1978 in literature

none 1978 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1978. Events March 8 – Douglas Adams' comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy originates as a radio comedy broadcast on the U.K. BBC Radio 4. March – Philip Larkin ends his relationships with Maeve Brennan and Betty Mackereth.Bradford Richard First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin London Peter Owen 0-7206-1147-4 2004 245 April – James Blaylock's first published story, "The Ape-Box Affair", appears in Unearth magazine, pioneering steampunk fiction.http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blaylock_james_p Blaylock, James P Encyclopedia of Science Fiction March 4, 2016 27 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20171206053657/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/blaylock_james_p 6 December 2017 dead August 1 – Barbara Pym is a guest on Desert Island Discs.Jerry Dowlen The very best Christmas features... Jerry Dowlen celebrates the life and centenary of Barbara Pym... http://www.booksmonthly.co.uk/jd.html booksmonthly.co.uk Paul Norman April 5, 2015 monthly literary column December 2013 Barbara Pym's appearance on Desert Island Discs on 1 August 1978 was replayed on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20141224150904/http://www.booksmonthly.co.uk/jd.html 24 December 2014 dead October – The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles, is launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The first winner is Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.Bent Horace http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/107456-a-bluffers-guide-to-the-diagram-prize.html https://web.archive.org/web/20101201222523/http://thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/107456-a-bluffers-guide-to-the-diagram-prize.html 1 December 2010 A Bluffer's Guide to the Diagram Prize The Bookseller 21 October 2009 21 December 2009 November 15 – Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, inspired by a seven-year clandestine extramarital affair with BBC Television presenter Joan Bakewell, opens at the National Theatre in London, directed by Peter Hall and featuring Penelope Wilton and her husband at this time, Daniel Massey, with Michael Gambon.Michael Billington (critic) Billington Michael Harold Pinter Rev. 2007 London Faber and Faber 9780571234769 December 15 – The Berlin State Library's new Haus Potsdamer Straße is opened in West Berlin's Kulturforum.Bibliotheksdienst https://books.google.com/books?id=LHowAQAAIAAJ 1978 Deutscher Bibliotheksverband de 697 unknown date – Antonia White's 1933 novel Frost in May becomes the first in Virago Press's Modern Classics series of reissues of books by neglected women authors, published in the UK.Elizabeth Podnieks Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Ana•s Nin https://books.google.com/books?id=oUrFopFy_rQC&pg=PA168 2000 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-2021-9 168 New books Fiction Etel Adnan – Sitt Marie Rose Srikrishna Alanahalli – Parasangada Gendethimma Kingsley Amis – Jake's Thing Martin Amis – Success Jessica Anderson – Tirra Lirra by the River Aharon Appelfeld – Badenheim 1939 (באדנהיים עיר נופש, he Badenhaim `ir nofesh) Richard Bach – Illusions Beryl Bainbridge – Young Adolf Thomas Berger – Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel Thomas Bernhard – Yes (Ja) Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Hero of Women (El héroe de las mujeres) William Peter Blatty – The Ninth Configuration Judy Blume – Wifey Charles Bukowski – Women Anthony Burgess – 1985 Taylor Caldwell – Bright Flows the River Chantal Chawaf – Rougeâtre John Cheever – The Stories of John Cheever C. J. Cherryh – Well of Shiuan Brian Cleeve – Judith Mary Elizabeth Counselman – Half in Shadow L. Sprague de Camp The Best of L. Sprague de Camp The Great Fetish Conan the Swordsman (with Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg) Samuel R. Delany & Howard Chaykin – Empire: A Visual Novel Don DeLillo – Running Dog Nelson DeMille – By the Rivers of Babylon Phyllis Eisenstein – Born to Exile J. G. Farrell – The Singapore Grip Howard Fast – Second Generation Ken Follett – Eye of the Needle Alan Dean Foster – Splinter of the Mind's Eye Ernest J. Gaines – In My Father's House Jane Gardam – God on the Rocks Maurice Gee – Plumb (first in trilogy) Graham Greene – The Human Factor Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You Roy Heath – The Murderer James Herbert – The