Editing 1980 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1980'''.
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==Events==
*[[March 6]] – [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] becomes the first woman elected to the [[Académie française]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alba della Fazia Amoia|author2=Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia|author3=Bettina Liebowitz Knapp|title=Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UUUHP3Mg0IC&pg=PA538|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30688-4|pages=538}}</ref>
*[[June 5]]
**The [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] opens a production at the [[Aldwych Theatre]], London, of ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'', adapted from [[Charles Dickens]]'s novel by [[David Edgar (playwright)|David Edgar]].<ref>Freeman, John, ''The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics''. Libri: Oxford {{ISBN|978 1 907471 54 4}}</ref>
**[[Willy Russell]]'s comedy ''[[Educating Rita]]'' opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with [[Julie Walters]] in the title rôle, at [[Donmar Warehouse|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>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Tribute to Peter O'Toole |url=http://www.films42.com/tribute/otoole.asp|year=2003 |publisher=films42.com |access-date=2009-01-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Nicholas |last=Parsons |title=Dipped in Vitriol |location=London |publisher=Pan Books |year=1981 |isbn=0-330-26556-3}}</ref>
*[[September 23]] – The [[Field Day Theatre Company]] presents its first production, the première of [[Brian Friel]]'s ''[[Translations (play)|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>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html|title = Lennon Murder Suspect Preparing Insanity Defense|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 9 February 1981|last1 = Montgomery|first1 = Paul L.}}</ref>
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**''[[Kane and Abel (novel)|Kane and Abel]]'' by [[Jeffrey Archer]] (published 1979), tops [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''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">{{cite book|author=Neil Cornwell|title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA371|date=2 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26070-6|pages=371}}</ref>
**The first [[Classical Tibetan|Tibetan]]-language literature journal, ''Tibetan Literature and Art'' ({{transliteration|bo|Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyu rtsal}}), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.<ref>{{Cite book |title=On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier |first1=Ashield |last1=Kolas |first2=Monika P. |last2=Thowsen |year=2005 |pages=40–41, 138–139}}</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>{{cite journal |last1=Swearingen |first1=Roger G. |title="An Old Song" (1877): Robert Louis Stevenson's First Published Story, A New Discovery in the Yale Libraries |journal=The Yale University Library Gazette |date=1980 |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=101–113 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40858711 |access-date=Sep 9, 2021}}</ref>

==New books==
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=== Fiction ===

