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1979 in literature
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The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
New books
- Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
- Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance
- Raymond Briggs - Fungus the Bogeyman
- Octavia Butler - Kindred
- Orson Scott Card - A Planet Called Treason
- Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
- L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Liberator
- Thomas Flanagan -Year of the French
John Fowles - The Tree- Arthur Hailey - Overload
- Sian James - A Small Country
- Philippe Jullian - Montmartre
- Stephen King - The Dead Zone
- Russell Kirk - The Princess of All Lands
- Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- John le Carré - Smiley's People
- Morgan Llywelyn -
- Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle
- Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
- Dambudzo Marechera - The House of Hunger
- V. S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River
- Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries
- Harold Robbins - Memories of Another Day
- Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
- Mary Stewart - The Last Enchantment
- Peter Straub - Ghost Story
- William Styron - Sophie's Choice
- Jack Vance - The Face
- Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird
- Elizabeth Walter - In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters
- Kit Williams - Masquerade
- Raymond Williams - The Fight for Manod
- Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff
- Christopher Wood -James Bond and Moonraker
- Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks
New drama
- Peter Shaffer - Amadeus
- Sam Shepard - Buried Child
Poetry
- Kingsley Amis - Collected Poems
Non-fiction
- L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Blade of Conan
- Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- Henry Kissinger - White House Years
- Jean-François Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Stephen Pile - The Book of Heroic Failures
- Clark Ashton Smith - The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
- Margaret Trudeau - Beyond Reason
Deaths
- February 9 - Allen Tate, poet and essayist
- February 25 - John L. Wasserman, critic
- March 26 - Jean Stafford, short story writer and novelist
- May 10 - J. B. Morton, columnist ("Beachcomber")
- May 14 - Jean Rhys, novelist
- June 7 - Forrest Carter, author
- July 6 - Malcolm Hulke, TV writer
- July 29 - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet
- October 17 - S. J. Perelman, humorist
- October 18 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
- December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian
- date unknown
- Dilys Cadwaladr, poet
- Sir George Clark, historian
- Goronwy Rees, journalist
Awards
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Golding, Darkness Visible
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography
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