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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1981.

Events

May 31 – The burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka is begun by a mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitaries. They destroy over 97,000 volumes in one of the worst examples of ethnic book burning in the modern era.^[1]
August – Sefer ve Sefel opens as an English used bookstore in Jerusalem.
unknown dates
- John Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel series originated by Ian Fleming with Licence Renewed (not counting a faux biography of Bond and a pair of film novelizations, the first original Bond novel since 1968's Colonel Sun). The revived Bond book series will run uninterrupted until 2002.
- Colin MacCabe is denied tenure at the University of Cambridge, apparently because of a dispute within the English Faculty about the teaching of structuralism.^[2]
- The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is given for the first time.^[3]

New books

Poetry

L. Sprague de Camp – Heroes and Hobgoblins
Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – Rang-o-Noor (The Colour and the Light)
Norman Nicholson – Sea to the West
Sylvia Plath (posthumous) – Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes
Kathleen Raine – Collected Poems, 1935–1980
Richard L. Tierney – Collected Poems

Non-fiction

Maya Angelou – The Heart of a Woman
Colin Robert Chase – The Dating of Beowulf
Mary Chesnut – Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Hugo Brandt Corstius – Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde
Daniel Dennett – Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
Nancy Dorian – Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
Timothy Findley – Famous Last Words
Stephen Jay Gould – The Mismeasure of Man
Dumas Malone – The Sage of Monticello
V. S. Naipaul – Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
Giovanni Pettinato – The Archives of Ebla: An Empire Inscribed in Clay^[20]
Anne Scott-James – The Cottage Garden
Viktor Suvorov – The Liberators

Births

Jan 4 – Sarah Crossan, Irish young-adult writer
April 7 – Lili Wilkinson, Australian young-adult writer
May 19 – Kiera Cass, American young-adult writer
May 20 – Ottessa Moshfegh, American novelist
June 10 – Juno Dawson, born James Dawson, English young-adult LGBT writer
July 10 – Karen Russell, American novelist
July 27 – Dan Jones, British historian and TV presenter
September 30 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish novelist
October 3 – Leïla Slimani, Franco-Moroccan novelist^[21]
October 12 – NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele), Zimbabwe-born novelist^[22]
October 31 – Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
December 11 – Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor and author
December 13 – Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
unknown dates
- Amy Sackville, English novelist^[23]
- Sunjeev Sahota, English novelist^[24]
- Saud Alsanousi, Kuwaiti novelist
- Olesya Mamchich, Ukrainian poet and children's writer^[25]

Deaths

January 5 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet and activist (born 1901)^[26]
January 6 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (born 1896)^[27]
January 7 – John Pascal, American playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist (born 1932)^[28]
January 23 – Lobsang Rampa (Cyril Henry Hoskin), English author (born 1910)
February 3 – Normand Poirier, American newspaper editor, journalist and essayist (born 1928)^[29]
February 17 – David Garnett, English novelist (born 1892)^[30]
February 23 – Nan Shepherd, Scottish novelist and poet (born 1893)
March 7 – Bosley Crowther, American film critic (born 1905)^[31]
March 14 – Eleanor Perry, American screenwriter and author (born 1914)^[32]
March 20 – Pedro García Cabrera, Spanish poet (born 1905)
March 29 – Clive Sansom, English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (born 1910)
March 31 – Enid Bagnold, English writer and playwright (born 1889)
April 1 – D. F. Jones, English science fiction writer (born 1918)
April 13 – Gwyn Thomas, Welsh novelist and broadcaster (born 1913)
April 23 – Josep Pla, Catalan Spanish journalist and writer (born 1897)^[33]
April 26 – Robert Garioch, Scottish poet (born 1909)
May 8 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet writing in Hebrew and Yiddish (born 1896)^[34]
May 9 – Nelson Algren, American novelist (born 1909)
May 18 – William Saroyan, American novelist and dramatist (born 1908)^[35]
May 23 – Rayner Heppenstall, English writer and poet (born 1911)
May 30 – Gwendolyn B. Bennett, African-American writer and artist (born 1902)
June 15 – Philip Toynbee, English novelist and journalist (born 1916)
June 17 – Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (born 1889)^[36]
June 18 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (born 1912)^[37]
August 15 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (born 1895)^[38]
September 3 – Alec Waugh, English novelist (born 1898)
September 7 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (born 1932)^[39]
September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet (born 1896)
October 20 – Mary Coyle Chase, American playwright (born 1906)^[40]
October 25 – Cynthia Harnett, English children's writer (born 1893)
October 30 – Denys Rhodes, English novelist (born 1919)
November 6 – Digby George Gerahty, English novelist (born 1898)
November 30 – Charles Eric Maine, English science fiction writer (born 1921)
December 9 – C. P. Taylor, Scottish playwright (born 1929)
December 26 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (born 1887)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Elias Canetti

