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'{{Year nav topic5|1979|literature|poetry}} This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in '''1979'''. <!-- Redlinks will be removed. They make no sense in a list. Add pages as you write them. --> ==Events== *[[April 13]] – ''[[The Adventure of Sudsakorn]]'', the only [[Traditional animation|cel-animated]] [[feature film]] ever made in [[Thailand]], is released to cinemas. It is based on ''[[Phra Aphai Mani]]'', a 30,000-line epic written by Thailand's best-known poet, [[Sunthorn Phu]].<ref>Danutra, Pattara; Himes, Robert (2004-01-01). [http://www.thaifilm.com/articleDetail_en.asp?id=54 "Payut Ngaokrachang: The Master of Thai Animations"].</ref> *May – Première of the [[Merchant Ivory Productions]] film ''[[The Europeans (film)|The Europeans]]'', with a screenplay by [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]], based on [[Henry James]]' novel ''[[The Europeans]]'' ([[1878 in literature|1878]]). *[[October 25]] – The ''[[London Review of Books]]'' is first issued by its founding editors [[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 |accessdate=2011-06-20}}</ref> *[[K. W. Jeter]]'s novel ''[[Morlock Night]]'' pioneers full-length fiction in the genre he will later call [[steampunk]]. *[[August Wilson]]'s ''[[Jitney (play)|Jitney]]'' is first produced; it will become the eighth of his "Pittsburgh Cycle". *[[Dambudzo Marechera]]'s ''[[The House of Hunger]]'' wins the [[Guardian Fiction Prize]]. ==New books== <!-- (''Title of published book translation''), ("Title of published poem/story translation"), (literal translation of title) --> ===Fiction=== *[[Douglas Adams]] – ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' *[[V. C. Andrews]] – ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' *[[Jeffrey Archer]] – ''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]'' *[[Mariama Bâ]] – ''[[So Long a Letter]] (Une si longue lettre)'' *[[Barbara Taylor Bradford]] – ''[[A Woman of Substance]]'' *[[Octavia Butler]] – ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' *[[Italo Calvino]] — ''[[If on a winter's night a traveler]]'' *[[Orson Scott Card]] – ''[[A Planet Called Treason]]'' *[[Angela Carter]] – ''[[The Bloody Chamber]]'' *[[Eileen Chang]] – ''[[Lust, Caution (novella)|Lust, Caution]]'' *[[Agatha Christie]] – ''[[Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories]]'' *[[L. Sprague de Camp]] and [[Lin Carter]] – ''[[Conan the Liberator]]'' *[[Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]] – ''[[Missing Soluch]]'' ({{lang-fa|جای خالی سلوچ}}, ''Ja-ye Khali-ye Soluch'') *[[Michael Ende]] – ''[[The Neverending Story]] (Die unendliche Geschichte)'' *[[José Pablo Feinmann]] – ''[[Últimos días de la víctima (novel)|Últimos días de la víctima]]'' *[[Thomas Flanagan (writer)|Thomas Flanagan]] — ''Year of the French'' *[[Alan Dean Foster]] – ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' (movie novelization) *[[Carlo Fruttero]] and [[Franco Lucentini]] — ''[[A che punto è la notte]]'' *[[William Golding]] – ''[[Darkness Visible (novel)|Darkness Visible]]'' *[[William Goldman]] – ''[[Tinsel]]'' *[[Nadine Gordimer]] – ''[[Burger's Daughter]]'' *[[Arthur Hailey]] – ''[[Overload (novel)|Overload]]'' *[[Maarten 't Hart]] — ''[[De aansprekers]]'' *[[Douglas Hill]] – ''[[Galactic Warlord]]'' *[[Sian James (novelist)|Sian James]] – ''A Small Country'' *[[Philippe Jullian]] – ''Montmartre'' *[[Stephen King]] – ''[[The Dead Zone (novel)|The Dead Zone]]'' *[[Russell Kirk]] – ''[[The Princess of All Lands]]'' *[[Lina Kostenko]] – ''Marusia Churai'' *[[Milan Kundera]] – ''[[The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]]'' (first published in French as ''Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli'') *[[John le Carré]] – ''[[Smiley's People]]'' *[[Morgan Llywelyn]] – ''Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru'' *[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Matarese Circle]]'' *[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[The