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EVENTS

Writing under the pseudonym of " Emile Ajar ," author Romain Gary becomes the only person to ever win the Prix Goncourt twice.

'' Hearing Secret Harmonies '', the twelfth and final novel of the '' A Dance To The Music Of Time '' duodecalogy by Anthony Powell is published.

'' Ragtime '' by E.L. Doctorow is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' The Ascent Of Man '' - Jacob Bronowski

'' Black Sunday '' - Thomas Harris

'' The Choirboys '' - Joseph Wambaugh

'' Crocodile On The Sandbank '' - Elizabeth Peters (the first in the Amelia Peabody seris)

'' Curtain '' - Agatha Christie

'' Dead Babies '' - Martin Amis

'' Dhalgren '' - Samuel R. Delany

'' The Eagle Has Landed '' - Jack Higgins

'' A Fine And Private Place '' - Morley Callaghan

'' The Great Train Robbery '' - Michael Crichton

'' Hang That Nigger '' - Arthur Robinson

'' Hearing Secret Harmonies '' - Anthony Powell

'' Heat And Dust '' - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

'' The History Man '' - Malcolm Bradbury

'' Humboldt's Gift '' - Saul Bellow

'' The Illuminatus! Trilogy '' (individual editions) - Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

'' In A Shallow Grave '' - James Purdy

'''' - Philip Agee

'' Looking For Mister Goodbar '' - Judith Rossner

'' The Minstrel Boy '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Mr. Schutzer '' - Timothy L. Bottoms

'' The Moneychangers '' - Arthur Hailey

'' Mortal Stakes '' - Robert B. Parker

'' My Lord John '' – Georgette Heyer

'' Northern Lights '' - Tim O'Brien

'' Ragtime '' - E.L. Doctorow

'' The Road To Gandolfo '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Rudyard Kipling And His World '' - Kingsley Amis

'' 'Salem's Lot '' - Stephen King

'' Shogun '' - James Clavell

'' La Vie Devant Soi '' - Romain Gary As Emile Ajar

'' Woman At Point Zero '' - Nawal El Saadawi

'' World Of Wonders '' - Robertson Davies

BIRTHS

October 27 - Zadie Smith , novelist

DEATHS

January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith , poet, dramatist and novelist

February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b. 1881 ), English Comic Novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster

February 14 - Julian Huxley , biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley

March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b. 1892 ), Serbo-Croatian Novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize For Literature

June 8 - Murray Leinster , science fiction writer

September 20 - Saint-John Perse , poet

October 5 - Constance Malleson , actress and writer

October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee , historian

November 13 - R. C. Sherriff , dramatist

November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor , novelist

November 23 - Francis Webb , poet

November 27 - Ross McWhirter , joint author of the '' Guinness Book Of Records ''

December 4 - Hannah Arendt , philosopher

December 7 - Thornton Wilder , novelist and dramatist

''date unknown'' - Janko Glazer , (b. 1893 ) - poet

''date unknown'' - Vojko Gorjan , (b. 1949 ) - poet

AWARDS

, ''Heat and Dust''

See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Forever War ''

, ''M. C. Higgins, the Great''

- ''La vie devant soi''

, ''Le Voyage à Naucratis''

, ''La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse'' - United States

, ''Seascape''

- ''The Killer Angels''

- ''Turtle Island''

, ''Il sipario ducale''