Editing 1984 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1984'''.
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==Events==
*[[April 4]] – The narrative of [[George Orwell]]'s [[dystopian]] novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' ([[1949 in literature|1949]]) begins and causes widespread discussion. [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''[[The Napoleon of Notting Hill]]'' ([[1904 in literature|1904]]) is also set in this year; and [[Haruki Murakami]]'s ''[[1Q84]]'' (いちきゅうはちよん, ''Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon'', [[2009 in literature|2009]]–2010) is set in a parallel version of it.
*[[June 16]] – [[Cirque du Soleil]] is founded in [[Baie-Saint-Paul]], Quebec, by two former street performers, [[Guy Laliberté]] and [[Gilles Ste-Croix]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.international.gc.ca/about-a_propos/results-resultats.aspx?cx=007661858624964228382:z2cu4sbyz3i&cof=FORID:11;NB:1&ie=UTF-8&q=Cirque+du+Soleil+&sa=Search&view=d |title=Cirque du Soleil |first=Brigitte |last=Bélanger |date=1999-04-14 |publisher=Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada |access-date=2013-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728101417/http://www.international.gc.ca/about-a_propos/results-resultats.aspx?cx=007661858624964228382:z2cu4sbyz3i&cof=FORID:11;NB:1&ie=UTF-8&q=Cirque+du+Soleil+&sa=Search&view=d |archive-date=2014-07-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*July – [[Tom Wolfe]]'s novel ''[[The Bonfire of the Vanities]]'' begins serialization in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.
*[[December 19]] – [[Ted Hughes]]' appointment as [[Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom]] is announced in succession to Sir [[John Betjeman]],<ref>{{Cite news |title='True poet' Ted Hughes is Laureate |first=Philip |last=Howard |author-link=Philip Howard (journalist) |newspaper=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=1984-12-20 |page=1 |issue=62017}}</ref> [[Philip Larkin]] having turned down the post.
*''unknown dates''
**[[Prvoslav Vujčić]]'s second poetry collection, ''Kastriranje vetra'' (Castration of the Wind), written during a week's imprisonment in [[Tuzla]] for criticising the state, is banned in [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
**''[[Of Mice and Men]]'', the [[1937 in literature|1937]] novel by [[John Steinbeck]], is removed from [[Tennessee]] public schools, when the School Board Chair promises to oust all "ostensibly filthy" books from public school curricula and libraries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Of Mice and Men, 1937 – Information about the Book |url=http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/steinbeck_john/mice |work=SwissEduc}}</ref>
**[[Redu]] in [[Belgium]] becomes a [[book town]].
**Saqi Books, an independent U.K. publisher, is founded by [[Mai Ghoussoub]].

