1979 in literature
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The year 1979 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
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Events[edit]
- April 13 - The Adventure of Sudsakorn, the only cel-animated feature film ever made in Thailand, is released to cinemas. It is based on Phra Aphai Mani, a 30,000-line epic written by Thailand's best-known poet, Sunthorn Phu.[1]
New books[edit]
- Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
- V.C. Andrews – Flowers in the Attic
- Jeffrey Archer – Kane and Abel
- Barbara Taylor Bradford – A Woman of Substance
- Raymond Briggs – Fungus the Bogeyman
- Octavia Butler – Kindred
- Orson Scott Card – A Planet Called Treason
- Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber
- Agatha Christie – Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
- L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan the Liberator
- A che punto è la notte - Últimos días de la víctima
- Thomas Flanagan - Year of the French
- Alan Dean Foster -Alien
- Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini - A che punto è la notte
- William Golding – Darkness Visible
- William Goldman – Tinsel
- Arthur Hailey – Overload
- Maarten 't Hart - De aansprekers
- Douglas Hill – Galactic Warlord
- Sian James – A Small Country
- Philippe Jullian – Montmartre
- Stephen King – The Dead Zone
- Russell Kirk – The Princess of All Lands
- Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- John le Carré – Smiley's People
- Morgan Llywelyn – Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru
- Robert Ludlum – The Matarese Circle
- Norman Mailer – The Executioner's Song
- Dambudzo Marechera – The House of Hunger
- V. S. Naipaul – A Bend in the River
- Ellis Peters - One Corpse Too Many
- Daniel Pinkwater – Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario
- Jerry Pournelle – Janissaries
- Satyajit Ray - Hatyapuri
- Harold Robbins – Memories of Another Day
- Philip Roth – The Ghost Writer
- Mary Stewart – The Last Enchantment
- Peter Straub – Ghost Story
- William Styron – Sophie's Choice
- Kaari Utrio - Rautalilja
- Jack Vance – The Face
- Kurt Vonnegut – Jailbird
- Elizabeth Walter – In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters
- William Wharton – Birdy
- Kit Williams – Masquerade
- Raymond Williams – The Fight for Manod
- Robert Anton Wilson – Schrodinger's Cat
- Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff
- Christopher Wood – James Bond and Moonraker
- Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks
- Trevanian -Shibumi
New drama[edit]
- Richard Harris - Outside Edge
- Elfriede Jelinek - Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften
- Peter Shaffer – Amadeus
- Sam Shepard – Buried Child
- Tom Stoppard - Undiscovered Country[2]
Poetry[edit]
Main article: 1979 in poetry
Non-fiction[edit]
- David Attenborough – Life on Earth
- L. Sprague de Camp, editor – The Blade of Conan
- John Fowles – The Tree
- Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar – The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- Henry Kissinger – The White House Years
- Leon Litwack - Been in the Storm So Long
- Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Stephen Pile – The Book of Heroic Failures
- Clark Ashton Smith – The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
- Margaret Trudeau – Beyond Reason
Births[edit]
- February 10 - Johan Harstad, Norwegian novelist.[3]
- March 28 – Benjamin Percy, short story writer
Deaths[edit]
- January - Dilys Cadwaladr, Welsh-language poet, first woman to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, 76
- January 27 - Victoria Ocampo, Argentine publisher, writer and critic, 89
- February 9 – Allen Tate, poet and essayist, 79
- February 25 – John L. Wasserman, critic, 40 (car accident)
- February 27 - Sir George Clark, historian, 88
- March 26 – Jean Stafford, short story writer and novelist, 63 (heart failure)
- May 10 – J. B. Morton, columnist ("Beachcomber"), 85
- May 14 – Jean Rhys, novelist, 88
- June 3 – Arno Schmidt, German novelist, 65
- June 7 – Forrest Carter, novelist, 53 (heart failure)
- July 6 – Malcolm Hulke, TV writer, 54
- July 23 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist, 81
- July 29 – Herbert Marcuse, German Jewish philosopher, 81
- August 8 - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist, 69
- August 16 - Jerzy Jurandot, Polish poet and dramatist,
- September 25 - Zhou Libo, Chinese novelist and translator, 71
- October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, poet, 68
- October 17 – S. J. Perelman, humorist, 75
- October 18 – Virgilio Piñera, Cuban poet and short-story writer, 67
- December 12 - Goronwy Rees, journalist and academic, 70
- December 19 – Donald Creighton, historian, 77
Awards[edit]
Canada[edit]
- See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France[edit]
- Prix Goncourt:
- Prix Médicis French:
- Prix Médicis International:
United Kingdom[edit]
- Booker Prize: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Peter Dickinson, Tulku
- Cholmondeley Award:
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Golding, Darkness Visible
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography
United States[edit]
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction :
- Nebula Award: Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
- Newbery Medal for children's literature:
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama:
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
Elsewhere[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Danutra, Pattara and Himes, Robert (January 1, 2004). "Payut Ngaokrachang: The Master of Thai Animations"
- ^ Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484
- ^ Brageprisen nominations 2010
