1980 in literature
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See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), reaches #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
- Ox-Cart Man by Barbara Cooney wins the Caldecott Medal
[edit] New books
- Company - Samuel Beckett
- The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- The Covenant - James A. Michener
- The Cradle Will Fall - Mary Higgins Clark
- Crossroads Marseilles 1940 - Mary Jayne Gold
- The Devil's Alternative - Frederick Forsyth
- The Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
- Firestarter - Stephen King
- The Girl in a Swing - Richard Adams
- In Loon Lake - E. L. Doctorow
- Innocent Blood - P. D. James
- The Invasion of Canada - Pierre Berton
- The Iron Wolf and Other Stories - Richard Adams
- Joshua Then and Now - Mordecai Richler
- The Key to Rebecca - Ken Follett
- Looking for Rachel Wallace - Robert B. Parker
- The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
- Princess Daisy - Judith Krantz
- Rage of Angels - Sidney Sheldon
- Random Winds - Belva Plain
- A Ring of Endless Light - Madeleine L'Engle
- The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
- Smiley's People - John le Carré
- Song of the Wild - Allan W. Eckert
- Thy Neighbor's Wife - Gay Talese
- War of the Roses - Warren Adler
- A Book of Spooks and Spectres - Ruth Manning-Sanders
[edit] New drama
- Howard Brenton - The Romans in Britain
- Kenneth Ross - Breaker Morant
- Willy Russell - Educating Rita
- Sam Shepard - True West
[edit] Non-fiction
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Joy Adamson, conservationist and author of Born Free
(killed by a servant in northern Kenya).
- January 3 - G. S. Fraser, poet and critic
- January 11 - Barbara Pym, novelist
- March 25 - James Wright, poet
- April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist and dramatist
- June 7 - Henry Miller, writer
- July 1 - C. P. Snow, novelist
- July 9 - Vinicius de Moraes, poet and songwriter
- July 26 - Kenneth Tynan, influential theatre critic
- September 18 - Katherine Anne Porter, novelist and essayist
- November 9 - Patrick Campbell, journalist and wit
- November 22 - Mae West, actress and dramatist
- December 2 - Romain Gary, writer
- December 8 - John Lennon, musician, author
- December 12 - Ben Travers, dramatist
- December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (author)
- date unknown - Gareth Evans, philosopher
- date unknown - Caradog Prichard, Welsh-language poet and novelist
[edit] Awards
[edit] Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog, after the award was initially given to Paul Radley, who was disqualified after admitting his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
[edit] Canada
- See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation
- Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
- Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
- Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
- Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian
- Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Edward Albee
- Dos Passos Prize: Graham Greene
- Nebula Award: Gregory Benford, Timescape
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems
