1979 in literature
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The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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New books

• Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
• Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance
• Raymond Briggs - Fungus the Bogeyman
• Octavia Butler - Kindred
• Orson Scott Card - A Planet Called Treason
• Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
• L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Liberator
• Thomas Flanagan -Year of the French
• John Fowles - The Tree
• Arthur Hailey - Overload
• Sian James - A Small Country
• Philippe Jullian - Montmartre
• Stephen King - The Dead Zone
• Russell Kirk - The Princess of All Lands
• Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
• 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
• Dambudzo Marechera - The House of Hunger
• V. S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River
• Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries
• Harold Robbins - Memories of Another Day
• Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
• Mary Stewart - The Last Enchantment
• Peter Straub - Ghost Story
• William Styron - Sophie's Choice
• Jack Vance - The Face
• Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird
• Elizabeth Walter - In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters
• Kit Williams - Masquerade
• Raymond Williams - The Fight for Manod
• Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff
• Christopher Wood - James Bond and Moonraker
• Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks

New drama

• Peter Shaffer - Amadeus
• Sam Shepard - Buried Child

Poetry

Main article: 1979 in poetry

• Kingsley Amis - Collected Poems

Non-fiction

• L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Blade of Conan
• Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
• Henry Kissinger - White House Years
• Jean-François Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
• Stephen Pile - The Book of Heroic Failures
• Clark Ashton Smith - The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
• Margaret Trudeau - Beyond Reason

Deaths

• February 9 - Allen Tate, poet and essayist
• February 25 - John L. Wasserman, critic
• March 26 - Jean Stafford, short story writer and novelist
• May 10 - J. B. Morton, columnist ("Beachcomber")
• May 14 - Jean Rhys, novelist
• June 7 - Forrest Carter, author
• July 6 - Malcolm Hulke, TV writer
• July 29 - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
• October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet
• October 17 - S. J. Perelman, humorist
• October 18 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
• December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian
• date unknown
  • Dilys Cadwaladr, poet
  • Sir George Clark, historian
  • Goronwy Rees, journalist

Awards

• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Golding, Darkness Visible
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography