1981 year of literature

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1981 year of literature
Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe received the Nebula Award in 1981 .	William Saroyan Pulitzer Prize winner William Saroyan dies in 1981.
Stephen King (February 2007) Stephen King published his novel Cujo in 1981

Events

The PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction will be presented for the first time.
John Edmund Gardner successfully revives the James Bond novel, whose origins go back to Ian Fleming . The first volume is License Renewed and is the first original Bond novel since Colonel Sun was published in 1968 . This series ran until 2002.
Klaus Mann's Mephisto is published by Rowohlt Verlag for the first time since it was banned in 1966 . At that time, the adopted son and heir Gustaf Gründgens ', Peter Gorski , had successfully sued the Hamburg Higher Regional Court against the publication by the Nymphenburger Verlag.

Publisher's cover of the first edition by Mephisto

In the biography of the successful actor Hendrik Höfgen , who came to terms with National Socialism , one could only see Gründgens. In 1968 the Federal Court of Justice rejected the publisher's appeal on March 20, 1968. The publisher then complained to the Federal Constitutional Court , which in 1971 had to deal with the relationship between artistic freedom and the fundamental rights of third parties for the first time . In the present case, the court weighted the post-mortem protection of personality higher than the artistic freedom according to Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG , but held the Federal Court of Justice against the fact that it had incorrectly referred to the general right of personality of the deceased Gustaf Gründgens according to Art. 2 Abs. 1 GG, since this only applies to living people. At most, post-mortem protection of privacy could be invoked, which was successful in this case. The actual prohibition judgment only applied between the two parties (Gorski and the Nymphenburger Verlaghandlung).

Prices

Nobel Prize in Literature : Elias Canetti

Science fiction & fantasy

Nebula Award

Gene Wolfe , The Claw of the Conciliator , The claw of the conciliator ; Category: Best Novel

Poul Anderson , The Saturn Game , Das Saturnspiel , Category: Best Short Novel
Michael Bishop , The Quickening , Category: Best Narration
Lisa Tuttle , The Bone Flute , The bone flute , Category: Best Short Story

Hugo Award

Joan D. Vinge , The Snow Queen , The Snow Queen , Category: Best Novel
Gordon R. Dickson , Lost Dorsai , The Dorsai Pacifist , Category: Best Short Novel
Gordon R. Dickson. The Cloak and the Staff , With Kutte und Stab , Category: Best Narration
Clifford D. Simak , Grotto of the Dancing Deer , Grotto of the Dancing Wilds , Category: Best Short Story

Locus Award

Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen , The Snow Queen , Category: Best SF Novel
Robert Silverberg , Lord Valentine's Castle , Dream War also: Lord Valentine , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
Robert L. Forward , Dragon's Egg , Das Drachenei , Category: Best First Novel
George RR Martin , Nightflyers , Nachtflieger , Category: Best Short Novel
Thomas Michael Disch , The Brave Little Toaster , The brave little toaster , Category: Best story
Clifford D. Simak, Grotto of the Dancing Deer , Grotto of the Dancing Wilds , Category: Best Short Story
John Varley , The Barbie Murders , Category: Best Collection
Edward L. Ferman , The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30 Year Retrospective , Category: Best Anthology

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Georg Zauner , The grandsons of the rocket builder , Category: Best Novel
Thomas Ziegler , The Sensitive Years , Category: Best Story
Ronald M. Hahn , On the Big Stream , Category: Best Short Story
Horst Pukallus , Category: Best Translator
Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn and Wolfgang Jeschke The Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature , special price

Australia

Miles Franklin Award : Peter Carey , Bliss

Brazil

Germany

Ernesto Cardenal, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1981

Martin Walser, Georg Büchner Prize 1981

Reiner Kunze, Geschwister-Scholl-Prize 1981

Peter Hacks, Heinrich Mann Prize 1981

Alfred Döblin Prize : Gert Hofmann
aspekte literature prize : Thomas Hürlimann for Die Tessinerin
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : no award
German Youth Literature Award (selection):
- Picture book: “The journey with the dinghy” by Margret Rettich
- Children's book: "Above and below" by Jürgen Spohn
- Youth book: " The long way of Lukas B. " by Willi Fährmann
- Non-fiction book: "The short life of Sophie Scholl" by Hermann Vinke
Evangelical Book Prize : Biography: Hiltgunt Zassenhaus for A Tree Blooms in November
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Ernesto Cardenal
Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Leonard Forster
Georg Büchner Prize : Martin Walser
Geschwister-Scholl-Prize : Reiner Kunze , On Your Own Hope
Heinrich Mann Prize : Peter Hacks
Radio play award of the war blind : Moin Vaddr läbt or A Ballahd inne Munnohrd kinstlich with Mosseg and Jesann by Wullar Kinnpussku by Walter Kempowski , director: Horst H. Vollmer (HR)

