1985 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985.

Events[]

  • February 25 – Sue Limb's parodic pastiche of the Lake Poets, The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, begins broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K.
  • August 11 – A memorial to the poet Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland.
  • unknown dates

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

  • Carol Ann Duffy – Standing Female Nude

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 1 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet, playwright, and civil servant (born 1913)
  • January 5 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian-born American poet and critic (born 1914)
  • February 6 – James Hadley Chase, English thriller novelist (born 1906)[3]
  • February 19 – Carl Joachim Hambro, Norwegian novelist, essayist and philologist (born 1914)[4]
  • March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and philosopher (born 1921)
  • April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh writer (born 1891)
  • April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German political theorist (born 1888)
  • April 17 – Basil Bunting, English poet (born 1900)
  • April 25 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born 1909)
  • May 12 – Josephine Miles, American poet and literary critic (born 1911)
  • May 18 – Hedley Bull, Australian economist (cancer, born 1932)[5]
  • May 25 – Robert Nathan, American novelist and poet (born 1894)
  • June 8 – Hu Feng (胡风), Chinese novelist (born 1902)
  • June 16 – Ernst Orvil, Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born 1898)
  • July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Nobel laureate (born 1917)
  • July 29 – Judah Waten, Australian novelist (born 1911)[6]
  • August 14 – Alfred Hayes, English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born 1911)
  • August 30 – (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, English-born American novelist (born 1900)[7]
  • September 1 – Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and broadcaster (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893)[8]
  • September 17 – Fran Ross, African American satirist (born 1935)
  • September 22 – D. J. Opperman, South African Afrikaans poet (born 1914)
  • October 1 – E. B. White, American children's writer and writer on style (born 1899)[9]
  • October 11 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (born 1925)
  • October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian journalist and inventor (born 1899)
  • October 31 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek poet (born 1903)
  • November 3 – J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English historian (born 1916)
  • November 4 – Hilda Vaughan, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born 1892)
  • November 11 – James Hanley, English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born 1897)[10]
  • November 16 – Gulshan Nanda, Indian novelist and screenwriter (born 1929)[11]
  • November 25
    • Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (born 1905)
    • Elsa Morante, Italian novelist (born 1912)[12]
  • November 27 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (born 1902)
  • December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet (born 1922)
  • December 7 – Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1895)

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Claude Simon

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

Spain[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Fiction: Raymond Abbott, Stuart Dybek, Wright Morris (fiction/nonfiction), Howard Norman, James Robison, Austin Wright (fiction/nonfiction)
Poetry: Douglas Crase, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, James Schuyler

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Glenn Deer (1994). Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-7735-1159-0.
  2. ^ Nicholas Birns (1 December 2015). Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead. Sydney University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-1-74332-436-3.
  3. ^ The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1988. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-912289-82-3.
  4. ^ Hambro, Johan (1984). C. J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67. ISBN 82-03-11347-8.
  5. ^ Robert Ayson (24 September 2012). Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-230-36389-2.
  6. ^ "Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2007-11-09.[dead link]
  7. ^ John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999). American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-19-512783-6.
  8. ^ World Book, Inc. Staff (February 1986). The World Book Year Book. World Book, Incorporated. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-7166-0486-0.
  9. ^ Jill C. Wheeler (1 January 2013). E. B. White. ABDO Publishing Company. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-61480-938-8.
  10. ^ Gibbs, Linneae (1980). James Hanley: A Bibliography.
  11. ^ "The life and death of Hindi pulp fiction". Mint. 2008-10-20.
  12. ^ Santo, Aricò L. (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
  13. ^ Douglas W. Alden; Peter C. Hoy; Christine M. Zunz (September 1989). French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885. Susquehanna University Press. p. 11458. ISBN 978-0-941664-99-8.
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