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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Amityville Horror '' - Jay Anson

'' Beggarman, Thief '' - Irwin Shaw

'' Bloodline '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' A Bonus '' - Elizabeth Smart

'' The Chancellor Manuscript '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Child Of The Morning '' - Pauline Gedge

'' The Complete Book Of Running '' - Jim Fixx

'' Daniel Martin '' - John Fowles

'' Dreams Die First '' - Harold Robbins

'' The Honourable Schoolboy '' - John Le Carré

'' How To Save Your Own Life '' - Erica Jong

'' Illusions '' - Richard Bach

'' The Mauritius Command '' - Patrick O'Brian

'' Oliver's Story '' - Erich Segal

'' The Plague Dogs '' - Richard Adams

'' The Public Burning '' - Robert Coover

'' Rage '' - Richard Bachman

'' Refiner's Fire '' - Mark Helprin

'' A Scanner Darkly '' - Philip K. Dick

'' The Sea, The Sea '' - Iris Murdoch

'' The Shining '' - Stephen King

'' The Silmarillion '' - J. R. R. Tolkien

'' The Slave Girl '' - Buchi Emecheta

'' Song Of Solomon '' - Toni Morrison

'' James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me '' - Christopher Wood

'' Terms Of Endearment '' - Larry McMurtry

'' The Thorn Birds '' - Colleen McCullough

'' The True American, A Folk Fable '' - Melvin Van Peebles

'' The Wars '' - Timothy Findley

'' Rocky Marciano. Biography Of A First Son '' - Everett M. Skehan

NEW DRAMA

Heiner Müller - '' Die Hamletmaschine ''

Dennis Potter - '' Brimstone And Treacle '' -

BIRTHS

Jonathan Safran Foer

DEATHS

January 14 - Anaïs Nin , novelist and diarist

February 27 - John Dickson Carr , crime novelist

April 7 - Jim Thompson , pulp fiction author

April 11 - Jacques Prévert , poet

July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov , Russian/American novelist

September 4 - E. F. Schumacher , ''Small is Beautiful'' author

September 12 - Robert Lowell , poet

October 27 - James M. Cain , novelist, newspaperman

November 10 - Dennis Wheatley , occult novelist

November 30 - Terence Rattigan , dramatist

December 22 - Frank Thiess , German writer

AWARDS

, ''Staying On''

, '' Gateway ''

, ''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry''

, ''John l'enfer''

, ''L'Autre Amour''

, ''Le Traité des saisons'' - Argentina

, ''The Shadow Box''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : no award given

, ''Divine Comedies''

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, ''Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici''

1977 Governor General's Awards