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*[[Harold Robbins]] – ''Memories of Another Day''
*[[Harold Robbins]] – ''Memories of Another Day''
*[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Ghost Writer]]''
*[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Ghost Writer]]''
*[[Scott Spencer (writer)|Scott Spencer]] – ''Endless Love''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Last Enchantment]]''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Last Enchantment]]''
*[[Peter Straub]] – ''[[Ghost Story (Straub novel)|Ghost Story]]''
*[[Peter Straub]] – ''[[Ghost Story (Straub novel)|Ghost Story]]''
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*[[Robert Munsch]] – ''Mud Puddle''
*[[Robert Munsch]] – ''Mud Puddle''
*[[Bill Peet]] – ''Cowardly Clyde''
*[[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]]''
*[[Ellen Raskin]] – ''[[The Westing Game]]''
*[[Jane Severance]] (with Tea Schook) – ''[[When Megan Went Away]]''
*[[Jane Severance]] (with Tea Schook) – ''[[When Megan Went Away]]''
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*[[David Attenborough]] – ''[[Life on Earth (TV series)|Life on Earth]]''
*[[David Attenborough]] – ''[[Life on Earth (TV series)|Life on Earth]]''
*[[Harold Walter Bailey]] – ''Dictionary of [[Khotanese language|Khotan]] Saka''
*[[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''
*[[Jerome Bruner]] – ''On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand''
*[[L. Sprague de Camp]] (editor) – ''[[The Blade of Conan]]''
*[[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''
*[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]] – ''The Printing Press as an Agent of Change''
*[[Peter Evans (musicologist)|Peter Evans]] – ''The Music of [[Benjamin Britten]]''
*[[Peter Evans (musicologist)|Peter Evans]] – ''The Music of [[Benjamin Britten]]''
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==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*January – [[Dilys Cadwaladr]], Welsh-language poet (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*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]])<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. |work=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
*[[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]])<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 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]])<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 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]])
*[[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]])<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>
*[[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>
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===France===
===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]] 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>
*[[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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*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Robert Penn Warren]], ''[[Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978]]''
*[[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 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]]''


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===Elsewhere===

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  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.
  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.
  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.