Spear William Hjortsberg – Falling Angel Timothy Mo – The Monkey King John Irving – The World According to Garp Marshall Jevons – Murder at the Margin James Jones – Whistle Ismail Kadare – The Three-Arched Bridge (Ura Me Tri Harqe) M. M. Kaye – The Far Pavilions Stephen King The Stand Night Shift (collection of short stories including "Children of the Corn") Christopher Koch – The Year of Living Dangerously Larry Kramer – Faggots Judith Krantz – Scruples Jaan Kross – The Czar's Madman (Keisri hull) Derek Lambert – The Saint Peter's Plot Camara Laye – Le Maître de la parole – Kouma Lafôlô Kouma (The Guardian of the Word) Ursula K. Le Guin – The Eye of the Heron Madeleine L'Engle – A Swiftly Tilting Planet Robert Ludlum – The Holcroft Covenant John D. MacDonald – The Empty Copper Sea David Malouf – An Imaginary Life Dambudzo Marechera – The House of Hunger Ngaio Marsh – Grave Mistake Richard Matheson – What Dreams May Come Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden James A. Michener – Chesapeake Patrick Modiano – Rue des boutiques obscures (translated as Missing Person) Alice Munro – Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose in U.S.) Larry Niven – The Magic Goes Away Tim O'Brien – Going After Cacciato Andrew J. Offutt – Conan and the Sorcerer John L. Parker Jr. – Once a Runner Robert B. Parker – The Judas Goat Elizabeth Peters – Street of the Five Moons William Luther Pierce – The Turner Diaries Belva Plain – Evergreen Mario Puzo – Fools Die Mary Renault – The Praise Singer Ruth Rendell – A Sleeping Life Hubert Selby Jr. – Requiem for a Dream Jaswant Singh Kanwal – Lahoo Di Lo (Dawn of the Blood) Whitley Strieber – The Wolfen Thomas Sullivan – Diapason Julian Symons – The Blackheath Poisonings John Updike – The Coup Gore Vidal – Kalki Martin Walser – Runaway Horse William Wharton – Birdy Herman Wouk – War and Remembrance Richard Yates – A Good School Frank Yerby – Hail the Conquering Hero Roger Zelazny – The Courts of Chaos Children and young people Janet and Allan Ahlberg – Each Peach, Pear, Plum (approximate year) Raymond Briggs – The Snowman Roald Dahl – The Enormous Crocodile Rumer Godden – A Kindle of Kittens Gwen Grant – Private – Keep Out Roger Hargreaves – Timbuctoo (first twelve of a series of 25 books) David Larkin (with Brian Froud and Alan Lee) – Faeries Bill Peet – Eli Lidia Postma – De Heksentuin (The Witch's Garden), in the Netherlands David Rees – The Exeter Blitz Seymour Reit (with Roberto Innocenti) All Kinds of Planes All Kinds of Ships All Kinds of Trains Sails, Rails, and Wings Louis Sachar – Sideways Stories from Wayside School (first in the Wayside School series of six books) Rosemary Sutcliff – Song for a Dark Queen Arnold Wesker – Fatlips: A Story for Children Arnulf Zitelmann (with Willi Glasauer) – Kleiner Weg (Small Trail) Drama Miguel M. Abrahão – O Chifrudo Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio play) Brian Clark – Whose Life Is It Anyway? Max Frisch – Tryptichon: Drei szenische Bilder (Triptych) David Hare – Plenty Arthur Kopit – Wings Ira Levin – Deathtrap Mary O'Malley – Once a Catholic Heiner Müller – Germania Death in Berlin (first performance) Harold Pinter – Betrayal Sam Shepard – Buried Child Martin Sherman – Bent Victoria Wood – Talent Poetry 1978 in poetry Maya Angelou – And Still I Rise Robert Minhinnick – A Thread in the Maze Luis Alberto Spinetta – Guitarra Negra (Black Guitar) John Tripp – Collected Poems Non-fiction Hannah Arendt (died 1975) – The Life of the Mind Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg – Tabu Homosexualität Roger Caron – Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars Lord David Cecil – A Portrait of Jane Austen Charlotte Chandler – Hello, I Must Be Going! Beth Chatto – The Dry Garden Christina Crawford – Mommie Dearest Gerald Durrell – The Garden of the Gods Don E. Fehrenbacher – The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics John Gall – Systemantics H. R. Haldeman – The Ends of Power Mollie Katzen – Moosewood Cookbook Mary Midgley – Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature New York International Bible Society – Holy Bible, New International Version (translated into modern American English) Richard Nixon – The Memoirs of Richard Nixon M. Scott Peck – The Road Less Travelled David Rorvik – In his Image: The Cloning of a ManRorvik David Michael In his Image: The Cloning of a Man https://archive.org/details/inhisimageclonin0000rorv registration 1978 J. B. Lippincott New York 978-0-397-01255-8 Rorvik