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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980.

Events

March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française.^[1]
June 5
- The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar.^[2]
- Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London.
August 25 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind (Bumi Manusia), the first of a tetralogy of historical novels, the Buru Quartet, is published in Indonesia after Toer's release from ten years' political imprisonment. It is banned in the country the following year.^[3]
September – A production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history.^[4]^[5]
September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's Translations, at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland.
November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser after divorcing the actress Vivien Merchant.
December 8 – Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon to death in New York City while carrying a copy of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which he claims "is my statement."^[6]
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- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), tops The New York Times Best Seller list.
- Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959) is published for the first time, in Switzerland.^[7]
- The first Tibetan-language literature journal, Tibetan Literature and Art (Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyu rtsal), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.^[8]
- The National Library of Indonesia is created by a merger.^[9]

New books

Children and young people

Richard Adams
- The Girl in a Swing^[10]
- The Iron Wolf and Other Stories^[10]
Vivien Alcock – The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard
Jill Barklem – Brambly Hedge series:
- Spring Story
- Summer Story
- Autumn Story
- Winter Story
Ruskin Bond – The Cherry Tree
Matt Christopher – Wild Pitch
Roald Dahl – The Twits
Thomas M. Disch – The Brave Little Toaster
Buchi Emecheta – Titch the Cat
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Spooks and Spectres
Thomas Meehan – Annie: An old-fashioned story
Robert Munsch – The Paper Bag Princess
Susan Musgrave
- Gullband
- Hag Head
Ruth Park – Playing Beatie Bow
Avril Rowlands – God's Wonderful Railway
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport
Mary Stewart – A Walk in Wolf Wood

Drama

Howard Brenton – The Romans in Britain
Andrea Dunbar – The Arbor
David Edgar (adaptation) – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Ronald Harwood – The Dresser
Ron Hutchinson – The Irish Play
Kenneth Ross – Breaker Morant
Willy Russell – Educating Rita
Sam Shepard – True West

Poetry

Valerio Magrelli – Ora serrata retinae
Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Non-fiction

Tony Benn – Arguments for Socialism
Pierre Berton – The Invasion of Canada
Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark – Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
David Bohm – Wholeness and the Implicate Order
L. Sprague de Camp – The Ragged Edge of Science
L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – The Spell of Conan
Graham Chapman et al. – A Liar's Autobiography
Marilyn Ferguson – The Aquarian Conspiracy
Stanley Fish – Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Julien Gracq – Reading Writing
Graham Greene – Ways of Escape
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman – No One Here Gets Out Alive
János Kornai – Economics of Shortage (Hiány)
Paul H. Lewis - Paraguay Under Stroessner
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – Grimoire of Armadel translation from French (posthumous)
Michael Medved and Harry Medved – The Golden Turkey Awards
Tom O'Carroll – Paedophilia: The Radical Case
Carl Sagan – Cosmos
Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Jack Cox - Nicaragua Betrayed
Ram Swarup – The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods
Alvin Toffler – The Third Wave
Bertram Myron Gross - Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

Deaths

January 3
- Joy Adamson, Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born 1910)^[11]^[12]
- George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (born 1915)
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (cancer, born 1913)^[13]
February 25 – Caradog Prichard, Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born 1904)
March 12 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born 1881)
March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927)
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915)
April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905)
April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, French Cuban novelist and writer (cancer, born 1904)
May 7 – Margaret Cole, English political writer, biographer and activist (born 1893)
May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian novelist (asphyxiation, born 1922)^[14]
June 7 – Henry Miller, American novelist (born 1891)
July 1 – C. P. Snow, English novelist and scientist (born 1905)
July 6 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (born 1903)
July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (born 1913)
July 17 – Traian Herseni, Romanian social scientist and journalist (born 1907)
July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English-born theater critic (pulmonary emphysema, born 1927)
August 8 – David Mercer, English dramatist (born 1928)
August 10 – Gareth Evans, British philosopher (lung cancer (born 1946)
September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and essayist (born 1890)
November 9 – Patrick Campbell, Irish journalist and wit (born 1913)
December 2 – Romain Gary (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born 1914)^[15]
December 8 – John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and author (murdered, born 1940)
December 12 – Ben Travers, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1886)
December 27 – Todhunter Ballard, American genre novelist (born 1903)
December 31 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (born 1911)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Czesław Miłosz

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog; the award is initially given to Paul Radley, who, in 1996, admits that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.^[16]
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, The Impersonators

Canada

See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation^[17]
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

References

^ Alba della Fazia Amoia; Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (2004). Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-313-30688-4.
^ Freeman, John, The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics. Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4
^ Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1982). This Earth of Mankind: A Novel. Penguin Books. p. v. ISBN 978-0-14-006334-9.
^ Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
^ Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.
^ https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html
^ Neil Cornwell (2 December 2013). Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-134-26070-6.
^ Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.
^ Śrī Laṅkā Jātika Pustakāla Sēvā Maṇḍalaya (1990). National Library of Sri Lanka: Commemorative Volume. Sri Lanka National Library Services Board. p. 140. ISBN 978-955-9011-51-4.
^ ^a ^b Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
^ "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".
^ Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.
^ Michael Cotsell (10 March 1989). Barbara Pym. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-19810-8.
^ Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).
^ Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.
^ "Australian of the Year Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
^ Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Psychology Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-415-29161-3.

[1] Alba della Fazia Amoia; Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (2004). Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-313-30688-4.

[2] Freeman, John, The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics. Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4

[3] Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1982). This Earth of Mankind: A Novel. Penguin Books. p. v. ISBN 978-0-14-006334-9.

[4] Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.

[5] Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.

[6] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html

[Cornwell2013-7] Neil Cornwell (2 December 2013). Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-134-26070-6.

[8] Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.

[9] Śrī Laṅkā Jātika Pustakāla Sēvā Maṇḍalaya (1990). National Library of Sri Lanka: Commemorative Volume. Sri Lanka National Library Services Board. p. 140. ISBN 978-955-9011-51-4.

[Hahn-10] Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.

[11] "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".

[12] Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.

[13] Michael Cotsell (10 March 1989). Barbara Pym. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-19810-8.

[14] Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).

[15] Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.

[16] "Australian of the Year Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-01-01.

[17] Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Psychology Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-415-29161-3.

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1980 in literature

Events

New books

Children and young people

Drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

References