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Chris Matthews, Al Jazzar; Tim Winton, An Open Swimmer
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Alan Gould, Astral Sea
Miles Franklin Award: Peter Carey, Bliss

Canada

See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Lucien Bodard, Anne Marie
Prix Médicis French: François-Olivier Rousseau, L'Enfant d'Édouard
Prix Médicis International: David Shahar, Le Jour de la comtesse

Spain

Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Octavio Paz

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children^[41]
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Robert Westall, The Scarecrows^[42]
Cholmondeley Award: Roy Fisher, Robert Garioch, Charles Boyle
Eric Gregory Award: Alan Jenkins, Simon Rae, Marion Lomax, Philip Gross, Kathleen Jamie, Mark Abley, Roger Crowley, Ian Gregson
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, and Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: D. J. Enright
Whitbread Best Book Award: William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kathy Calloway, Heart of the Garfish
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Malcolm Cowley
Dos Passos Prize: Gilbert Sorrentino
Nebula Award: Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved^[43]
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem

Elsewhere

Hugo Award for Best Novel: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Premio Nadal: Carmen Gómez Ojea, Cantiga de aguero

Notes

Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Second ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

^ Tassie Seneviratne (June 1, 2014). "Burning Of The Jaffna Public Library: Whodunit?". Colombo Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
^ Newsweek, 16 February 1981, p. 95; see also Philip Lewis, "The Post-Structuralist Condition", Diacritics 12:1 (1982): 2–24, p. 2.
^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979). Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
^ Brian M. Stableford (2004). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8108-4938-9.
^ Janet Husband; Jonathan F. Husband (1990). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8389-0533-3.
^ Michel Deon; Michel Déon (1983). Where are You Dying Tonight?. H. Hamilton. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-241-10908-3.
^ Stephen M. Hart (2005). Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de Una Muerte Anunciada. Grant & Cutler. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7293-0445-0.
^ "1981 - Alasdair Gray's Lanark". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Michael Tapper (2014). Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson. Intellect Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-78320-188-4.
^ Charles A. Carpenter (1997). Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990: An International Bibliography. Modern drama by University of Toronto Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-0-8020-0914-2.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 609
^ Rothman, Lily (8 June 2013). "How is 'Tiger Eyes' the First Movie Based on a Judy Blume Book?". Time. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Stein, Ruth M. (1982). "Book reMarks: A Personal View of Current Juvenile Literature". Language Arts. 59 (4): 367–373. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 41404080. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 227
^ Hahn 2015, p. 236
^ Hahn 2015, pp. 526-527
^ "Literature for Children". The Reading Teacher. 35 (8): 972–976. 1982. ISSN 0034-0561. JSTOR 20198135. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 620
^ Gussow, Mel (12 April 1981). "STAGE: WORLD PREMIERE OF SAMUEL BECKETT'S 'ROCKABY' AT STATE U." The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
^ Howard Frederic Vos (1985). Genesis and Archaeology. Academic Books. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-310-33901-4.
^ Schwartzbrod, Alexandra (29 September 2014). "Leïla Slimani. "Madame Bovary X"". Liberation (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
^ "NoViolet Bulawayo [real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele] (1981 -)". Zimbabwe Monitor. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "The Still Point by Amy Sackville". Orange Prize for Fiction. 2010. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
^ "Sunjeev Sahota". Picador. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "UKRAIŃSKIE POETKI O WOJNIE". Wizje (in Polish). 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
