1977 in literature

none 1977 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977. Events January 21 – The Times Literary Supplement runs an article in which high-profile writers and academics name their most underrated and overrated books or authors of the previous 75 years (the lifetime of the UK publication). Novelist Barbara Pym is chosen as the most underrated writer by both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil, being the only person to be selected by two contributors. On the strength of this, literary interest in Pym is revived after 16 years of non-publication.https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-68--barbara-pym-2240300.html Fowler Christopher Invisible Ink: No. 68 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924105443/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-68--barbara-pym-2240300.html 2015-09-24 The Independent London 2011-03-13 2011-09-30https://barbara-pym.org/about-barbara-pym-and-her-writings/finding-a-voice/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200726152834/https://barbara-pym.org/about-barbara-pym-and-her-writings/finding-a-voice/ 2020-07-26 Pym Barbara Finding a Voice The Barbara Pym Society 2020-04-26 Talk given 4 April 1978 on BBC Radio 3. February 20 – An episode of Doctor on the Go, co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman, marks the beginning of Adams' career as a writer for BBC radio.Douglas McCall Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969-2012, 2d ed. https://books.google.com/books?id=RS0FAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 12 November 2013 McFarland 978-0-7864-7811-8 55– March 4 – Andrés Caicedo commits suicide by overdose, aged 25, about a month after the publication of his novel ¡Que viva la música! ("Let Music Live!", translated as Liveforever) in his home town of Cali, Colombia.El Valle del Cauca https://books.google.com/books?id=D0sYAAAAYAAJ 1983 Fundación Grupo 80 178 April 27 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer born 1919), is kidnapped by the military authorities; he is believed to have died in detention a few months later.M. Elizabeth Ginway J. Andrew Brown J. Brown Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice https://books.google.com/books?id=r7vxXQ4SUwIC&pg=PA179 5 December 2012 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-137-28122-7 179 July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem, "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" by James Kirkup, in a case (Whitehouse v Lemon) at the Old Bailey in London, on behalf of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association. John Mortimer appears for the defence. It is the first such prosecution since 1921 and will be the last before the offense is abolished in 2008.http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/11/newsid_2499000/2499721.stm 11 July 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy 2013-06-29 BBC News https://web.archive.org/web/20080307121819/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/11/newsid_2499000/2499721.stm 7 March 2008 liveCriminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (England and Wales). September 15 – Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his late father's work, The Silmarillion. Fall – Philosophy and Literature appears as an academic journal founded at Johns Hopkins University. It explores connections between literary and philosophical studies, presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature. October – Norman Mailer punches Gore Vidal in the face at a New York City party.United States Commission on Civil Rights Battered Women: Issues of Public Policy : a Consultation Sponsored by the United States Commission on Civil Rights https://books.google.com/books?id=9UyUxEG9N3MC&pg=PA427 1978 Commission on Civil Rights 427 December 31 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii are detained in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kenya, six weeks after the première of their political Kikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) at the open-air Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre. While imprisoned, Ngũgĩ will write the first modern novel in Kikuyu, Devil on the Cross (Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ), on prison-issue toilet paper.https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/prison-left-me-laughing-a-conversation-with-ngugi-wa-thiongo/ Prison Left Me Laughing: A Conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o September 1, 2023 Remo Verdickt Emiel Roothooft Los Angeles Review of Books 3 June 2024 New books Fiction Ales Adamovich, Janka Bryl and Uladzimir