* [[Douglas Adams]] – ''[[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]]''
* [[Warren Adler]] – ''[[The War of the Roses (novel)|The War of the Roses]]''
* [[Woody Allen]] – ''[[Side Effects (anthology)|Side Effects]]''
* [[V. C. Andrews]] – ''[[Petals on the Wind]]''
* [[Jean M. Auel]] – ''[[The Clan of the Cave Bear]]''
* [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – ''[[Neighbors (novel)|Neighbors]]''
* [[Anthony Burgess]] – ''[[Earthly Powers]]''
* [[Ramsey Campbell]], editor – ''[[Cthulhu Mythos anthology#New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos|New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos]]''
* [[Bruce Chatwin]] – ''[[The Viceroy of Ouidah]]''
* [[Mary Higgins Clark]] – ''The Cradle Will Fall''
* [[J. M. Coetzee]] – ''[[Waiting for the Barbarians]]''
* [[Larry Collins (writer)|Larry Collins]] and [[Dominique Lapierre]] -''[[The Fifth Horseman (novel)|The Fifth Horseman]]''
* [[Pat Conroy]] – ''[[The Lords of Discipline]]''
* [[Basil Copper]] – ''[[Necropolis (Copper novel)|Necropolis]]''
* [[L. Sprague de Camp]]
** ''[[Conan and the Spider God]]''
** ''[[The Purple Pterodactyls]]''
* [[E. L. Doctorow]] – ''[[Loon Lake (novel)|Loon Lake]]''
* [[Allan W. Eckert]] – ''Song of the Wild''
* [[Umberto Eco]] – ''[[The Name of the Rose]] (Il Nome della Rosa)''
* [[Ken Follett]] – ''[[The Key to Rebecca]]''
* [[Frederick Forsyth]] – ''[[The Devil's Alternative]]''
* [[Mary Jayne Gold]] – ''Crossroads Marseilles 1940''
* [[William Golding]] – ''[[Rites of Passage (novel)|Rites of Passage]]''
* [[Graham Greene]] – ''[[Dr. Fischer of Geneva]]''
* [[Douglas Hill]]
** ''[[Day of the Starwind]]''
** ''[[Deathwing Over Veynaa]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]] – ''[[The Treasure of Tranicos (collection)|The Treasure of Tranicos]]''
* [[Hammond Innes]] – ''[[Solomon's Seal (novel)|Solomon's Seal]]''
* [[P. D. James]] – ''[[Innocent Blood (novel)|Innocent Blood]]''
* [[Stephen King]] – ''[[Firestarter (novel)|Firestarter]]''
* [[Judith Krantz]] – ''[[Princess Daisy (novel)|Princess Daisy]]''
* [[Björn Kurtén]] – ''[[Dance of the Tiger]]''
* [[Manuel Mujica Láinez]] – ''[[El gran teatro]]''
* [[Derek Lambert (author)|Derek Lambert]] –  ''[[I, Said the Spy]]''
* [[John le Carré]] – ''[[Smiley's People]]''
* [[Madeleine L'Engle]] – ''[[A Ring of Endless Light]]''
* [[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Bourne Identity (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]''
* [[Ngaio Marsh]] – ''[[Photo Finish (novel)|Photo Finish]]''
* [[James A. Michener]] – ''[[The Covenant (novel)|The Covenant]]''
* [[Cees Nooteboom]] – ''[[Rituals (novel)|Rituals]]''
[[File:Gay_Talese_by_David_Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Gay Talese]]]]
* [[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[Looking for Rachel Wallace]]''
* [[Pepetela]] – ''Mayombe''
* [[Ellis Peters]] – ''[[Monk's Hood]]''
* [[Tom Phillips (artist)|Tom Phillips]] – ''[[A Humument]]: a treated Victorian novel'' (1st trade edition)
* [[Belva Plain]] – ''Random Winds''
* [[Paulette Poujol-Oriol]] – ''Le Creuset'' (The Crucible)
* [[Marin Preda]] – ''[[Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni]]'' (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)
* [[Barbara Pym]] (died 1980) – ''[[Crampton Hodnet]]'' (written 1940)
* [[Herman Raucher]] – ''[[There Should Have Been Castles]]''
* [[Mordecai Richler]] – ''[[Joshua Then and Now]]''
* [[Marilynne Robinson]] – ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]''
* [[Sidney Sheldon]] – ''[[Rage of Angels]]''
* [[Julian Symons]] – ''[[Sweet Adelaide]]''
* [[Gay Talese]] – ''[[Thy Neighbor's Wife (book)|Thy Neighbor's Wife]]''
* [[Walter Tevis]] – ''[[Mockingbird (Tevis novel)|Mockingbird]]''
* [[John Kennedy Toole]] (suicide 1969) – ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]''
* [[Gene Wolfe]] – ''[[The Shadow of the Torturer]]''
* [[Roger Zelazny]]
** ''[[Changeling (novel)|Changeling]]''
** ''[[The Last Defender of Camelot]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Richard Adams]]
**''[[The Girl in a Swing (novel)|The Girl in a Swing]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 3</ref>
**''The Iron Wolf and Other Stories''<ref>Hahn 2015, p.3</ref>
*[[Vivien Alcock]] – ''[[The Haunting of Cassie Palmer]]''
*[[Pamela Allen]] – ''Mr Archimedes' Bath''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 20</ref>
*[[Lynne Reid Banks]] – ''[[The Indian in the Cupboard]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 493</ref>
*[[Jill Barklem]] – [[Brambly Hedge]] series:
**''Spring Story''
**''Summer Story''
**''[[Autumn Story (Brambly Hedge)|Autumn Story]]''
**''[[Winter Story (Brambly Hedge)|Winter Story]]''
*[[Ruskin Bond]] – ''The Cherry Tree''
*[[Matt Christopher]] – ''[[Wild Pitch]]''
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[The Twits]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 603</ref>
*[[David Mckee]] - [[Not Now, Bernard]] 
*[[Thomas M. Disch]] – ''[[The Brave Little Toaster (novel)|The Brave Little Toaster]]''
*[[Buchi Emecheta]] – ''Titch the Cat''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Spooks and Spectres]]''
*[[Thomas Meehan (writer)|Thomas Meehan]] – ''Annie: An old-fashioned story''
*[[Robert Munsch]] – ''[[The Paper Bag Princess]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 407</ref>
*[[Susan Musgrave]]
**''Gullband''
**''Hag Head''
*[[Ruth Park]] – ''[[Playing Beatie Bow]]''
*[[Marjorie W. Sharmat]] – ''[[Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport]]''
*[[Mary Stewart (novelist)|Mary Stewart]] – ''[[A Walk in Wolf Wood]]''
*[[Eric Hill]] – ''[[Where's Spot?]]''
*[[Janet and Allan Ahlberg]] – ''[[Funnybones]]''
*[[Pam Adams]] – ''[[Mrs Honey's Hat]]''

