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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1979.

Events

May – The Merchant Ivory Productions film The Europeans is released. Its screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala draws on the 1878 Henry James novel of the same name.^[1]
October 25 – The London Review of Books is first issued, its founding editors being Karl Miller, Mary-Kay Wilmers and Susannah Clapp. For its first six months it appears as an insert to The New York Review of Books.^[2]
November – Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger wins the Guardian Fiction Prize.^[3]
unknown dates
- K. W. Jeter's novel Morlock Night pioneers full-length fiction in the genre he later calls steampunk.^[4]
- August Wilson's Jitney is first produced; it becomes the eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle".^[5]

New books

Poetry

Kingsley Amis – Collected Poems

Non-fiction

Alison Adburgham – Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance
David Attenborough – Life on Earth
Harold Walter Bailey – Dictionary of Khotan Saka
Ion Biberi – Lumea de azi (World of Today)
Jerome Bruner – On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand
L. Sprague de Camp (editor) – The Blade of Conan
Joan Didion – The White Album
Elizabeth Eisenstein – The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Peter Evans – The Music of Benjamin Britten
John Fowles – The Tree
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar – The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Eloise Greenfield, Lessie Jones Little, Pattie Ridley Jones – Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir
Douglas Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Henry Kissinger – The White House Years
Leon Litwack – Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (La Condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir)
Jessica Mitford – Poison Penmanship: the Gentle Art of Muckraking
Stephen Pile – The Book of Heroic Failures
Clark Ashton Smith – The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
Margaret Trudeau – Beyond Reason
Tom Wolfe – The Right Stuff

Births

February 4 – Ben Lerner, American poet, novelist and critic
February 10 – Johan Harstad, Norwegian novelist^[7]
February 27 - Alexander Gordon Smith, British children's and young-adult author
March 28 – Benjamin Percy, American short story writer
April 14 – Patrick Somerville, American novelist and short story writer
May 21 - James Clancy Phelan, American young-adult and thriller writer
June 28 – Florian Zeller, French novelist and dramatist
July 14 – Yukiko Motoya, Japanese fiction writer, playwright, theatre director and voice actress
unknown dates
- D.D. Johnston, Scottish political novelist and university lecturer
- Emily St. John Mandel, Canadian-born novelist^[8]

Deaths

January – Dilys Cadwaladr, Welsh-language poet (born 1902)
January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine publisher, writer and critic (born 1890)^[9]
February 9 – Allen Tate, American poet and essayist (born 1899)^[10]
February 25 – John L. Wasserman, American entertainment critic (car accident, born 1938)^[11]
February 27 – Sir George Clark, English historian (born 1890)
March 26 – Jean Stafford, American short story writer and novelist (heart failure; born 1915)^[12]
April 8 – Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (suicide, born 1952)
May 10 – J. B. Morton (Beachcomber), English humorous newspaper columnist (born 1893)
May 14 – Jean Rhys, Dominica-born English novelist (born 1890)^[13]
June 1 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand/British lexicographer (born 1894)^[14]
June 3 – Arno Schmidt, German novelist (born 1914)^[15]
June 7 – Forrest Carter, American genre novelist (heart failure, born 1925)
July 6 – Malcolm Hulke, English television writer (born 1924)
July 7 – Ahmad Qandil, Saudi Arabian poet (born 1911) ^[16]
July 15 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (born 1892)
July 21 – Eugène Vinaver, Russian-born English literary scholar (born 1899)
July 23 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (born 1898)^[17]
July 29 – Herbert Marcuse, German Jewish philosopher (born 1898)^[18]
August 8 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (born 1910)
August 16 – Jerzy Jurandot (Jerzy Glejgewicht), Polish poet and dramatist (born 1911)
August 20 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (born 1922)^[19]
August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (born 1904)^[20]
September 5 – John Bradburne, English poet and missionary (killed by guerillas; born 1921)
September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright (born 1884)^[21]
September 25 – Zhou Libo (周立波), Chinese novelist and translator (born 1908)
October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (born 1911)
October 17 – S. J. Perelman, American humorist (born 1904)^[22]
October 18 – Virgilio Piñera, Cuban poet and short-story writer (born 1912)
December 12 – Goronwy Rees, Welsh journalist and academic (born 1909)^[23]
December 19 – Donald Creighton, Canadian historian (born 1902)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Odysseus Elytis

