1977 in literature

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1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

[edit] Events

Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.
V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE.
Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his father's work, The Silmarillion.
Philosophy and Literature, an academic journal that explores the connections between literary and philosophical studies by presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature, is founded.

[edit] New books

Richard Adams -The Plague Dogs
Jorge Amado - Tieta do Agreste
Jay Anson - The Amityville Horror
Margaret Atwood - Dancing Girls
Richard Bach - Illusions
Richard Bachman - Rage
J. M. Coetzee - In the Heart of the Country
Robert Coover - The Public Burning
Basil Copper - And Afterward, the Dark
L. Sprague de Camp
- The Hostage of Zir
- The Queen of Zamba
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan of Aquilonia
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Joan Didion - A Book of Common Prayer
Buchi Emecheta - The Slave Girl
Timothy Findley - The Wars
John Fowles - Daniel Martin
Marilyn French - The Women's Room
Pauline Gedge - Child of the Morning
Mark Helprin - Refiner's Fire
Erica Jong - How to Save Your Own Life
Stephen King - The Shining
John le Carré - The Honourable Schoolboy
Robert Ludlum - The Chancellor Manuscript
Brian Lumley - The Horror at Oakdeene and Others
Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds
Larry McMurtry - Terms of Endearment
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Enchantments and Curses
Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command
Ruth Rendell - A Judgement In Stone
Alun Richards - Ennal's Point
Harold Robbins - Dreams Die First
Paul Scott - Staying On
Erich Segal - Oliver's Story
Irwin Shaw - Beggarman, Thief
M.P. Shiel - Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
Sidney Sheldon - Bloodline
Elizabeth Smart - A Bonus
Craig Thomas - Firefox
J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
Melvin Van Peebles - The True American, A Folk Fable
Christopher Wood -James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me

[edit] New drama

Heiner Müller - Die Hamletmaschine
Dennis Potter - Brimstone and Treacle

[edit] Poetry

Frank Belknap Long - In Mayan Splendor

[edit] Non-fiction

Robert Coles – Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, vol 4 of Children of Crisis
Robert Coles – The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America, vol 5 of Children of Crisis
Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time of Gifts
Jim Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
Bharati Mukherjee & Clark Blaise –Days and Nights in Calcutta
E. F. Schumacher – A Guide for the Perplexed
Everett M. Skehan – Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son

[edit] Births

Jonathan Safran Foer

[edit] Deaths

January 14 - Anaïs Nin, novelist and diarist
February 27 - John Dickson Carr, crime novelist
April 7 - Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author
April 11 - Jacques Prévert, poet
July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
September 4 - E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful author
September 12 - Robert Lowell, poet
October 27 - James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman
November 10 - Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist
November 30 - Terence Rattigan, dramatist
December 22 - Frank Thiess, German writer

[edit] Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Vicente Aleixandre

[edit] Canada

1977 Governor General's Awards

[edit] France

Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
Prix Médicis International: Hector Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons - Argentina