1984 in literature

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The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events

April 4 - The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) begins, causing it to be widely discussed this year. G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) is also set in this year.
June 16 - Cirque du Soleil founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix.^[1]
December 19 - Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced,^[2] Philip Larkin having turned down the post.
Of Mice and Men, the novel by John Steinbeck, is removed from Tennessee public schools when the School Board Chair promises to remove all "filthy books" from public school curricula and libraries.^[3]
Redu in Belgium becomes a book town.
Saqi Books, independent U.K. publisher, is founded by Mai Ghoussoub.

New books

Warren Adler - Random Hearts
Kingsley Amis - Stanley and the Women
Martin Amis - Money
Jeffrey Archer - First Among Equals
Richard Bachman - Thinner (nom de plume for Stephen King)
J. G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun
Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot
J. J. Benitez - Caballo de Troya
Michael Bishop - One Winter in Eden and Who Made Stevie Crye?
Simon Brett - A Shock to the System
David Brin - The Practice Effect
Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac
Sandra Cisneros - The House on Mango Street
Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October
Bernard & Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) - Fallen Angels
Marguerite Duras - L'Amant
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic book)
Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine
Howard Fast - The Outsider
Leon Forrest - Two Wings to Veil My Face
Frederick Forsyth - The Fourth Protocol
John Gardner - Role of Honour
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Alasdair Gray - 1982, Janine
Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
David Hughes - The Pork Butcher
John Jakes - Love and War
Stephen King, Peter Straub - The Talisman
Russell Kirk - Watchers at the Strait Gate
Jaan Kross - Professor Martens' Departure (Professor Martensi ärasõit)
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Robert Ludlum - The Aquitaine Progression
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Magic Horses
Robert B. Parker - Valediction
Ellis Peters
- Dead Man's Ransom
- The Pilgrim of Hate
Mario Puzo - The Sicilian
Thomas Pynchon - Slow Learner: Early Stories
Dr. Seuss - The Butter Battle Book
Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (collected edition)
Michael Slade - Headhunter
Danielle Steel - Full Circle
Neal Stephenson - The Big U (debut novel)
Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land
John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick
Gore Vidal - Lincoln
Janusz Zajdel - Paradyzja

New drama

Howard Barker - Scenes from an Execution
Dario Fo - Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
Beth Henley - The Miss Firecracker Contest
Elfriede Jelinek - Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen
David Mamet - Glengarry Glen Ross
Joshua Sobol - Ghetto
Tom Stoppard - Rough Crossing

Poetry

John Ashbery - A Wave
Louise Erdrich - Jacklight
Christopher Gilbert - Across the Mutual Landscape
Paulette Jiles - Celestial Navigation
Sharon Olds - The Dead and the Living

Non-fiction

Morrill Cody & Hugh Ford - The Women of Montparnasse, the Americans in Paris.
Roald Dahl - Boy an autobiography
Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life
Lee Iacocca - Iacocca: An Autobiography.
Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.
Derek Parfit - Reasons and Persons.
Joan Peters - From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine.
Herbert Jay Stern - Judgment in Berlin.

Births

May 9 - Ezra Klein, American journalist, blogger and columnist
May 21 - Jackson Pearce,
July 12 - Amanda Hocking, American fantasy novelist
August 8 - Owen Jones, British columnist, author and commentator
September 28 - Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist
date unknown - Simon Rich, humorist, novelist, and television writer

Deaths

Julio Cortázar

Truman Capote

February 12 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
February 21 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
February 22 - Jessamyn West, novelist (born 1902)
March 4 - Odd Bang-Hansen, Norwegian novelist and children's writer (born 1908)
March 12 - Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
April 1 - Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (b. 1900)
April 15 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
May 16 - Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (born 1913)
May 19 - John Betjeman, English poet laureate (b. 1906)
June 10 - Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish poet and novelist (b. 1901)
June 30 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
July 6 - Denys Val Baker, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born 1917)
August 14 - J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright (born 1894)
August 25 - Truman Capote, American novelist (born 1924)
September 7 - Liam O'Flaherty, Irish novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
November 6 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
November 12 - Chester Himes, American writer (b. 1909)
December 6 - Gray Barker, American writer of books about paranormal phenomena (b. 1925)
December 14 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature: Jaroslav Seifert

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Kate Grenville, Lilian's Story
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Les Murray, The People's Other World

Canada

See 1984 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: José de Tomás García - La otra orilla de la droga

References

↑ Bélanger, Brigitte (1999-04-14). "Cirque du Soleil". Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
↑ Howard, Philip (1984-12-20). "'True poet' Ted Hughes is Laureate". The Times (62017) (London). p. 1.
↑ "Of Mice and Men, 1937 - Information about the Book". SwissEduc.

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