Executioner's Song]]'' *[[Roger McDonald]] – ''[[1915: a novel]]'' *[[Haruki Murakami]] (村上 春樹) – ''[[Hear the Wind Sing]] (風の歌を聴け, Kaze no Uta o Kike)'' *[[V. S. Naipaul]] – ''[[A Bend in the River]]'' *[[Ellis Peters]] – ''[[One Corpse Too Many]]'' *[[Daniel Pinkwater]] – ''[[Yobgorgle: Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario]]'' *[[Jerry Pournelle]] – ''[[Janissaries (novel)|Janissaries]]'' *[[Satyajit Ray]] – ''[[Hatyapuri]]'' *[[Harold Robbins]] – ''Memories of Another Day'' *[[Philip Roth]] – ''[[The Ghost Writer]]'' *[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[The Last Enchantment]]'' *[[Peter Straub]] – ''[[Ghost Story (Straub novel)|Ghost Story]]'' *[[William Styron]] – ''[[Sophie's Choice (novel)|Sophie's Choice]]'' *[[Trevanian]] – ''[[Shibumi (novel)|Shibumi]]'' *[[Kaari Utrio]] – ''[[Rautalilja]]'' *[[Jack Vance]] – ''[[The Face (Vance)|The Face]]'' *[[Kurt Vonnegut]] – ''[[Jailbird (novel)|Jailbird]]'' *[[Elizabeth Walter]] – ''[[In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters]]'' *[[William Wharton (author)|William Wharton]] – ''[[Birdy (novel)|Birdy]]'' *[[Kit Williams]] – ''[[Masquerade (book)|Masquerade]]'' *[[Raymond Williams]] – ''[[The Fight for Manod]]'' *[[Robert Anton Wilson]] – ''[[Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy|Schrodinger's Cat]]'' *[[Tom Wolfe]] – ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]'' *[[Roger Zelazny]] – ''[[Roadmarks]]'' ===Children and young people=== *[[Chris Van Allsburg]] – ''[[The Garden of Abdul Gasazi]]'' *[[Arthur Blythe]] (with Mark Hess) – ''[[Lenox Avenue Breakdown]]'' *[[Katharine Mary Briggs]] (with [[Anne Yvonne Gilbert]]) – ''Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies'' *[[Raymond Briggs]] – ''[[Fungus the Bogeyman]]'' *[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[The Twits]]'' *[[Peter Dickinson]] (with [[Wayne Anderson (illustrator)|Wayne Anderson]]) – ''[[The Flight of Dragons (book)|The Flight of Dragons]]'' *[[Elizabeth Laird (author)|Elizabeth Laird]] – ''Rosy's Garden'' *[[Robie Macauley]] (with Mark Hess) – ''A Secret History of Time to Come'' *[[Bill Peet]] – ''Cowardly Clyde'' *[[Ellen Raskin]] – ''[[The Westing Game]]'' *Jane Severance (with Tea Schook) – ''[[When Megan Went Away]]'' *[[Barbara Sleigh]] – ''[[Carbonel series|Carbonel and Calidor]]'' *[[Angela Sommer-Bodenburg]] – ''[[Der kleine Vampir]]'' ===Drama=== *[[Bahram Beyzai]] – ''[[Death of Yazdgerd]]'' *[[Caryl Churchill]] – ''[[Cloud Nine (play)|Cloud Nine]]'' *[[David Fennario]] – ''[[Balconville]]'' *[[Richard Harris (television writer)|Richard Harris]] – ''[[Outside Edge]]'' *[[Elfriede Jelinek]] – ''[[Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder Stützen der Gesellschaften]]'' (What Occurred after Nora Left her Husband, or Supports of Society) *[[Mark Medoff]] – ''[[Children of a Lesser God (play)|Children of a Lesser God]]'' *[[Peter Shaffer]] – ''[[Amadeus]]'' *[[Sam Shepard]] – ''[[Buried Child]]'' *[[Tom Stoppard]] – ''[[Undiscovered Country]]''<ref>Stoppard plays at http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stoppard-tom.html#33484</ref> ===Poetry=== {{Main|1979 in poetry}} *[[Kingsley Amis]] – ''Collected Poems'' ===Non-fiction=== *[[Alison Adburgham]] – ''Shopping in Style: London from the Restoration to Edwardian Elegance'' *[[David Attenborough]] – ''[[Life on Earth (TV series)|Life on Earth]]'' *[[Harold Walter Bailey]] – ''Dictionary of [[Khotanese language|Khotan]] Saka'' *[[Jerome Bruner]] – ''On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand'' *[[L. Sprague de Camp]] (editor) – ''[[The Blade of Conan]]'' *[[Elizabeth Eisenstein]] – ''The Printing Press as an Agent of Change'' *[[Peter Evans (musicologist)|Peter Evans]] – ''The Music of [[Benjamin Britten]]'' *[[John Fowles]] – ''[[The Tree (book)|The Tree]]'' *[[Sandra Gilbert]] and [[Susan Gubar]] – ''[[The Madwoman in the Attic|The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination]]'' *[[Eloise Greenfield]], Lessie Jones Little, Pattie Ridley