1982 in literature

none 1982 literature poetry This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1982. Events February 17 – Philip K. Dick ignores advice to go immediately to hospital. A fortnight later, after two strokes, he is pronounced brain-dead and disconnected from his life-support machine.Anne R. Dick Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer https://books.google.com/books?id=oMIgAQAAIAAJ 1995 978-0-7734-9137-3 279 March 18 – A legal case brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse against theater director Michael Bogdanov is dropped after the Attorney General intervenes. The case concerned alleged indecency in a performance of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre in London.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_2524000/2524269.stm 1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial 2007-11-30 BBC News 1982-03-18https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/jan/28/theatre.stage Look back in anger 2007-11-30 The Guardian London Howard Brenton 2006-01-28 June 25 – In Island Trees School District v. Pico (457 853 1982), the Supreme Court of the United States concludes that "local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to 'prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion." September – Banned Books Week is instituted in the United States. October 7 – After Sue Townsend's comic character Adrian Mole is introduced (as Nigel Mole,Contemporary Dramatists https://books.google.com/books?id=rkkOAQAAMAAJ 1993 St. James Press 978-1-55862-185-5 659 aged 13¼, living in the East Midlands of England) in a BBC Radio 4 play, the book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, is released; it sells 1.9 million copies in three years.Publishing: Friendly local book The Times London 1985-11-25 E. J. Craddock unknown dates La Bicyclette bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges is a runaway success and becomes one of France's all-time bestselling novels.The Atlantic https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-4mAQAAIAAJ 1987 Atlantic Monthly Company 24 The Oxford Shakespeare, under the general editorship of Stanley Wells, begins publication. Dorling Kindersley, formerly a book packager, begins publishing. New books Fiction Brian Aldiss – Helliconia Spring (first of the Helliconia trilogy) Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus) Isaac Asimov – Foundation's Edge Jean M. Auel – The Valley of Horses René Barjavel – La TempêteLaurence Delord-Pieszczyk L'oeuvre de René Barjavel: de la science-fiction au Moyen Age, ou, l'itinéraire d'une symbolique https://books.google.com/books?id=lVcbAQAAIAAJ 1998 Presses universitaires du Septentrion 978-2-284-00366-3 228 Julian Barnes – Before She Met Me Saul Bellow - The Dean's December Michael Bishop – Blooded on Arachne William Boyd – An Ice-Cream WarContemporary Novelists https://books.google.com/books?id=X8_fAAAAMAAJ 1986 St. James Press 978-0-912289-58-8 116 José Cardoso Pires – Balada da Praia dos CãesHelena Kaufman Anna Klobucka After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature, 1974-1994 https://books.google.com/books?id=j6zpVaYaHp4C&pg=PA178 1997 Bucknell University Press 978-0-8387-5336-1 178 Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odyssey Two Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Company 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 Marguerite Duras – The Malady of Death Zee Edgell – Beka LambAlbert James Arnold Julio Rodríguez-Luis J. Michael Dash A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries https://books.google.com/books?id=7uH_4yAahYkC&pg=PA178 1 January 2001 John Benjamins Publishing 90-272-3448-5 178 Stanley Elkin – George Mills Buchi Emecheta – Destination BiafraDestination Biafra by Buchi Emecheta https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1982/09/05/destination-biafra-by-buchi-emecheta-allison-38/fbf88991-3bcc-41cf-bae4-9dbcb4c93855/ Alan Ryan Alan Ryan (horror writer) The Washington Post 5 September 1982 Penelope Fitzgerald – At Freddie's Ken Follett – The Man from St. Petersburg John Fowles – Mantissa Max Frisch – BluebeardCarl S. Leafstedt Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera https://books.google.com/books?id=oNVAmHBbULgC&pg=PA162 4 November 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-535505-5 162 John Gardner – For Special Services (James Bond novel) Graham Greene – Monsignor QuixoteMichael G. Brennan Graham Greene: Fictions, Faith and Authorship https://books.google.com/books?id=JnSd5U6AKMEC&pg=PA146 20 May 2010 A&C Black 978-1-84706-339-7 146 Robert A. Heinlein – Friday L. Ron Hubbard – Battlefield Earth Hammond Innes – The Black Tide Kazuo Ishiguro – A Pale View of Hills John Jakes – North and South Thomas Keneally – Schindler's Ark David Kesterton – The Darkling Stephen King Different Seasons The Running Man W. P. Kinsella – Shoeless Joe Judith Krantz – Mistral's Daughter Peter Kreeft – Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley Derek Lambert – The Red Dove Robert Ludlum – The Parsifal Mosaic Colleen McCullough – An Indecent Obsession Russell McCormmach – Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist Ngaio Marsh (died February 18) – Light Thickens George R. R. Martin – Fevre Dream James Merrill – The Changing Light at Sandover James A. Michener – Space Timothy Mo – Sour Sweet Harry Mulisch – The Assault Chris Mullin – A Very British Coup Gerald Murnane – The Plains Ellis Peters – The Virgin in the Ice Barbara Pym (died 1980) – An Unsuitable Attachment (written 1963) Sidney Sheldon – Master of the Game Anne Tyler – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Kurt Vonnegut – Deadeye Dick John Wain – Young Shoulders Alice Walker – The Color Purple Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice – Water Witch Gene Wolfe – The Citadel of the Autarch Roger Zelazny Dilvish, the Damned Eye of Cat Children and young people Chris Van Allsburg – Ben's Dream Gillian Cross – The Demon Headmaster (first in an eponymous series of six)International Who's who of Authors and Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=7bYRAQAAMAAJ 2008 Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group 162 Roald Dahl – The BFG Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain Margaret Mahy – The Haunting Michael Morpurgo – War HorseThe School Librarian https://books.google.com/books?id=jF3pAAAAMAAJ 1983 School Library Association 53 Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat Stays at Home Bill Peet – The Luckiest One of All Claude Roy (illustrated by Willi Glasauer) – The Cat who Talked in Spite of Himself (Le chat qui parlait malgré lui) Viveca Sundvall – En ettas dagbokLars G. Warme A History of Swedish Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=l3JjeZz-OiwC&pg=PA511 1 January 1996 U of Nebraska Press 0-8032-4750-8 511 Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ Drama Caryl Churchill – Top Girls Andrea Dunbar – Rita, Sue and Bob Too Peter Flannery – Our Friends in the North Michael Frayn – Noises Off Athol Fugard – "Master Harold"...and the Boys Elfriede Jelinek – Clara S, musikalische Tragödie Maryat Lee and the people of Hinton, West Virginia – A Double-Threaded Life: The Hinton Play Doug Lucie – Hard Feelings Stephen MacDonald – Not About HeroesDaniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe Biographical Plays About Famous Artists Cambridge Scholars Pub. 9781443814621 2005 25 Frank McGuinness – The Factory Girls Peter O'Donnell – Mr. Fothergill's Murder Tom Stoppard – The Real Thing August Wilson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Non-fiction Irving Abella and Harold Troper – None is Too Many Martin Amis – Invasion of the Space Invaders Luc Brisson – Plato the Myth MakerLuc Brisson Christoph Jamme Introduction à la philosophie du mythe: Sauver les mythes https://books.google.com/books?id=jaPMfU4Ff5wC&pg=PA12 1995 Vrin 978-2-7116-1271-0 12 fr Beth Chatto – The Damp Garden Mark Ellingham (editor) – The Rough Guide to Greece Bruce Feirstein – Real Men Don't Eat QuicheBryan Strong The Marriage and Family Experience https://books.google.com/books?id=CVcxAAAAMAAJ 1983 West Publishing Company 978-0-314-69682-3 59 Eduardo Galeano – Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), vol. 1 Carol Gilligan – In a Different Voice Sita Ram Goel – How I Became a Hindu Rhys Isaac – The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 Ryszard Kapuściński – Shah of Shahs (Szachinszach) Gary Kinder – Victim: The Other Side of Murder Audre Lorde – Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Elaine Morgan – The Aquatic ApeElaine Morgan The Aquatic Ape