1981 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1981.

Events[]

  • May 31 – The burning of Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka is begun by a mob of police and government-sponsored paramilitaries. They destroy over 97,000 volumes in one of the worst examples of ethnic book burning in the modern era.[1]
  • August – Sefer ve Sefel opens as an English used bookstore in Jerusalem.
  • unknown dates
    • John Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel series originated by Ian Fleming with Licence Renewed (not counting a faux biography of Bond and a pair of film novelizations, the first original Bond novel since 1968's Colonel Sun). The revived Bond book series will run uninterrupted until 2002.
    • Colin MacCabe is denied tenure at the University of Cambridge, apparently because of a dispute within the English Faculty about the teaching of structuralism.[2]
    • The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is given for the first time.[3]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1981 in poetry
  • L. Sprague de Camp – Heroes and Hobgoblins
  • Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi – Rang-o-Noor (The Colour and the Light)
  • Norman Nicholson – Sea to the West
  • Sylvia Plath (posthumous) – Collected Poems, edited by Ted Hughes
  • Kathleen Raine – Collected Poems, 1935–1980
  • Richard L. Tierney – Collected Poems

Non-fiction[]

  • Maya Angelou – The Heart of a Woman
  • Colin Robert Chase – The Dating of Beowulf
  • Mary Chesnut – Mary Chesnut's Civil War
  • Daniel Dennett – Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
  • Nancy Dorian – Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect
  • Timothy Findley – Famous Last Words
  • Stephen Jay Gould – The Mismeasure of Man
  • Dumas Malone – The Sage of Monticello
  • V. S. Naipaul – Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
  • Anne Scott-James – The Cottage Garden
  • Ian Smith – The Great Betrayal
  • Viktor Suvorov – The Liberators

Births[]

  • July 10 – Karen Russell, American novelist
  • July 27 – Dan Jones, British historian and TV presenter
  • September 30 – Cecelia Ahern, Irish novelist
  • October 3 – Leïla Slimani, Franco-Moroccan novelist[5]
  • October 12 – NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele), Zimbabwe-born novelist[6]
  • October 31 – Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
  • December 11 – Hamish Blake, Australian comedian, actor, and author
  • December 13 – Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
  • unknown dates
    • Amy Sackville, English novelist[7]
    • Sunjeev Sahota, English novelist[8]
    • Saud Alsanousi, Kuwaiti novelist

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Elias Canetti

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

Spain[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Tassie Seneviratne (June 1, 2014). "Burning Of The Jaffna Public Library: Whodunit?". Colombo Telegraph. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Newsweek, 16 February 1981, p. 95; see also Philip Lewis, "The Post-Structuralist Condition", Diacritics 12:1 (1982): 2–24, p. 2.
  3. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1979). Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  4. ^ Michel Deon; Michel Déon (1983). Where are You Dying Tonight?. H. Hamilton. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-241-10908-3.
  5. ^ Schwartzbrod, Alexandra (29 September 2014). "Leïla Slimani. "Madame Bovary X"". Liberation (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  6. ^ "NoViolet Bulawayo [real name Elizabeth Zandile Tshele] (1981 -)". Zimbabwe Monitor. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  7. ^ "The Still Point by Amy Sackville". Orange Prize for Fiction. 2010. Archived from the original on 10 April 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  8. ^ "Sunjeev Sahota". Picador. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  9. ^ Galiana, Ismael (1 July 1981). "Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia" [The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence] (PDF). ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 24.
  10. ^ "A. J. Cronin, author of 'Citadel' and 'Keys of the Kingdom', dies". New York Times. 10 January 1981. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  11. ^ The New York Times Biographical Service. New York Times & Arno Press. 1981. p. 99.
  12. ^ "Normand Poirier." New York Times. February 4, 1981
  13. ^ Alan Palmer; Alan Warwick Palmer; Veronica Palmer (1987). Who's who in Bloomsbury. Harvester Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7108-0312-2.
  14. ^ McFadden, Robert D. (March 8, 1981). "Bosley Crowther, 27 Years a Critic of Film for Times, is Dead at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  15. ^ John A. Willis (1982). Screen World. Crown Publishers. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-517-54740-3.
  16. ^ Josep Miquel Sobrer (1992). Catalonia, a Self-portrait. Indiana University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-253-28883-5.
  17. ^ "Uri Zvi Greenberg, 83; Hebrew and Yiddish Poet". The New York Times. 10 May 1981.
  18. ^ Leo Hamalian (1987). William Saroyan: The Man and the Writer Remembered. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8386-3308-3.
  19. ^ Frederik Ohles; Shirley G. Ohles; Shirley M. Ohles; John G. Ramsay (1997). Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-313-29133-3.
  20. ^ David, Deirdre (2017). Pamela Hansford Johnson : a writing life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-184328-0. OCLC 980257624.
  21. ^ Cullinan, Bernice E.; Person, Diane Goetz (2005). The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. New York: Continuum. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-82641-778-7.
  22. ^ Peterkin, Tom (6 November 2007). "Christy Brown 'neglected by ex-prostitute wife'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 6 November 2007.
  23. ^ Alice M. Robinson; Vera Mowry Roberts; Milly S. Barranger (1989). Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-313-27217-2.
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