^ Galiana, Ismael (1 July 1981). "Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia" [The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence] (PDF). ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 24.
^ Mitgang, Herbert (10 January 1981). "A. J. Cronin, author of 'Citadel' and 'Keys of the Kingdom', dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
^ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1981. p. 99.
^ "Normand Poirier." New York Times. February 4, 1981
^ Palmer, Alan; Alan Warwick Palmer; Veronica Palmer (1987). Who's who in Bloomsbury. Harvester Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7108-0312-2.
^ McFadden, Robert D. (March 8, 1981). "Bosley Crowther, 27 Years a Critic of Film for Times, is Dead at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
^ Willis, John A. (1982). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-517-54740-3.
^ Sobrer, Josep Miquel (1992). Catalonia, a Self-portrait. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-253-28883-5.
^ "Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet". The New York Times. 10 May 1981.
^ Hamalian, Leo (1987). William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8386-3308-3.
^ Ohles, Frederik; Shirley G. Ohles; Shirley M. Ohles; John G. Ramsay (1997). Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-313-29133-3.
^ David, Deirdre (2017). Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-184328-0. OCLC 980257624.
^ Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane Goetz (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. New York: Continuum. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-82641-778-7.
^ Peterkin, Tom (6 November 2007). "Christy Brown 'neglected by ex-prostitute wife'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
^ Robinson, Alice M.; Vera Mowry Roberts; Milly S. Barranger (1989). Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-313-27217-2.
^ "Who is Salman Rushdie? The writer who emerged from hiding". BBC News. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
^ Hahn 2015, p. 657

[1] Tassie Seneviratne (June 1, 2014). "Burning Of The Jaffna Public Library: Whodunit?". Colombo Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2020.

[2] Newsweek, 16 February 1981, p. 95; see also Philip Lewis, "The Post-Structuralist Condition", Diacritics 12:1 (1982): 2–24, p. 2.

[3] John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979). Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

[4] Brian M. Stableford (2004). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8108-4938-9.

[5] Janet Husband; Jonathan F. Husband (1990). Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series. American Library Association. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8389-0533-3.

[6] Michel Deon; Michel Déon (1983). Where are You Dying Tonight?. H. Hamilton. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-241-10908-3.

[7] Stephen M. Hart (2005). Gabriel García Márquez: Crónica de Una Muerte Anunciada. Grant & Cutler. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7293-0445-0.

[8] "1981 - Alasdair Gray's Lanark". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[9] Michael Tapper (2014). Swedish Cops: From Sjöwall and Wahlöö to Stieg Larsson. Intellect Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-78320-188-4.

[10] Charles A. Carpenter (1997). Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990: An International Bibliography. Modern drama by University of Toronto Press. p. 425. ISBN 978-0-8020-0914-2.

[11] Hahn 2015, p. 609

[12] Rothman, Lily (8 June 2013). "How is 'Tiger Eyes' the First Movie Based on a Judy Blume Book?". Time. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[Stein-13] Stein, Ruth M. (1982). "Book reMarks: A Personal View of Current Juvenile Literature". Language Arts. 59 (4): 367–373. ISSN 0360-9170. JSTOR 41404080. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[14] Hahn 2015, p. 227

[15] Hahn 2015, p. 236

[16] Hahn 2015, pp. 526-527

[17] "Literature for Children". The Reading Teacher. 35 (8): 972–976. 1982. ISSN 0034-0561. JSTOR 20198135. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[18] Hahn 2015, p. 620

[19] Gussow, Mel (12 April 1981). "STAGE: WORLD PREMIERE OF SAMUEL BECKETT'S 'ROCKABY' AT STATE U." The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[20] Howard Frederic Vos (1985). Genesis and Archaeology. Academic Books. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-310-33901-4.

