1978 in literature
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Kingsley Amis - Jake's Thing
- Martin Amis - Success
- Richard Bach - Illusions
- Beryl Bainbridge - Young Adolf
- Anthony Burgess - 1985
- Taylor Caldwell - Bright Flows The River
- Chantal Chawaf - Rougeâtre
- John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
- Samuel R. Delany - Empire: A Visual Novel
- Don DeLillo - Running Dogs
- Howard Fast - Second Generation
- Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle
- Ernest J. Gaines - In My Father's House
- Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
- John Irving - The World According to Garp
- Marshall Jevons - Murder at the Margin
- Ismail Kadare - Ura Me Tri Harqe (The Three-Arched Bridge)
- Stephen King - Night Shift (collection of short stories, most previously published elsewhere)
- Christopher Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Judith Krantz - Scruples
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Robert Ludlum - The Holcroft Covenant
- David Malouf - An Imaginary Life
- James A. Michener - Chesapeake
- Alice Munro - Beggar Maid
- Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
- Robert B. Parker - The Judas Goat
- Elizabeth Peters - Street of the Five Moons
- Belva Plain - Evergreen
- Mario Puzo - Fools Die
- Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
- Whitley Strieber - The Wolfen
- Thomas Sullivan - Diapason
- Rosemary Sutcliff - Song for a Dark Queen
- John Updike - Coup
- Philip Van Rensselaer - That Vanderbilt Woman
- Herman Wouk - War and Remembrance
- Richard Yates -A Good School
- Frank Yerby - Hail The Conquering Hero
[edit] New drama
- David Hare - Plenty
- Ira Levin - Deathtrap
- Mary O'Malley - Once a Catholic
[edit] Poetry
- Robert Minhinnick - A Thread in the Maze
- John Tripp - Collected Poems
[edit] Non-fiction
- Roger Caron - Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
- Charlotte Chandler - Hello, I Must Be Going!
- Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
- John Gall - Systemantics
- H. R. Haldeman - The Ends of Power
- Mollie Katzen - Moosewood Cookbook
- Richard Nixon - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
- David Rorvik - In His Image: The Cloning of a Man
[edit] Births
- June 26 - Eric Shapiro, novelist
- date unknown
- David Llewellyn, screenwriter
- Rachel Trezise, novelist and short story writer
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 - Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 - F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- September 15 - Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 - Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
- date unknown - Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
- Prix Médicis French: Georges Perec, La vie mode d'emploi
- Prix Médicis International: Aleksandr Zinovyev, L’Avenir radieux - Russia
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Peter Taylor
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems
[edit] Elsewhere
- Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