Kalesnik – Я из огненной деревни (Belarusian: Я з вогненнай вёскі; Out of the Fire) Jorge Amado – Tieta do Agreste Eric Ambler – Send No More Roses Jay Anson – The Amityville Horror Margaret Atwood – Dancing Girls Richard Bach – Illusions Richard Bachman – Rage Leland Bardwell – Girl on a Bicycle Caroline Blackwood – Great Granny Webster Gerd Brantenberg – Egalias døtre (The Daughters of Egalia, 1985, also Egalia's Daughters, 1986) Terry Brooks – The Sword of Shannara Andrés Caicedo – ¡Que viva la música! J. M. Coetzee – In the Heart of the Country Robin Cook – Coma Robert Coover – The Public Burning Basil Copper – And Afterward, the Dark L. Sprague de Camp The Hostage of Zir The Queen of Zamba L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Aquilonia Edmund Crispin – The Glimpses of the Moon Michel Déon – The Foundling's War Kay Dick – They: a sequence of unease Philip K. Dick – A Scanner DarklyRichard D. Mullen On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-fiction Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=F8MgAQAAIAAJ 1992 SF-TH Incorporated 978-0-9633169-0-5 6 Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer Buchi Emecheta – The Slave Girl Howard Fast – The Immigrants Timothy Findley – The Wars Leon Forrest – The Bloodworth Orphans John Fowles – Daniel MartinEllen Pifer Professor of English and Comparative Literature Ellen Pifer Critical Essays on John Fowles https://books.google.com/books?id=b1wgAQAAIAAJ 1986 G.K. Hall 978-0-8161-8759-1 11 Marilyn French – The Women's Room Jane Gardam – Bilgewater Helen Garner – Monkey Grip Pauline Gedge – Child of the Morning Richard Gordon – The Invisible Victory Günter Grass – The Flounder (Der Butt) Mark Helprin – Refiner's Fire Hammond Innes – The Big Footprints Elias Khoury – الجبل الصغير (al-Jabal al-saghir, The Little Mountain) Stephen King – The ShiningBreznican Anthony Stephen King on His Shining Sequel Entertainment Weekly 2013-01-18 1242 56–57 Derek Lambert – Blackstone on Broadway John le Carré – The Honourable Schoolboy Ernest Lehman – The French Atlantic Affair Robert Ludlum – The Chancellor Manuscript Brian Lumley – The Horror at Oakdeene and Others Ngaio Marsh – Last Ditch George R. R. Martin – Dying of the Light Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds Larry McMurtry – Terms of Endearment Robert Merle – Fortune de France Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon Guido Morselli - Dissipatio H. G. (posthumous)Fantazzi Charles Dissipatio H.G. World Literature Today University of Oklahoma 52 2 1978 0196-3570 40132810 270 10.2307/40132810 40132810 Iris Murdoch – The Sea, the Sea Péter Nádas – The End of a Family Story John Neal – The Genius of John Neal: Selections from His Writings (edited by Benjamin Lease and Hans-Joachim Lang) Watts Edward Carlson David J. John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture Bucknell University Press Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 2012 9781611484205 296 Patrick O'Brian – The Mauritius Command Ellis Peters – A Morbid Taste for Bones Barbara Pym – Quartet in Autumn Ruth Rendell – A Judgement in Stone Alun Richards – Ennal's Pointhttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/jun/19/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Alun Richards (obituary) Dai Smith (academic) Dai Smith The Guardian London 2004-06-19 2013-06-29 Harold Robbins – Dreams Die First Paul Scott – Staying On Erich Segal – Oliver's Story Irwin Shaw – Beggarman, Thief M. P. Shiel – Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk Sidney Sheldon – Bloodline Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony Botho Strauß – Devotion Remy Sylado – Gali Lobang Gila Lobang Craig Thomas – Firefox J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973) – The Silmarillion Melvin Van Peebles – The True American, A Folk Fable Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor) P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975) – Sunset at Blandings Christopher Wood – James Bond, the Spy Who Loved Me Children and young people Chinua Achebe The DrumHahn 2015, pp. 2-3 The FluteHahn 2015, pp. 2-3 Richard Adams The Plague DogsHahn 2015, p. 3 The Ship's CatHahn 2015, p. 3 Sandra Boynton – Hippos Go Berserk!Hahn 2015, p. 88 Helen Cresswell – The Bagthorpe Saga Willi Glasauer – Le Journal Enseveli (The Buried Newspaper) Rumer Godden – The Rocking Horse Secret Shirley Hughes – DoggerDie Kaapse bibliotekaris: The Cape librarian https://books.google.com/books?id=ymToAAAAMAAJ 1979 Library Service 6 Diana Wynne Jones – Charmed LifeMy favourite book as a kid: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/apr/08/my-favourite-book-as-a-kid-charmed-life-by-diana-wynne-jones