Johann Heinrich Merck Prize : Hilde Spiel

Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Wolfgang Kasack

Marieluise Fleißer Prize : Irmgard Keun

Prize of the SWR best list : Peter Weiss

Ireland

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature : Neil Jordan

France

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

New releases

Fiction

Chronicle of a Death Foreseen - Gabriel García Márquez
Cujo - Stephen King
Women's battalion - Heinz G. Konsalik
The god emperor of the desert planet - Frank Herbert
Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
The cold. An isolation - Thomas Bernhard
Children's story - Peter Handke
Midnight Children - Salman Rushdie
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Couples, passers-by - Botho Strauss
Our man in Africa - William Boyd

Non-fiction

Born

Lena Gorelik in Frankfurt 2009

Maria Parr (2009)

Linda Maria Baros

Cecelia Ahern, 2009

0January 6 : Andrew Britton , British-born American writer († 2008 )
January 18 : Maria Parr , Norwegian children's author
January 19 : Tom Becker , English author for children and young people
January 28 : Emrah Serbes , Turkish writer
0February 1 : Lena Gorelik , German journalist and writer
0February 3 : Bastian Schneider , German writer
February 13 : Nancy Hünger , German writer
March 21 : Lauren Kate , American writer
0April 4 : Ned Vizzini , American writer
0April 5 : Tristan Garcia , French author and philosopher
0April 7 : Lili Wilkinson , Australian writer
April 12th : Tobi Katzen , German author
April 12th : Geoffroy de Lagasnerie , French sociologist and essayist
April 15 : Barbara Zeman , Austrian writer
April 18 : Nadja Küchenmeister , German writer
April 22nd : Giorgio Fontana , Italian writer
April 24th : Susanne Gregor , Austrian writer of Slovak origin
0May 1st : Otar Dowschenko , Ukrainian journalist, blogger and author
May 31 : Laura de Weck , Swiss actress and playwright
July 20 : Anna Jablonskaja , Russian playwright († 2011 )
August 21 : Jörg Albrecht , German author
0August 6th : Linda Maria Baros , Romanian poet, translator and essayist
0September 6th : Marjana Gaponenko , Ukrainian writer who has been writing in German since 1996.
0September 9 : Stephan R. Bellem , German fantasy writer
September 27th : Andy Strauss , German poetry slammer, slam master, author and actor
September 30th : Cecelia Ahern , Irish writer, playwright and screenwriter
October 3 : Leïla Slimani , Moroccan-French writer
October 31 : Irina Deneschkina , Russian writer
November 4th : Ryad Assani-Razaki , Afro-Canadian writer
November 22 : Christian Filips , German poet, dramaturge and essayist
November 30th : Chen Qiufan , Chinese science fiction writer
December 18th : Nives Celzijus , Croatian singer, model and writer

Exact date unknown

Airen , German blogger and writer
Doris Anselm , German writer and journalist
Katharina Bendixen , German author
Tine Bergen , Belgian author for children and young people
Emily Berry , British poet
John Birke , German author
NoViolet Bulawayo , Zimbabwean-American writer
Sarah Crossan , Irish writer
Alessandro De Francesco , Italian poet, theorist and sound artist
Thomas Freyer , German playwright
Julián Fuks , Brazilian writer, translator and literary critic
Johanna Holmström , Finnish writer, Swedish language
Chris Killen , British writer
Dagmara Kraus , German translator and poet
Hanna Lemke , German writer
Wolfram Lotz , German poet, playwright, storyteller and radio play author
Lisa McInerney , Irish writer
Valzhyna Mort , Belarusian poet and translator of English and Polish literature
Max Porter , British writer
Tijan Sila , German writer
Martin Spieß , German author