[21] Schwartzbrod, Alexandra (29 September 2014). "Leïla Slimani. "Madame Bovary X"". Liberation (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2018.

[22] "NoViolet Bulawayo [real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele] (1981 -)". Zimbabwe Monitor. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[23] "The Still Point by Amy Sackville". Orange Prize for Fiction. 2010. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.

[24] "Sunjeev Sahota". Picador. Retrieved 30 December 2020.

[25] "UKRAIŃSKIE POETKI O WOJNIE". Wizje (in Polish). 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-04-30.

[26] Galiana, Ismael (1 July 1981). "Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia" [The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence] (PDF). ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 24.

[27] Mitgang, Herbert (10 January 1981). "A. J. Cronin, author of 'Citadel' and 'Keys of the Kingdom', dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2021.

[28] The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1981. p. 99.

[29] "Normand Poirier." New York Times. February 4, 1981

[30] Palmer, Alan; Alan Warwick Palmer; Veronica Palmer (1987). Who's who in Bloomsbury. Harvester Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7108-0312-2.

[31] McFadden, Robert D. (March 8, 1981). "Bosley Crowther, 27 Years a Critic of Film for Times, is Dead at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

[32] Willis, John A. (1982). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-517-54740-3.

[33] Sobrer, Josep Miquel (1992). Catalonia, a Self-portrait. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-253-28883-5.

[34] "Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet". The New York Times. 10 May 1981.

[35] Hamalian, Leo (1987). William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8386-3308-3.

[36] Ohles, Frederik; Shirley G. Ohles; Shirley M. Ohles; John G. Ramsay (1997). Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-313-29133-3.

[37] David, Deirdre (2017). Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-184328-0. OCLC 980257624.

[38] Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane Goetz (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. New York: Continuum. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-82641-778-7.

[39] Peterkin, Tom (6 November 2007). "Christy Brown 'neglected by ex-prostitute wife'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 November 2007.

[40] Robinson, Alice M.; Vera Mowry Roberts; Milly S. Barranger (1989). Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-313-27217-2.

[41] "Who is Salman Rushdie? The writer who emerged from hiding". BBC News. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.

