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Overview of the events of 1978 in literature
Overview of the events of 1978 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1978 .
Events
March 8 –
Douglas Adams '
comic science fiction series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy originates as a
radio comedy broadcast on the U.K.
BBC Radio 4 .
March –
Philip Larkin ends his relationships with Maeve Brennan and Betty Mackereth.
[1]
April –
James Blaylock 's first published story, "The Ape-Box Affair", appears in Unearth magazine, pioneering
steampunk fiction.
[2]
August 1 –
Barbara Pym is a guest on
Desert Island Discs .
[3]
October – The
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year , a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles, is launched at the
Frankfurt Book Fair . The first winner is Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice .
[4]
November 15 –
Harold Pinter 's play
Betrayal , inspired by a seven-year clandestine extramarital affair with
BBC Television presenter
Joan Bakewell , opens at the
National Theatre in London, directed by
Peter Hall and featuring
Penelope Wilton and her husband at this time,
Daniel Massey , with
Michael Gambon .
[5]
December 15 – The
Berlin State Library 's new Haus Potsdamer Straße is opened in
West Berlin 's
Kulturforum .
[6]
unknown date –
Antonia White 's 1933 novel
Frost in May becomes the first in
Virago Press 's Modern Classics series of reissues of books by neglected women authors, published in the UK.
[7]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 12 –
Robert Harbin , South African-born author of books on magic (born
1908 )
March 1 –
Paul Scott , English novelist, playwright and poet (born
1920 )
March 24 –
Leigh Brackett , American science fiction writer (born
1915 )
April 14 –
F. R. Leavis , English academic literary critic (born
1895 )
May 1 –
Sylvia Townsend Warner , English poet and novelist (born
1893 )
May 12 –
Louis Zukofsky , American modernist poet (born
1904 )
June 11 –
Carola Oman , English historical novelist, biographer and children's writer (born
1897 )
June 18 –
Walter C. Alvarez , American medical author (born
1884 )
August 11 –
Berta Ruck , Indian-born Welsh
romantic novelist (born
1878 )
[10]
August 28 –
Robert Shaw , English-born actor, novelist and playwright (born
1927 )
September 3 –
Basil Willey , English academic literary critic (died
1897 )
September 9 –
Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve), Scottish poet, journalist and essayist (born
1892 )
September 11 –
Georgi Markov , Bulgarian dissident writer, broadcaster, playwright (born
1929 )
September 15 –
Edmund Crispin (Robert Bruce Montgomery), English crime writer and composer (born
1921 )
September 28 –
Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), Italian author of Illustrissimi (born
1912 )
November 5 –
N. Crevedia , Romanian poet, novelist and journalist (born
1902 )
November 11 –
Helena Boguszewska , Polish writer, columnist and a social activist (born
1883 )
November 15 –
Margaret Mead , American cultural anthropologist and author (born
1901 )
[11]
December 15 –
Ionel Gherea , Romanian philosopher, essayist and novelist (born
1895 )
Awards
Canada
France
Spain
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Iris Murdoch ,
The Sea, The Sea
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
David Rees ,
The Exeter Blitz
Cholmondeley Award :
Christopher Hope ,
Leslie Norris ,
Peter Reading ,
D.M. Thomas ,
R.S. Thomas
Eric Gregory Award :
Ciarán Carson , Peter Denman,
Christopher Reid , Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Maurice Gee ,
Plumb
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Robert Gittings , The Older Hardy
United States
Elsewhere
References
^ Bradford, Richard (2004). First Boredom Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin . London: Peter Owen. p. 245.
ISBN
0-7206-1147-4 .
^
"Blaylock, James P" . Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . March 4, 2016. Archived from
the original on 6 December 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
^ Jerry Dowlen (December 2013).
"The very best Christmas features... Jerry Dowlen celebrates the life and centenary of Barbara Pym..." booksmonthly.co.uk . Paul Norman. Archived from
the original (monthly literary column) on 24 December 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015 . Barbara Pym's appearance on Desert Island Discs on 1 August 1978 was replayed on BBC Radio 4 Extra on 2 June 2013
^ Bent, Horace (21 October 2009).
"A Bluffer's Guide to the Diagram Prize" . The Bookseller . Archived from
the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2009 .
^
Billington, Michael (2007). Harold Pinter (Rev. ed.). London: Faber and Faber.
ISBN
9780571234769 .
^
Bibliotheksdienst (in German). Deutscher Bibliotheksverband. 1978. p. 697.
^ Elizabeth Podnieks (2000).
Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Ana•s Nin . McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 168.
ISBN
978-0-7735-2021-9 .
^ Rorvik, David Michael (1978).
In his Image: The Cloning of a Man .
New York : J. B. Lippincott.
ISBN
978-0-397-01255-8 . Rorvik intentionally left the word "his" uncapitalized in the title of this book. See
Talk:David Rorvik .
^ Alyce von Rothkirch; Daniel Williams (2004).
Beyond the Difference: Welsh Literature in Comparative Contexts : Essays for M. Wynn Thomas at Sixty . University of Wales Press. p. 95.
ISBN
978-0-7083-1886-7 .
^
"Authors : Ruck, Berta : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia" . www.sf-encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
^
"Margaret Mead | Biography, Theory, Books, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 16 February 2020 .
^ Janet Hadda (24 March 2003).
Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life . Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 231.
ISBN
978-0-299-18693-7 .