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Everything about 1984 In Literature totally explainedThe 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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