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1978 in literature

October 14, 2023

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1978.

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  1. ^ Bradford, Richard (2004). First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin. London: Peter Owen. p. 245. ISBN 0-7206-1147-4.
  2. ^ . Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. March 4, 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  3. ^ Jerry Dowlen (December 2013). booksmonthly.co.uk. Paul Norman. Archived from the original (monthly literary column) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015. Barbara Pym's appearance on Desert Island Discs on 1 August 1978 was replayed on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 June 2013
  4. ^ Bent, Horace (21 October 2009). . The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
  5. ^ Billington, Michael (2007). Harold Pinter (Rev. ed.). London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571234769.
  6. ^ Bibliotheksdienst (in German). Deutscher Bibliotheksverband. 1978. p. 697.
  7. ^ Elizabeth Podnieks (2000). Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Ana•s Nin. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-7735-2021-9.
  8. ^ Rorvik, David Michael (1978). In his Image: The Cloning of a Man. New York: J. B. Lippincott. ISBN 978-0-397-01255-8. Rorvik intentionally left the word "his" uncapitalized in the title of this book. See Talk:David Rorvik.
  9. ^ Alyce von Rothkirch; Daniel Williams (2004). Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts : Essays for M. Wynn Thomas at Sixty. University of Wales Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-7083-1886-7.
  10. ^ "Authors : Ruck, Berta : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  12. ^ Janet Hadda (24 March 2003). Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-299-18693-7.

October 14, 2023
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1978 List of years in literature table 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 In poetry 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science Contents 1 Events 2 New books 2 1 Fiction 2 2 Children and young people 2 3 Drama 2 4 Poetry 2 5 Non fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Awards 5 1 Canada 5 2 France 5 3 Spain 5 4 United Kingdom 5 5 United States 5 6 Elsewhere 6 ReferencesEvents EditMarch 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 1 April James Blaylock s first published story The Ape Box Affair appears in Unearth magazine pioneering steampunk fiction 2 August 1 Barbara Pym is a guest on Desert Island Discs 3 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 4 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 5 December 15 The Berlin State Library s new Haus Potsdamer Strasse is opened in West Berlin s Kulturforum 6 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 7 New books EditFiction Edit 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 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 heroe de las mujeres William Peter Blatty The Ninth Configuration Judy Blume Wifey Charles Bukowski Women Anthony Burgess 1985 Taylor Caldwell Bright Flows the River Alejo Carpentier El arpa y la sombra The Harp and the Shadow Chantal Chawaf Rougeatre John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever C J Cherryh Well of Shiuan Cho Se hui The Dwarf 난장이가 쏘아 올린 작은 공 A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball 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 Bjorn Nyberg Samuel R Delany 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 Donald Hamilton The Silencers 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 Maitre de la parole Kouma Lafolo 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 ChaosChildren and young people Edit 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 Edit Miguel M Abrahao 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 Muller Germania Death in Berlin first performance Harold Pinter Betrayal Sam Shepard Buried Child Martin Sherman Bent Victoria Wood TalentPoetry Edit Main article 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 PoemsNon fiction Edit Hannah Arendt died 1975 The Life of the Mind Gisela Bleibtreu Ehrenberg Tabu Homosexualitat 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 Man 8 Edward Said OrientalismBirths EditFebruary 1 Arno Camenisch Swiss writer April 4 Robison Wells 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 writer 9 Deaths EditJanuary 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 10 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 11 Awards EditNobel Prize for Literature Isaac Bashevis Singer 12 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 Edit See 1978 Governor General s Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards France Edit Prix Goncourt Patrick Modiano Rue des boutiques obscures Prix Medicis French Georges Perec La Vie mode d emploi Prix Medicis International Aleksandr Zinovyev L Avenir radieux RussiaSpain Edit Miguel de Cervantes Prize Damaso AlonsoUnited Kingdom Edit 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 Ciaran Carson Peter Denman Christopher Reid Paul Wilkins Martyn A Ford James Sutherland Smith James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction Maurice Gee Plumb James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography Robert Gittings The Older HardyUnited States Edit 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 for Drama Donald L Coburn The Gin Game Pulitzer Prize for Fiction James Alan McPherson Elbow Room Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Howard Nemerov Collected PoemsElsewhere Edit Miles Franklin Award Jessica Anderson Tirra Lirra by the River Premio Nadal German Sanchez Espeso Narciso Viareggio Prize Antonio Altomonte Dopo il presidenteReferences Edit Bradford Richard 2004 First Boredom Then Fear The Life of Philip Larkin London Peter Owen p 245 ISBN 0 7206 1147 4 Blaylock James P Encyclopedia of Science Fiction March 4 2016 Archived from the original on 6 December 2017 Retrieved 27 May 2016 Jerry Dowlen December 2013 The very best Christmas features Jerry Dowlen celebrates the life and centenary of Barbara Pym booksmonthly co uk Paul Norman Archived from the original monthly literary column on 24 December 2014 Retrieved April 5 2015 Barbara Pym s appearance on Desert Island Discs on 1 August 1978 was replayed on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 June 2013 Bent Horace 21 October 2009 A Bluffer s Guide to the Diagram Prize The Bookseller Archived from the original on 1 December 2010 Retrieved 21 December 2009 Billington Michael 2007 Harold Pinter Rev ed London Faber and Faber ISBN 9780571234769 Bibliotheksdienst in German Deutscher Bibliotheksverband 1978 p 697 Elizabeth Podnieks 2000 Daily Modernism The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf Antonia White Elizabeth Smart and Ana s Nin McGill Queen s Press MQUP p 168 ISBN 978 0 7735 2021 9 Rorvik David Michael 1978 In his Image The Cloning of a Man New York J B Lippincott ISBN 978 0 397 01255 8 Rorvik intentionally left the word his uncapitalized in the title of this book See Talk David Rorvik Alyce von Rothkirch Daniel Williams 2004 Beyond the Difference Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts Essays for M Wynn Thomas at Sixty University of Wales Press p 95 ISBN 978 0 7083 1886 7 Authors Ruck Berta SFE Science Fiction Encyclopedia www sf encyclopedia com Retrieved 16 February 2020 Margaret Mead Biography Theory Books amp Facts Encyclopedia Britannica Retrieved 16 February 2020 Janet Hadda 24 March 2003 Isaac Bashevis Singer A Life Univ of Wisconsin Press p 231 ISBN 978 0 299 18693 7 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1978 in literature amp oldid 1153011484, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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