Canada

See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Antonine Maillet, Pélagie-la-Charrette^[24]
Prix Médicis French: Claude Durand, La Nuit zoologique^[25]
Prix Médicis International: Alejo Carpentier, La harpe et l'ombre^[26]

Spain

Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Peter Dickinson, Tulku
Cholmondeley Award:
Guardian Fiction Prize: Neil Jordan, Night in Tunisia and Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Golding, Darkness Visible
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography

United States

Elsewhere

Miles Franklin Award: David Ireland, A Woman of the Future
Premio Nadal: Carlos Rojas, El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico García Lorca asciende a los infiernos
Viareggio Prize: Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria

References

^ Jessica Bomarito; Jelena Krstovic (July 2006). Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Cengage Gale. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-7876-8888-2.
^ Grimes, William (2011-06-20). "A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-20.
^ Flora Veit-Wild (1992). Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on His Life and Work. Hans Zell. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-905450-97-1.
^ Dana Percec (26 June 2014). Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-4438-6297-4.
^ James Fisher (1 June 2011). Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010. Scarecrow Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-0-8108-7950-8.
^ Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 Archived 2012-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Brageprisen nominations 2010.
^ "Mandel, Emily St. John 1979– --" in Contemporary Authors, v. 301. Gale, 2010.
^ Goodwin Jr., Paul B. "Ocampo, Victoria (1890–1979)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia – via Encyclopedia.com.
^ "Allen Tate, Poet, critic and Teacher, Dead". The New York Times. February 10, 1979. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
^ John Wasserman (1993). Praise, Vilification, & Sexual Innuendo, Or, How to be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman (1964-1979). Chronicle Books. p. 1. ISBN 9780811802475.
^ Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Susan Ware (2004). Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century. Belknap Press. p. 609.
^ Mitgang, Herbert (17 May 1979). "Jean Rhys, 84, Novelist Known for 'sargasso Sea'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^ Meanjin, volume 38. University of Melbourne. 1979. p. 516.
^ Review of Contemporary Fiction. John O'Brien. 1988. p. 142.
^ "السيرة الذاتية". alithnainya (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
^ "Obituaries". Cross & Cockade Journal. 20. the Society: 380. 1979.
^ Kenneth A. Briggs (July 31, 1979). "Marcuse, Radical Philosopher, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
^ State, Paul (2004). Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group. p. 225. ISBN 9780810865556.
^ Wald, Alan (1987). The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 259. ISBN 9780807841693.
^ "Mr Guy Bolton", obituary, The Times, 23 November 1979, p. 11
^ "S. J. Perelman, Humorist, Is Dead - The New York Times". New York Times. October 18, 1979. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
^ "Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)". From Warfare to Welfare (MYGLYW). Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
^ Anthony Pym; Miriam Shlesinger; Daniel Simeoni (2008). Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 181. ISBN 978-90-272-1684-7.
^ Francois Chaubet (26 January 2018). Claude Durand, biographie. Editions du Cerf. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-204-12473-7.
^ Jeune Afrique. Société africaine de presse. 1980. p. 75.

[1] Jessica Bomarito; Jelena Krstovic (July 2006). Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Cengage Gale. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-7876-8888-2.

[2] Grimes, William (2011-06-20). "A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-06-20.

[Veit-Wild1992-3] Flora Veit-Wild (1992). Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on His Life and Work. Hans Zell. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-905450-97-1.

[4] Dana Percec (26 June 2014). Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 221. ISBN 978-1-4438-6297-4.

[5] James Fisher (1 June 2011). Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010. Scarecrow Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-0-8108-7950-8.

[6] Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 Archived 2012-11-28 at the Wayback Machine

[7] Brageprisen nominations 2010.

[8] "Mandel, Emily St. John 1979– --" in Contemporary Authors, v. 301. Gale, 2010.

[9] Goodwin Jr., Paul B. "Ocampo, Victoria (1890–1979)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia – via Encyclopedia.com.

[10] "Allen Tate, Poet, critic and Teacher, Dead". The New York Times. February 10, 1979. Retrieved October 25, 2022.

