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EVENTS
''
Kane And Abel
'' by
Jeffrey Archer
(published 1979), reaches #1 on the
New York Times
bestseller list.
''
Midnight's Children
'' by
Salman Rushdie
is published.
NEW BOOKS
''
Company
'' -
Samuel Beckett
''
The Bourne Identity
'' -
Robert Ludlum
''
A Confederacy Of Dunces
'' -
John Kennedy Toole
''
The Covenant
'' -
James A. Michener
''
The Cradle Will Fall
'' -
Mary Higgins Clark
''
Crossroads Marseilles 1940
'' -
Mary Jayne Gold
''
The Devil's Alternative
'' -
Frederick Forsyth
''
The Fifth Horseman
'' -
Larry Collins
and
Dominique Lapierre
''
Firestarter
'' -
Stephen King
''
The Girl In A Swing
'' -
Richard Adams
''
In Loon Lake
'' -
E. L. Doctorow
''
Innocent Blood
'' -
P. D. James
''
The Invasion Of Canada
'' -
Pierre Berton
''
The Iron Wolf And Other Stories
'' -
Richard Adams
''
Joshua Then And Now
'' -
Mordecai Richler
''
The Key To Rebecca
'' -
Ken Follett
''
Looking For Rachel Wallace
'' -
Robert B. Parker
''
The Name Of The Rose
'' -
Umberto Eco
''
Princess Daisy
'' -
Judith Krantz
''
Rage Of Angels
'' -
Sidney Sheldon
''
Random Winds
'' -
Belva Plain
''
A Ring Of Endless Light
'' -
Madeleine L'Engle
''
The Shadow Of The Torturer
'' -
Gene Wolfe
''
Smiley's People
'' -
John Le Carré
''
Song Of The Wild
'' -
Allan W. Eckert
''
Thy Neighbor's Wife
'' -
Gay Talese
''
War Of The Roses
'' -
Warren Adler
NEW DRAMA
Howard Brenton
- ''
The Romans In Britain
''
Kenneth Ross
- ''
Breaker Morant
''
Willy Russell
- ''
Educating Rita
''
Sam Shepard
- ''
True West
''
NON-FICTION
Carl Sagan
- ''
Cosmos
''
Alvin Toffler
- ''
The Third Wave
''
BIRTHS
DEATHS
January 3
-
Joy Adamson
, conservationist and author of ''
Born Free
''
(killed by a servant in northern
Kenya
).
January 3 -
G. S. Fraser
, poet and critic
January 11
-
Barbara Pym
, novelist
March 25
-
James Wright
, poet
April 15
-
Jean-Paul Sartre
, philosopher, novelist and dramatist
June 7
-
Henry Miller
, writer
July 1
-
C. P. Snow
, novelist
July 9
-
Vinicius De Moraes
, poet and songwriter
July 26
-
Kenneth Tynan
, influential theatre critic
September 18
-
Katherine Anne Porter
, novelist and essayist
November 9
-
Patrick Campbell
, journalist and wit
November 22
-
Mae West
, actress and dramatist
December 2
-
Romain Gary
, writer
December 8
-
John Lennon
, musician, author
December 12
-
Ben Travers
, dramatist
December 31
-
Marshall McLuhan
(author)
''date unknown'' -
Gareth Evans
, philosopher
''date unknown'' -
Caradog Prichard
, Welsh-language poet and novelist
AWARDS
, ''Rites of Passage''
See
1980 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
, ''Timescape''
, ''A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal''
, ''Le Jardin d'acclimatation''
, ''Cabinet-portrait'' who refused the prize, thus it was given to
Jean Lahougue
's ''Comptine des Height''
, ''Une saison blanche et sèche''
, ''Talley's Folly''
, ''The Executioner's Song''
, ''Selected Poems''
, ''How Far Can You Go?''