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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 ''

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?''