1980 in literature

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

EventsEdit

March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Freeman, John, The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics. Libri: Oxford Template:ISBN</ref>
- 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.
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.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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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.<ref name="Cornwell2013">Template:Cite book</ref>
- The first Tibetan-language literature journal, Tibetan Literature and Art (Template:Transliteration), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- The novella "An Old Song", published anonymously in 1877 in the magazine London, is identified as Robert Louis Stevenson's first published work of fiction.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

New booksEdit

PoetryEdit

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Valerio Magrelli – Ora serrata retinae
Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Non-fictionEdit

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
Pauline Kael – When the Lights Go Down
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
D. I. Suchianu – Nestemate cinematografice (Cinematic Pearls)
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

BirthsEdit

January 1 – Satya Vyas, Indian (Hindi language) writer
May 1 – Jacek Dehnel, Polish poet, writer and translator
May 10 – Cristina Nemerovschi, Romanian writer
May 27 – Majlinda Nana Rama, Albanian pedagogue, writer and researcher
June 5 – Nestan Kvinikadze, Georgian writer, scriptwriter and journalist
September 11 – Dawit Kebede, Ethiopian journalist and publisher
October 29 – Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez, Philippine poet, fiction writer, critic and journalist
November 23 – Ishmael Beah, Siera Leonean author and human rights activist

DeathsEdit

January 3
- Joy Adamson, Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born 1910)<ref>"Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".</ref><ref>Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.</ref>
- George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (born 1915)
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (cancer, born 1913)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
January 21 – Irene Rathbone, English novelist (born 1892)
February 25 – Caradog Prichard, Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born 1904)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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March 12 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born 1881)
March 17 – P. M. Hubbard, English crime writer (born 1910)
March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927)
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 27 – Idris Jamma', Sudanese poet (died 1980)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 6 – John Collier, English-born American short story writer (born 1901)
April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).</ref>
June 7
- Salvator Gotta, Italian writer (born 1887)
- Henry Miller, American novelist (born 1891)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 20 – Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (born 1892)<ref>Obituary, The Times, 23 June 1980</ref>
June 27 – Carey McWilliams, American author, editor and lawyer (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
July 1 – C. P. Snow, English novelist and scientist (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 23 – Olivia Manning, English novelist and poet (born 1908)
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)
September 19 – Jacky Gillott, English novelist (suicide, born 1939)
October 26 – Sam Cree, Northern Irish playwright (born 1928)
November 9 – Patrick Campbell, Irish journalist and wit (born 1913)
December 2 – Romain Gary (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born 1914)<ref>Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.</ref>
December 8 – John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and author (murdered, born 1940)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 12 – Ben Travers, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1886)
December 14 – Nichita Smochină, Transnistrian Romanian ethnographer and journalist (born 1894)
December 21
- Marc Connelly, American playwright (born 1890)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist (born 1912)
December 27 – Todhunter Ballard, American genre novelist (born 1903)
December 31 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (born 1911)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

AwardsEdit

Nobel Prize for Literature: Czesław Miłosz

AustraliaEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, The Impersonators

CanadaEdit

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

FranceEdit

Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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