https://books.google.com/books?id=y1gdAQAAIAAJ 1982 Stein and Day 978-0-8128-2873-3 John Naisbitt – Megatrends Fernando Pessoa (died 1935) – The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) Tom Peters – In Search of Excellence Erin Pizzey – Prone to Violence Richard Rodriguez – Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (autobiography) Richard Rorty – Consequences of Pragmatism Armando Scannone - Mi Cocina Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the EarthDonald McQuade Robert Atwan Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience https://books.google.com/books?id=pC58P4I-s18C 1985 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-503589-6 431 Margaret Trudeau – Consequences Rebecca West – 1900 Births January 9 – Nora Bossong, German poet and writer January 14 Joe Dunthorne, Welsh novelist and poet Luke Wright, English poet February 5 – Lauren Gunderson, American playwright February 23 – Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Ukrainian poet, children's writer, translator and editor March 24 – Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Icelandic children's fiction writerhttp://www.internationalwriters.se/om-oss/writers/gothenburg/ Gothenburg internationalwriters.se May 24, 2021 April 21 – Claybourne Elder, American actor, singer and writerUnited States Public Records, 1970-2009 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K252-J44 FamilySearch 3 September 2017 May 10 – Jeremy Gable, English-American playwright June 29 Colin Jost, American actor, screenwriter and comedianhttps://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth838brow/brownalumnimonth838brow_djvu.txt The Classes Peter Mandel Cynthia Baher May 1983 83 8 58 Brown Alumni Monthly September 13, 2014 Darnel A. Jost and his wife. Dr. Kerry Kelly '77 M.D., of Staten Island, N.Y., report the birth of their first child, Colin Kelly Jost, on June 29. Ott Sepp, Estonian actor, singer, writer and television presenter July 8 – James Graham, English playwright July 16 – Angel David Revilla, Venezuelan journalist and writer Deaths January 16 – Ramón J. Sender, Spanish novelist (b. 1901)Mary Seale Vásquez Homenaje a Ramón J. Sender https://books.google.com/books?id=PWIrAAAAMAAJ 1987 Juan de la Cuesta 978-0-936388-35-9 201 February 5 – Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton) Welsh novelist and children's writer writing in English (born 1909)Pamela Dear Contemporary authors: New revision series https://books.google.com/books?id=UFKJnEi0sFQC 1 January 2000 Gale / Cengage Learning 978-0-7876-3095-9 47 February 11 – Albert Facey, Australian autobiographer (born 1894) February 13 – Barbara Sleigh, English children's writer (born 1906)Something about the Author https://books.google.com/books?id=om0YAAAAIAAJ 1983 Gale Research 978-0-8103-0055-2 188 February 18 – Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (born 1895)Kathryne Slate McDorman Ngaio Marsh https://books.google.com/books?id=5A5bAAAAMAAJ 1991 Twayne Publishers 978-0-8057-6999-9 xiv February 23 – Elisabeth Kyle, Scottish novelist (born 1901) March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (stroke; born 1928)Kenneth T. Jackson Karen Markoe Arnie Markoe The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1981-1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=N3URAQAAMAAJ 1998 Charles Scribner's Sons 978-0-684-80492-7 233 March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist (lung cancer; born 1936)Paul Schwartz Georges Perec: Traces of His Passage https://books.google.com/books?id=oOh7uU6TcGYC&pg=PA3 1988 Summa Publications, Inc. 978-0-917786-60-0 3 March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1905)Judith Freeman Clark Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century https://books.google.com/books?id=ryMqAAAAYAAJ 1987 Prentice Hall 978-0-13-022658-7 218 March 11 June Arnold, American novelist and publisher (born 1926) Edmund Cooper, English writer and poet (born 1926) March 25 Goodman Ace, American humorist (born 1899)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rOYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5431,6611601&dq=goodman+ace&hl=en Goodman Ace, Comedy Writer 27 March 1982 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 23 September 2010June 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (born 1902) March 27 Harriet