1980 in literature
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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==
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*''[[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''
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