1985 in literature

none 1985 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985. Events February 25 – Sue Limb's parodic pastiche of the Lake Poets, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. March 1 – The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman is published for the first time, and becomes a fundamental philosophical source within the free software movement.https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty Bustillos Maria 2015-03-17 The New Yorker 2019-10-07 en 0028-792X 2019-10-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20191007212915/https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty live August 11 – A memorial to the poet Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland. various dates – Three notable novels in English by female authors are published during the year: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Jilly Cooper's Riders, the first of the Rutshire Chronicles, and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. New books Fiction Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's TaleGlenn Deer Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority https://books.google.com/books?id=oazw0sDhO_kC&pg=PA110 1994 McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP 978-0-7735-1159-0 110 2021-01-03 2023-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041642/https://books.google.com/books?id=oazw0sDhO_kC&pg=PA110 live Jean M. Auel – The Mammoth Hunters Iain Banks – Walking on Glass Clive Barker – The Damnation Game Greg Bear Blood Music Eon M. C. Beaton – Death of a Gossip Thomas Bernhard – Old Masters: a comedy (Alte Meister: Komödie) Anthony Burgess – The Kingdom of the Wicked Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game Jilly Cooper – RidersFlood Alison Jilly Cooper's Riders: why the toned-down cover? https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jun/03/cover-jilly-cooper-novel-redesign-riders 7 May 2020 The Guardian 3 June 2015 Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Honour Don DeLillo – White Noise Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Execution of Justice (Justiz) Bret Easton Ellis – Less than Zero John Fowles – A Maggot Carlos Fuentes – The Old Gringo (Gringo Viejo) William Gaddis – Carpenter's Gothic Gabriel García Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) Alasdair Gray – The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties Graham Greene – The Tenth Man Amy Hempel – Reasons to Live Frank Herbert – Chapterhouse: Dune John Irving – The Cider House Rules Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days Stephen King – Skeleton Crew László Krasznahorkai – Satantango Ursula K. Le Guin – Always Coming Home Doris Lessing – The Good Terrorist Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove John D. MacDonald – The Lonely Silver Rain James A. Michener – Texas Brian Moore – Black Robe Iris Murdoch – The Good Apprentice Ellis Peters – An Excellent Mystery Caryl Phillips – The Final Passage Barbara Pym (died 1980) – Crampton Hodnet (written 1940) Carl Sagan – Contact Sidney Sheldon – If Tomorrow Comes Sue Townsend – Rebuilding Coventry Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist Andrew Vachss – Flood Kurt Vonnegut – Galápagos Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Roger Zelazny – Trumps of Doom Children and young people Chester Aaron – Out of Sight, Out of Mind Pamela Allen – A Lion in the Night Chris Van Allsburg – The Polar Express Frank Asch – I Can Blink Robert Cormier – Beyond the Chocolate War Roald Dahl – The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Virginia Hamilton (with Leo and Diane Dillon) – The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Patricia MacLachlan – Sarah, Plain and Tall Laura Numeroff – If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Pat O'Shea – The Hounds of the Morrigan Cynthia Rylant – A Blue-Eyed Daisy Jacqueline Wilson – How to Survive Summer Camp (novel) Elizabeth Winthrop – The Castle in the Attic Drama Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière (adapted) – Mahabharata Christopher Hampton (adapted) – Les Liaisons Dangereuses David Hare and Howard Brenton – Pravda Wallace Shawn – Aunt Dan and Lemon Sam Shepard – A Lie of the Mind Neil Simon – Biloxi Blues August Wilson – Fences Poetry Carol Ann Duffy – Standing Female Nude Non-fiction Bill Bryson – The Palace under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries Roger Caron – Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot Allen Carr – The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Michael Denton – Evolution: A Theory in Crisis Elaine Dundy – Elvis and Gladys Julien Gracq – The Shape of a City G. L. Harriss (editor) – Henry V: The Practice of Kingship Ernest Hemingway – The Dangerous Summer David Lowenthal – The Past Is a Foreign Country Walter A. McDougall – ...The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Tim O'Brien – The Nuclear Age Priscilla Beaulieu Presley – Elvis and Me David Robinson – Chaplin: His Life and Art Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Roger Scruton – Thinkers of the New Left Gary Soto – Living Up the Street Frederick Andrew Lerner – Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community Births February 7 – Justina Ireland, American science-fiction and fantasy author of young-adult fiction April 24 – Alexander Zeldin, British playwright and director September 24 – Eleanor Catton, New Zealand novelistNicholas Birns Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead https://books.google.com/books?id=FIMRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231 1 December 2015 Sydney University Press 978-1-74332-436-3 231 3 January 2021 15 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041645/https://books.google.com/books?id=FIMRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231 live September 30 – Téa Obreht, Yugoslav-born American novelist writing in English Alisa Ganieva, Russian fiction writer and critic Deaths January 1 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet, playwright, and civil servant (born 1913) January 5 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian-born American poet and critic (born 1914) February 6 – James Hadley Chase, English thriller novelist (born 1906)The Annual Obituary https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ 1988 St. Martin's 978-0-912289-82-3 56-57 2021-01-12 2023-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041646/https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ live February 19 – Carl Joachim Hambro, Norwegian novelist, essayist and philologist (born 1914)Hambro, Johan (1984). C. J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67. 