1977 in literature
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See also: 1976 in literature, other events of 1977, 1978 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Douglas Adams begins writing for BBC radio.
- V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE.
- Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his father's work, The Silmarillion.
[edit] New books
- Richard Adams -The Plague Dogs
- Jorge Amado - Tieta do Agreste
- Jay Anson - The Amityville Horror
- Richard Bachman - Rage
- J. M. Coetzee - In the Heart of the Country
- Robert Coover - The Public Burning
- Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
- Joan Didion - A Book of Common Prayer
- Buchi Emecheta - The Slave Girl
- Timothy Findley - The Wars
- John Fowles - Daniel Martin
- Pauline Gedge - Child of the Morning
- Mark Helprin - Refiner's Fire
- Erica Jong - How to Save Your Own Life
- Stephen King - The Shining
- John le Carré - The Honourable Schoolboy
- Robert Ludlum - The Chancellor Manuscript
- Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds
- Larry McMurtry - Terms of Endearment
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Enchantments and Curses
- Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
- Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea
- Illusions - Richard Bach
- Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command
- Ruth Rendell - A Judgement In Stone
- Alun Richards - Ennal's Point
- Harold Robbins - Dreams Die First
- Paul Scott - Staying On
- Erich Segal - Oliver's Story
- Irwin Shaw - Beggarman, Thief
- Sidney Sheldon - Bloodline
- Elizabeth Smart
- A Bonus
- Craig Thomas - Firefox
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
- Melvin Van Peebles - The True American, A Folk Fable
- Christopher Wood -James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
[edit] New drama
[edit] Non-fiction
- Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts
- Jim Fixx - The Complete Book of Running
- Bharati Mukherjee & Clark Blaise -Days and Nights in Calcutta
- E. F. Schumacher - A Guide for the Perplexed
- Everett M. Skehan - Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Anaïs Nin, novelist and diarist
- February 27 - John Dickson Carr, crime novelist
- April 7 - Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author
- April 11 - Jacques Prévert, poet
- July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
- September 4 - E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful author
- September 12 - Robert Lowell, poet
- October 27 - James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman
- November 10 - Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist
- November 30 - Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- December 22 - Frank Thiess, German writer
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
- Prix Médicis International: Hector Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons - Argentina
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Paul Scott, Staying On
- Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson
[edit] United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Saul Bellow
- Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
- Pulitzer Prize for History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-186 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher).
[edit] Rest of the World
- Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radicifr:1977 en littérature
