney Sheldon - "If Tomorrow Comes "
*Danielle Steel - "Secrets"
*Sue Townsend - "Rebuilding Coventry "
*Anne Tyler - "The Accidental Tourist "
*Andrew Vachss - "Flood"
*Jeanette Winterson - "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit "
*Roger Zelazny - "Trumps of Doom "New drama
*David Hare &
Howard Brenton - "Pravda"
*Wallace Shawn - "Aunt Dan and Lemon "
*Sam Shepard - "A Lie of the Mind "
*Neil Simon - "Biloxi Blues "
*August Wilson - "Fences"Poetry
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Carol Ann Duffy - "Standing Female Nude"Non-fiction
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Roger Caron - "Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot "
*Michael Denton - ""
*Elaine Dundy - "Elvis and Gladys "
*Wayne Kritsberg - "The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome "
*Tim O'Brien - "The Nuclear Age "
*Priscilla Beaulieu Presley - "Elvis and Me "
*David Robinson - ""
*Oliver Sacks - "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat "Births
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Deaths
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February 6 -James Hadley Chase , novelist
*March 15 -Radha Krishna Choudhary , Indian historian and writer
*April 7 -Carl Schmitt , political theorist
*July 16 -Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel laureate
*August 14 - Alfred Hayes, novelist and poet
*August 30 -Taylor Caldwell , novelist
*November 3 -John Michael Wallace-Hadrill , historian
*November 24 -László Bíró , inventor of the ballpoint pen
*November 25 -Geoffrey Grigson , poet and critic
*December 7 -Robert Graves
*"date unknown"
**Hedley Bull , economistAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Claude Simon Australia
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award : no award given out this year
*C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry : Kevin Hart, "Your Shadow";Rosemary Dobson , "The Three Fates"
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry , Kevin Hart, "Your Shadow"
*Mary Gilmore Prize :Doris Brett , "The Truth about Unicorns"Canada
* See
1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.France
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Prix Goncourt :Yann Queffelec , "Les Noces barbares"
*Prix Médicis French:Michel Braudeau , "Naissance d'une passion"
*Prix Médicis International:Joseph Heller , "God Knows"United Kingdom
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Booker Prize :Keri Hulme , "The Bone People "
*Cholmondeley Award :Dannie Abse ,Peter Redgrove ,Brian Taylor
*Eric Gregory Award : Graham Mort,Adam Thorpe ,Pippa Little ,James Harpur ,Simon North ,Julian May
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Robert Edric , "Winter Garden"
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:David Nokes , "Jonathan Swift : A Hypocrite Reversed"
*Newdigate prize :Robert Twigger
* Whitbread Best Book Award:Douglas Dunn , "Elegies"United States
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :Liz Rosenberg , "The Fire Music"
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry,Robert Penn Warren
*Frost Medal :Robert Penn Warren
*Nebula Award :Orson Scott Card , "Ender's Game "
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Robin McKinley , "The Hero and the Crown "
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :James Lapine for book;Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, "Sunday in the Park With George "
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :Alison Lurie - "Foreign Affairs"
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Carolyn Kizer : "Yin"Elsewhere
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Premio Nadal :Pau Faner Coll - "Flor de sal"
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