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

Events

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 - House on Mango Street
  • Tom Clancy - The Hunt for Red October
  • Bernard & Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) - Fallen Angels
  • Don DeLillo - White Noise
  • Marguerite Duras - L'Amant
  • Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic book)
  • Louise Erdrich - Love Medicine
  • Howard Fast - The Outsider
  • Frederick Forsyth - The Fourth Protocol
  • John Gardner - Role of Honour
  • William Gibson - Neuromancer
  • Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds
  • Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
  • John Jakes - Love and War
  • Stephen King, Peter Straub - The Talisman
  • Russell Kirk - Watchers at the Strait Gate
  • Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Robert Ludlum - The Aquitaine Progression
  • Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Magic Horses
  • Robert B. Parker - Valediction
  • Mario Puzo - The Sicilian
  • Thomas Pynchon - Slow Learner: Early Stories
  • Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
  • 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 A. Zajdel - Paradyzja

    New drama

  • Beth Henley - The Miss Firecracker Contest
  • Howard Barker - Scenes from an Execution
  • David Mamet - Glengarry Glen Ross

    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.
  • Lee Iacocca - .
  • Steven Levy - .
  • 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

  • Deaths

  • February 22 - Jessamyn West, writer
  • July 6 - Denys Val Baker, Cornish writer

    Awards

  • Nobel Prize for 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.

    France

  • Prix Goncourt: Marguerite Duras, L'Amant
  • Prix Médicis French: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Le Diable en tête
  • Prix Médicis International: Elsa Morante, Aracoeli

    United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • Cholmondeley Award: Michael Baldwin, Michael Hoffmann, Carol Rumens
  • Eric Gregory Award: Martyn Crucefix, Mick Imlah, Jamie McKendrick, Bill Smith, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Meredith, Peter Armstrong, Iain Bamforth
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, and Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lyndall Gordon, Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
  • Whitbread Best Book Award: James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women

    United States

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Arthur Smith, Elegy on Independence Day
  • Frost Medal: Jack Stadler
  • Nebula Award: William Gibson, Neuromancer
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Kennedy - Ironweed
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mary Oliver: American Primitive

    Elsewhere

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

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