1985 in literature
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The year 1985 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.
Events
- February 25 - Sue Limb's parody of the Lake Poets, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K.
- August 11 - A memorial to Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland.
New prose fiction
- Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire
- Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale
- Jean M. Auel – The Mammoth Hunters
- Iain Banks – Walking on Glass
- Clive Barker – The Damnation Game
- Greg Bear – Blood Music and Eon
- M. C. Beaton – Death of a Gossip
- Thomas Bernhard – Old Masters: a comedy (Alte Meister: Komödie)
- Anthony Burgess – The Kingdom of the Wicked
- Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Honour
- Don DeLillo – White Noise
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Execution of Justice (Justiz)
- Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
- John Fowles – A Maggot
- Carlos Fuentes – The Old Gringo
- Gabriel García Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera)
- Alasdair Gray – The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
- Graham Greene – The Tenth Man
- Béla Hamvas (d. 1968) – Karnevál (written 1948–51)
- Amy Hempel – Reasons to Live
- Frank Herbert – Chapterhouse: Dune
- Dương Thu Hương – Hành trình ngày thơ ấu ("Journey in Childhood")
- John Irving – The Cider House Rules
- Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
- Stephen King – Skeleton Crew
- László Krasznahorkai – Satantango
- Doris Lessing – The Good Terrorist
- H. P. Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels and The Dunwich Horror and Others (corrected edition)
- Richard A. Lupoff – Lovecraft's Book
- Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian
- Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
- John D. MacDonald – The Lonely Silver Rain
- Naguib Mahfouz – Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (العائش فى الحقيقة)
- James A. Michener – Texas
- Brian Moore – Black Robe
- Bharati Mukherjee – Darkness
- Iris Murdoch – The Good Apprentice
- Orhan Pamuk – The White Castle
- Ellis Peters – An Excellent Mystery
- Caryl Phillips – The Final Passage
- Peter Pohl – Johnny, My Friend (Janne, min vän)
- Guy Rewenig – Hannert dem Atlantik (first novel in the Luxembourgish language)
- Carl Sagan – Contact
- Sidney Sheldon – If Tomorrow Comes
- Antonio Tabucchi – Little Misunderstandings of No Importance
- Sue Townsend – Rebuilding Coventry
- Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist
- Andrew Vachss – Flood
- Kurt Vonnegut – Galápagos
- Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Roger Zelazny – Trumps of Doom
New drama
- Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière (adapted) – Mahabharata
- David Hare and Howard Brenton – Pravda
- Wallace Shawn – Aunt Dan and Lemon
- Sam Shepard – A Lie of the Mind
- Neil Simon – Biloxi Blues
- August Wilson – Fences
Poetry
- Carol Ann Duffy – Standing Female Nude
Non-fiction
- Roger Caron – Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot
- Allen Carr – The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
- Michael Denton – Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
- Elaine Dundy – Elvis and Gladys
- Julien Gracq – The Shape of a City
- Walter A. McDougall – ...The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
- Tim O'Brien – The Nuclear Age
- Priscilla Beaulieu Presley – Elvis and Me
- David Robinson – Chaplin: His Life and Art
- Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Births
- September 24 – Eleanor Catton, New Zealand novelist
- September 30 – Téa Obreht, Serbian novelist
Deaths
- February 6 – James Hadley Chase, English thriller novelist (born 1906)
- February 19 – Carl Joachim Hambro, Norwegian novelist, essayist and philologist (born 1914)[1]
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and philosopher (born 1921)
- April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh writer (born 1891)
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German political theorist (born 1888)
- April 25 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born 1909)
- May 18 – Hedley Bull, Australian economist (cancer, born 1932)
- June 16 – Ernst Orvil, Norwegian novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist and playwright (born 1898)
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Nobel laureate (born 1917
- July 29 – Judah Waten, Australian novelist (born 1911)[2]
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born 1911)
- August 30 – (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, British-born American novelist (born 1900)
- October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian journalist and inventor (born 1899)
- November 3 – J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English historian (born 1916)
- November 4 – Hilda Vaughan, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born 1892)
- November 11 – James Hanley, British-Irish novelist and dramatist (born 1897)[3]
- November 16 – Gulshan Nanda, Indian novelist and screenwriter (unknown year of birth)[4]
- November 25
- Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (born 1905)
- Elsa Morante, Italian novelist (born 1912)[5]
- December 7 – Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1895)
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon
Australia
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: no award given out this year
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Kevin Hart, Your Shadow; Rosemary Dobson, The Three Fates
- Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Kevin Hart, Your Shadow
- Mary Gilmore Prize: Doris Brett, The Truth about Unicorns
- Miles Franklin Award: Christopher Koch, The Doubleman
Canada
- See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Yann Queffélec, Les Noces barbares
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Braudeau, Naissance d'une passion
- Prix Médicis International: Joseph Heller, God Knows
Spain
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm
- Cholmondeley Award: Dannie Abse, Peter Redgrove, Brian Taylor
- Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Robert Edric, Winter Garden
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed
- Newdigate prize: Robert Twigger
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Douglas Dunn, Elegies
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Liz Rosenberg, The Fire Music
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, Robert Penn Warren
- Frost Medal: Robert Penn Warren
- Nebula Award: Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alison Lurie – Foreign Affairs
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Carolyn Kizer: Yin
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Pau Faner Coll – Flor de sal
References
- ↑ Hambro, Johan (1984). C.J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67. ISBN 82-03-11347-8.
- ↑ "Waten, Judah / Papers (National Library of Aus.) - Biographical Note". National Library of Australia. n.d. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ↑ Linneae Gibbs, James Hanley: A Bibliography (1980)
- ↑ "The life and death of Hindi pulp fiction". Mint (newspaper). Oct 20, 2008.
- ↑ Santo, Aricò L. (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.