1979 in literature

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In poetry: 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1979.

Events

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]
May – Première of the Merchant Ivory Productions film The Europeans, with screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on Henry James' novel The Europeans (1878).
October 25 – The London Review of Books is first published by founding editors Karl Miller, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp; for its first six months it appears as an insert to The New York Review of Books.^[2]
K. W. Jeter's novel Morlock Night pioneers full-length fiction in the genre he will later call steampunk.
August Wilson's Jitney is first produced; it will become the eighth of his "Pittsburgh Cycle".
Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger wins the Guardian Fiction Prize.

New books

Fiction

Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
V. C. Andrews – Flowers in the Attic
Jeffrey Archer – Kane and Abel
Barbara Taylor Bradford – A Woman of Substance
Octavia Butler – Kindred
Italo Calvino — If on a winter's night a traveler
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
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi – Missing Soluch (Persian: جای خالی سلوچ‎‎, Ja-ye Khali-ye Soluch)
Michael Ende – The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte)
José Pablo Feinmann – Últimos días de la víctima
Thomas Flanagan — Year of the French
Alan Dean Foster – Alien (movie novelization)
Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini — A che punto è la notte
William Golding – Darkness Visible
William Goldman – Tinsel
Nadine Gordimer – Burger's Daughter
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
Lina Kostenko – Marusia Churai
Milan Kundera – The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (first published in French as Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli)
John le Carré – Smiley's People
Ursula K. Le Guin – A Wizard of Earthsea
Morgan Llywelyn – Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru
Robert Ludlum – The Matarese Circle
Norman Mailer – The Executioner's Song
Roger McDonald - 1915: a novel
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – Hear the Wind Sing (風の歌を聴け, Kaze no Uta o Kike)
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
Trevanian – Shibumi
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
Roger Zelazny – Roadmarks

Children and young people

Raymond Briggs – Fungus the Bogeyman
Roald Dahl – The Twits
Elizabeth Laird – Rosy's Garden
Ellen Raskin – The Westing Game
Barbara Sleigh – Carbonel and Calidor
Charles Keller (with Dennis Nolan) - Llama Beans
Bill Peet - Cowardly Clyde
Jacqueline Held (with Claude Held and Willi Glasauer) - Les Voyages interplanétaires de grand-père Coloconte
Christian Poslaniec (with Willi Glasauer) - Nouvelles de la terre... et d'ailleurs|Newsflash from the Planet Earth...and Beyond

Drama

Caryl Churchill – Cloud Nine
David Fennario – Balconville
Richard Harris – Outside Edge
Elfriede Jelinek – Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften (What Occurred after Nora Left her Husband, or Supports of Society)
Peter Shaffer – Amadeus
Sam Shepard – Buried Child
Tom Stoppard – Undiscovered Country^[3]

Poetry

Main article: 1979 in poetry

Kingsley Amis – Collected Poems

Non-fiction

David Attenborough – Life on Earth
Jerome Bruner – On Knowing. Essays for the Left Hand
L. Sprague de Camp, editor – The Blade of Conan
Elizabeth Eisenstein – The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
John Fowles – The Tree
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar – The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Douglas Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Henry Kissinger – The White House Years
Leon Litwack – Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (La Condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir)
Stephen Pile – The Book of Heroic Failures
Clark Ashton Smith – The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
Margaret Trudeau – Beyond Reason

Births

February 4 – Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic
February 10 – Johan Harstad, Norwegian novelist^[4]
March 28 – Benjamin Percy, American short story writer
June 28 – Florian Zeller, French novelist and dramatist
Unknown dates
- D.D. Johnston, Scottish political novelist and university lecturer
- Emily St. John Mandel, Canadian-born novelist

Deaths

January – Dilys Cadwaladr, Welsh-language poet (born 1902)
January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine publisher, writer and critic (born 1890)
February 9 – Allen Tate, American poet and essayist (born 1899)
February 25 – John L. Wasserman, American entertainment critic (car accident, born 1938)
February 27 – Sir George Clark, English historian (born 1890)
March 26 – Jean Stafford, American short story writer and novelist (heart failure, born 1915)
April 8 – Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (suicide, born 1952)
May 10 – J. B. Morton (Beachcomber), English humorous newspaper columnist (born 1893)
May 14 – Jean Rhys, Dominica, West Indies-born English novelist (born 1890)
June 3 – Arno Schmidt, German novelist (born 1914)
June 7 – Forrest Carter, American genre novelist (heart failure, born 1925)
July 6 – Malcolm Hulke, English TV writer (born 1924)
July 21 – Eugène Vinaver, Russian-born English literary scholar (born 1899)
July 23 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (born 1898)
July 29 – Herbert Marcuse, German Jewish philosopher (born 1898)
August 8 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (born 1910)
August 16 – Jerzy Jurandot (Jerzy Glejgewicht), Polish poet and dramatist (born 1911)
September 25 – Zhou Libo (周立波), Chinese novelist and translator (born 1908)
October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (born 1911)
October 17 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist (born 1904)
October 18 – Virgilio Piñera, Cuban poet and short-story writer (born 1912)
December 12 – Goronwy Rees, Welsh journalist and academic (born 1909)
December 19 – Donald Creighton, Canadian historian (born 1902)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Odysseus Elytis

Canada

See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

References

↑ Danutra, Pattara; Himes, Robert (2004-01-01). "Payut Ngaokrachang: The Master of Thai Animations".
↑ Grimes, William (2011-06-20). "A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
↑ Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484
↑ Brageprisen nominations 2010.

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