Died

Lanza del Vasto

Horiguchi Daigaku

Josep Pla

Georg Klusemann

Dymphna Cusack, 1947

Edvard Kocbek

0January 5th : Lanza del Vasto , Italian philosopher and poet (* 1901 )
0January 6 : AJ Cronin , Scottish doctor and writer (* 1896 )
0January 6 : Gennadi Samoilowitsch Gor , Russian writer and science fiction author (* 1907 )
January 15 : Devaneya Pavanar , Tamil nationalist and author (* 1902 )
January 18 : Franz Michel Willam , Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer (* 1894 )
January 19 : Walter Gorrish , German writer (* 1909 )
January 19 : Marietta di Monaco , German cabaret artist, poet and Diseuse (* 1893 )
0February 8 : Friedrich Hartau , German actor, translator, dramaturge, writer and director (* 1911 )
February 11 : Ketti Frings , American screenwriter and playwright (* 1909 )
February 17 : David Garnett , British writer, publisher and member of the Bloomsbury Group (* 1892 )
February 23 : Robert L. Fish , American writer (* 1912 )
February 28 : Albin Lesky , Austrian classical philologist (* 1896 )
0March 2 : Fridolin Stier , German Bible translator (* 1902 )
0March 5 : Karl Springenschmid , Austrian writer and teacher (* 1897 )
March 11 : Heinz Winfried Sabais , German writer, poet and politician (* 1922 )
March 12 : Anton Dörfler , German writer and local poet (* 1890 )
March 15 : Horiguchi Daigaku , Japanese poet and translator (* 1892 )
March 24th : Hans Sterneder , Austrian writer (* 1889 )
March 28 : Yuri Walentinowitsch Trifonow , Russian writer (* 1925 )
March 31 : Enid Bagnold , British writer and playwright (* 1889 )
0April 9 : Christa Johannsen , German writer (* 1914 )
April 16 : Cécile Lauber , Swiss writer (* 1887 )
April 26 : Robert Garioch , Scottish poet (* 1909 )
April 30 : Peter Huchel , German poet (* 1903 )
April 20 : Aniceti Kitereza , Tanzanian writer and theologian (* 1896 )
April 23 : Josep Pla , Spanish journalist and Catalan-language writer (* 1897 )
April 23 : Zoltán Zelk , Jewish Hungarian writer (* 1906 )
April 26 : Robert Garioch , Scottish poet (* 1909 )
0May 1 : Vern Sneider , American writer (* 1916 )
0May 2 : Dieter Hülsmanns , German publisher and writer (* 1940 )
0May 4 : Georg Klusemann , German painter and children's book author (* 1942 )
0May 8 : Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and politician (* 1896 )
0May 8 : WW Shols , German writer (* 1925 )
0May 8 : Rolf Schroers , German writer (* 1919 )
0May 9 : Nelson Algren , American writer (* 1909 )
May 13 : Mahamane Dan Dobi , Nigerien playwright (* 1923 )
May 18 : William Saroyan , American writer (* 1908 )
May 20 : Günther Siegmund , Low German writer, actor and theater director - as well as artistic director (* 1927 )
May 23 : Gabriël Smit , Dutch poet and journalist (* 1910 )
May 24 : Herb Lubalin , American typographer and graphic artist (* 1918 )
May 26 : WD Rohr , German writer (* 1928 )
May 27 : János Pilinszky , Hungarian poet and publicist (* 1921 )
0June 4 : Fritz Steuben , German writer (* 1898 )
June 21 : Rudolf Bartsch , German writer (* 1929 )
June 21 : Johan Fabricius , Dutch writer, illustrator, journalist and adventurer (* 1899 )
June 24th : Martha Albrand , German-American writer (* 1910 )
June 28 : Lene Bertelsmann , German writer (* 1903 )
0July 1 : Carlos de Oliveira , Portuguese writer and translator (* 1921 )
0July 9 : John Franklin Bardin , American writer (* 1916 )
July 12 : Boris Nikolajewitsch Polewoi , author and journalist (* 1908 )
July 14th : Peter von Tramin , Austrian writer (* 1932 )
July 17 : Mizuhara Shūōshi , Japanese doctor and haiku poet (* 1892 )
July 19 : José María Pemán , Spanish writer (* 1898 )
0August 1 : Paddy Chayefsky , American author (* 1923 )
0August 1st : Álvaro de Laiglesia , Spanish writer and humorist (* 1922 )
August 12 : Kurt Liebmann , German art historian and writer (* 1897 )
0August 1 : Hans Flesch-Brunningen , Austrian writer (* 1895 )
August 22 : Sașa Pană , Romanian poet and writer (* 1902 )
0September 6 : Christy Brown , Irish painter and author (born 1932 )
September 12 : Eugenio Montale , Italian writer and Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1896 )
September 19 : Eduard Fischer , Swiss writer and historian (* 1896 )
September 24th : Hubert Mumelter , South Tyrolean painter and poet (* 1896 )
September 25 : Heinz Dodenhoff , German painter and lyric poet (* 1889 )
September: Harry Bates , American editor and author of science fiction (* 1900 )
0October 1 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Kasin , Russian writer (* 1898 )
0October 3 : Walter Mehring , German-Jewish writer (* 1896 )
0October 4 : Yasuda Yojūrō , Japanese writer and literary critic (* 1910 )
October 12 : Eva Rechel-Mertens , German translator of French literature (* 1895 )
October 15 : Čestmír Jeřábek , Czech writer, dramaturge and literary critic (* 1893 )
October 17 : Albert Cohen , Swiss French-language writer (* 1895 )
October 18 : Alfred Gong , German-speaking writer (* 1920 )
October 19 : Dymphna Cusack , Australian writer (* 1902 )
October 20 : Mary Chase , American writer (* 1907 )
October 25 : Ariel Durant , American writer (* 1898 )
October 25 : Cynthia Harnett , British writer (* 1893 )
October 27 : Albert Bächtold , Swiss dialect writer (* 1891 )
October 29th : Georges Brassens , French poet, author and interpreter of chansons (* 1921 )
0November 3 : Edvard Kocbek , Slovenian writer and publicist (* 1904 )
0November 3 : Hans Morper , journalist and dialect poet (* 1907 )
0November 7th : William James Durant , American philosopher and writer (* 1885 )
November 12 : Henry Clay Branson , American writer and librarian (* 1904 )
November 20 : Rolf Bongs , German writer (* 1907 )
November 20 : Herbert Behrens-Hangeler , German painter, graphic artist and writer (* 1898 )
November 28 : Marcel Raymond , Swiss literary critic (* 1897 )
November 30th : Val Gielgud , English writer and radio editor (* 1900 )
0December 4 : Ole Sarvig , Danish writer, translator, art historian and critic (* 1921 )
December 11th : Xavier Grall , French journalist, poet and writer (* 1930 )
December 13 : Anders Österling , Swedish poet, writer and journalist (* 1884 )
December 16 : Lawrence Edward Watkin , American writer and screenwriter (* 1901 )
December 17th : Edwin Erich Dwinger , writer (* 1898 )
December 28 : Demetrio Aguilera Malta , writer, painter and diplomat from Ecuador (* 1909 )
December 28 : Walter Erich Schäfer , German dramaturge and general director of the Württemberg State Theater (* 1901 )
December 29 : Miroslav Krleža , Yugoslav and Croatian writer (* 1893 )
undated: Mariama Bâ , Senegalese writer (* 1927 )
undated: Gunnar Benediktsson , Icelandic writer and socialist politician (* 1892 )
undated: Esther Raab , Israeli poet (* 1894 )
undated: Sherwood King , American writer (* 1904 )
undated: Georg Mühlen-Schulte , German writer, humorist and screenwriter (* 1882 )
undated: Abraham Regelson , Hebrew poet, writer, translator and editor (* 1896 )