==New books==
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===Fiction===
*[[Warren Adler]] – ''[[Random Hearts]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Europa Publications|title=International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA7|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-179-7|pages=7–}}</ref>
*[[Kingsley Amis]] – ''[[Stanley and the Women (novel)|Stanley and the Women]]''
*[[Martin Amis]] – ''[[Money (novel)|Money]]''
*[[V. C. Andrews]] – ''[[Seeds of Yesterday]]''
*[[Jeffrey Archer]] – ''[[First Among Equals (novel)|First Among Equals]]''
*[[Richard Bachman]] (Stephen King) – ''[[Thinner (novel)|Thinner]]''
*[[Beryl Bainbridge]] – ''Watson's Apology''
*[[J. G. Ballard]] – ''[[Empire of the Sun (novel)|Empire of the Sun]]''
*[[Iain Banks]] – ''[[The Wasp Factory]]''
*[[René Barjavel]] – ''[[L'Enchanteur]]''
*[[Julian Barnes]] – ''[[Flaubert's Parrot]]''
*J. J. Benítez – ''[[Caballo de Troya]]''
*[[Thomas Bernhard]] – ''[[Woodcutters (novel)|Woodcutters]] (Holzfällen)''
*[[J. Bernlef]] – ''Hersenschimmen'' (Out of Mind)
*[[Michael Bishop (author)|Michael Bishop]]
**''[[One Winter in Eden]]''
**''[[Who Made Stevie Crye?]]''
*[[Simon Brett]] – ''[[A Shock to the System (1990 film)|A Shock to the System]]''
*[[David Brin]] – ''[[The Practice Effect]]''
*[[Anita Brookner]] – ''[[Hotel du Lac]]''
*[[Anthony Burgess]] – ''[[Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby]]''
*[[Tom Clancy]] – ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''
*[[Maryse Condé]] – ''Segou: les murailles de terre''
*[[Bernard Cornwell|Bernard & Judy Cornwell]] (as Susannah Kells) – ''Fallen Angels''
*[[Michel Déon]] – ''[[Je vous écris d'Italie]]''
*[[Joan Didion]] – ''[[Democracy (novel)|Democracy]]''
*[[Marguerite Duras]] – ''[[The Lover (Duras novel)|L'Amant]]''
*[[Louise Erdrich]] – ''[[Love Medicine]]''
*[[Howard Fast]] – ''The Outsider''
*[[Leon Forrest]] – ''Two Wings to Veil My Face''
*[[Frederick Forsyth]] – ''[[The Fourth Protocol]]''
*[[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]] – ''[[Role of Honour]]''
*[[William Gibson]] – ''[[Neuromancer]]''
*[[William Golding]] – "[[The Paper Men]]"
*[[Alasdair Gray]] – ''[[1982, Janine]]''
*[[Kent Haruf]] – ''[[The Tie That Binds (novel)|The Tie That Binds]]''
*[[Frank Herbert]] – ''[[Heretics of Dune]]''
*[[David Hughes (novelist)|David Hughes]] – ''[[The Pork Butcher]]''
*[[John Jakes]] – ''Love and War''
*[[Stephen King]], [[Peter Straub]] – ''[[The Talisman (King & Straub novel)|The Talisman]]''
*[[Russell Kirk]] – ''[[Watchers at the Strait Gate]]''
*[[Jaan Kross]] – ''[[Professor Martens' Departure]] (Professor Martensi ärasõit)''
*[[Milan Kundera]] – ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' (first published in French as ''L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être'')
*[[Sue Limb]] – ''[[Up the Garden Path (radio and TV series)|Up the Garden Path]]''
*[[Robert Ludlum]] – ''[[The Aquitaine Progression]]''
*[[Norman Mailer]] – ''[[Tough Guys Don't Dance (novel)|Tough Guys Don't Dance]]''
*[[Ruth Manning-Sanders]] – ''[[A Book of Magic Horses]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[The Crozier Pharaohs]]''
*[[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] – ''[[Randamoozham]]'' (രണ്ടാമൂഴം, ''Second Turn'')
*[[Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk]] – ''[[Sanaaq]]''
*[[Kem Nunn]] - ''[[Tapping the Source]]''
*[[Robert B. Parker]] – ''[[Valediction (novel)|Valediction]]''
*[[Milorad Pavić]] – ''[[Dictionary of the Khazars]]''
*[[Ellis Peters]]
**''[[Dead Man's Ransom]]''
**''[[The Pilgrim of Hate]]''
*[[Mario Puzo]] – ''[[The Sicilian]]''
*[[Thomas Pynchon]] – ''[[Slow Learner|Slow Learner: Early Stories]]''
*[[Christoph Ransmayr]] – ''[[The Terrors of Ice and Darkness]]''
*[[Pratibha Ray]] – ''[[Yajnaseni (novel)|Yajnaseni]]''
*[[Robert Shea|Bob Shea]] and [[Robert Anton Wilson]] – ''[[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]]'' (collected edition)
*Michael Slade – ''[[Michael Slade#Special X series|Headhunter]]''
*[[Muriel Spark]] – ''[[The Only Problem]]''
*[[Danielle Steel]] – ''[[Full Circle (novel)|Full Circle]]''
*[[Neal Stephenson]] – ''[[The Big U]]'' (debut novel)
*[[Botho Strauß]] – ''[[The Young Man]]''
*[[Robert Swindells]] – ''[[Brother in the Land]]''
*[[Antonio Tabucchi]] – ''[[Indian Nocturne]]'' (''Notturno indiano'', novella)
*[[John Updike]] – ''[[The Witches of Eastwick]]''
*[[Gore Vidal]] – ''[[Lincoln (novel)|Lincoln]]''
*[[Tim Winton]] – ''[[Shallows]]''
*[[Janusz Zajdel]] – ''[[Paradyzja]]''

===Children and young people===
*[[Chris Van Allsburg]] – ''[[The Mysteries of Harris Burdick]]''
*[[Sandra Cisneros]] - ''[[The House on Mango Street]]''
*[[Helen Cresswell]] – ''The Secret World of Polly Flint''
*[[Kevin Eastman]] and [[Peter Laird]] – ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' ([[comic book]])
*[[Mem Fox]] – ''[[Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge]]''
*[[Patricia Reilly Giff]] – ''The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room'' (first in ''[[Polk Street School]]'' series)
*[[Michelle Magorian]] – ''[[Back Home (novel)|Back Home]]''
*[[Bill Peet]] – ''Pamela Camel''
*[[Dr. Seuss]] – ''[[The Butter Battle Book]]''
*[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (with [[Michael Hague]]) – ''[[The Hobbit]]''