===Drama===
*[[Howard Brenton]] – ''[[The Romans in Britain]]''
*[[Andrea Dunbar]] – ''The Arbor''
*[[David Edgar (playwright)|David Edgar]] (adaptation) – ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]''
*[[Ronald Harwood]] – ''[[The Dresser]]''
*[[Ron Hutchinson (screenwriter)|Ron Hutchinson]] – ''The Irish Play''
*[[Kenneth G. Ross|Kenneth Ross]] – ''[[Breaker Morant (play)|Breaker Morant]]''
*[[Willy Russell]] – ''[[Educating Rita]]''
*[[Sam Shepard]] – ''[[True West (play)|True West]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1980 in 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 (author)|Jerry Hopkins]] and [[Danny Sugerman]] – ''[[No One Here Gets Out Alive]]''
*[[Pauline Kael]] – ''[[When the Lights Go Down (book)|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 (Carl Sagan book)|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 (Toffler book)|The Third Wave]]''
*[[Bertram Myron Gross]] – [[Friendly Fascism (book)|Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America]]

==Births==
*[[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

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]]
**[[Joy Adamson]], Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born [[1910 in literature|1910]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/29/world/around-the-world-kenyan-is-convicted-in-death-of-joy-adamson.html "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".]</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/08/kenya.conservation Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.]</ref>
**[[George Sutherland Fraser]], Scottish poet and critic (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[January 11]] – [[Barbara Pym]], English novelist (cancer, born [[1913 in literature|1913]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Cotsell|title=Barbara Pym|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkVdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|date=10 March 1989|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-19810-8|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[January 21]] – [[Irene Rathbone]], English novelist (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Caradog Prichard]], Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s10-PRIC-CAR-1904|title=PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904–1980), novelist and poet|author=Menna Baines|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=[[National Library of Wales]]|access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref>
*[[March 12]] – [[Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est]], Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born [[1881 in literature|1881]])
*[[March 17]] – [[P. M. Hubbard]], English crime writer (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[March 25]] – [[James Wright (poet)|James Wright]], American poet (born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Roland Barthes]], French literary theorist (born [[1915 in literature|1915]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin McQuillan|title=Roland Barthes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqEcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|date=1 March 2011|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-0-230-34389-4|pages=29}}</ref>
*[[March 27]] – [[Idris Jamma']], Sudanese poet (died 1980)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Awadh|first1=Abd al-Rahman|editor1-last=Hamdi |editor1-first=al-Sakkut |title=Qāmūs al-Adab al-ʻArabi al-Hadith|script-title=ar:قاموس الأدب العربي الحديث |trans-title=Dictionary of Modern Arabic Literature|date=2015|page=92 |publisher=General Egyptian Book Organization |location=Cairo, Egypt |isbn=9789779102146 |edition=first |language=ar}}</ref>
*[[April 6]] – [[John Collier (fiction writer)|John Collier]], English-born American short story writer (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Holmes|author2=Marcia Karp|title=Psychodrama: Inspiration and Technique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcJrAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Tavistock/Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-02672-7|page=215}}</ref>
*[[April 24]] – [[Alejo Carpentier]], French Cuban novelist and writer (cancer, born [[1904 in literature|1904]])
*[[May 7]] – [[Margaret Cole]], English political writer, biographer and activist (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Marin Preda]], Romanian novelist (asphyxiation, born [[1922 in literature|1922]])<ref>[http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/scriitorul-marin-preda-moartea-ca-o-povara-429889.html Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).]</ref>
*[[June 7]] 
** [[Salvator Gotta]], Italian writer (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])
** [[Henry Miller]], American novelist (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Norman Mailer-Sentimental literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtplAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516726-9|page=151}}</ref>
*[[June 20]] – [[Amy Key Clarke]], English mystical poet (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>Obituary, The ''Times'', 23 June 1980</ref>
*[[June 27]] – [[Carey McWilliams (journalist)|Carey McWilliams]], American author, editor and lawyer (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXvhAAAAMAAJ|year=1943|publisher=Marquis-Who's Who|isbn=978-0-8379-0210-4|page=395}}</ref>
