1985 IN LITERATURE

The year '1985 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ A memorial to Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland.

New books

★ Isaac Asimov - ''Robots and Empire''

★ Margaret Atwood - ''The Handmaid's Tale''

★ Jean M. Auel - ''The Mammoth Hunters''

★ Iain Banks - ''Walking on Glass''

★ Clive Barker - ''The Damnation Game''

★ Greg Bear

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★ ''Blood Music''

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★ ''Eon''

★ Elizabeth Darrell - ''At the Going Down of the Sun''

★ Bret Easton Ellis - ''Less Than Zero''

★ Imil Habibi - ''The Secret Life of Saeed''

★ Amy Hempel - ''Reasons to Live''

★ Frank Herbert - ''Chapterhouse Dune''

★ John Irving - ''The Cider House Rules''

★ Garrison Keillor - ''Lake Wobegon Days''

★ Stephen King - ''Skeleton Crew''

★ H.P. Lovecraft

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★ ''At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels'' corrected edition

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★ ''The Dunwich Horror and Others'' corrected edition

★ Richard A. Lupoff - ''Lovecraft's Book''

★ Cormac McCarthy - ''Blood Meridian''

★ Larry McMurtry - ''Lonesome Dove''

★ Naguib Mahfouz - ''Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth''

★ Gabriel García Márquez - ''Love in the Time of Cholera''

★ James A. Michener - ''Texas''

★ Brian Moore - ''Black Robe''

★ Bharati Mukherjee - ''Darkness''

★ Robert B. Parker - ''Catskill Eagle''

★ Caryl Phillips - ''The Final Passage''

★ Peter Pohl - ''Johnny, My Friend (Janne, min vän)''

★ Carl Sagan - ''Contact''

★ Sidney Sheldon - ''If Tomorrow Comes''

★ Danielle Steel - ''Secrets''

★ Sue Townsend - ''Rebuilding Coventry''

★ Anne Tyler - ''The Accidental Tourist''

★ Andrew Vachss - ''Flood''

★ Jeanette Winterson - ''Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit''

★ Roger Zelazny - ''Trumps of Doom''

New drama

★ David Hare & Howard Brenton - ''Pravda''

★ Wallace Shawn - ''Aunt Dan and Lemon''

★ Sam Shepard - ''A Lie of the Mind''

★ Neil Simon - ''Biloxi Blues''

★ August Wilson - ''Fences''

Poetry

★ Carol Ann Duffy - ''Standing Female Nude''

Non-fiction

★ Roger Caron - ''Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot''

★ Michael Denton - ''

★ Elaine Dundy - ''Elvis and Gladys''

★ Wayne Kritsberg - ''The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome''

★ Tim O'Brien - ''The Nuclear Age''

★ Priscilla Beaulieu Presley - ''Elvis and Me''

★ David Robinson - ''

★ Oliver Sacks - ''The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat''

Births

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Deaths

★ February 6 - James Hadley Chase, novelist

★ April 7 - Carl Schmitt, political theorist

★ July 16 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate

★ August 14 - Alfred Hayes, novelist and poet

★ August 30 - Taylor Caldwell, novelist

★ November 3 - John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, historian

★ November 24 - László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen

★ November 25 - Geoffrey Grigson, poet and critic

★ December 7 - Robert Graves

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hedley Bull, economist

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: no award given out this year

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kevin Hart, ''Your Shadow''; Rosemary Dobson, ''The Three Fates''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Kevin Hart, ''Your Shadow''

★ Mary Gilmore Prize: Doris Brett, ''The Truth about Unicorns''

Canada

★ See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

★ Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffelec, ''Les Noces barbares''

★ Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, ''Naissance d'une passion''

★ Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, ''God Knows''

United Kingdom

★ Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, ''The Bone People''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Dannie Abse, Peter Redgrove, Brian Taylor

★ Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May

★ Newdigate prize: Robert Twigger

★ Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, ''Elegies''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Liz Rosenberg, ''The Fire Music''

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Robert Penn Warren

★ Frost Medal: Robert Penn Warren

★ Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, ''Ender's Game''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, ''The Hero and the Crown''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, ''Sunday in the Park With George''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie - ''Foreign Affairs''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: ''Yin''

Elsewhere

★ Premio Nadal: Pau Faner Coll (''Flor de sal''