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1978 in literature
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The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
New drama
Poetry
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Main article: 1978 in poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 12 - Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 - Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 - F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- September 15 - Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 - Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
- date unknown - Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Maurice Gee, Plumb
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy
United States
Elsewhere
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