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*[[Alan Dean Foster]] – ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (movie novelization)
*[[Alan Dean Foster]] – ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (movie novelization)
*[[Carlo Fruttero]] and [[Franco Lucentini]] — ''[[A che punto è la notte]]''
*[[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 Golding]] – ''[[Darkness Visible (novel)|Darkness Visible]]''
*[[William Goldman]] – ''[[Tinsel (novel)|Tinsel]]''
*[[William Goldman]] – ''[[Tinsel (novel)|Tinsel]]''
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*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Matarese Circle]]''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Matarese Circle]]''
*[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[The Executioner's Song]]''
*[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[The Executioner's Song]]''
*[[Cormac McCarthy]] - [[Suttree]]
*[[Cormac McCarthy]] ''[[Suttree]]''
*[[Roger McDonald]] – ''[[1915: a novel]]''
*[[Roger McDonald]] – ''[[1915: a novel]]''
*[[Haruki Murakami]] – ''[[Hear the Wind Sing]]'' (風の歌を聴け, ''Kaze no uta o kike'')
*[[Haruki Murakami]] – ''[[Hear the Wind Sing]]'' (風の歌を聴け, ''Kaze no uta o kike'')
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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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*[[Elizabeth Laird (author)|Elizabeth Laird]] – ''Rosy's Garden''
*[[Elizabeth Laird (author)|Elizabeth Laird]] – ''Rosy's Garden''
*[[Robie Macauley]] – ''A Secret History of Time to Come''
*[[Robie Macauley]] – ''A Secret History of Time to Come''
*[[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]]''
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[Carbonel series|Carbonel and Calidor]]''
*[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[Carbonel series|Carbonel and Calidor]]''
*[[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]] – ''[[Der kleine Vampir]]''
*[[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]] – ''[[Der kleine Vampir]]''
*[[Rosemary Wells]] – ''[[Max & Ruby]]''
*[[Rosemary Wells]] – ''[[Max & Ruby]]''
*[[Robert Munsch]] – ''Mud Puddle''


===Drama===
===Drama===
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*[[Peter Shaffer]] – ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]''
*[[Peter Shaffer]] – ''[[Amadeus (play)|Amadeus]]''
*[[Sam Shepard]] – ''[[Buried Child]]''
*[[Sam Shepard]] – ''[[Buried Child]]''
*[[Martin Sherman]] – ''[[Bent (play)|Bent]]''
*[[Martin Sherman (dramatist)|Martin Sherman]] – ''[[Bent (play)|Bent]]''
*[[Tom Stoppard]] – ''[[Undiscovered Country]]''<ref>Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128005313/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 |date=2012-11-28 }}</ref>
*[[Tom Stoppard]] – ''[[Undiscovered Country]]''<ref>Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128005313/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484 |date=2012-11-28 }}</ref>


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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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*[[May 10]] – [[J. B. Morton]] (Beachcomber), English humorous newspaper columnist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[May 10]] – [[J. B. Morton]] (Beachcomber), English humorous newspaper columnist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[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>
*[[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]])
*[[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 6]] – [[Malcolm Hulke]], English television writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
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*[[July 15]] – [[Juana de Ibarbourou]], Uruguayan poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[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 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]])<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>
*[[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 8]] – [[Nicholas Monsarrat]], English novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
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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]]''


===Elsewhere===
===Elsewhere===

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  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.
  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.