===Drama===
*[[Howard Barker]] – ''[[Scenes from an Execution]]''
*[[Howard Brenton]] – ''[[Bloody Poetry]]''
*[[Dario Fo]] – ''[[Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman]] (Quasi per caso una donna: Elisabetta)''
*[[Michael Frayn]] – ''[[Benefactors (play)|Benefactors]]''
*[[Beth Henley]] – ''The Miss Firecracker Contest''
*[[Elfriede Jelinek]] – ''[[Illness or Modern Women]]'' (''Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen'', published)
*[[Joshua Sobol]] – ''[[Ghetto (play)|Ghetto]]''
*[[Tom Stoppard]] – ''[[Rough Crossing]]''

===Poetry===
*[[John Ashbery]] – ''A Wave''
*[[Louise Erdrich]] – ''[[Jacklight]]''
*[[Christopher Gilbert]] – ''Across the Mutual Landscape''
*[[Paulette Jiles]] – ''Celestial Navigation''
*[[Sharon Olds]] – ''The Dead and the Living''

===Non-fiction===
*[[Charles Berlitz]] – ''Atlantis: The Eighth Continent''
*[[Church in Wales]] – [[Book of Common Prayer (1984)|''Book of Common Prayer for use in the Church in Wales'']]
*[[Morrill Cody]] and Hugh Ford – ''The Women of Montparnasse, the Americans in Paris''
*[[Roald Dahl]] – ''[[Boy (autobiography)|Boy]]'' an autobiography
*[[Louise Hay]] – ''[[You Can Heal Your Life]]''
*[[Lee Iacocca]] – ''[[Iacocca: An Autobiography]]''
*[[Pauline Kael]] – ''[[Taking It All In]]''
*[[Steven Levy]] – ''[[Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution]]''
*[[Audre Lorde]] – ''[[Sister Outsider]]: Essays and Speeches''
*[[Robin Morgan]] (ed.) – ''[[Sisterhood Is Global]]''
*M. Alice Ottoboni – ''[[The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology]]''
*[[Derek Parfit]] – ''[[Reasons and Persons]]''
*[[Joan Peters]] – ''[[From Time Immemorial]]: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine''
*[[Dan Simonescu]] – ''Contribuții: literatura română medievală'' (Contributions: Medieval Romanian Literature)
*[[Herbert Jay Stern]] – ''[[Judgment in Berlin]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=David D. Hall|title=Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jgrCDJgfDpcC&pg=PA299|year=1990|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-96216-3|pages=299}}</ref>
*[[E. O. Wilson]] – ''Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species''

==Births==
*[[February 19]] - [[Marissa Meyer]], American science-fiction author
*[[April 16]] – [[Amelia Atwater-Rhodes]], American novelist
*[[May 9]] – [[Ezra Klein]], American journalist and columnist
*[[May 21]] – [[Jackson Pearce]], American young-adult novelist
*[[June 5]] – [[Simon Rich]], American humorist, novelist and screenwriter
*[[July 11]] - [[Marie Lu]], American young-adult novelist
*[[July 12]] – [[Amanda Hocking]], American fantasy novelist
*[[August 8]] – [[Owen Jones (writer)|Owen Jones]], English columnist and author and commentator
*[[October 13]] - [[Lauren DeStefano]], American young-adult author
*[[November 20]] – [[Halley Feiffer]], American playwright and actress
*[[December 10]] – [[Helen Oyeyemi]], English novelist and playwright

