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]
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- La Bicyclette bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges is a runaway success and becomes one 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

Brian Aldiss – Helliconia Spring (First of the Helliconia trilogy)
Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus)
Isaac Asimov – Foundation's Edge
Jean M. Auel – The Valley of Horses
Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard
René Barjavel – La Tempête
Julian Barnes – Before She Met Me
Michael Bishop – Blooded on Arachne
William Boyd – An Ice-Cream War
Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odyssey Two
Shirley Conran – Lace
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Company
L. Sprague de Camp – The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan the Barbarian
August Derleth – The Solar Pons Omnibus
Marguerite Duras – The Malady of Death
Stanley Elkin – George Mills
Penelope Fitzgerald – At Freddie's
Ken Follett – The Man from St. Petersburg
John Fowles – Mantissa
Max Frisch – Bluebeard
John Gardner – For Special Services
Graham Greene – Monsignor Quixote
L. Ron Hubbard – Battlefield Earth
Hammond Innes – The Black Tide
Kazuo Ishiguro – A Pale View of Hills
John Jakes – North and South
Thomas Keneally – Schindler's Ark
David Kesterton – The Darkling
Stephen King
- Different Seasons
- Pet Sematary
- The Running Man
W. P. Kinsella – Shoeless Joe
Judith Krantz – Mistral's Daughter
Derek Lambert – The Red Dove
Morgan Llywelyn – The Horse Goddess
Robert Ludlum – The Parsifal Mosaic
Colleen McCullough – An Indecent Obsession
Russell McCormmach – Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
George R. R. Martin – Fevre Dream
James Merrill – The Changing Light at Sandover
James A. Michener – Space
Timothy Mo – Sour Sweet
Harry Mulisch – The Assault
Chris Mullin – A Very British Coup
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – A Wild Sheep Chase (羊をめぐる冒険, Hitsuji o Meguru Bōken)
Gerald Murnane – The Plains
Ellis Peters – The Virgin in the Ice
T. R. Subba Rao – Durgaastamana
José Saramago – Memorial do Convento (translated as Baltasar and Blimunda)
Sidney Sheldon – Master of the Game
Elizabeth Smart – The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
Danielle Steel – Crossings
Anne Tyler – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Kurt Vonnegut – Deadeye Dick
John Wain – Young Shoulders
Alice Walker – The Color Purple
Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice – Water Witch
Gene Wolfe – The Citadel of the Autarch
Roger Zelazny
- Eye of Cat
- Dilvish, the Damned
Stefan Zweig – The Post Office Girl (Rausch der Verwandlung – The Intoxication of Transformation)

Children and young people

Chris Van Allsburg – Ben's Dream
Gillian Cross – The Demon Headmaster (first in an eponymous series of six)
Roald Dahl – The BFG
Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
Margaret Mahy – The Haunting
Michael Morpurgo – War Horse
Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat Stays at Home
Bill Peet – The Luckiest One of All
Claude Roy (illustrated by Willi Glasauer) – The Cat who Talked in Spite of Himself (Le chat qui parlait malgré lui)
Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

Drama

Caryl Churchill – Top Girls
Andrea Dunbar – Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Peter Flannery – Our Friends in the North
Michael Frayn – Noises Off
Athol Fugard – "Master Harold"...and the Boys
Elfriede Jelinek – Clara S, musikalische Tragödie
Maryat Lee and the people of Hinton, West Virginia – A Double-Threaded Life: The Hinton Play
Doug Lucie – Hard Feelings
Stephen MacDonald – Not About Heroes
Frank McGuinness – The Factory Girls
Pirkko Saisio – Betoniyö
Tom Stoppard – The Real Thing
August Wilson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Non-fiction

Irving Abella and Harold Troper – None is Too Many
Martin Amis – Invasion of the Space Invaders
Luc Brisson – Plato the Myth Maker (Platon, les mots et les mythes)
Beth Chatto – The Damp Garden
Mark Ellingham (editor) – The Rough Guide to Greece
Bruce Feirstein – Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
Eduardo Galeano – Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), vol. 1
Carol Gilligan – In a Different Voice
Sita Ram Goel – How I Became a Hindu
Traian Herseni – Teoria generală a vieții sociale omenești (The General Theory of Human Social Life, posthumous)
Rhys Isaac – The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
Ryszard Kapuściński – Shah of Shahs (Szachinszach)
Gary Kinder – Victim: The Other Side of Murder
Audre Lorde – Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Elaine Morgan – The Aquatic Ape
John Naisbitt – Megatrends
Fernando Pessoa (died 1935) – The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa)
Tom Peters – In Search of Excellence
Erin Pizzey – Prone to Violence
Richard Rorty – Consequences of Pragmatism
Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the Earth
Margaret Trudeau – Consequences
Rebecca West – 1900
Richard Rodriguez – Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (autobiography)

Births

January 14 – Luke Wright, English poet
February 5 – Lauren Gunderson, American playwright
March 24 – Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Icelandic children's fiction writer
May 10 – Jeremy Gable, English-American playwright
July 8 – James Graham, English playwright
August 22 – Ash Lieb, Australian writer

Deaths

February 5 – Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton) Welsh novelist and children's writer writing in English (born 1909)
February 11 – Albert Facey, Australian autobiographer (born 1894)
February 13 – Barbara Sleigh, English children's writer (born 1906)[7]
February 18 – Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime writer and theatre director (born 1895)
March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (stroke, born 1928)
March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist (lung cancer, born 1936)
March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1905)
March 25 – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (born 1902)
March 27 – Ted Lewis, English crime novelist (born 1940)[8]
June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic (born 1905)
June 18
- Djuna Barnes, American writer (born 1892)
- John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)
July 3 – Engvald Bakkan, Norwegian novelist and children's writer (born 1897)
September 14 – John Gardner, American novelist (motorcycle accident, born 1933)
October 7 – Alejandro Núñez Alonso, Spanish novelist (born 1905)
December 5 – Caryl Brahms, English critic, novelist and journalist (born 1901)
December 21 – Ants Oras, Estonian writer (born 1900)

Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature: Gabriel García Márquez

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems
Miles Franklin Award: Rodney Hall, Just Relations

Canada

See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

References

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.
"1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial". BBC News. 1982-03-18. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
Brenton, Howard (2006-01-28). "Look back in anger". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
Contemporary Dramatists. St. James Press. 1993. p. 659. ISBN 978-1-55862-185-5.
Craddock, E. J. (1985-11-25). "Publishing: Friendly local book". The Times. London.
The Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly Company. 1987. p. 24.
Something about the Author. Gale Research. 1983. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8103-0055-2.
"Lewis, Alfred Edward [Ted] (1940–1982), novelist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105384. Retrieved 2020-12-09.

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[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] Something about the Author. Gale Research. 1983. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-8103-0055-2.

[8] "Lewis, Alfred Edward [Ted] (1940–1982), novelist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105384. Retrieved 2020-12-09.