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| … 1975 . The year 1988 in literature involved some significant events and new books Events With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned Events Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution including "Two Birds A Dialogue" are published on January 1 Events British publication Gay News successfully prosecuted in the United Kingdom for blasphemy and libel for publishing James Kirkup's " Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell started the small magazine The Reaper to promote narrative and formal poetry Events Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 1976 . Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 1977 - 1978 - 1979 . Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) 1980 . Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) 1981 … … 1940s . Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 This page indexes the individual Years pages Twenty-first century See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be 1950s . The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive 1960s -1970s- 1980s . The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. 1990s . The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 2000s … … 19th century . See also List of centuries, History This is a list of Decades in history including links to corresponding articles with more information about them The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular centuries and millennia. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar 20th century . The twentieth century of the Common Era began on 21st century … |
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The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books. The year 1978 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below
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Events
New books
- Kingsley Amis - Jake's Thing
- Martin Amis - Success
- Richard Bach - Illusions
- Beryl Bainbridge - Young Adolf
- Anthony Burgess - 1985
- Taylor Caldwell - Bright Flows The River
- Chantal Chawaf - Rougeâtre
- John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
- Brian Cleeve - Judith
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman - Half in Shadow
- L. Sprague de Camp
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - Conan the Swordsman
- Samuel R. Delany - Empire: A Visual Novel
- Don DeLillo - Running Dogs
- Phyllis Eisenstein - Born to Exile
- Howard Fast - Second Generation
- Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle
- Ernest J. Gaines - In My Father's House
- Günter Grass - Die Flunder - (The Flounder)
- Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
- John Irving - The World According to Garp
- Marshall Jevons - Murder at the Margin
- Ismail Kadare - Ura Me Tri Harqe (The Three-Arched Bridge)
- Stephen King - The Stand
- Stephen King - Night Shift (collection of short stories, most previously published elsewhere)
- Christopher Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Judith Krantz - Scruples
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Robert Ludlum - The Holcroft Covenant
- David Malouf - An Imaginary Life
- James A. Michener - Chesapeake
- Alice Munro - Beggar Maid
- Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
- Robert B. Parker - The Judas Goat
- Elizabeth Peters - Street of the Five Moons
- Belva Plain - Evergreen
- Mario Puzo - Fools Die
- Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
- Hubert Selby Jr. - Requiem for a Dream
- Whitley Strieber - The Wolfen
- Thomas Sullivan - Diapason
- Rosemary Sutcliff - Song for a Dark Queen
- John Updike - Coup
- Philip Van Rensselaer - That Vanderbilt Woman
- Herman Wouk - War and Remembrance
- Richard Yates -A Good School
- Frank Yerby - Hail The Conquering Hero
- Roger Zelazny - The Courts of Chaos
New drama
- David Hare - Plenty
- Ira Levin - Deathtrap
- Mary O'Malley - Once a Catholic
Poetry
- Robert Minhinnick - A Thread in the Maze
- John Tripp - Collected Poems
Non-fiction
- Roger Caron - Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
- Lord David Cecil - A Portrait of Jane Austen
- Charlotte Chandler - Hello, I Must Be Going!
- Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
- John Gall - Systemantics
- H. R. Haldeman - The Ends of Power
- Mollie Katzen - Moosewood Cookbook
- Richard Nixon - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
- David Rorvik - In His Image: The Cloning of a Man
Births
- June 26 - Eric Shapiro, novelist
- date unknown
- David Llewellyn, screenwriter
- Rachel Trezise, novelist and short story writer
Deaths
- January 12 - Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 - Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 - F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- September 15 - Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 - Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
- date unknown - Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
Awards
Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE ( April 16, 1922 &ndash October 22, 1995) was an English Novelist, Jake's Thing is a satirical novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1978 by Hutchinson Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949 is an English Novelist, Essayist and Short story Writer, the son of writer Kingsley Richard David Bach (b June 23, 1936, Oak Park Illinois) is an American writer Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (b 21 November 1932, Liverpool) is an English Novelist. Anthony Burgess (February 25 1917 — November 22 1993 was an English Novelist, Critic, Composer, Librettist, Poet 1985 may refer to 1985, the year ''1985'' (Anthony Burgess novel, a novel by Anthony Burgess ''1985'' (György Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell ( September 7, 1900 &ndash August 30, 1985) was an Anglo - American novelist and Chantal Chawaf (born 1943 is a French Writer. She was born in Paris, during the World War II. John Cheever ( May 27, 1912 &ndash June 18, 1982) was an American Novelist and Short story Writer The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 Short story collection by American Author John Cheever. Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve, ( November 22, 1921 &ndash March 11, 2003) was a prolific writer and popular TV broadcaster Mary Elizabeth Counselman ( November 19, 1911 – November 13, 1995) was an American Writer of short stories and poetry Half in Shadow is a collection of stories by author Mary Elizabeth Counselman. Lyon Sprague de Camp, ( November 27 1907 – November 6 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author The Best of L Sprague de Camp is a 1978 collection of writings by Science fiction and Fantasy author L The Great Fetish is a Science fiction novel by L Sprague de Camp. Lyon Sprague de Camp, ( November 27 1907 – November 6 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy Björn Emil Oscar Nyberg, born September 11 1929, is a Swedish fantasy author best known for his additions to the series of Conan Conan the Swordsman is a 1978 collection of seven Fantasy short stories and associated pieces written by L Samuel Ray Delany Jr (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an award-winning American Science fiction Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936 is an American author best known for his Novels which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries Phyllis Eisenstein is an author of Science fiction / Fantasy stories Born to Exile is a Fantasy novel by author Phyllis Eisenstein. Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914 New York City - 12 March 2003 Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American Novelist and Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British Author of thrillers and historical novels Ernest J Gaines (born January 15, 1933) a prominent African-American fiction writer is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927 is a Nobel Prize -winning German Author and Playwright. For the radio personality see Harry Harrison (radio. Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, March 12 1925 The Stainless Steel Rat is the hero of a series of Science fiction Novels written by Harry Harrison. John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt Jr For the film see The World According to Garp (film. For other uses of 'GARP' see GARP. Marshall Jevons is the name of a fictitious Crime writer invented and used by William Breit and Kenneth G Murder at the Margin ( 1978) is a whodunnit written by US economists William Breit and Kenneth G Ismail Kadare (born January 28, 1936) is a world-renowned Albanian writer The Three Arched Bridge ( Ura Me Tri Harqe) is a 1978 novel by Ismail Kadare. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, The Stand is a Post-apocalyptic horror / Science fiction Novel by Stephen King originally published in 1978 Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, Night Shift is the first Anthology of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Christopher John Koch AO Australian novelist was born in Hobart in 1932 The Year of Living Dangerously is a 1982 Peter Weir film adapted from the novel of the same name by its author Christopher Koch, Weir and Judith Krantz (born Judith Tarcher on January 9 1928 in New York City) is an American Novelist who writes in the Madeleine L'Engle ( November 29 1918 &ndash September 6 2007) was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 Science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the Time Quartet. Robert Ludlum ( May 25, 1927 New York City – March 12, 2001 Naples Florida) was an American Author The Holcroft Covenant is a 1978 Novel by Robert Ludlum. In 1985 it was made into a film of the same name. David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer An Imaginary Life is a 1978 Novella written by David Malouf. It tells the story of the Roman Poet Ovid, during James Albert Michener ( February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 titles the majority of which Chesapeake is a novel by James A Michener, published by Random House in 1978. Alice Ann Munro ( Née Laidlaw; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short-story writer and three-time winner of Canada's Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota) is an American Novelist who mainly writes about his experiences Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by Author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979 Robert B Parker (born September 17 1932 Biography Parker was born in Springfield Massachusetts. Barbara Mertz (born September 29, 1927) is the real name of authors Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. Belva Plain (born 1919 in New York City, New York) is a best-selling American Author of mainstream women's fiction In Botany, an Evergreen plant is a plant having leaves all year round Mario Gianluigi Puzo ( October 15, 1920 &ndash July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award -winning Italian American Fools Die is a 1978 Novel by Mario Puzo. Played out in the worlds of gambling publishing and the film industry Merlyn and his brother Ruth Barbara Rendell Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, (born 17 February 1930) who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an A Sleeping Life is a crime-novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1978 Hubert Selby Jr ( July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was a 20th century American writer Requiem for a Dream is an Academy Award -nominated 2000 Film adaptation of the 1978 novel of the same name. Louis Whitley Strieber ( (born June 13, 1945) is an American writer best known for his Horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger The Wolfen ( 1978) the debut novel by Whitley Strieber, tells the story of two Police Detectives in New York City who while Pulitzer Prize nominee Thomas Sullivan is the author of some eighty short stories and Novels His work is distinguished by broadly appealing tales Rosemary Sutcliff CBE ( December 14, 1920 - July 23, 1992) was a British Novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American Novelist, Poet, Short story Philip Van Rensselaer (born 1928 is a member of the Rensselaer family of New York. Herman Wouk ( "woke" born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American Author with a number of notable Novels to his War and Remembrance is a novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1978 which is the sequel to The Winds of War. Richard Yates ( February 3 1926 &ndash November 7 1992) was an American Novelist and Short story writer A Good School is a novel by Richard Yates first published in 1978. Frank Garvin Yerby ( –) was an African American historical novelist. Roger Joseph Zelazny ( May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of Fantasy and Science fiction The Courts of Chaos is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny. David