intentionally left the word "his" uncapitalized in the title of this book. See Talk:David Rorvik. Edward Said – Orientalism Births February 1 – Arno Camenisch, Swiss writer April 4 - Robison Wells, American novelist April 20 – Rebecca Makkai, American novelist July 23 – Lauren Groff, American novelist and short story writer October 24 – Kei Miller, Jamaican-born poet and fiction writer November 2 - Ally Condie, American young-adult and middle grade novelist unknown dates Filippo Bologna, Italian novelist and screenwriter David Llewellyn, Welsh screenwriter Samanta Schweblin, Argentine fiction writer Rachel Trezise, Welsh novelist and short story writerAlyce von Rothkirch Daniel Williams Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts : Essays for M. Wynn Thomas at Sixty https://books.google.com/books?id=xZViAAAAMAAJ 2004 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1886-7 95 Deaths January 12 – Robert Harbin, South African-born author of books on magic (born 1908) March 1 – Paul Scott, English novelist, playwright and poet (born 1920) March 24 – Leigh Brackett, American science fiction writer (born 1915) April 14 – F. R. Leavis, English academic literary critic (born 1895) May 1 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, English poet and novelist (born 1893) May 12 – Louis Zukofsky, American modernist poet (born 1904) June 11 – Carola Oman, English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer (born 1897) June 18 – Walter C. Alvarez, American medical author (born 1884) August 11 – Berta Ruck, Indian-born Welsh romantic novelist (born 1878)Authors : Ruck, Berta : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ruck_berta www.sf-encyclopedia.com 16 February 2020 August 28 – Robert Shaw, English-born actor, novelist and playwright (born 1927) September 3 – Basil Willey, English academic literary critic (died 1897) September 9 – Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve), Scottish poet, journalist and essayist (born 1892) September 11 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident writer, broadcaster, playwright (born 1929) September 15 – Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer and composer (born 1921) September 28 – Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), Italian author of Illustrissimi (born 1912) November 5 – N. Crevedia, Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (born 1902) November 11 – Helena Boguszewska, Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (born 1883) November 15 – Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author (born 1901)Margaret Mead Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mead Encyclopedia Britannica 16 February 2020 en December 15 – Ionel Gherea, Romanian philosopher, essayist and novelist (born 1895) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Isaac Bashevis SingerJanet Hadda Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life https://books.google.com/books?id=1pxBtkICDMMC&pg=PA231 24 March 2003 Univ of Wisconsin Press 978-0-299-18693-7 231 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year is first awarded. The winner is Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice. Canada See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures Prix Médicis: French: Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi International: Aleksandr Zinovyev, L'Avenir radieux – USSR Spain Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Dámaso Alonso United Kingdom Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea Carnegie Medal for children's literature: David Rees, The Exeter Blitz Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas Eric Gregory Award: Ciarán Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Fiction: Maurice Gee, Plumb Biography: Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy United States American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Peter Taylor Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia Pulitzer Prize: Drama: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems Hugo Award for Best Novella: Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, Stardance Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Astrid Lindgren Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, Tirra Lirra by the River Premio Nadal: Germán Sánchez Espeso, Narciso Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente References 30em External links Popular Books of 1978 at Goodreads Published 1978 Books at Goodreads 1978 Books at Goodreads