1982 IN LITERATURE

The year '1982 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ ''La Bicyclette Bleue'' (''The Blue Bicycle'') by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.

New books

★ Isabel Allende - ''La casa de los espíritus'' (The House of the Spirits)

★ Martin Amis - ''Invasion of the Space Invaders''

★ Isaac Asimov - ''Foundation's Edge''

★ Jean M. Auel - ''The Valley of Horses''

★ Lynne Reid Banks - ''The Indian in the Cupboard''

★ Michael Bishop - ''Blooded on Arachne''

★ Arthur C. Clarke - ''

★ Aileen Crawley - ''The Bride of Suleiman''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - ''Conan the Barbarian''

★ August Derleth - ''The Solar Pons Omnibus''

★ Ken Follett - ''The Man from St Petersburg''

★ John Gardner - ''For Special Services''

★ Graham Greene -''Monsignor Quixote''

★ Gwenyth Hood -''The Coming of the Demons''

★ John Jakes - ''North and South''

★ Thomas Keneally - ''Schindler's Ark''

★ David Kesterton - ''The Darkling''

★ Stephen King

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★ ''Different Seasons''

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★ ''The Running Man''

★ W.P. Kinsella - ''Shoeless Joe''

★ Judith Krantz - ''Mistral's Daughter''

★ Morgan Llywelyn - ''The Horse Goddess''

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Parsifal Mosaic''

★ Colleen McCullough - ''An Indecent Obsession''

★ George R. R. Martin - ''Fevre Dream''

★ James Merrill - ''The Changing Light at Sandover''

★ James A. Michener - ''Space''

★ Chris Mullin - ''A Very British Coup

★ Sidney Sheldon - ''Master of the Game''

★ Elizabeth Smart - ''The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Crossings''

★ Alice Walker - ''The Color Purple''

★ Gene Wolfe - ''The Citadel of the Autarch''

★ Roger Zelazny

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★ ''Eye of Cat''

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★ ''Dilvish, the Damned''

New drama

★ Peter Flannery - ''Our Friends in the North''

★ Michael Frayn - ''Noises Off''

★ Stephen MacDonald - ''Not About Heroes''

★ Frank McGuinness - ''The Factory Girls''

★ Tom Stoppard - ''The Real Thing''

Non-fiction

★ Irving Abella and Harold Troper - ''None is Too Many''.

★ Carol Gilligan - ''In a Different Voice''.

★ Edward James - ''.

★ Audre Lorde - ''.

★ John Naisbitt - ''Megatrends''.

★ Tom Peters - ''In Search of Excellence''.

★ Margaret Trudeau - ''Consequences''.

Births

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Deaths

★ March 2 - Philip K. Dick, writer

★ March 6 - Ayn Rand, author

★ June 18 - John Cheever, writer

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Gabriel García Márquez

★ Hugo Award for Best Novel: ''Downbelow Station'' by C. J. Cherryh

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, ''Birds of Passage''; Nigel Krauth, ''Matilda, My Darling''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, ''Kaddish and Other Poems''

Canada

★ See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Goncourt: Dominique Fernandez, ''dans la main de l'Ange''

★ Prix Médicis French: Jean-François Josselin, ''L'Enfer et Cie''

★ Prix Médicis International: Umberto Eco, ''The Name of the Rose''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Thomas Keneally, ''Schindler's Ark''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell

★ Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O’Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Bruce Chatwin, ''On the Black Hill''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, ''Shouting at No One''

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Bernard Malamud

★ Nebula Award for Best Novel: Michael Bishop, ''No Enemy But Time''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Nancy Willard, ''A Visit to William Blake's Inn''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Fuller, ''A Soldier's Play''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike - ''Rabbit Is Rich''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: ''The Collected Poems''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Fernando Arrabal, ''La torre herida por un rayo''