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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980.

Events

March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française.[1]
June 5
- The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar.[2]
- Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London.
August 25 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind (Bumi Manusia), the first of a tetralogy of historical novels, the Buru Quartet, is published in Indonesia after Toer's release from ten years' political imprisonment. It is banned in the country the following year.[3]
September – A production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history.[4][5]
September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's Translations, at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland.
November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser after divorcing the actress Vivien Merchant.
December 8 – Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon to death in New York City while carrying a copy of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which he claims "is my statement."[6]
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- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), tops The New York Times Best Seller list.
- Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959) is published for the first time, in Switzerland.[7]
- The first Tibetan-language literature journal, Tibetan Literature and Art (Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyu rtsal), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.[8]
- The National Library of Indonesia is created by a merger.[9]

New books

Deaths

January 3
- Joy Adamson, Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born 1910)[11][12]
- George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (born 1915)
January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (cancer, born 1913)[13]
February 25 – Caradog Prichard, Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born 1904)
March 12 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born 1881)
March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927)
March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915)
April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905)
April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, French Cuban novelist and writer (cancer, born 1904)
May 7 – Margaret Cole, English political writer, biographer and activist (born 1893)
May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian novelist (asphyxiation, born 1922)[14]
June 7 – Henry Miller, American novelist (born 1891)
July 1 – C. P. Snow, English novelist and scientist (born 1905)
July 6 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (born 1903)
July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (born 1913)
July 17 – Traian Herseni, Romanian social scientist and journalist (born 1907)
July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English-born theater critic (pulmonary emphysema, born 1927)
August 8 – David Mercer, English dramatist (born 1928)
August 10 – Gareth Evans, British philosopher (lung cancer (born 1946)
September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and essayist (born 1890)
November 9 – Patrick Campbell, Irish journalist and wit (born 1913)
December 2 – Romain Gary (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born 1914)[15]
December 8 – John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and author (murdered, born 1940)
December 12 – Ben Travers, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1886)
December 27 – Todhunter Ballard, American genre novelist (born 1903)
December 31 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (born 1911)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Czesław Miłosz

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog; the award is initially given to Paul Radley, who, in 1996, admits that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.[16]
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, The Impersonators

Canada

See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation[17]
Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Peter Dickinson, City of Gold
Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert B. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

United States

Elsewhere

Hugo Award for Best Novel: Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
Premio Cervantes : Juan Carlos Onetti
Premio Nadal: Juan Ramón Zaragoza, Concerto grosso

References

Alba della Fazia Amoia; Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (2004). Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-313-30688-4.
Freeman, John, The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics. Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1982). This Earth of Mankind: A Novel. Penguin Books. p. v. ISBN 978-0-14-006334-9.
Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html
Neil Cornwell (2 December 2013). Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-134-26070-6.
Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.
Śrī Laṅkā Jātika Pustakāla Sēvā Maṇḍalaya (1990). National Library of Sri Lanka: Commemorative Volume. Sri Lanka National Library Services Board. p. 140. ISBN 978-955-9011-51-4.
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.
"Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".
Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.
Michael Cotsell (10 March 1989). Barbara Pym. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-19810-8.
Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).
Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.
"Australian of the Year Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-01-01.
Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Psychology Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-415-29161-3.

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[1] Alba della Fazia Amoia; Professor Emeritus Alba Amoia; Bettina Liebowitz Knapp (2004). Multicultural Writers Since 1945: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 538. ISBN 978-0-313-30688-4.

[2] Freeman, John, The Greatest Shows on Earth: World Theatre from Peter Brook to the Sydney Olympics. Libri: Oxford ISBN 978 1 907471 54 4

[3] Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1982). This Earth of Mankind: A Novel. Penguin Books. p. v. ISBN 978-0-14-006334-9.

[4] Tribute to Peter O'Toole. films42.com. 2003. Retrieved 2009-01-03.

[5] Parsons, Nicholas (1981). Dipped in Vitriol. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-26556-3.

[6] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/09/nyregion/lennon-murder-suspect-preparing-insanity-defense.html

[Cornwell2013-7] Neil Cornwell (2 December 2013). Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Routledge. p. 371. ISBN 978-1-134-26070-6.

[8] Kolas, Ashield; Thowsen, Monika P. (2005). On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. pp. 40–41, 138–139.

[9] Śrī Laṅkā Jātika Pustakāla Sēvā Maṇḍalaya (1990). National Library of Sri Lanka: Commemorative Volume. Sri Lanka National Library Services Board. p. 140. ISBN 978-955-9011-51-4.

[Hahn-10] Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-19-871554-2.

[11] "Around the World Kenyan is Convicted in Death of Joy Adamson".

[12] Interview with Paul Nakware Ekai.

[13] Michael Cotsell (10 March 1989). Barbara Pym. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-349-19810-8.

[14] Scriitorul Marin Preda, moartea ca o povara (Romanian).

[15] Bona, D. (1987). Romain Gary. Paris: Mercure de France-Lacombe. pp. 397-398.

[16] "Australian of the Year Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2013-01-01.

[17] Robert Aldrich; Garry Wotherspoon (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Psychology Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-415-29161-3.