- 1980 in literature
The year 1980 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman to be elected to theAcadémie française .
*"Kane and Abel" byJeffrey Archer (published 1979), reaches #1 on theNew York Times bestseller list.New books
*Richard Adams
**"The Girl in a Swing "
**"The Iron Wolf and Other Stories "
*Warren Adler - "War of the Roses"
*Woody Allen - "Side Effects "
*Jean M. Auel - "The Clan of the Cave Bear "
*Anthony Burgess - "Earthly Powers "
*Ramsey Campbell , editor - "New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos"
*Bruce Chatwin - "The Viceroy of Ouidah "
*Mary Higgins Clark - "The Cradle Will Fall "
*Larry Collins andDominique Lapierre -"The Fifth Horseman "
*Basil Copper -"Necropolis"
*L. Sprague de Camp
**"Conan and the Spider God "
**"The Purple Pterodactyls "
*Thomas M. Disch - "The Brave Little Toaster "
*E. L. Doctorow - "In Loon Lake "
*Allan W. Eckert - "Song of the Wild "
*Umberto Eco - "The Name of the Rose "
*Ken Follett - "The Key to Rebecca "
*Frederick Forsyth - "The Devil's Alternative "
*Mary Jayne Gold - "Crossroads Marseilles 1940 "
*Douglas Hill - "Deathwing Over Veynaa "
*Douglas Hill - "Day of the Starwind "
*Robert E. Howard andL. Sprague de Camp - "The Treasure of Tranicos"
*L. Ron Hubbard - "Battlefield Earth"
*P. D. James - "Innocent Blood"
*Stephen King - "Firestarter "
*Judith Krantz - "Princess Daisy"
*Björn Kurtén - "Dance of the Tiger "
*John le Carré - "Smiley's People "
*Madeleine L'Engle - "A Ring of Endless Light "
*Robert Ludlum - "The Bourne Identity"
*Ruth Manning-Sanders - "A Book of Spooks and Spectres "
*James A. Michener - "The Covenant "
*Robert B. Parker - "Looking for Rachel Wallace "
*Belva Plain - "Random Winds "
*Marin Preda - "Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)"
*Herman Raucher - "There Should Have Been Castles "
*Mordecai Richler - "Joshua Then and Now "
*Marilynne Robinson - "Housekeeping"
*Salman Rushdie - "Midnight's Children "
*Sidney Sheldon - "Rage of Angels "
*Gay Talese - "Thy Neighbor's Wife "
*John Kennedy Toole - "A Confederacy of Dunces "
*Gene Wolfe - "The Shadow of the Torturer "
*Roger Zelazny
**"Changeling"
**"The Last Defender of Camelot "New drama
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Howard Brenton - "The Romans in Britain "
*Kenneth Ross - "Breaker Morant "
*Willy Russell - "Educating Rita "
*Sam Shepard - "True West"Poetry
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Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse "Non-fiction
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Pierre Berton - "The Invasion of Canada "
*Graham Chapman et al - "A Liar's Autobiography "
*L. Sprague de Camp - "The Ragged Edge of Science "
*L. Sprague de Camp , editor - "The Spell of Conan "
*Jerry Hopkins &Danny Sugerman - "No One Here Gets Out Alive "
*Michael Medved &Harry Medved - "The Golden Turkey Awards "
*Carl Sagan - "Cosmos"
*Alvin Toffler - "The Third Wave"Births
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Deaths
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January 3 -Joy Adamson , conservationist and author of "Born Free "(killed by a servant in northernKenya ).
* January 3 -G. S. Fraser , poet and critic
*January 11 -Barbara Pym , novelist
*March 25 - James Wright, poet
*April 15 -Jean-Paul Sartre , philosopher, novelist and dramatist
*June 7 -Henry Miller , writer
*July 1 -C. P. Snow , novelist
*July 9 -Vinicius de Moraes , poet and songwriter
*July 26 -Kenneth Tynan , influential theatre critic
*September 18 -Katherine Anne Porter , novelist and essayist
*November 9 - Patrick Campbell, journalist and wit
*November 22 -Mae West , actress and dramatist
*December 2 -Romain Gary , writer
*December 8 -John Lennon , musician, author
*December 12 -Ben Travers , dramatist
*December 31 -Marshall McLuhan (author)
* "date unknown" - Gareth Evans, philosopher
* "date unknown" -Caradog Prichard , Welsh-language poet and novelistAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :Czesław Miłosz
*Hugo Award for Best Novel :Arthur C. Clarke , "The Fountains of Paradise "Australia
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award : Inaugural award toArchie Weller , "The Day Of The Dog", after the award was initially given toPaul Radley , who was disqualified after admitting his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.
*Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry : David Campbell, "Man in the Honeysuckle"Canada
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1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.France
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Prix Goncourt :Yves Navarre , "Le Jardin d'acclimatation"
*Prix Médicis French:Jean-Luc Benoziglio , "Cabinet-portrait" who refused the prize, thus it was given toJean Lahougue 's "Comptine des Height"
*Prix Médicis International:Andre Brink , "Une saison blanche et sèche"United Kingdom
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Booker Prize :William Golding , "Rites of Passage"
*Cholmondeley Award :George Barker ,Terence Tiller ,Roy Fuller
*Eric Gregory Award :Robert Minhinnick ,Michael Hulse ,Blake Morrison ,Medbh McGuckian
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:J. M. Coetzee , "Waiting for the Barbarians "
*James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:Robert B. Martin , "Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart"
* Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, "How Far Can You Go? "United States
* American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama:
Edward Albee
*Caldecott Medal :Barbara Cooney , "Ox-Cart Man "
*Dos Passos Prize :Graham Greene
*Nebula Award :Gregory Benford , "Timescape "
*Newbery Medal forchildren's literature :Joan Blos , ""
*Pulitzer Prize for Drama :Lanford Wilson , "Talley's Folly "
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :Norman Mailer , "The Executioner's Song "
*Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :Donald Justice , "Selected Poems"Elsewhere
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Premio Cervantes :Juan Carlos Onetti
*Premio Nadal :Juan Ramón Zaragoza , "Concerto grosso"
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