[42] Hahn 2015, p. 660

[43] Hahn 2015, p. 657

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+* [[Eric Ambler]] – ''[[The Care of Time]]''
 *[[Kingsley Amis]] (ed.) – ''The Golden Age of Science Fiction''
 *[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[Other People (novel)|Other People]]''
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 *[[Terry Pratchett]] – ''[[Strata (novel)|Strata]]''
 *[[Bano Qudsia]] – ''[[Raja Gidh]]'' ("King Vulture")
-*[[Jean Raspail]] – ''[[Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie]]''
 *[[Alain Robbe-Grillet]] – ''[[Djinn (novel)|Djinn]]''
 *[[Harold Robbins]] – ''Goodbye, Janette''
+*[[Salman Rushdie]] – ''[[Midnight's Children]]''
-*[[Pirkko Saisio]] – ''[[Betoniyö]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Saisio, Pirkko (1949–)|url=http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/kb/artikkeli/8397/|publisher=Biografiakeskus|language=Finnish}}</ref>
 *[[Lawrence Sanders]] – ''The Third Deadly Sin''
 *[[Martin Cruz Smith]] – ''[[Gorky Park (novel)|Gorky Park]]''
-*[[Anja Snellman]] – ''Sonja O. kävi täällä''<ref>{{cite book|author=Leena Kirstinä|title=Nodes of Contemporary Finnish Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7CMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15|date=12 March 2019|publisher=BoD - Books on Demand|isbn=978-952-222-359-3|pages=15}}</ref>
 *[[Muriel Spark]] – ''[[Loitering with Intent]]''
 *[[Botho Strauß]] – ''[[Couples, Passersby]] (Paare, Passanten)'' (stories)<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles A. Carpenter|title=Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990: An International Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=611ltP0zuaIC|year=1997|publisher=Modern drama by University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-0914-2|page=425}}</ref>
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 *[[John Updike]] – ''[[Rabbit Is Rich]]''
 *[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[The Book of Dreams (Vance novel)|The Book of Dreams]]''
-*[[Mario Vargas Llosa]] – ''[[The War of the End of the World]] (La guerra del fin del mundo)''
 *[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Creation (novel)|Creation]]''
 *[[Joseph Wambaugh]] – ''[[The Glitter Dome]]''
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 *[[Chris Van Allsburg]] – ''[[Jumanji (picture book)|Jumanji]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 609</ref>
 *[[Hans Christian Andersen]] (with [[Jane S. Woodward]] and [[Michael Hague]]) – ''Michael Hague's Favourite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales''
-*[[Judy Blume]] – ''[[Tiger Eyes]]''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rothman |first1=Lily |title=How is 'Tiger Eyes' the First Movie Based on a Judy Blume Book? |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/08/how-is-tiger-eyes-the-first-movie-based-on-a-judy-blume-book/ |website=Time |access-date=12 January 2022 |date=8 June 2013}}</ref>
+*[[Judy Blume]] – ''[[Tiger Eyes]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Rothman |first1=Lily |title=How is 'Tiger Eyes' the First Movie Based on a Judy Blume Book? |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/08/how-is-tiger-eyes-the-first-movie-based-on-a-judy-blume-book/ |magazine=Time |access-date=12 January 2022 |date=8 June 2013}}</ref>
-*[[Beverly Cleary]] – ''[[Ramona Quimby, Age 8]]''<ref name=Stein>{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Ruth M. |title=Book reMarks: A Personal View of Current Juvenile Literature |journal=Language Arts |date=1982 |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=367–373 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41404080 |access-date=12 January 2022 |issn=0360-9170}}</ref>
+*[[Beverly Cleary]] – ''[[Ramona Quimby, Age 8]]''<ref name=Stein>{{cite journal |last1=Stein |first1=Ruth M. |title=Book reMarks: A Personal View of Current Juvenile Literature |journal=Language Arts |date=1982 |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=367–373 |jstor=41404080 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41404080 |access-date=12 January 2022 |issn=0360-9170}}</ref>
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 *[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[George's Marvellous Medicine]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 227</ref>
 *[[Rumer Godden]] – ''The Dragon of Og''<ref name=Stein />
-*[[Roger Hargreaves]] – ''[[Little Miss]]'' (first 13 books in the ''[[Little Miss]]'' series of 21)
+*[[Roger Hargreaves]] – ''[[List of Little Miss characters|Little Miss]]'' (first 13 books in the ''[[List of Little Miss characters|Little Miss]]'' series of 21)
 *[[Florence Parry Heide]] – ''Treehorn's Treasure''<ref name=Stein />
 *[[Harold Lamb]] (with [[George Barr (artist)|George Barr]] and [[Alicia Austin]]) – ''[[Durandal (novel)|Durandal]]''
