1977 in literature
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The year 1977 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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[edit] Events
- February 20 - An episode of Doctor on the Go, co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman, marks the beginning of Adams' career writing for BBC radio.
- V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE.
- Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his father's work, The Silmarillion.
- Philosophy and Literature, an academic journal that explores the connections between literary and philosophical studies by presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature, is founded.
[edit] New books
- Richard Adams -The Plague Dogs
- Jorge Amado – Tieta do Agreste
- Martin Amis – Success
- Jay Anson – The Amityville Horror
- Margaret Atwood – Dancing Girls
- Richard Bach – Illusions
- Richard Bachman – Rage
- Gerd Brantenberg – Egalia's Daughters or The Daughters of Egalia
- Terry Brooks – The Sword of Shannara
- J. M. Coetzee – In the Heart of the Country
- Robin Cook – Coma
- Robert Coover – The Public Burning
- Basil Copper – And Afterward, the Dark
- L. Sprague de Camp
- L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Aquilonia
- Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly
- Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer
- Buchi Emecheta – The Slave Girl
- Timothy Findley – The Wars
- Leon Forrest – The Bloodworth Orphans
- John Fowles – Daniel Martin
- Marilyn French – The Women's Room
- Pauline Gedge – Child of the Morning
- Günter Grass – The Flounder
- Mark Helprin – Refiner's Fire
- Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life
- Stephen King – The Shining
- John le Carré – The Honourable Schoolboy
- Ernest Lehman – The French Atlantic Affair
- Robert Ludlum – The Chancellor Manuscript
- Brian Lumley – The Horror at Oakdeene and Others
- George R. R. Martin – Dying of the Light
- Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds
- Larry McMurtry – Terms of Endearment
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Enchantments and Curses
- Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
- Iris Murdoch – The Sea, the Sea
- Péter Nádas – The End of a Family Story
- Patrick O'Brian – The Mauritius Command
- Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones
- Ruth Rendell – A Judgement in Stone
- Alun Richards – Ennal's Point[1]
- Harold Robbins – Dreams Die First
- Paul Scott – Staying On
- Erich Segal – Oliver's Story
- Irwin Shaw – Beggarman, Thief
- M. P. Shiel – Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
- Sidney Sheldon – Bloodline
- Elizabeth Smart – A Bonus
- Craig Thomas – Firefox
- J. R. R. Tolkien – The Silmarillion
- Melvin Van Peebles – The True American, A Folk Fable
- P. G. Wodehouse – Sunset at Blandings (posthumous)
- Christopher Wood – James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
[edit] New drama
- Mike Leigh – Abigail's Party[2]
- Heiner Müller – Die Hamletmaschine
- Dennis Potter – Brimstone and Treacle
[edit] Poetry
Main article: 1977 in poetry
[edit] Non-fiction
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- Robert Coles – Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, vol 4 of Children of Crisis
- Robert Coles – The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America, vol 5 of Children of Crisis
- Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time Of Gifts
- Jim Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
- Bharati Mukherjee & Clark Blaise –Days and Nights in Calcutta
- David M. Potter - The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
- E. F. Schumacher – A Guide for the Perplexed
- Peter Ustinov – Dear Me
[edit] Births
- February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, US novelist
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 – Anaïs Nin, French-Cuban erotic novelist and diarist, 73
- February 27 – John Dickson Carr, crime novelist, 70
- March 4 - Alexandru Ivasiuc, Romanian novelist, 43 (killed in the 1977 Vrancea earthquake)
- March 15 - Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, essayist and political activist, 47 (suicide by gunshot)
- April 7 – Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author, 70
- April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter, 77
- May 9 – James Jones, American novelist, 55 (congestive heart failure)
- July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist, 78
- September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German-born economist and Small is Beautiful author, 66
- September 12 – Robert Lowell, poet, 60 (heart attack)
- October 27 – James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman, 85
- November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist, 80
- November 30 – Terence Rattigan, dramatist, 66 (bone cancer)
- December 22 – Frank Thiess, German novelist, 87
- date unknown - Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, Punjabi novelist
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
- Prix Médicis International: Héctor Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons – Argentina
[edit] Spain
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
- Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Saul Bellow
- Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science: Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
- Pulitzer Prize for History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-186 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher).
[edit] Rest of the World
- Premio Nadal: José Asenjo Sedano, Conversación sobre la guerra
- Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
[edit] References
- ^ Alun Richards obituary by Dai Smith, The Guardian, 19 June 2004. Accessed 12 February 2013
- ^ "Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Abigail's Party". BBC News. 2002-07-25. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