[11] John Wasserman (1993). Praise, Vilification, & Sexual Innuendo, Or, How to be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman (1964-1979). Chronicle Books. p. 1. ISBN 9780811802475.

[12] Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Susan Ware (2004). Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century. Belknap Press. p. 609.

[13] Mitgang, Herbert (17 May 1979). "Jean Rhys, 84, Novelist Known for 'sargasso Sea'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 April 2020.

[14] Meanjin, volume 38. University of Melbourne. 1979. p. 516.

[15] Review of Contemporary Fiction. John O'Brien. 1988. p. 142.

[16] "السيرة الذاتية". alithnainya (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2022.

[17] "Obituaries". Cross & Cockade Journal. 20. the Society: 380. 1979.

[18] Kenneth A. Briggs (July 31, 1979). "Marcuse, Radical Philosopher, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2022.

[19] State, Paul (2004). Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group. p. 225. ISBN 9780810865556.

[20] Wald, Alan (1987). The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 259. ISBN 9780807841693.

[21] "Mr Guy Bolton", obituary, The Times, 23 November 1979, p. 11

[22] "S. J. Perelman, Humorist, Is Dead - The New York Times". New York Times. October 18, 1979. Retrieved October 25, 2022.

[myglyw-23] "Goronwy Rees (1909-1979)". From Warfare to Welfare (MYGLYW). Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.

[24] Anthony Pym; Miriam Shlesinger; Daniel Simeoni (2008). Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 181. ISBN 978-90-272-1684-7.

[25] Francois Chaubet (26 January 2018). Claude Durand, biographie. Editions du Cerf. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-204-12473-7.

[26] Jeune Afrique. Société africaine de presse. 1980. p. 75.