==Deaths==
*[[February 12]] – [[Julio Cortázar]], Argentine novelist, short story writer and essayist (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])
*[[February 21]] – [[Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov]], Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])
*[[February 22]]
**[[Uwe Johnson]], German writer in England (born [[1934 in literature|1934]])
**[[Jessamyn West (writer)|Jessamyn West]], American novelist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Odd Bang-Hansen]], Norwegian novelist and children's writer (born [[1908 in literature|1908]])
*[[March 8]] – [[Eleanor Graham]], English children's writer and editor (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[March 12]] – [[Arnold Ridley]], English playwright and actor (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[March 26]] – [[Branko Ćopić]], Bosnian Serb writer (suicide, born [[1915 in literature|1915]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Elizabeth Goudge]], English writer (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[April 15]] 
** [[William Empson]], English literary critic and poet (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
** [[Alexander Trocchi]], Scottish writer (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[April 21]]
**[[Marcel Janco]], Romanian–Israeli artist, art theorist, essayist and poet (born [[1895 in literature|1895]])
**[[Manuel Mujica Láinez]], Argentine novelist (born [[1910 in literature|1910]])
*[[April 24]] – [[Rafael Pérez y Pérez]], Spanish writer (born [[1891 in literature|1891]])
*[[May 16]] – [[Irwin Shaw]], American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[May 19]] – [[John Betjeman]], English poet laureate (born [[1906 in literature|1906]])
*[[June 6]]
** [[A. Bertram Chandler]], English-Australian soldier and author (born [[1912 in literature|1912]])
** [[Hugh Sykes Davies]], English poet and novelist (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
*[[June 10]] – [[Halide Nusret Zorlutuna]], Turkish poet and novelist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[June 30]] – [[Lillian Hellman]], American playwright (born [[1905 in literature|1905]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Lillian Hellman {{!}} American playwright |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-Hellman |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[July 6]] – [[Denys Val Baker]], Welsh novelist and short story writer (born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[July 9]] – [[Margaret Wetherby Williams]] (Margaret Erskine), English crime novelist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]]])
*[[August 14]] – [[J. B. Priestley]], English novelist and playwright (born [[1894 in literature|1894]])
*[[August 25]] – [[Truman Capote]] (Truman Streckfus Persons), American fiction writer (born [[1924 in literature|1924]])
*[[September 7]] – [[Liam O'Flaherty]], Irish novelist and short story writer (born [[1896 in literature|1896]])
*[[October 31]] – [[Eduardo De Filippo]], Italian playwright (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[November 6]] – [[Gastón Suárez]], Bolivian novelist and dramatist (born [[1929 in literature|1929]])
*[[November 10]] – [[Xavier Herbert]], Australian novelist (born [[1901 in literature|1901]])
*[[November 12]] – [[Chester Himes]], American writer (born [[1909 in literature|1909]])
*[[December 4]] – [[Ștefan Voitec]], Romanian politician and journalist (born [[1900 in literature|1900]])
*[[December 6]] – [[Gray Barker]], American writer on paranormal (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize in Literature]]: [[Jaroslav Seifert]]

===Australia===
*[[The Australian/Vogel Literary Award]]: [[Kate Grenville]], ''Lilian's Story''
*[[Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry]]: [[Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray]], ''The People's Other World''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[Tim Winton]], ''[[Shallows]]''

===Canada===
*See [[1984 Governor General's Awards]] for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Marguerite Duras]], ''[[The Lover (Duras novel)|L'Amant]]''
*[[Prix Médicis]] French: [[Bernard-Henri Lévy]], ''Le Diable en tête''
*[[Prix Médicis]] International: [[Elsa Morante]], ''Aracoeli''

===Spain===
*[[Miguel de Cervantes Prize]]: [[Ernesto Sabato]]

===United Kingdom===
*[[Betty Trask Award]], established by [[Society of Authors]], Prize: [[Ronald Frame]], ''Winter Journey'', Clare Nonhebel, ''Cold Showers''
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[Anita Brookner]], ''[[Hotel du Lac]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Margaret Mahy]], ''[[The Changeover]]''
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Michael Baldwin (poet)|Michael Baldwin]], [[Michael Hofmann]], Carol Rumens
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: Martyn Crucefix, Mick Imlah, Jamie McKendrick, Bill Smith, [[Carol Ann Duffy]], [[Christopher Meredith]], Peter Armstrong, Iain Bamforth
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for fiction: [[J. G. Ballard]], ''[[Empire of the Sun (novel)|Empire of the Sun]]'', and [[Angela Carter]], ''[[Nights at the Circus]]''
*[[James Tait Black Memorial Prize]] for biography: [[Lyndall Gordon]], ''[[Virginia Woolf]]: A Writer's Life''
*[[1984 Whitbread Awards|Whitbread Best Book Award]]: [[James Buchan]], ''A Parish of Rich Women''

===United States===
*[[Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize]]: Arthur Smith, ''Elegy on Independence Day''
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[Jack Stadler]]
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[William Gibson]], ''[[Neuromancer]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Beverly Cleary]], ''[[Dear Mr. Henshaw]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]: [[David Mamet]], ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]: [[William Kennedy (author)|William J. Kennedy]] – ''[[Ironweed (novel)|Ironweed]]''
*[[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]: [[Mary Oliver]]: ''American Primitive''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Premio Nadal]]: José de Tomás García – ''La otra orilla de la droga''<ref>{{cite book|author=José Luis de Tomás García|title=La otra orilla de la droga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFKxAAAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Ediciones Destino|isbn=978-84-233-1363-1}}</ref>

==References==
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