1979 In Literature

Events

• Sophie's Choice by William Styron is published.
• A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul is published.

New books

• A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul
• Beyond Reason - Margaret Trudeau
• Collected Poems - Kingsley Amis
• The Dead Zone - Stephen King
• The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
• The Fight for Manod - Raymond Williams
• Ghost Story - Peter Straub
• The Ghost Writer - Philip Roth
• Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
• Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
• Kindred - Octavia Butler
• The Last Enchantment - Howard Fast
• - Philip P. Hallie
• - Morgan Llywelyn
• The Matarese Circle - Robert Ludlum
• Memories of Another Day - Harold Robbins
• Montmartre - Philippe Jullian
• Overload - Arthur Hailey
• - Jean-Franois Lyotard
• The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
• Smiley's People - John le Carr
• Sophie's Choice - William Styron
• The Tree - John Fowles
• White House Years - Henry Kissinger
• Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan

Births

Deaths

• June 7 - Forrest Carter, author

Awards

• Booker Prize: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
• See 1979 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
• Odysseus Elytis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
• Prix Goncourt: Antonine Maillet, Plagie la Charette
• Prix Mdicis French: Claude Durand, La Nuit zoologique
• Prix Mdicis International:
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Sam Shepard, Buried Child
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Penn Warren: Now and Then
• Viareggio Prize: Giorgio Manganelli, Centuria

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