1981 in literature

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See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature.

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Awards

Events

• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction given for the first time
• John Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel series originated by Ian Fleming with Licence Renewed. The revived Bond book series would run uninterrupted until 2002.

New books

• Ill Seen Ill Said - Samuel Beckett
• Arabian Nights and Days - Naguib Mahfouz
• La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle) - Régine Deforges
• Bliss - Peter Carey
• The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
• Creation - Gore Vidal
• Cujo - Stephen King
• Distant Star - Samuel R. Delany
• Early Autumn - Robert B. Parker
• Famous Last Words - Timothy Findley
• Flames Across the Border - Pierre Berton
• Giants of the Ottawa Valley - Joan Finnegan
• The Glitter Dome - Joseph Wambaugh
• The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Kingsley Amis
• Goodbye, Janette - Harold Robbins
• Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
• Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
• An Indecent Obsession - Colleen McCullough
• Licence Renewed - John Gardner
• Masquerade - Kit Williams
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
• No Time for Tears - Cynthia Freeman
• Noble House - James Clavell
• Other People: A Mystery Story - Martin Amis
• Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
• A Savage Place - Robert B. Parker
• Strata - Terry Pratchett
• The Sword of the Lictor - Gene Wolfe
• Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
• The Third Deadly Sin - Lawrence Sanders

New drama

• Larry Shue - The Nerd

Births

Deaths

• January 9 - A.J. Cronin, writer
• April 26 - Robert Garioch, poet (b. 1909)

Awards

• Booker Prize: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• See 1981 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Elias Canetti
• Prix Goncourt: Lucien Bodard, Anne Marie
• Prix Médicis French: François-Olivier Rousseau, L'Enfant d'Édouard
• Prix Médicis International: David Shahar, Le Jour de la comtesse
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler: The Morning of the Poem
• Whitbread Best Book Award: William Boyd, A Good Man in Africafr:1981 en littérature

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