Individual evidence

^ PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction

^ "John Gardner: An Alcoholic Carries On Bond" ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

↑ * James Bond continuation author John Gardner dies aged 80. August 6, 2007 (English, obituary with extensive bio / bibliographical information on MI6).

^ Scandal books . In: Die Zeit 13/2008. Retrieved June 5, 2012.

↑ BVerfGE 30, 173 ff. - Mephisto

↑ Most Swiss literary prizes are only awarded every two to six years. Examples: Aargau Literature Prize , Gottfried Keller Prize , Great Literature Prize of the City and Canton of Bern , Great Schiller Prize , Heinz Weder Prize for Poetry , Bern Literature Prize , Max Frisch Prize , Prix Rambert , Robert Walser Prize and Welti Prize .

^ Unforgotten: Heinz Sabais. For the 90th birthday ( memento of the original from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: echo-online.de. March 31, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2012. @1@ 2

↑ Died: Peter Huchel. In: Der Spiegel . May 11, 1981. Retrieved June 7, 2012.

↑ Gabriël Smit's biography at the digital library van den Nederlandse letterkunde (dbnl) ( memento of the original from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch) @1@ 2

[1] PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction

[2] "John Gardner: An Alcoholic Carries On Bond" ( Memento from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[3] * James Bond continuation author John Gardner dies aged 80. August 6, 2007 (English, obituary with extensive bio / bibliographical information on MI6).; accessed on May 20, 2020

[4] Scandal books . In: Die Zeit 13/2008. Retrieved June 5, 2012.

[5] BVerfGE 30, 173 ff. - Mephisto

[6] Most Swiss literary prizes are only awarded every two to six years. Examples: Aargau Literature Prize , Gottfried Keller Prize , Great Literature Prize of the City and Canton of Bern , Great Schiller Prize , Heinz Weder Prize for Poetry , Bern Literature Prize , Max Frisch Prize , Prix Rambert , Robert Walser Prize and Welti Prize .

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