*[[July 1]] – [[C. P. Snow]], English novelist and scientist (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Shusterman|title=C.P. Snow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PsNAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6993-7|page=176}}</ref>
*[[July 6]] – [[Mart Raud (writer)|Mart Raud]], Estonian poet, playwright and writer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[July 9]] – [[Vinicius de Moraes]], Brazilian poet and songwriter (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[July 17]] – [[Traian Herseni]], Romanian social scientist and journalist (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])
*[[July 23]] – [[Olivia Manning]], English novelist and poet (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[July 26]] – [[Kenneth Tynan]], English-born theater critic (pulmonary emphysema, born [[1927 in literature|1927]])
*[[August 8]] – [[David Mercer (playwright)|David Mercer]], English dramatist (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[August 10]] – [[Gareth Evans (philosopher)|Gareth Evans]], British philosopher (lung cancer, born [[1946 in literature|1946]])
*[[September 18]] – [[Katherine Anne Porter]], American novelist and essayist (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])
*[[September 19]] – [[Jacky Gillott]], English novelist (suicide, born [[1939 in literature|1939]])
*[[October 26]] – [[Sam Cree]], Northern Irish playwright (born [[1928 in literature|1928]])
*[[November 9]] – [[Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy|Patrick Campbell]], Irish journalist and wit (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Romain Gary]] (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born [[1914 in literature|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 in literature|1940]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ingham, Chris|year=2006|title=The Rough Guide to The Beatles|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-720-5|page=82}}</ref>
*[[December 12]] – [[Ben Travers]], English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Nichita Smochină]], Transnistrian Romanian ethnographer and journalist (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[December 21]]
** [[Marc Connelly]], American playwright (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan|author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage|title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA99|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-57356-111-2|pages=99}}</ref>
** [[Nelson Rodrigues]], Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])
*[[December 27]] – [[Todhunter Ballard]], American genre novelist (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[December 31]] – [[Marshall McLuhan]], Canadian philosopher (born [[1911 in literature|1911]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Whitman |first=Alden |author-link=Alden Whitman |date=January 1, 1981 |title=Marshall McLuhan, Author, Dies; Declared 'Medium Is the Message' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/home/mcluhan-obit.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 19, 2012}}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/paul-radley/125/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806015142/https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/paul-radley/125/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 6, 2020|title=Paul Radley|publisher=Australia Day Council|access-date=2022-02-07}}</ref>
*[[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[David Campbell (poet)|David Campbell]], ''Man in the Honeysuckle''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Jessica Anderson (writer)|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''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Aldrich|author2=Garry Wotherspoon|title=Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zHCOboO86eAC&pg=PA301|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-29161-3|pages=301}}</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''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[William Golding]], ''[[Rites of Passage (novel)|Rites of Passage]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Peter Dickinson]], ''[[City of Gold (book)|City of Gold]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 660</ref>
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[George Barker (poet)|George Barker]], [[Terence Tiller]], [[Roy Fuller]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Robert Minhinnick]], [[Michael Hulse]], [[Blake Morrison]], [[Medbh McGuckian]]
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[J. M. Coetzee]], ''[[Waiting for the Barbarians]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Robert B. Martin]], ''[[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]: The Unquiet Heart''
*[[1980 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]], ''[[How Far Can You Go?]]''

===United States===
*[[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals#Drama|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama]]: [[Edward Albee]]
*[[Caldecott Medal]]: [[Barbara Cooney]], ''[[Ox-Cart Man]]''
*[[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''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Hugo Award for Best Novel]]: [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[The Fountains of Paradise]]''
*[[Premio Cervantes]] : [[Juan Carlos Onetti]]
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[Juan Ramón Zaragoza]], ''Concerto grosso''

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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