1980 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1980.

Events

June 5
- The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from Charles Dickens' novel by David Edgar.
- Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London.
August 25 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind (Bumi Manusia), the first of a tetralogy of historical novels, the Buru Quartet, is published in Indonesia after Toer's release from ten years' political imprisonment. It is banned in the country the following year.
September – A production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theater history.^[1]^[2]
September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's Translations, at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland.
November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser after divorcing the actress Vivien Merchant.
December 8 – Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon to death in New York City while carrying a copy of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which he claims "is my statement."^[3]

Uncertain dates

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), tops The New York Times Best Seller list.
Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959) is first published, in Western Europe.
Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française.
The first Tibetan-language literature journal, Tibetan Literature and Art ([Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyu rtsal] Error: {{Transliteration}}: unrecognized language / script code: bod (help)), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.^[4]
The National Library of Indonesia is created by a merger.

New books

Deaths

January 3
- Joy Adamson, Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born 1910)^[6]^[7]
- George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (born 1915)
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (cancer, born 1913)
February 25 – Caradog Prichard, Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born 1904)
March 12 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born 1881)
March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927)
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915)
April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905)
April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, French Cuban novelist and writer (cancer, born 1904)
May 7 – Margaret Cole, English political writer, biographer and activist (born 1893)
May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian novelist (asphyxiation, born 1922)^[8]
June 7 – Henry Miller, American novelist (born 1891)
July 1 – C. P. Snow, English novelist and scientist (born 1905)
July 6 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (born 1903)
July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (born 1913)
July 17 – Traian Herseni, Romanian social scientist and journalist (born 1907)
July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English-born theater critic (pulmonary emphysema, born 1927)
August 8 – David Mercer, English dramatist (born 1928)
August 10 – Gareth Evans, British philosopher (lung cancer (born 1946)
September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and essayist (born 1890)
November 9 – Patrick Campbell, Irish journalist and wit (born 1913)
December 2 – Romain Gary (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born 1914)^[9]
December 8 – John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and author (murdered, born 1940)
December 12 – Ben Travers, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1886)
December 27 – Todhunter Ballard, American genre novelist (born 1903)
December 31 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (born 1911)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Czesław Miłosz

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog; the award is initially given to Paul Radley, who, in 1996, admits that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.^[10]
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, The Impersonators

Canada

See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation
Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Peter Dickinson, City of Gold
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

Elsewhere

Hugo Award for Best Novel: Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
Premio Cervantes : Juan Carlos Onetti
Premio Nadal: Juan Ramón Zaragoza, Concerto grosso

References

^ Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
^ Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.
^ https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html
^ Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.
^ ^a ^b Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
^ "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".
^ Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.
^ Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).
^ Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.
^ "Australian of the Year Awards".

[1] Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.

[2] Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.

[3] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html

[4] Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.

[Hahn-5] Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.

[6] "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".

[7] Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.

[8] Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).

[9] Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.

[10] "Australian of the Year Awards".

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Events

New books

Fiction

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

References