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 *[[Alvin Schwartz (children's author)|Alvin Schwartz]] – ''[[Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]]''
 *[[Maurice Sendak]] – ''[[Outside Over There]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, pp. 526-527</ref>
-*[[Jan Wahl]] – ''The Cucumber Princess''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Literature for Children |journal=The Reading Teacher |date=1982 |volume=35 |issue=8 |pages=972–976 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20198135?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents |access-date=12 January 2022 |issn=0034-0561}}</ref>
+*[[Jan Wahl]] – ''The Cucumber Princess''<ref>{{cite journal |title=Literature for Children |journal=The Reading Teacher |date=1982 |volume=35 |issue=8 |pages=972–976 |jstor=20198135 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20198135 |access-date=12 January 2022 |issn=0034-0561}}</ref>
 *[[Robert Westall]] – ''[[The Scarecrows]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 620</ref>
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 *[[Botho Strauß]] – ''[[Kalldewey, Farce]]''
 *[[Patrick Süskind]] – ''[[Der Kontrabaß]]''
-*[[Peter Whelan]] – ''[[The Accrington Pals (play)|The Accrington Pals]]''
+*[[Peter Whelan (playwright)|Peter Whelan]] – ''[[The Accrington Pals (play)|The Accrington Pals]]''
 *[[Tennessee Williams]] – ''[[The Notebook of Trigorin]]''
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 *[[Anne Scott-James]] – ''The [[Cottage Garden]]''
 *[[Viktor Suvorov]] – ''[[The Liberators (Suvorov)|The Liberators]]''
-*[[Xu Zhongyu]] – ''University Chinese'' (大学语文)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bjnews.com.cn/news/2019/06/25/595566.html|title=学生悼念徐中玉：学术讨论，从不干涉学生想法|author=Zhou Shiling 周世玲|date=25 June 2019|access-date=26 June 2019|website=The Beijing News|language=zh}}</ref>
 ==Births==
-*[[Jan 4]] - [[Sarah Crossan]], Irish young-adult writer
+*[[Jan 4]] – [[Sarah Crossan]], Irish young-adult writer
-*[[April 7]] - [[Lili Wilkinson]], Australian young-adult writer
+*[[April 7]] – [[Lili Wilkinson]], Australian young-adult writer
-*[[May 19]] - [[Kiera Cass]], American young-adult writer
+*[[May 19]] – [[Kiera Cass]], American young-adult writer
+*[[May 20]] – [[Ottessa Moshfegh]], American novelist
+*[[June 10]] – [[Juno Dawson]], born James Dawson, English young-adult LGBT writer
 *[[July 10]] – [[Karen Russell]], American novelist
 *[[July 27]] – [[Dan Jones (writer)|Dan Jones]], British historian and TV presenter
@@ Line 170: / Line 169: @@
 *[[October 12]] – [[NoViolet Bulawayo]] (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele), Zimbabwe-born novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zimbabwemonitor.com/2019/08/16/noviolet-bulawayo-real-name-elizabeth-zandile-tshele-1981/|title=NoViolet Bulawayo [real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele] (1981 -)|website=Zimbabwe Monitor|access-date=27 January 2021}}</ref>
 *[[October 31]] – [[Irina Denezhkina]], Russian writer
-*[[December 11]] – [[Hamish Blake]], Australian comedian, actor, and author
+*[[December 11]] – [[Hamish Blake]], Australian comedian, actor and author
 *[[December 13]] – [[Mathis Bailey]], American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
 *''unknown dates''
@@ Line 176: / Line 175: @@
 **[[Sunjeev Sahota]], English novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sunjeev-sahota/6145|title=Sunjeev Sahota|website=Picador|access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref>
 **[[Saud Alsanousi]], Kuwaiti novelist
+**[[Olesya Mamchich]], Ukrainian poet and children's writer<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-26 |title=UKRAIŃSKIE POETKI O WOJNIE |url=https://magazynwizje.pl/aktualnik/ukrainskie-poetki-o-wojnie/ |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=Wizje |language=pl}}</ref>
 ==Deaths==
 *[[January 5]] – [[Lanza del Vasto]], Italian-born philosopher, poet and activist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Galiana |first=Ismael |date=1 July 1981 |title=Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia |trans-title=The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence |work=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]] |location=Madrid |page=24 |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/cgi-bin/pagina.pdf?fn=exec;command=stamp;path=H:%5Ccran%5Cdata%5Cprensa_pages%5CMadrid%5CABC%5C1981%5C198101%5C19810107%5C81E07-032.xml;id=0001341288 }}</ref>
-*[[January 6]] – [[A. J. Cronin]], Scottish novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/10/obituaries/aj-cronin-author-of-citadel-and-keys-of-the-kingdom-dies.html|title=A. J. Cronin, author of 'Citadel' and 'Keys of the Kingdom', dies|date=10 January 1981|website=New York Times|access-date=22 May 2021}}</ref>
