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EVENTS

'' Sophie's Choice '' by William Styron is published.

'' A Bend In The River '' by V. S. Naipaul is published.

NEW BOOKS

'' A Bend In The River '' - V. S. Naipaul

'' Beyond Reason '' - Margaret Trudeau

'' The Dead Zone '' - Stephen King

'' The Executioner's Song '' - Norman Mailer

'' The Fight For Manod '' - Raymond Williams

'' Ghost Story '' - Peter Straub

'' The Ghost Writer '' - Philip Roth

'' Jailbird '' - Kurt Vonnegut

'' James Bond And Moonraker '' - Christopher Wood

'' Kane And Abel '' - Jeffrey Archer

'' Kindred '' - Octavia Butler

'' The Last Enchantment '' - Howard Fast

'''' - Philip P. Hallie

'''' - Morgan Llywelyn

'' The Matarese Circle '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Memories Of Another Day '' - Harold Robbins

'' Montmartre '' - Philippe Jullian

'' Overload '' - Arthur Hailey

'' The Right Stuff '' - Tom Wolfe

'' Smiley's People '' - John Le Carré

'' Sophie's Choice '' - William Styron

'' The Tree '' - John Fowles

'' Year Of The French '' - Thomas Flanagan

NEW DRAMA

Peter Shaffer - '' Amadeus ''

Sam Shepard - ''Buried Child''

POETRY

Kingsley Amis - '' Collected Poems ''

NON-FICTION

Henry Kissinger - '' White House Years ''

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BIRTHS

DEATHS

March 26 - Jean Stafford , short story writer and novelist

May 14 - Jean Rhys , novelist

June 7 - Forrest Carter , author

July 29 - Herbert Marcuse , philosopher

December 19 - Donald Creighton , historian

AWARDS

, ''Offshore''

, ''The House of Hunger''

See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' The Fountains Of Paradise ''

, ''The Westing Game''

Odysseus Elytis won the Nobel Prize For Literature in 1979.

, ''Pélagie la Charette''

, ''La Nuit zoologique''

Prix Médicis International:

, ''Buried Child''

- ''The Stories of John Cheever''

: ''Now and Then''

: ''The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics''

, ''Centuria''