Adams, American novelist (born 1892)Chira, Susan. "Harriet Adams Dies. Nancy Drew Author Wrote Over 200 Novels", The New York Times, March 29, 1982. Accessed October 7, 2007. "Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who wrote nearly 200 children's books including many of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, died Saturday evening. She was 89 years old, and lived in Pottersville and Maplewood, N.J." Ted Lewis, English crime novelist (born 1940)Lewis, Alfred Edward [Ted] (1940–1982), novelist https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-105384 2020-12-09 2004 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/105384 978-0-19-861412-8 April 12 – Norman Denny, English writer and translator (born 1901) May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (born 1916)Robert Cohen Understanding Peter Weiss https://books.google.com/books?id=rWakat8UNmwC&pg=PA180 1993 Univ of South Carolina Press 978-0-87249-898-3 180 May 30 – Doris Leslie, English novelist (born 1891) June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic (born 1905)Harold Bloom Twentieth-century American Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=HLhZAAAAMAAJ 1985 Chelsea House Publishers 978-0-87754-806-5 3336 June 18 Djuna Barnes, American writer (born 1892)Review of Contemporary Fiction https://books.google.com/books?id=EC-xAAAAIAAJ 1993 John O'Brien 7 John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)Gale, Cengage Learning A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer" https://books.google.com/books?id=59S8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6 Gale, Cengage Learning 978-1-4103-5981-0 6 June 30 – Malcolm Saville, English children's writer (born 1901) July 3 – Engvald Bakkan, Norwegian novelist and children's writer (born 1897) August 6 – S. K. Pottekkatt, Indian writer (born 1913)Malayalam Literary Survey https://books.google.com/books?id=Ocu5AAAAIAAJ 1982 Kerala Sahitya Akademi 18 September 14 – John Gardner, American novelist (motorcycle accident, born 1933) John Gardner Killed on His Motorcycle United Press International United Press International Oakland, Pennsylvania Schenectady Gazette 15 September 1982 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EQwhAAAAIBAJ&pg=2070,4056176 2010-09-03 2 October 7 – Alejandro Núñez Alonso, Spanish novelist (born 1905) October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (born 1905)Koenraad Elst The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of "Hindu Fascism" https://books.google.com/books?id=bG7XAAAAMAAJ 2001 Voice of India 978-81-85990-69-9 October 30 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (born 1907) November 5 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Korean-American novelist (murdered; born 1951)http://www.robertatkins.net/beta/witness/artists/moves/tributes.html Homicide, Homelessness & Winged Pigs The Village Voice Tributes & Obituaries: Theresa Cha, Keith Haring & Barbara Lehmann December 21, 2012 November 6 – Frank Swinnerton, English novelist (born 1884) December 5 – Caryl Brahms, English critic, novelist and journalist (born 1901)Sherrin, Ned. "Abrahams, Doris Caroline [Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 September 2011 December 21 – Ants Oras, Estonian writer (born 1900) December 24 – Louis Aragon, French poet and writer (born 1897)Gale Cengage Modern French Poets https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ 2002 Gale Group 978-0-7876-5252-4 32 Awards Nobel Prize in Literature: Gabriel García Márquez 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 Miles Franklin Award: Rodney Hall, Just Relations 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 Spain Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Luis Rosales United Kingdom Booker Prize: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Margaret Mahy, The Haunting 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 Hugo Award: Best Novella: Poul Anderson, The Saturn Game Elsewhere Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels: George F. Kennan Hugo Award for Best Novel: Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh Premio Nadal: Fernando Arrabal, La torre herida por un rayo References 30em 1980s Literature External links Popular Books of 1982 at Goodreads Published 1982 Books at Goodreads 1982 Books at Goodreads