1978 IN LITERATURE

The year '1978 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

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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

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★ ''The Best of L. Sprague de Camp''

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★ ''The Great Fetish''

★ L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - ''Conan the Swordsman''

★ Samuel R. Delany - ''

★ 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''

★ 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 - ''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 - ''

Births

★ June 26 - Eric Shapiro, novelist

★ ''date unknown''

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★ David Llewellyn, screenwriter

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★ 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

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Canada

★ See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

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. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith

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''