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1980 in literature

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

Contents

Events

  • June 5 – Opening of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from Charles Dickens' novel by David Edgar, at the Aldwych Theatre, London.
  • June 5 – Opening of Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita with Julie Walters in the title rôle at the Donmar Warehouse in London in a Royal Shakespeare Company production.
  • August 25 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind (Bumi Manusia), the first of his tetralogy of historical novels, the Buru Quartet, is published in Indonesia following his release from ten years of political imprisonment; it is prohibited in the country the following year.
  • September – Performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London, often considered one of the greatest disasters in theatre history.
  • September 23Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the premiere of Brian Friel's Translations at the Guildhall, Derry in Northern Ireland.
  • November 27 – English playwright Harold Pinter marries biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser following his divorce from the actress Vivien Merchant.
  • Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), reaches #1 on 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 National Library of Indonesia is created by merger.
  • Fiction

  • Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • Warren AdlerThe War of the Roses
  • Woody AllenSide Effects
  • V. C. Andrews – Petals on the Wind
  • Jean M. AuelThe Clan of the Cave Bear
  • Thomas BergerNeighbors
  • Anthony BurgessEarthly Powers
  • Ramsey Campbell, editor – New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
  • Bruce ChatwinThe Viceroy of Ouidah
  • Mary Higgins ClarkThe Cradle Will Fall
  • J. M. Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman
  • Pat ConroyThe Lords of Discipline
  • Basil CopperNecropolis
  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • Conan and the Spider God
  • The Purple Pterodactyls
  • Mircea Diaconu – La noi, când vine iarna
  • E. L. Doctorow – Loon Lake
  • Allan W. EckertSong of the Wild
  • Umberto EcoThe Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)
  • Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – The Samurai (侍)
  • Ken FollettThe Key to Rebecca
  • Frederick ForsythThe Devil's Alternative
  • Mary Jayne GoldCrossroads Marseilles 1940
  • William GoldingRites of Passage
  • Graham GreeneDr. Fischer of Geneva
  • Douglas Hill
  • Day of the Starwind
  • Deathwing Over Veynaa
  • Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp – The Treasure of Tranicos
  • P. D. James – Innocent Blood
  • Stephen KingFirestarter
  • Judith KrantzPrincess Daisy
  • Björn KurténDance of the Tiger
  • Manuel Mujica Láinez – El gran teatro
  • John le Carré – Smiley's People
  • Madeleine L'EngleA Ring of Endless Light
  • Robert LudlumThe Bourne Identity
  • James A. MichenerThe Covenant
  • Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – Pinball, 1973 (1973 年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru)
  • Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) – Coin Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ)
  • Cees NooteboomRituals
  • Robert B. ParkerLooking for Rachel Wallace
  • PepetelaMayombe
  • Ellis Peters – Monk's Hood
  • Belva PlainRandom Winds
  • Paulette Poujol-OriolLe Creuset (The Crucible)
  • Marin PredaCel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)
  • Herman RaucherThere Should Have Been Castles
  • Mordecai RichlerJoshua Then and Now
  • Marilynne RobinsonHousekeeping
  • Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children
  • Sidney SheldonRage of Angels
  • Gay TaleseThy Neighbor's Wife
  • Walter TevisMockingbird
  • John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces
  • Gene WolfeThe Shadow of the Torturer
  • Roger Zelazny
  • Changeling
  • The Last Defender of Camelot
  • Children and young people

  • Richard Adams
  • The Girl in a Swing
  • The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
  • Vivien AlcockThe Haunting of Cassie Palmer
  • Lynne Reid BanksThe Indian in the Cupboard
  • Jill BarklemBrambly Hedge series:
  • Spring Story
  • Summer Story
  • Autumn Story
  • Winter Story
  • Ruskin BondThe Cherry Tree
  • Matt ChristopherWild Pitch
  • Roald DahlThe Twits
  • Thomas M. DischThe Brave Little Toaster
  • Ruth Manning-SandersA Book of Spooks and Spectres
  • Thomas MeehanAnnie: An old-fashioned story
  • Robert MunschThe Paper Bag Princess
  • Susan Musgrave
  • Gullband
  • Hag Head
  • Ruth ParkPlaying Beatie Bow
  • Avril Rowlands – God's Wonderful Railway
  • Marjorie W. SharmatGila Monsters Meet you at the Airport
  • Mary StewartA Walk in Wolf Wood
  • Hans-Joachim Gelberg (with Willi Glasauer etc.) – Eine Stadt geht über Land (The City meets the Country)
  • Drama

  • Howard BrentonThe Romans in Britain
  • David Edgar (adaptation) – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • Ronald HarwoodThe Dresser
  • Ron HutchinsonThe Irish Play
  • Kenneth RossBreaker Morant
  • Willy RussellEducating Rita
  • Sam ShepardTrue West
  • Poetry

  • Valerio MagrelliOra serrata retinae
  • Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse
  • Non-fiction

  • Pierre BertonThe Invasion of Canada
  • Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark – Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
  • David BohmWholeness and the Implicate Order
  • L. Sprague de Camp – The Ragged Edge of Science
  • L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – The Spell of Conan
  • Graham Chapman et al. – A Liar's Autobiography
  • Marilyn FergusonThe Aquarian Conspiracy
  • Julien GracqReading Writing
  • Graham GreeneWays of Escape
  • Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
  • Jerry Hopkins and Danny SugermanNo One Here Gets Out Alive
  • János KornaiEconomics of Shortage (Hiány)
  • Samuel Liddell MacGregor MathersGrimoire of Armadel translation from French (posthumous)
  • Michael Medved and Harry Medved – The Golden Turkey Awards
  • Carl SaganCosmos
  • Randy Shilts – And the Band Played On
  • Alvin TofflerThe Third Wave
  • Deaths

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

  • 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

  • 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

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