1982 in literature

1982 in literature
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The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.

New books

Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
Martin Amis - Invasion of the Space Invaders
Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
Jean M. Auel - The Valley of Horses
Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard
Michael Bishop - Blooded on Arachne
Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
Aileen Crawley - The Bride of Suleiman
L. Sprague de Camp - The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Barbarian
August Derleth - The Solar Pons Omnibus
Ken Follett - The Man from St Petersburg
John Gardner - For Special Services
Graham Greene -Monsignor Quixote
Gwenyth Hood -The Coming of the Demons
John Jakes - North and South
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
David Kesterton - The Darkling
Stephen King - Different Seasons and The Running Man
W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe
Judith Krantz - Mistral's Daughter
Morgan Llywelyn - The Horse Goddess
Robert Ludlum - The Parsifal Mosaic
Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
George R. R. Martin - Fevre Dream
James Merrill - The Changing Light at Sandover
James A. Michener - Space
Chris Mullin - A Very British Coup
Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game
Elizabeth Smart - The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Danielle Steel - Crossings
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Gene Wolfe - The Citadel of the Autarch
Roger Zelazny - Eye of Cat and Dilvish, the Damned

New drama

Peter Flannery - Our Friends in the North
Michael Frayn - Noises Off
Stephen MacDonald - Not About Heroes
Frank McGuinness - The Factory Girls
Tom Stoppard - The Real Thing

Non-fiction

Irving Abella and Harold Troper - None is Too Many.
Carol Gilligan - In a Different Voice.
Edward James - The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000.
Audre Lorde - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
John Naisbitt - Megatrends.
Tom Peters - In Search of Excellence.
Margaret Trudeau - Consequences.

Births

Deaths

March 2 - Philip K. Dick, writer
March 6 - Ayn Rand, author
June 18 - John Cheever, writer

Awards

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems

Canada

See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Dominique Fernandez, dans la main de l'Ange
Prix Médicis French: Jean-François Josselin, L'Enfer et Cie
Prix Médicis International: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O’Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
Whitbread Best Book Award: Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Bernard Malamud
Nebula Award for Best Novel: Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Fernando Arrabal, La torre herida por un rayo

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