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 ==Events==
-*May – The [[Merchant Ivory Productions]] film ''[[The Europeans (1979 film)|The Europeans]]'' appears. Its screenplay by [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] draws on the [[1878 in literature|1878]] [[Henry James]] [[The Europeans|novel of the same name]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jessica Bomarito|author2=Jelena Krstovic|title=Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JaF7YlVtB-UC|date=July 2006|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8888-2|page=249}}</ref>
+*May – The [[Merchant Ivory Productions]] film ''[[The Europeans (1979 film)|The Europeans]]'' is released. Its screenplay by [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] draws on the [[1878 in literature|1878]] [[Henry James]] [[The Europeans|novel of the same name]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jessica Bomarito|author2=Jelena Krstovic|title=Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JaF7YlVtB-UC|date=July 2006|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8888-2|page=249}}</ref>
 *[[October 25]] – The ''[[London Review of Books]]'' is first issued, its founding editors being [[Karl Miller]], [[Mary-Kay Wilmers]] and [[Susannah Clapp]]. For its first six months it appears as an insert to ''[[The New York Review of Books]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |first=William |last=Grimes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/books/a-whitney-ellsworth-new-york-review-publisher-dies-at-75.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss |title=A. Whitney Ellsworth, First Publisher of New York Review, Dies at 75 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2011-06-20 |access-date=2011-06-20}}</ref>
 *November – [[Dambudzo Marechera]]'s ''[[The House of Hunger]]'' wins the [[Guardian Fiction Prize]].<ref name="Veit-Wild1992">{{cite book|author=Flora Veit-Wild|author-link=Flora Veit-Wild|title=Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on His Life and Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91QgAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Hans Zell|isbn=978-0-905450-97-1|page=188}}</ref>
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 *[[V. C. Andrews]] – ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]''
 *[[Jeffrey Archer]] – ''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]''
-*[[Barbara Taylor Bradford]] – ''[[A Woman of Substance]]''
+*[[Barbara Taylor Bradford]] – ''[[A Woman of Substance (novel)|A Woman of Substance]]''
 *[[Octavia Butler]] – ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]''
 *[[Italo Calvino]] — ''[[If on a winter's night a traveler]]''
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 *[[Alan Dean Foster]] – ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (movie novelization)
 *[[Carlo Fruttero]] and [[Franco Lucentini]] — ''[[A che punto è la notte]]''
-*[[Brian Garfield]] - ''[[The Paladin (Garfield novel)|The Paladin]]''
+*[[Brian Garfield]] – ''[[The Paladin (Garfield novel)|The Paladin]]''
 *[[William Golding]] – ''[[Darkness Visible (novel)|Darkness Visible]]''
 *[[William Goldman]] – ''[[Tinsel (novel)|Tinsel]]''
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 *[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Matarese Circle]]''
 *[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[The Executioner's Song]]''
+*[[Cormac McCarthy]] – ''[[Suttree]]''
 *[[Roger McDonald]] – ''[[1915: a novel]]''
 *[[Haruki Murakami]] – ''[[Hear the Wind Sing]]'' (風の歌を聴け, ''Kaze no uta o kike'')
@@ Line 53: / Line 54: @@
 *[[Harold Robbins]] – ''Memories of Another Day''
 *[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Ghost Writer]]''
+*[[Scott Spencer (writer)|Scott Spencer]] – ''Endless Love''
 *[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Last Enchantment]]''
 *[[Peter Straub]] – ''[[Ghost Story (Straub novel)|Ghost Story]]''
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 *[[Elizabeth Laird (author)|Elizabeth Laird]] – ''Rosy's Garden''
 *[[Robie Macauley]] – ''A Secret History of Time to Come''
+*[[Robert Munsch]] – ''Mud Puddle''
 *[[Bill Peet]] – ''Cowardly Clyde''
-*[[Daniel Pinkwater]] – ''[[Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario]]''
+*[[Daniel Pinkwater]]
+**''[[Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars]]''
+**''[[Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario]]''
 *[[Ellen Raskin]] – ''[[The Westing Game]]''
-*Jane Severance (with Tea Schook) – ''[[When Megan Went Away]]''
+*[[Jane Severance]] (with Tea Schook) – ''[[When Megan Went Away]]''
 *[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[Carbonel series|Carbonel and Calidor]]''
 *[[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]] – ''[[Der kleine Vampir]]''
+*[[Rosemary Wells]] – ''[[Max & Ruby]]''
 ===Drama===
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 *[[David Attenborough]] – ''[[Life on Earth (TV series)|Life on Earth]]''
 *[[Harold Walter Bailey]] – ''Dictionary of [[Khotanese language|Khotan]] Saka''
+*[[Ion Biberi]] – ''Lumea de azi'' (World of Today)
 *[[Jerome Bruner]] – ''On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand''
 *[[L. Sprague de Camp]] (editor) – ''[[The Blade of Conan]]''
+*[[Joan Didion]] – ''[[The White Album (book)|The White Album]]''
 *[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]] – ''The Printing Press as an Agent of Change''
 *[[Peter Evans (musicologist)|Peter Evans]] – ''The Music of [[Benjamin Britten]]''
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 ==Births==
 *[[February 4]] – [[Ben Lerner]], American poet, novelist and critic
-*[[February 10]] – [[Johan Harstad]], Norwegian novelist<ref>[https://archive.is/20130222184354/http://brageprisen.no/nominerte_2010/ Brageprisen nominations 2010.]</ref>
+*[[February 10]] – [[Johan Harstad]], Norwegian novelist<ref>[https://archive.today/20130222184354/http://brageprisen.no/nominerte_2010/ Brageprisen nominations 2010.]</ref>
+*[[February 27]] - [[Alexander Gordon Smith]], British children's and young-adult author
 *[[March 28]] – [[Benjamin Percy]], American short story writer
 *[[April 14]] – [[Patrick Somerville]], American novelist and short story writer
+*[[May 21]] - [[James Clancy Phelan]], American young-adult and thriller writer
 *[[June 28]] – [[Florian Zeller]], French novelist and dramatist
 *[[July 14]] – [[Yukiko Motoya]], Japanese fiction writer, playwright, theatre director and voice actress
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 ==Deaths==
 *January – [[Dilys Cadwaladr]], Welsh-language poet (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
-*[[January 27]] – [[Victoria Ocampo]], Argentine publisher, writer and critic (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
+*[[January 27]] – [[Victoria Ocampo]], Argentine publisher, writer and critic (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ocampo-victoria-1890-1979 |title=Ocampo, Victoria (1890–1979) |first=Paul B. |last=Goodwin Jr. |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
-*[[February 9]] – [[Allen Tate]], American poet and essayist (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
+*[[February 9]] – [[Allen Tate]], American poet and essayist (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/10/archives/allen-tate-poet-critic-and-teacher-dead-much-seemed-contradictory.html|title=Allen Tate, Poet, critic and Teacher, Dead|date=February 10, 1979|website=The New York Times|access-date=October 25, 2022}}</ref>
-*[[February 25]] – [[John L. Wasserman]], American entertainment critic (car accident, born [[1938 in literature|1938]])
+*[[February 25]] – [[John L. Wasserman]], American entertainment critic (car accident, born [[1938 in literature|1938]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Wasserman|title=Praise, Vilification, & Sexual Innuendo, Or, How to be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman (1964-1979)|publisher=Chronicle Books|year=1993|isbn=9780811802475|page=1}}</ref>
 *[[February 27]] – Sir [[George Norman Clark|George Clark]], English historian (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
-*[[March 26]] – [[Jean Stafford]], American short story writer and novelist (heart failure, born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
+*[[March 26]] – [[Jean Stafford]], American short story writer and novelist (heart failure; born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stacy Lorraine Braukman|author2=Susan Ware|title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century|publisher=Belknap Press|year=2004|page=609}}</ref>
 *[[April 8]] – [[Breece D'J Pancake]], American short story writer (suicide, born [[1952 in literature|1952]])
 *[[May 10]] – [[J. B. Morton]] (Beachcomber), English humorous newspaper columnist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
-*[[May 14]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominica, West Indies-born English novelist (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
+*[[May 14]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominica-born English novelist (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitgang |first=Herbert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/17/archives/jean-rhys-84-novelist-known-for-sargasso-sea.html |title=Jean Rhys, 84, Novelist Known for 'sargasso Sea' |date=17 May 1979 |work=The New York Times |access-date=24 April 2020 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-*[[June 1]] – [[Eric Partridge]], New Zealand/British lexicographer (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
+*[[June 1]] – [[Eric Partridge]], New Zealand/British lexicographer (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Meanjin, volume 38|publisher=University of Melbourne|year=1979|page=516}}</ref>
-*[[June 3]] – [[Arno Schmidt]], German novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
+*[[June 3]] – [[Arno Schmidt]], German novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Review of Contemporary Fiction|publisher=John O'Brien|year=1988|page=142}}</ref>
 *[[June 7]] – [[Asa Earl Carter|Forrest Carter]], American genre novelist (heart failure, born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
 *[[July 6]] – [[Malcolm Hulke]], English television writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
+*[[July 7]] – [[Ahmad Qandil]], Saudi Arabian poet  (born [[1911 in literature|1911]]) <ref>{{cite web |title=السيرة الذاتية |url=http://alithnainya.com/tocs/default.asp?toc_id=16982&toc_brother=-1&path=0;2;16971;16972;16982#R2 |website=alithnainya |access-date=7 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807173242/http://alithnainya.com/tocs/default.asp?toc_id=16982&toc_brother=-1&path=0;2;16971;16972;16982 |archive-date=7 August 2022 |language=ar}}</ref>
 *[[July 15]] – [[Juana de Ibarbourou]], Uruguayan poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
 *[[July 21]] – [[Eugène Vinaver]], Russian-born English literary scholar (born [[1899 in literature|1899]])
-*[[July 23]] – [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and novelist (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
+*[[July 23]] – [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and novelist (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituaries|journal=Cross & Cockade Journal|volume=20|publisher=the Society|year=1979|page=380}}</ref>
-*[[July 29]] – [[Herbert Marcuse]], German Jewish philosopher (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
+*[[July 29]] – [[Herbert Marcuse]], German Jewish philosopher (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/marcuse-radical-philosopher-dies-largely-unnoticed-before-60s.html|title=Marcuse, Radical Philosopher, Dies|date=July 31, 1979|author=Kenneth A. Briggs|website=New York Times|access-date=March 26, 2022}}</ref>