+*[[January 6]] – [[A. J. Cronin]], Scottish novelist (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/10/obituaries/aj-cronin-author-of-citadel-and-keys-of-the-kingdom-dies.html|title=A. J. Cronin, author of 'Citadel' and 'Keys of the Kingdom', dies|date=10 January 1981|website=The New York Times|first=Herbert|last=Mitgang|access-date=22 May 2021}}</ref>
 *[[January 7]] – [[John Pascal]], American playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New York Times Biographical Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NuA1AQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=New York Times & Arno Press|page=99}}</ref>
 *[[January 23]] – [[Lobsang Rampa|Lobsang Rampa (Cyril Henry Hoskin)]], English author (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
 *[[February 3]] – [[Normand Poirier]], American newspaper editor, journalist and essayist (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/04/obituaries/normand-poirier.html "Normand Poirier."] ''[[New York Times]]''. February 4, 1981</ref>
-*[[February 17]] – [[David Garnett]], English novelist (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alan Palmer|author2=Alan Warwick Palmer|author3=Veronica Palmer|title=Who's who in Bloomsbury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W21nAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Harvester Press|isbn=978-0-7108-0312-2|page=67}}</ref>
+*[[February 17]] – [[David Garnett]], English novelist (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan|last= Palmer|author2=Alan Warwick Palmer|author3=Veronica Palmer|title=Who's who in Bloomsbury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W21nAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Harvester Press|isbn=978-0-7108-0312-2|page=67}}</ref>
 *[[February 23]] – [[Nan Shepherd]], Scottish novelist and poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
 *[[March 7]] – [[Bosley Crowther]], American film critic (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|title=Bosley Crowther, 27 Years a Critic of Film for Times, is Dead at 75|date=March 8, 1981|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/08/obituaries/bosley-crowther-27-years-a-critic-of-films-for-times-is-dead-at-75.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=19 March 2016}}</ref>
-*[[March 14]] – [[Eleanor Perry]], American screenwriter and author (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John A. Willis|title=Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9xkAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Crown Publishers|isbn=978-0-517-54740-3|page=237}}</ref>
+*[[March 14]] – [[Eleanor Perry]], American screenwriter and author (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>{{cite book|first=John A.|last= Willis|title=Screen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9xkAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Crown Publishers|isbn=978-0-517-54740-3|page=237}}</ref>
 *[[March 20]] – [[Pedro García Cabrera]], Spanish poet (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
 *[[March 29]] – [[Clive Sansom]], English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
+*[[March 31]] – [[Enid Bagnold]], English writer and playwright (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])
-*[[April 23]] – [[Josep Pla]], Catalan Spanish journalist and writer (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Josep Miquel Sobrer|title=Catalonia, a Self-portrait|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TU9F4xq2GzsC&pg=PA157|year=1992|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-28883-5|pages=157}}</ref>
+*[[April 1]] – [[Dennis Feltham Jones|D. F. Jones]], English science fiction writer (born [[1918 in literature|1918]])
+*[[April 13]] – [[Gwyn Thomas (novelist)|Gwyn Thomas]], Welsh novelist and broadcaster (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
+*[[April 23]] – [[Josep Pla]], Catalan Spanish journalist and writer (born [[1897 in literature|1897]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Josep Miquel|last= Sobrer|title=Catalonia, a Self-portrait|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TU9F4xq2GzsC&pg=PA157|year=1992|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0-253-28883-5|pages=157}}</ref>
 *[[April 26]] – [[Robert Garioch]], Scottish poet (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
 *[[May 8]] – [[Uri Zvi Grinberg]], Israeli poet writing in Hebrew and Yiddish (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DB1738F933A25756C0A967948260 | work=The New York Times | title=Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet | date=10 May 1981}}</ref>
 *[[May 9]] – [[Nelson Algren]], American novelist (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
-*[[May 18]] – [[William Saroyan]], American novelist and dramatist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Leo Hamalian|title=William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu1gEq5Zqq8C&pg=PA233|year=1987|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3308-3|pages=233}}</ref>
