1980 in literature 190227 208392897 2008-04-26T21:03:27Z Noroton 1636543 /* Poetry */ add template: main, linking to 1980 in poetry {{Year nav topic2|1980|literature|poetry}} The year '''1980 in literature''' involved some significant events and new books. ==Events== *[[Marguerite Yourcenar]] becomes the first woman to be elected to the [[Académie française]]. *''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]'' by [[Jeffrey Archer]] (published 1979), reaches #1 on the [[New York Times]] bestseller list. ==New books== *[[Richard Adams_(author)|Richard Adams]] **''[[The Girl in a Swing]]'' **''[[The Iron Wolf and Other Stories]]'' *[[Warren Adler]] - ''[[The War of the Roses|War of the Roses]]'' *[[Woody Allen]] - ''[[Side Effects]]'' *[[Jean M. Auel]] - ''[[The Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' *[[Anthony Burgess]] - ''[[Earthly Powers]]'' *[[Ramsey Campbell]], editor - ''[[Cthulhu Mythos anthology#New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos|New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos]]'' *[[Bruce Chatwin]] - ''[[The Viceroy of Ouidah]]'' *[[Mary Higgins Clark]] - ''[[The Cradle Will Fall]]'' *[[Larry Collins]] and [[Dominique Lapierre]] -''[[The Fifth Horseman]]'' *[[Basil Copper]] -''[[Necropolis (novel)|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]]'' *[[Robert E. Howard]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]] - ''[[The Treasure of Tranicos (collection)|The Treasure of Tranicos]]'' *[[L. Ron Hubbard]] - ''[[Battlefield Earth (novel)|Battlefield Earth]]'' *[[P. D. James]] - ''[[Innocent Blood (novel)|Innocent Blood]]'' *[[Stephen King]] - ''[[Firestarter]]'' *[[Judith Krantz]] - ''[[Princess Daisy (novel)|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 (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'' *[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] - ''[[A Book of Spooks and Spectres]]'' *[[James A. Michener]] - ''[[The Covenant]]'' [[Image:Gay Talese by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Gay Talese]]]] *[[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 (novel)|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 (novel)|Changeling]]'' **''[[The Last Defender of Camelot]]'' ==New drama== *[[Howard Brenton]] - ''[[The Romans in Britain]]'' *[[Kenneth Ross]] - ''[[Breaker Morant]]'' *[[Willy Russell]] - ''[[Educating Rita]]'' *[[Sam Shepard]] - ''[[True West (play)|True West]]'' ==Poetry== {{main|1980 in poetry}} *''[[Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse]]'' ==Non-fiction== *[[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 (book)|Cosmos]]'' *[[Alvin Toffler]] - ''[[The Third Wave (book)|The Third Wave]]'' ==Births== * ==Deaths== * [[January 3]] - [[Joy Adamson]], conservationist and author of ''[[Born Free]]'' (killed by a servant in northern [[Kenya]]). * January 3 - [[G. S. Fraser]], poet and critic * [[January 11]] - [[Barbara Pym]], novelist * [[March 25]] - [[James Wright (poet)|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, 3rd Baron Glenavy|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)|Gareth Evans]], philosopher * ''date unknown'' - [[Caradog Prichard]], Welsh-language poet and novelist ==Awards== * [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Czesław Miłosz]] * [[Hugo Award for Best Novel]]: [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[The Fountains of Paradise]]'' ===Australia=== * [[The Australian/Vogel Literary Award]]: Inaugural award to [[Archie Weller]], ''The Day Of The Dog'', after the award was initially given to [[Paul Radley]], who was disqualified after admitting his manuscript was actually written by his uncle. * [[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[David Campbell (poet)|David Campbell]], ''Man in the Honeysuckle'' ===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 (novel)|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]], ''[[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]: The Unquiet Heart'' * [[1980 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]], ''[[How Far Can You Go?]]'' ===United States=== * [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Drama|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]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Joan Blos]], ''[[A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal]]'' * [[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=== *[[Premio Cervantes]] : [[Juan Carlos Onetti]] *[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Juan Ramón Zaragoza]], ''Concerto grosso'' [[Category:1980 books|*]] [[Category:Years in literature]] [[fr:1980 en littérature]] [[pl:1980 w literaturze]] [[pt:1980 na literatura]] [[sv:Litteraturåret 1980]] [[zh:1980年文学]]