 *[[August 8]] – [[Nicholas Monsarrat]], English novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
 *[[August 16]] – [[Jerzy Jurandot]]  (Jerzy Glejgewicht), Polish poet and dramatist (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
+*[[August 20]] – [[Christian Dotremont]], Belgian painter and writer (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])<ref>{{cite book | last = State | first = Paul | title = Historical Dictionary of Brussels | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group | location = Lanham | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780810865556 | page=225}}</ref>
+*[[August 22]] – [[James T. Farrell]], American novelist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Wald | first = Alan | title = The New York intellectuals : the rise and decline of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s to the 1980s | publisher = University of North Carolina Press | location = Chapel Hill | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780807841693 | page=259}}</ref>
 *[[September 5]] – [[John Bradburne]], English poet and missionary (killed by guerillas; born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
+*[[September 6]] – [[Guy Bolton]], British playwright (born [[1884 in literature|1884]])<ref>"Mr Guy Bolton", obituary, ''The Times'', 23 November 1979, p. 11</ref>
 *[[September 25]] – [[Zhou Libo (writer)|Zhou Libo]] (周立波), Chinese novelist and translator (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
 *[[October 6]] – [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
-*[[October 17]] – [[S. J. Perelman]], American humorist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
+*[[October 17]] – [[S. J. Perelman]], American humorist (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/18/archives/sj-perelman-humorist-is-dead-sj-perelman-humorist-dead-at-75.html|title=S. J. Perelman, Humorist, Is Dead - The New York Times|date=October 18, 1979|website=New York Times|access-date=October 25, 2022}}</ref>
 *[[October 18]] – [[Virgilio Piñera]], Cuban poet and short-story writer (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])
-*[[December 12]] – [[Goronwy Rees]], Welsh journalist and academic (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
+*[[December 12]] – [[Goronwy Rees]], Welsh journalist and academic (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref name=myglyw>{{cite web |title  = Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) |publisher = From Warfare to Welfare (MYGLYW) |url = http://www.myglyw.org.uk/index.php?id=4362 |access-date  = 20 February 2015 |url-status   = dead |archive-date = 21 February 2015 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20150221061712/http://www.myglyw.org.uk/index.php?id=4362}}</ref>
 *[[December 19]] – [[Donald Creighton]], Canadian historian (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
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 ===France===
-*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Antonine Maillet]], ''Pélagie la Charette''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anthony Pym|author2=Miriam Shlesinger|author3=Daniel Simeoni|title=Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rgVKihN7IQC&pg=PA181|year=2008|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=90-272-1684-3|pages=181}}</ref>
+*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Antonine Maillet]], ''Pélagie-la-Charrette''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Anthony Pym|author2=Miriam Shlesinger|author3=Daniel Simeoni|title=Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rgVKihN7IQC&pg=PA181|year=2008|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-90-272-1684-7|pages=181}}</ref>
 *[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Claude Durand]], ''La Nuit zoologique''<ref>{{cite book|author=Francois Chaubet|title=Claude Durand, biographie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_iBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT132|date=26 January 2018|publisher=Editions du Cerf|isbn=978-2-204-12473-7|pages=132}}</ref>
 *[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Alejo Carpentier]], ''La harpe et l'ombre''<ref>{{cite book|title=Jeune Afrique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLQcAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Société africaine de presse|page=75}}</ref>
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 ===United Kingdom===
 *[[Booker Prize]]: [[Penelope Fitzgerald]], ''[[Offshore (novel)|Offshore]]''
-*[[Carnegie Medal in Literature|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Peter Dickinson]], ''[[Tulku (novel)|Tulku]]''
+*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Peter Dickinson]], ''[[Tulku (novel)|Tulku]]''
 *[[Cholmondeley Award]]:
+*[[Guardian Fiction Prize]]: [[Neil Jordan]], ''[[Night in Tunisia (short story collection)|Night in Tunisia]]'' and [[Dambudzo Marechera]], ''[[The House of Hunger]]''
 *[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[William Golding]], ''[[Darkness Visible (Golding)|Darkness Visible]]''
 *[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Brian Finney]], ''[[Christopher Isherwood]]: A Critical Biography''
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 *[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Penn Warren]], ''[[Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978]]''
 *[[Pulitzer Prize for History]]: [[Don E. Fehrenbacher]], ''[[The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics]]''
-*[[Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction]]: [[E. O. Wilson]], ''[[On Human Nature]]''
+*[[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]: [[E. O. Wilson]], ''[[On Human Nature]]''
 ===Elsewhere===

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