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EVENTS
PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
given for the first time
John Gardner
successfully revives the
James Bond
novel series originated by
Ian Fleming
with ''
Licence Renewed
''. The revived Bond book series would run uninterrupted until
2002
.
NEW BOOKS
''
Ill Seen Ill Said
'' -
Samuel Beckett
''
Arabian Nights And Days
'' -
Naguib Mahfouz
''
La Bicyclette Bleue
'' (''The Blue Bicycle'') -
Régine Deforges
''
Bliss
'' -
Peter Carey
''
The Claw Of The Conciliator
'' -
Gene Wolfe
''
Creation
'' -
Gore Vidal
''
Cujo
'' -
Stephen King
''
Distant Star
'' -
Samuel R. Delany
''
Early Autumn
'' -
Robert B. Parker
''
Famous Last Words
'' -
Timothy Findley
''
Flames Across The Border
'' -
Pierre Berton
''
Giants Of The Ottawa Valley
'' -
Joan Finnegan
''
The Glitter Dome
'' -
Joseph Wambaugh
''
The Golden Age Of Science Fiction
'' -
Kingsley Amis
''
Goodbye, Janette
'' -
Harold Robbins
''
Gorky Park
'' -
Martin Cruz Smith
''
Hotel New Hampshire
'' -
John Irving
''
An Indecent Obsession
'' -
Colleen McCullough
''
Licence Renewed
'' -
John Gardner
''
Masquerade
'' -
Kit Williams
''
Midnight's Children
'' -
Salman Rushdie
''
Miracle Monday
'' -
Elliot S! Maggin
''
No Time For Tears
'' -
Cynthia Freeman
''
Noble House
'' -
James Clavell
'''' -
Martin Amis
''
Red Dragon
'' -
Thomas Harris
''
A Savage Place
'' -
Robert B. Parker
''
Strata
'' -
Terry Pratchett
''
The Sword Of The Lictor
'' -
Gene Wolfe
''
Tar Baby
'' -
Toni Morrison
''
The Third Deadly Sin
'' -
Lawrence Sanders
NEW DRAMA
Larry Shue
- ''The Nerd''
BIRTHS
DEATHS
January 9
-
A.J. Cronin
, writer
April 26
-
Robert Garioch
, poet (b.
1909
)
AWARDS
, ''Midnight's Children''
See
1981 Governor General's Awards
for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
, ''
The Claw Of The Conciliator
''
, ''Jacob Have I Loved''
, ''Anne Marie''
, ''L'Enfant d'Édouard''
, ''Le Jour de la comtesse''
, ''Crimes of the Heart''
- ''A Confederacy of Dunces''
: ''The Morning of the Poem''
, ''A Good Man in Africa''
