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*[[Jean M. Auel]] – ''[[The Mammoth Hunters]]''
*[[Jean M. Auel]] – ''[[The Mammoth Hunters]]''
*[[Iain Banks]] – ''[[Walking on Glass]]''
*[[Iain Banks]] – ''[[Walking on Glass]]''
*[[Clive Barker]] ''[[The Damnation Game (novel)|The Damnation Game]]''
*[[Clive Barker]]
**''[[Books of Blood]]''
**''[[The Damnation Game (novel)|The Damnation Game]]''
*[[Greg Bear]]
*[[Greg Bear]]
**''[[Blood Music (novel)|Blood Music]]''
**''[[Blood Music (novel)|Blood Music]]''
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*[[Anthony Burgess]] – ''[[The Kingdom of the Wicked]]''
*[[Anthony Burgess]] – ''[[The Kingdom of the Wicked]]''
*[[Orson Scott Card]] – ''[[Ender's Game]]''
*[[Orson Scott Card]] – ''[[Ender's Game]]''
*[[Jilly Cooper]] – ''[[Riders (novel)|Rivals]]''
*[[Jilly Cooper]] – ''[[Riders (novel)|Riders]]''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]] – ''[[Sharpe's Honour (novel)|Sharpe's Honour]]''
*[[Bernard Cornwell]] – ''[[Sharpe's Honour (novel)|Sharpe's Honour]]''
*[[Don DeLillo]] – ''[[White Noise (novel)|White Noise]]''
*[[Don DeLillo]] – ''[[White Noise (novel)|White Noise]]''
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===Non-fiction===
===Non-fiction===
*[[Svetlana Alexievich]] – ''U voyny — ne zhenskoye litso'' (War's Unwomanly Face)
*[[Bill Bryson]] – ''The Palace under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries''
*[[Bill Bryson]] – ''The Palace under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries''
*[[Roger Caron]] – ''Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot''
*[[Roger Caron]] – ''Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot''
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*[[Roger Scruton]] – ''[[Thinkers of the New Left]]''
*[[Roger Scruton]] – ''[[Thinkers of the New Left]]''
*[[Gary Soto]] – ''[[Living Up the Street]]''
*[[Gary Soto]] – ''[[Living Up the Street]]''
*[[M. Crawford Young|Crawford Young]] and Thomas Turner - ''The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State''
*[[M. Crawford Young|Crawford Young]] and Thomas Turner ''The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State''


==Births==
==Births==
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**[[D. I. Suchianu]], Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
**[[D. I. Suchianu]], Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Uku Masing]], Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Uku Masing]], Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
*[[May 1]] – [[Denise Robins]], English romantic novelist (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])
*[[May 12]] – [[Josephine Miles]], American poet and literary critic (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[May 12]] – [[Josephine Miles]], American poet and literary critic (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[May 18]] – [[Hedley Bull]], Australian economist (cancer, born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Ayson|title=Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVFYTDTkgfgC&pg=PA196|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-36389-2|pages=196}}</ref>
*[[May 18]] – [[Hedley Bull]], Australian economist (cancer, born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Ayson|title=Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVFYTDTkgfgC&pg=PA196|date=24 September 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-36389-2|pages=196}}</ref>
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*[[June 16]] – [[Ernst Orvil]], Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[June 16]] – [[Ernst Orvil]], Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
*[[July 16]] – [[Heinrich Böll]], German novelist, Nobel laureate (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[July 16]] – [[Heinrich Böll]], German novelist, Nobel laureate (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[July 8]] – [[Leslie Paul]], Anglo-Irish novelist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[July 29]] – [[Judah Waten]], Australian novelist (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid |access-date= |publisher=[[National Library of Australia]] |archive-date=2022-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031050812/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[July 29]] – [[Judah Waten]], Australian novelist (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid |access-date= |publisher=[[National Library of Australia]] |archive-date=2022-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031050812/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[August 14]] – [[Alfred Hayes (writer)|Alfred Hayes]], English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
*[[August 14]] – [[Alfred Hayes (writer)|Alfred Hayes]], English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
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*[[September 17]] – [[Fran Ross]], African American satirist (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[September 17]] – [[Fran Ross]], African American satirist (born [[1935 in literature|1935]])
*[[September 22]] – [[D. J. Opperman]], South African Afrikaans poet (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[September 22]] – [[D. J. Opperman]], South African Afrikaans poet (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[September 27]] – [[Leonard Gribble]], English novelist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[October 1]] – [[E. B. White]], American children's writer and writer on style (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jill C. Wheeler|title=E. B. White|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=1 January 2013|publisher=ABDO Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-61480-938-8|pages=21|access-date=27 March 2021|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041644/https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[October 1]] – [[E. B. White]], American children's writer and writer on style (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jill C. Wheeler|title=E. B. White|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|date=1 January 2013|publisher=ABDO Publishing Company|isbn=978-1-61480-938-8|pages=21|access-date=27 March 2021|archive-date=15 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041644/https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[October 11]] – [[Alex La Guma]], South African novelist and political activist (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[October 11]] – [[Alex La Guma]], South African novelist and political activist (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
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*[[November 3]] – [[J. M. Wallace-Hadrill]], English historian (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[November 3]] – [[J. M. Wallace-Hadrill]], English historian (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
*[[November 4]] – [[Hilda Vaughan]], Welsh novelist and short story writer (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[November 4]] – [[Hilda Vaughan]], Welsh novelist and short story writer (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[November 6]] – [[Sara Woods]], British crime fiction writer (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[November 11]] – [[James Hanley (novelist)|James Hanley]], English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{Cite book |first=Linneae |last=Gibbs |title=James Hanley: A Bibliography |year=1980}}</ref>
*[[November 11]] – [[James Hanley (novelist)|James Hanley]], English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{Cite book |first=Linneae |last=Gibbs |title=James Hanley: A Bibliography |year=1980}}</ref>
*[[November 25]]
*[[November 25]]

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List of years in literature (table)
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1986
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985.

Events

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New books

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Fiction

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Children and young people

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Drama

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Poetry

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Non-fiction

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Births

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Deaths

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Awards

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Australia

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Canada

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France

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Spain

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Fiction: Raymond Abbott, Stuart Dybek, Wright Morris (fiction/nonfiction), Howard Norman, James Robison, Austin Wright (fiction/nonfiction)
Poetry: Douglas Crase, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, James Schuyler

Elsewhere

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References

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  2. ^ a b Glenn Deer (1994). Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-7735-1159-0. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  3. ^ Nicholas Birns (1 December 2015). Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead. Sydney University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-74332-436-3. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. ^ The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1988. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-912289-82-3. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  5. ^ Hambro, Johan (1984). C. J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67. ISBN 82-03-11347-8.
  6. ^ Robert Ayson (24 September 2012). Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-230-36389-2.
  7. ^ "Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 2022-10-31.
  8. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-19-512783-6. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  9. ^ World Book, Inc. Staff (February 1986). The World Book Year Book. World Book, Incorporated. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-7166-0486-0. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  10. ^ Jill C. Wheeler (1 January 2013). E. B. White. ABDO Publishing Company. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-61480-938-8. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ^ Gibbs, Linneae (1980). James Hanley: A Bibliography.
  12. ^ Santo, Aricò L. (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  13. ^ Douglas W. Alden; Peter C. Hoy; Christine M. Zunz (September 1989). French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885. Susquehanna University Press. p. 11458. ISBN 978-0-941664-99-8. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2021-01-03.