1982 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1982.

Events[]

  • February 17 – Philip K. Dick ignores advice to go immediately to hospital. A fortnight later, after two strokes, he is pronounced brain-dead and disconnected from his life-support machine.[1]
  • March 18 – A legal case brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse against theater director Michael Bogdanov concerning alleged indecency in a performance of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre in London is dropped after the Attorney General intervenes.[2][3]
  • June 25 – In Island Trees School District v. Pico (457 U.S. 853 (1982)), the Supreme Court of the United States concludes that "local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to 'prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.'"
  • September – Banned Books Week is instituted in the United States.
  • October 7 – After Sue Townsend's comic character Adrian Mole is introduced (as Nigel Mole,[4] aged 131⁄4, living in the East Midlands of England) in a BBC Radio 4 play, the book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, is released; it sells 1.9 million copies in three years.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges is a runaway success and becomes one of France's all-time bestselling novels.[6]
    • The Oxford Shakespeare, under the general editorship of Stanley Wells, begins publication.
    • Dorling Kindersley, formerly a book packager, begins publishing.

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

[26]

    • Ott Sepp, Estonian actor, singer, writer and television presenter
  • July 8 – James Graham, English playwright
  • July 16 – Angel David Revilla, Venezuelan journalist and writer

Deaths[]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

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United Kingdom[]

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References[]

  1. ^ Anne R. Dick (1995). Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982: A Memoir and Biography of the Science Fiction Writer. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-7734-9137-3.
  2. ^ "1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial". BBC News. 1982-03-18. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  3. ^ Brenton, Howard (2006-01-28). "Look back in anger". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  4. ^ Contemporary Dramatists. St. James Press. 1993. p. 659. ISBN 978-1-55862-185-5.
  5. ^ Craddock, E. J. (1985-11-25). "Publishing: Friendly local book". The Times. London.
  6. ^ The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly Company. 1987. p. 24.
  7. ^ Laurence Delord-Pieszczyk (1998). L'oeuvre de René Barjavel: de la science-fiction au Moyen Age, ou, l'itinéraire d'une symbolique. Presses universitaires du Septentrion. p. 228. ISBN 978-2-284-00366-3.
  8. ^ Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press. 1986. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-912289-58-8.
  9. ^ Helena Kaufman; Anna Klobucka (1997). After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature, 1974-1994. Bucknell University Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-8387-5336-1.
  10. ^ Albert James Arnold; Julio Rodríguez-Luis; J. Michael Dash (1 January 2001). A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 90-272-3448-5.
  11. ^ Carl S. Leafstedt (4 November 1999). Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera. Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-19-535505-5.
  12. ^ Michael G. Brennan (20 May 2010). Graham Greene: Fictions, Faith and Authorship. A&C Black. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-84706-339-7.
  13. ^ The Journal of Japanese Studies. Society for Japanese Studies. 2008. p. 221.
  14. ^ March of Karnataka. Director of Information and Publicity, Government of Karnataka. 1986. pp. 18–19.
  15. ^ Jeffrey Clapp; Emily Ridge (5 October 2015). Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-317-42584-7.
  16. ^ International Who's who of Authors and Writers. Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group. 2008. p. 162.
  17. ^ The School Librarian. School Library Association. 1983. p. 53.
  18. ^ Lars G. Warme (1 January 1996). A History of Swedish Literature. U of Nebraska Press. p. 511. ISBN 0-8032-4750-8.
  19. ^ Luc Brisson; Christoph Jamme (1995). Introduction à la philosophie du mythe: Sauver les mythes (in French). Vrin. p. 12. ISBN 978-2-7116-1271-0.
  20. ^ Bryan Strong (1983). The Marriage and Family Experience. West Publishing Company. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-314-69682-3.
  21. ^ Traian Herseni; Nicolae Dunăre (1997). Colinde și obiceiuri de crăciun: cetele de feciori din Țara Oltului (Făgăraș). Editura "Graf și suflet-Cultura națională". p. xiv. ISBN 978-973-9232-23-4.
  22. ^ Elaine Morgan (1982). The Aquatic Ape. Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2873-3.
  23. ^ Donald McQuade; Robert Atwan (1985). Popular Writing in America: The Interaction of Style and Audience. Oxford University Press. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-19-503589-6.
  24. ^ "Gothenburg". internationalwriters.se. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  25. ^ "United States Public Records, 1970-2009". FamilySearch. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  26. ^ Mandel, Peter; Baher, Cynthia (May 1983). "The Classes". Brown Alumni Monthly. 83 (8): 58. Retrieved September 13, 2014. Darnel A. Jost and his wife. Dr. Kerry Kelly '77 M.D., of Staten Island, N.Y., report the birth of their first child, Colin Kelly Jost, on June 29.
  27. ^ Mary Seale Vásquez (1987). Homenaje a Ramón J. Sender. Juan de la Cuesta. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-936388-35-9.
  28. ^ Pamela Dear (1 January 2000). Contemporary authors: New revision series. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7876-3095-9.
  29. ^ Something about the Author. Gale Research. 1983. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8103-0055-2.
  30. ^ Kathryne Slate McDorman (1991). Ngaio Marsh. Twayne Publishers. p. xiv. ISBN 978-0-8057-6999-9.
  31. ^ Kenneth T. Jackson; Karen Markoe; Arnie Markoe (1998). The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1981-1985. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-684-80492-7.
  32. ^ Paul Schwartz (1988). Georges Perec: Traces of His Passage. Summa Publications, Inc. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-917786-60-0.
  33. ^ Judith Freeman Clark (1987). Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century. Prentice Hall. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-13-022658-7.
  34. ^ "Goodman Ace, Comedy Writer". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 27 March 1982. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  35. ^ Chira, Susan. "Harriet Adams Dies. Nancy Drew Author Wrote Over 200 Novels", The New York Times, March 29, 1982. Accessed October 7, 2007. "Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who wrote nearly 200 children's books including many of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, died Saturday evening. She was 89 years old, and lived in Pottersville and Maplewood, N.J."
  36. ^ "Lewis, Alfred Edward [Ted] (1940–1982), novelist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105384. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  37. ^ Robert Cohen (1993). Understanding Peter Weiss. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-87249-898-3.
  38. ^ Harold Bloom (1985). Twentieth-century American Literature. Chelsea House Publishers. p. 3336. ISBN 978-0-87754-806-5.
  39. ^ Review of Contemporary Fiction. John O'Brien. 1993. p. 7.
  40. ^ Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for John Cheever's "Swimmer". Gale, Cengage Learning. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4103-5981-0.
  41. ^ Malayalam Literary Survey. Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 1982. p. 18.
  42. ^ United Press International (15 September 1982), "John Gardner Killed on His Motorcycle", Schenectady Gazette, Oakland, Pennsylvania, p. 2, retrieved 2010-09-03
  43. ^ Koenraad Elst (2001). The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of "Hindu Fascism". Voice of India. ISBN 978-81-85990-69-9.
  44. ^ "Tributes & Obituaries: Theresa Cha, Keith Haring & Barbara Lehmann". Homicide, Homelessness & Winged Pigs. The Village Voice. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
  45. ^ Sherrin, Ned. "Abrahams, Doris Caroline [Caryl Brahms] (1901–1982)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 24 September 2011 (subscription required)
  46. ^ Gale Cengage (2002). Modern French Poets. Gale Group. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7876-5252-4.
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