Jones &ndash; ''[[Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir]]'' *[[Douglas Hofstadter]] – ''[[Gödel, Escher, Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid]]'' *[[Henry Kissinger]] – ''The White House Years'' *[[Leon Litwack]] – ''[[Been in the Storm So Long|Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery]]'' *[[Jean-François Lyotard]] – ''[[The Postmodern Condition|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 (book)|The Right Stuff]]'' ==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> *[[March 28]] – [[Benjamin Percy]], American short story writer *[[June 28]] – [[Florian Zeller]], French novelist and dramatist *''Unknown dates'' **[[D.D. Johnston]], Scottish political novelist and university lecturer **[[Emily St. John Mandel]], Canadian-born novelist ==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]]) *[[February 9]] – [[Allen Tate]], American poet and essayist (born [[1899 in literature|1899]]) *[[February 25]] – [[John L. Wasserman]], American entertainment critic (car accident, born [[1938 in literature|1938]]) *[[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]]) *[[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]]) *[[June 1]] – [[Eric Partridge]], New Zealand/British lexicographer (born [[1894 in literature|1894]]) *[[June 3]] – [[Arno Schmidt]], German novelist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]]) *[[June 7]] – [[Asa Earl Carter|Forrest Carter]], American genre novelist (heart failure, born [[1925 in literature|1925]]) *[[July 6]] – [[Malcolm Hulke]], English TV writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]]) *[[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 29]] – [[Herbert Marcuse]], German Jewish philosopher (born [[1898 in literature|1898]]) *[[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]]) *[[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 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 19]] – [[Donald Creighton]], Canadian historian (born [[1902 in literature|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]]: *[[Prix Médicis]] French: *[[Prix Médicis]] International: ===Spain=== *[[Miguel de Cervantes Prize]]: [[Jorge Luis Borges]] and [[Gerardo Diego]] ===United Kingdom=== *[[Booker Prize]]: [[Penelope Fitzgerald]], ''[[Offshore (novel)|Offshore]]'' *[[Carnegie Medal in Literature|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Peter Dickinson]], ''[[Tulku (novel)|Tulku]]'' *[[Cholmondeley Award]]: *[[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'' ===United States=== *[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Fiction, novel, short story|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction]] : *[[Nebula Award]]: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], ''[[Dreamsnake]]'' *[[Hugo Award]]: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], ''[[Dreamsnake]]'' *[[Locus Award for Best Novel]]: [[Vonda N. McIntyre]], ''[[Dreamsnake]]'' *[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: *[[Bancroft Prize]]: [[Christopher Thorne]], ''[[Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945]]'' *[[Bancroft Prize]]: [[Anthony F. C. Wallace]], ''[[Rockdale: The Growth of An American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution]]'' *[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[Sam Shepard]], ''[[Buried Child]]'' *[[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]]: [[Leonard Baker]], ''[[Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews]]'' *[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[John Cheever]], ''[[The Stories of John Cheever]]'' *[[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]]'' ===Elsewhere=== *[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[David Ireland (author)|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== {{reflist|30em}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1979 In Literature}} [[Category:1979 books| ]] [[Category:Years in literature]] [[Category:Years of the 20th century in literature]]'