Hare can refer to David Hare (philanthropist (1775–1842 Scottish philanthropist David Hare (artist (1917–1992 U Plenty is a play by David Hare. At its core is Susan Traherne a woman conflicted by the triumphs of her past - she worked behind enemy lines as a Courier Ira Levin ( August 27 1929 &ndash November 12 2007) was an American Novelist, Playwright, and Songwriter Deathtrap is a 1978 play by Ira Levin that involves many plot twists Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, Robert Minhinnick (born 1952 is a Welsh poet essayist novelist and translator John Tripp may refer to any of the following people John Tripp (TOC Expert, Author of TOC Executive Challenge A Goal Game ISBN-13 978-0884271864 and ISBN-10 0884271862 Roger "Mad Dog" Caron (born April 12, 1938 in Cornwall Ontario) is a Canadian bank robber and the author of the influential Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil CH ( April 9, 1902 – January 1, 1986) was an English aristocrat literary scholar biographer Charlotte Chandler (née Lyn Erhard) is an American Biographer and Playwright who has written biographies of Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini Hello I Must Be Going is a 1978 biography of Groucho Marx by Charlotte Chandler. Christina Crawford (born June 11, 1939) is an American Writer and Actress, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest For the 1981 movie adaptation see Mommie Dearest (film Mommie Dearest is a Memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford Systemantics (retitled The Systems Bible in its third edition is a text by John Gall in which he proposes several " Laws Harry Robbins Haldeman (publicly known as H R Haldeman, and informally as Bob Haldeman) ( October 27, 1926 &ndash November 12, Mollie Katzen (born 1950 in Rochester New York, US) is an American Chef, Cookbook author and artist The Moosewood Cookbook is a Recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, David Rorvik (born 1944 in Circle Montana) is an American Journalist and Novelist who authored the 1978 book In His Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Eric Shapiro (born June 26, 1978) is an American Author of Novels short stories, and essays as well as a feature Filmmaker David Llewellyn (born 1978 is a Welsh Novelist. He grew up in Pontypool and graduated from Dartington College of Arts in 2000 Rachel Trezise, born 1978 in Cwmparc, Rhondda is a Welsh Author. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Robert Harbin (born Ned Williams February 14, 1909 Balfour, South Africa - January 12, 1978 Westminster (from oru meaning "folding" and kami meaning "paper" is the ancient Japanese Art of Paper folding. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Paul Mark Scott ( 25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was a British Novelist, Playwright, and Poet, best Events 1401 - Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1603 - James VI of Scotland Leigh Douglass Brackett ( December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles California &ndash March 18, 1978) was a female writer of Science Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Frank Raymond Leavis CH ( 14 July 1895 - 14 April 1978) was an influential British Literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Sylvia Nora Townsend Warner ( December 6, 1893 - May 1, 1978) was an English novelist and poet Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Louis Zukofsky ( January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was one of the most important second-generation American Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Edmund Crispin was the Pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, (usually credited as Bruce Montgomery) ( October 2 1921 &mdash September Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Pope John Paul I ( Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP I, Italian: Giovanni Paolo I) born Albino Luciani, ( October 17 1912 Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Margaret Mead ( December 16, 1901, Philadelphia &ndash November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American For his grandson the American geology professor see Walter Alvarez. The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער (November 21 1902 (see notes below – July 24 1991 was a Nobel Prize -winning Polish -born Each winner of the 1978 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
- Prix Médicis French: Georges Perec, La vie mode d'emploi
- Prix Médicis International: Aleksandr Zinovyev, L’Avenir radieux - Russia
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given to the Author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" Patrick Modiano is a French language Novelist born 30 July 1945 in Boulogne-Billancourt of a father of Jewish Italian origins and The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November Georges Perec ( 7 March 1936 &ndash 3 March 1982) was a highly-regarded French The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Зино́вьев October 29 1922 &ndash May 10 2006 was a well-known Russian logician Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length Novel Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE ( 15 July 1919 &ndash 8 February 1999) was a Dublin -born writer and philosopher The Sea the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978. The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for Poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. George Leslie Norris ( May 21, 1921 &ndash April 6, 2006) was a prize-winning Welsh Poet and Short story writer Peter Reading (born Liverpool, 1946) is a prolific English poet Donald Michael Thomas, known as D M Thomas (born 27 January 1935, Redruth, Cornwall, UK) is a Cornish Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000 (published as R The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission Ciarán Carson (born 1948 Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Poet and Novelist. Christopher Reid (born May 13 1949) is a British poet essayist Cartoonist, and Writer. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Maurice Gee, Plumb
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy
United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Peter Taylor
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Germán Sánchez Espeso, Narciso
- Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
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