the Guardian 10 January 2022 en 8 April 2020 Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Enchantments and Curses C. L. Moore (with Alicia Austin) – Black God's Shadow Daniel Pinkwater - The Big Orange Splot Daniel Pinkwater and Jill Pinkwater - The Hoboken Chicken Emergency Maurice Sendak – Seven Little Monsters Barbara Smucker – Underground to Canada (also Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railway) Peter Spier – Noah's ArkHahn 2015, p. 546 Judith Viorst – Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last SundayHahn 2015, p. 14 Drama Robert Bolt – State of Revolutionhttps://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2484632 State of Revolution: a play in two acts Robert Bolt 16 November 1977 Heinemann Educational [for] the National Theatre National Library of Australia (new catalog) Roger Hall – Middle-Age Spread Tony Harrison (adapter) – The Mysteries Mike Leigh – Abigail's Partyhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/2151325.stm Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Abigail's Party BBC News 2002-07-25 2012-06-29 Heiner Müller – Die Hamletmaschine (written) Mary O'Malley – Once a Catholic Dennis Potter – Brimstone and TreacleDirectory of Playwrights, Directors, Designers https://books.google.com/books?id=z6EdAQAAIAAJ 1983 John Offord 87 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii – Ngaahika Ndeenda John Wells – The Immortal Haydon Poetry 1977 in poetry Frank Belknap Long – In Mayan Splendor Non-fiction Wendell Berry – The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. – The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia Robert Coles – Children of Crisis vol. 4, Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos vol. 5, The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America Esther Deans – Esther Deans' Gardening Book: Growing Without Digging Len Deighton – Fighter: the True Story of the Battle of Britain Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time Of Gifts Jim Fixx – The Complete Book of Running Simon Goodenough - Military Miniatures Robert B. Gottlieb – Thinking Big https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/01/archives/books-of-the-times.html Books of the Times John Leonard December 1, 1977 The New York Times Michael Herr – Dispatches Edith Holden (died 1920) – The Country Diary of an Edwardian LadyNicholas Parsons The Book of Literary Lists London Sidgwick & Jackson 1985 0-283-99171-2 R. C. Majumdar – The History and Culture of the Indian People, vol. 11 Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise – Days and Nights in Calcutta V. S. Naipaul – India: A Wounded Civilization David M. Potter – The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 E. F. Schumacher – A Guide for the Perplexed A. T. Q. Stewart – The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609–1969 Lawrence Stone – The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 Peter Ustinov – Dear Me Births February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American novelist March 4 – Dan Wells, American horror and science fiction author May 2 – Alessandro D'Avenia, Italian writerhttps://www.wuz.it/biografia/780/avenia-alessandro.html D'Avenia Alessandro - Biografie scrittori, poeti, artisti - Wuz.it www.wuz.it August 2, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150113030837/http://www.wuz.it/biografia/780/Avenia-Alessandro.html January 13, 2015 live mdy-all July 18 – Alfian Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright August 24 – John Green, American author and YouTube vloggerBraun Eric John Green: Star Author, Vlogbrother, and Nerdfighter Lerner Publications 9781467772617 40 https://books.google.com/books?id=1ixTBgAAQBAJ&q=John+green+1977&pg=PA39 en 2015-01-01 October 16 – Laura Wade, English playwright September 5 – Tena Štivičić, Croatian playwright September 15 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist November 12 – Richelle Mead, American young-adult novelist Deaths January 5 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889)Vabar Sven Artur Adson https://sisu-vana.ut.ee/ewod/a/adson 2024-05-14 sisu-vana.ut.ee en 2024-05-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20240514125958/https://sisu-vana.ut.ee/ewod/a/adson dead January 14 – Anaïs Nin, French-Cuban erotic novelist and diarist (born 1903)Anaïs Nin Conversations with Anaïs Nin https://books.google.com/books?id=Kbo8A9CASVUC&pg=PR18 1994 Univ. Press of Mississippi 978-0-87805-719-1 18 January 18 – Carl Zuckmayer, German playwright (born 1896)Ian Herbert Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ2J8cPyTvAC 1981 Gale Research Company 978-0-8103-0235-8 749 January 26 – William Glynne-Jones, Welsh novelist and children's writer (born 1907) February 19 – Anthony Crosland, British author and politician (born 1918)Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office The Diplomatic Service List https://books.google.com/books?id=bh15AAAAIAAJ 1994 H.M. Stationery Office 83 February 27 – John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (born 1906)Winks Robin W. Winks Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage https://books.google.com/books?id=e3SnIItDKh8C 1998 Scribner's Sons 978-0-684-80519-1 127 March 4 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian novelist and cinéaste (suicide, born 1951) Mihai Gafița, Romanian editor, literary historian and children's novelist (killed in earthquake, born 1923) Alexandru Ivasiuc, Romanian novelist (killed in earthquake, born 1933) March 15 – Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, essayist and political activist (suicide, born 1929)) April 7 – Jim Thompson, American fiction writer (born 1906) April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)Gale Cengage Modern French Poets https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ 2002 Gale Group 978-0-7876-5252-4 352 May 9 – James Jones, American novelist (heart failure, born 1921) July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist (born 1899) July 15 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (born 1892) July 20 – Friedrich Georg Jünger, German writer (born 1898) August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist and novelist (born 1895)Anne Williamson Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ9bAAAAMAAJ 1995 Alan Sutton 978-0-7509-0639-5 333 August 20 – Gurbaksh Singh, Punjabi novelist (born 1914)The Sikh Review https://books.google.com/books?id=dX3XAAAAMAAJ 1977 Sikh Cultural Centre 2 August 26 – H. A. Rey, German-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1898) September 1 – Ștefan Tita, Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (born 1905) September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German-born economist (born 1911) September 12 – Robert Lowell, American poet (heart attack, born 1917)Robert Lowell Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs https://books.google.com/books?id=GvLq2Xd8zjkC&pg=PA11 1988 University of Michigan Press 0-472-10089-0 11 October 27 – James M. Cain, American novelist and newspaperman (born 1892) November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English occult novelist (born 1897)Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015 9781349813667 1468 November 30 Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and novelist (born 1893) Terence Rattigan, English dramatist (bone cancer, born 1911) December 9 – Clarice Lispector, Brazilian novelist (ovarian cancer, born 1920) December 22 – Frank Thiess, German novelist (born 1890) Awards Nobel Prize in Literature: Vicente Aleixandre Canada 1977 Governor General's Awards France Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enferFrance https://books.google.com/books?id=kvy-fIxwNfIC&pg=RA8-PA5 1977 French Embassy, Press and Information Division. 8 Prix Médicis: French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour International: Héctor Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons – Argentina Spain Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Alejo Carpentier United Kingdom Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests Knighthood for services to the theatre: Peter HallBBC Arts - BBC Arts - Sir Peter Hall, 1930 - 2017 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5bpJCX2HKX0R3DnzlRchRlZ/sir-peter-hall-1930-2017 BBC 10 January 2022 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson Whitbread Best Book Award: Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Saul Bellow Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science: Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box Fiction: no award given Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1861 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher). Biography: John E. Mack: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence Hugo Award for Best Novella: Spider Robinson, By Any Other Name James Tiptree Jr., Houston, Houston, Do You Read? Rest of the World Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Leszek Kołakowski Miles Franklin Award: Ruth Park, Swords and Crowns and Rings Premio Nadal: José Asenjo Sedano, Conversación sobre la guerra Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici Notes Hahn Daniel The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature 2015 Oxford. 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