Literature year 1979
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
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Events
Literary prizes
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Pulitzer Prizes (selection):
- Fiction : The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- Drama : Buried Child by Sam Shepard
- Poetry : Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
- Story : The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
- Nonfiction : On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
- Arthur C. Clarke , The Fountains of Paradise , Elevator to the Stars , Category: Best Novel
- Barry B. Longyear , Enemy Mine , You, my enemy too: My dear enemy , Category: Best short novel
- George RR Martin , Sandkings , Sandkönige , Category: Best Story
- Edward Bryant , giANTS , The New Mexico Project , Category: Best Short Story
- Vonda N. McIntyre , Dreamsnake , The Dream Snake , Category: Best Novel
- John Varley , The Persistence of Vision , The Sluggishness of the Eye , Category: Best Short Novel
- Poul Anderson , Hunter's Moon , Hunter's Moon , category: Best story
- CJ Cherryh , Cassandra , Kassandra , Category: Best Short Story
- Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake , The Dream Snake , Category: Best Novel
- John Varley, The Persistence of Vision , The Sluggishness of the Eye , Category: Best Short Novel
- John Varley, The Barbie Murders , Category: Best Narration
- Harlan Ellison , Count the Clock that Tells the Time , Category: Best Short Story
- John Varley, The Persistence of Vision , Category: Best Collection
- Terry Carr , The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 7 , Category: Best Anthology
New releases
Fiction
- Ben loves Anna - Peter Härtling
- Dead Zone - The Assassination - Stephen King
- O Dia dos Prodígios - Lídia Jorge
- Elephant memory - António Lobo Antunes
- The fake - Nicolas Born
- Caring siege - Heinrich Böll
- Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- One man - Oriana Fallaci
- A fair for the city of Arras - Andrzej Szczypiorski
- There were ten - Heinz G. Konsalik
drama
Non-fiction
(Auto) biographies
- The periodic system - Primo Levi (German translation, the Italian original published in 1975)
Born
- January 22nd: Franziska Gerstenberg , German writer
- February 4: Ben Lerner , American poet and writer
- April 6: Uljana Wolf , German poet and translator
- April 9: Elisabeth Etz , Austrian author for children and young people
- June 14th: Constantin Schreiber , German journalist and book author
- August 14: Sayaka Murata , Japanese writer
- September 3: Will Hill , British writer
- September 22nd: Roberto Saviano , Italian writer and journalist
- December 23: Szczepan Twardoch , Polish writer
Exact date unknown
- Molly Antopol , American writer
- Yavuz Ekinci , Turkish-Kurdish writer
- Ryan David Jahn , American writer
- Katie Kitamura , American writer
Died
- January 6th: Giorgio Colli , Italian philosopher, literary scholar and translator (* 1917)
- January 8: Bogdan Ostromęcki , Polish poet, essayist and translator (* 1911)
- January 27: Victoria Ocampo , Argentine writer and translator (* 1890)
- January 29: Alf Ahlberg , Swedish writer and philosopher (* 1892)
- April 7th: Bruno Apitz , German writer (* 1900)
- April 22: Madeline Gleason , American poet (* 1903)
- May 10: Louis Paul Boon , Flemish writer (* 1912)
- May 14: Jean Rhys , British writer (* 1890)
- May 15: Eduard Zak , Austrian writer, translator and critic (* 1906)
- June 3: Arno Schmidt , German writer and translator (* 1914)
- June 9: Ara Masahito , Japanese essayist and translator (* 1913)
- June 15: Ernst Meister , German poet and writer (* 1911)
- June 16: Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich , German writer and ancient historian (* 1901)
- June 29: Blas de Otero , Spanish poet (* 1916)
- June 30: Hugh Garner , Canadian writer (born 1913)
- July 1: Takiguchi Shūzō , Japanese poet (* 1903)
- July 8: Tommaso Landolfi , Italian writer (* 1908)
- July 21: Ludwig Renn , German writer (* 1889)
- July 23: Joseph Kessel , French writer (* 1898)
- August 11: James Gordon Farrell , Irish-British writer (* 1935)
- August 13: Fukunaga Takehiko , Japanese writer and translator (* 1918)
- August 14: Richard Alewyn , German Germanist and literary critic (* 1902)
- August 22: James T. Farrell , American writer (born 1904)
- August 24th: Fritz Riemann , German psychoanalyst and author (* 1902)
- August 24: Nakano Shigeharu , Japanese writer (* 1902)
- August 26: Mika Waltari , Finnish writer (* 1908)
- August 31: Celso Emilio Ferreiro , Spanish-Galician writer (* 1912)
- September 10: Agostinho Neto , Angolan politician and poet (* 1922)
- September 27: Pascal Pia , French writer (* 1903)
- October 5: Sophie Dorothee von Podewils , German narrator and poet (* 1909)
- October 6: Elizabeth Bishop , American poet and writer (* 1911)
- October 19: Richard Friedenthal , German writer (* 1896)
- October 31: Carl Merz , Austrian cabaret artist and writer (* 1906)
- November 5: Al Capp , American comic book author and illustrator (* 1909)
- November 10: Friedrich Torberg , Austrian writer and translator (* 1908)
- November 12: Ursula Adam , German poet and writer (* 1922)
- November 17: Immanuel Velikovsky , author (* 1895)
- November 22nd: George Froeschel , Austrian-American writer (* 1891)
- November 29: Walter Matthias Diggelmann , Swiss writer (* 1927)
- December 7th: Nicolas Born , German writer (* 1937)
- December 24th: Rudi Dutschke , German sociologist and author (* 1940)
