1982 in literature

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The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

February 17 - Philip K. Dick ignores advice to go immediately to hospital. A fortnight later, after two strokes, he is pronounced brain-dead and disconnected from his life support machine.
March 18 - A legal case brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse against theatre director Michael Bogdanov concerning alleged indecency in a performance of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre in London is dropped after the Attorney General intervenes.^[1]^[2]
September - Banned Books Week instituted in the United States.
La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.

New prose fiction

Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
Jean M. Auel - The Valley of Horses
Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard
Michael Bishop - Blooded on Arachne
William Boyd - An Ice-Cream War
Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
Roald Dahl - The BFG
L. Sprague de Camp - The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Barbarian
August Derleth - The Solar Pons Omnibus
Marguerite Duras - The Malady of Death
Ken Follett - The Man from St. Petersburg
John Fowles - Mantissa
Max Frisch - Bluebeard
John Gardner - For Special Services
Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote
Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
John Jakes - North and South
Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
David Kesterton - The Darkling
Stephen King - Different Seasons, Pet Sematary and The Running Man
W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe
Judith Krantz - Mistral's Daughter
Morgan Llywelyn - The Horse Goddess
Robert Ludlum - The Parsifal Mosaic
Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
Russell McCormmach - Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
George R. R. Martin - Fevre Dream
James Merrill - The Changing Light at Sandover
James A. Michener - Space
Timothy Mo - Sour Sweet
Harry Mulisch - The Assault
Chris Mullin - A Very British Coup
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険, Hitsuji o Meguru Bōken)
Ellis Peters - The Virgin in the Ice
T. R. Subba Rao - Durgaastamana
Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game
Elizabeth Smart - The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Danielle Steel - Crossings
Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Kurt Vonnegut - Deadeye Dick
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice - Water Witch
Gene Wolfe - The Citadel of the Autarch
Roger Zelazny - Eye of Cat and Dilvish, the Damned
Stefan Zweig - The Post Office Girl

New drama

Peter Flannery - Our Friends in the North
Michael Frayn - Noises Off
Elfriede Jelinek - Clara S, musikalische Tragödie
Stephen MacDonald - Not About Heroes
Frank McGuinness - The Factory Girls
Tom Stoppard - The Real Thing
Pirkko Saisio - Betoniyö

Non-fiction

Irving Abella and Harold Troper - None is Too Many
Martin Amis - Invasion of the Space Invaders
Bruce Feirstein - Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
Carol Gilligan - In a Different Voice
Sita Ram Goel - How I Became a Hindu
Rhys Isaac - The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
Ryszard Kapuściński - Szachinszach
Gary Kinder - Victim: The Other Side of Murder
Audre Lorde - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
John Naisbitt - Megatrends
Tom Peters - In Search of Excellence
Margaret Trudeau - Consequences

Births

June 15 - James Lamont, television writer

Deaths

February 18 - Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime writer and theatre director, 86
March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American writer, 53 (stroke)
March 3 - Georges Perec, French novelist, 45 (lung cancer)
March 6 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter, 77
June 6 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic, 76
June 18 - Djuna Barnes, American writer, 90
June 18 - John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer, 70
July 3 - Engvald Bakkan, Norwegian novelist and children's writer, 84
September 14 - John Gardner, American novelist, 49 (motorcycle accident)
October 7 - Alejandro Núñez Alonso, Spanish novelist, 77
December 5 - Caryl Brahms, English critic, novelist, and journalist, 80
December 21 - Ants Oras, Estonian writer, 82

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Gabriel García Márquez

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems

Canada

See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Dominique Fernandez, dans la main de l'Ange
Prix Médicis French: Jean-François Josselin, L'Enfer et Cie
Prix Médicis International: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

References

↑ "1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial". BBC News. 18 March 1982. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
↑ Brenton, Howard (28 January 2006). "Look back in anger". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2007-11-30.

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