+*[[May 18]] – [[William Saroyan]], American novelist and dramatist (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Leo|last= Hamalian|title=William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu1gEq5Zqq8C&pg=PA233|year=1987|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3308-3|pages=233}}</ref>
-*[[May 30]] – [[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]], African American writer and artist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
+*[[May 23]] – [[Rayner Heppenstall]], English writer and poet (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])
+*[[May 30]] – [[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]], African-American writer and artist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
 *[[June 15]] – [[Philip Toynbee]], English novelist and journalist (born [[1916 in literature|1916]])
-*[[June 17]] – [[Zerna Sharp]], American writer and educator (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frederik Ohles|author2=Shirley G. Ohles|author3=Shirley M. Ohles|author4=John G. Ramsay|title=Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBj5-zHEMvoC&pg=PA290|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29133-3|pages=290}}</ref>
+*[[June 17]] – [[Zerna Sharp]], American writer and educator (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Frederik|last= Ohles|author2=Shirley G. Ohles|author3=Shirley M. Ohles|author4=John G. Ramsay|title=Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBj5-zHEMvoC&pg=PA290|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29133-3|pages=290}}</ref>
 *[[June 18]] – [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]], English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=David|first=Deirdre|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/980257624|title=Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-184328-0|location=Oxford|oclc=980257624}}</ref>
 *[[August 15]] – [[Carol Ryrie Brink]], American author (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Bernice E.|last1=Cullinan|first2=Diane Goetz|last2=Person|title=The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|location=New York|publisher=Continuum|year=2005|page=112|isbn=978-0-82641-778-7}}</ref>
@@ Line 202: / Line 206: @@
 *[[September 7]] – [[Christy Brown]], Irish writer and painter (born [[1932 in literature|1932]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Peterkin |first=Tom |title=Christy Brown 'neglected by ex-prostitute wife' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568455/Christy-Brown-neglected-by-ex-prostitute-wife.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=6 November 2007 |location=London|date=6 November 2007}}</ref>
 *[[September 12]] – [[Eugenio Montale]], Italian poet (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
-*[[October 20]] – [[Mary Coyle Chase]], American playwright (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alice M. Robinson|author2=Vera Mowry Roberts|author3=Milly S. Barranger|title=Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-27217-2|page=126}}</ref>
+*[[October 20]] – [[Mary Coyle Chase]], American playwright (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Alice M. |last=Robinson|author2=Vera Mowry Roberts|author3=Milly S. Barranger|title=Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-27217-2|page=126}}</ref>
+*[[October 25]] – [[Cynthia Harnett]], English children's writer (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
+*[[October 30]] – [[Denys Rhodes]], English novelist (born [[1919 in literature|1919]])
+*[[November 6]] – [[Digby George Gerahty]], English novelist (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])
+*[[November 30]] – [[Charles Eric Maine]], English science fiction writer (born [[1921 in literature|1921]])
+*[[December 9]] – [[C. P. Taylor]], Scottish playwright (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])
 *[[December 26]] – [[Amber Reeves]], New Zealand-born English scholar, feminist and novelist (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
@@ Line 225: / Line 234: @@
 ===United Kingdom===
-*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Salman Rushdie]], ''[[Midnight's Children]]''
+*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Salman Rushdie]], ''[[Midnight's Children]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Who is Salman Rushdie? The writer who emerged from hiding |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62523259 |website=BBC News |access-date=12 August 2022 |date=12 August 2022}}</ref>
 *[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Robert Westall]], ''[[The Scarecrows]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 660</ref>
 *[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Roy Fisher]], [[Robert Garioch]], [[Charles Boyle (poet)|Charles Boyle]]

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