82-03-11347-8. March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and philosopher (born 1921) April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh writer (born 1891) April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German political theorist (born 1888) April 17 Basil Bunting, English poet (born 1900) D. I. Suchianu, Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (born 1895) April 25 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born 1909) May 1 – Denise Robins, English romantic novelist (born 1897) May 12 – Josephine Miles, American poet and literary critic (born 1911) May 18 – Hedley Bull, Australian economist (cancer, born 1932)Robert Ayson Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power https://books.google.com/books?id=lVFYTDTkgfgC&pg=PA196 24 September 2012 Palgrave Macmillan 978-0-230-36389-2 196 May 25 – Robert Nathan, American novelist and poet (born 1894) June 8 – Hu Feng (胡风), Chinese novelist (born 1902) June 16 – Ernst Orvil, Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born 1898) July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Nobel laureate (born 1917) July 8 – Leslie Paul, Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1905) July 29 – Judah Waten, Australian novelist (born 1911)Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid National Library of Australia 2022-10-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20221031050812/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid live August 14 – Alfred Hayes, English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born 1911) August 30 – (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, English-born American novelist (born 1900)John Arthur Garraty Mark Christopher Carnes American National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=YHIRAQAAMAAJ 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-512783-6 206 2021-03-27 2023-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041650/https://books.google.com/books?id=YHIRAQAAMAAJ live September 1 – Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and broadcaster (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893)World Book, Inc. Staff The World Book Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=9EN9g4G5d3YC February 1986 World Book, Incorporated 978-0-7166-0486-0 516 2021-03-27 2023-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041640/https://books.google.com/books?id=9EN9g4G5d3YC live September 17 – Fran Ross, African American satirist (born 1935) September 22 – D. J. Opperman, South African Afrikaans poet (born 1914) September 27 – Leonard Gribble, English novelist (born 1908) October 1 – E. B. White, American children's writer and writer on style (born 1899)Jill C. Wheeler E. B. White https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 1 January 2013 ABDO Publishing Company 978-1-61480-938-8 21 27 March 2021 15 April 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041644/https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21 live October 11 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (born 1925) October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian journalist and inventor (born 1899) October 31 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek poet (born 1903) November 3 – J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English historian (born 1916) November 4 – Hilda Vaughan, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born 1892) November 6 – Sara Woods, British crime fiction writer (born 1922) November 11 – James Hanley, English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born 1897)Linneae Gibbs James Hanley: A Bibliography 1980 November 25 Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (born 1905) Elsa Morante, Italian novelist (born 1912)Santo, Aricò L. (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. November 27 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (born 1902) December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet (born 1922) December 5 – Mihail Celarianu, Romanian poet and novelist (born 1893) December 7 – Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1895) Awards Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon Australia The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: no award given out this year C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kevin Hart, Your Shadow; Rosemary Dobson, The Three Fates Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Kevin Hart, Your Shadow Mary Gilmore Prize: Doris Brett, The Truth about Unicorns Miles Franklin Award: Christopher Koch, The Doubleman Canada See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. France Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffélec, Les Noces barbaresDouglas W. Alden Peter C. Hoy Christine M. Zunz French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885 https://books.google.com/books?id=yySSPhUSBDAC&pg=PA11458 September 1989 Susquehanna University Press 978-0-941664-99-8 11458 2021-01-03 2023-04-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041641/https://books.google.com/books?id=yySSPhUSBDAC&pg=PA11458 live Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, Naissance d'une passion Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, God Knows Spain Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester United Kingdom Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, The Bone People Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm Cholmondeley Award: Dannie Abse, Peter Redgrove, Brian Taylor Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Robert Edric, Winter Garden James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed Newdigate Prize: Robert Twigger Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, Elegies United States Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Liz Rosenberg, The Fire Music American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Robert Penn Warren Frost Medal: Robert Penn Warren Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie – Foreign Affairs Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin Whiting Awards (inaugural year): Fiction: Raymond Abbott, Stuart Dybek, Wright Morris (fiction/nonfiction), Howard Norman, James Robison, Austin Wright (fiction/nonfiction) Poetry: Douglas Crase, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, James Schuyler Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: Teddy Kollek Premio Nadal: Pau Faner Coll – Flor de sal References 30em External links Popular Books of 1985 at Goodreads Published 1985 Books at Goodreads 1985 Books at Goodreads 1980s Literature