Literature year 1984
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- William Gibson , Neuromancer , Neuromancer , Category: Best Novel
- John Varley , PRESS ENTER [] , terminal also: press input also: press enter , category: best short novel
- Octavia E. Butler , Bloodchild , Blutsbrut also: Blood ties , Category: Best story
- Gardner Dozois , Morning Child , Morgenkind , Category: Best Short Story
- David Brin , Startide Rising , Star Flood , Category: Best Novel
- Timothy Zahn , Cascade Point , Category: Best Short Novel
- Greg Bear , Blood Music , The music of the blood also: Music of the blood also: Blood music , Category: Best story
- Octavia E. Butler , Speech Sounds , The Sweet Sound of the Word , Category: Best Short Story
- David Brin, Startide Rising , Star Flood , Category: Best SF Novel
- Marion Zimmer Bradley , The Mists of Avalon , The Mists of Avalon , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- RA MacAvoy , Tea with the Black Dragon , rendezvous at the black dragon , Category: Best First Novel
- Michael Bishop , Her Habiline Husband , Category: Best Short Novel
- George RR Martin , The Monkey Treatment , Category: Best Narration
- James Tiptree, Jr. , Beyond the Dead Reef , Category: Best Short Story
- Roger Zelazny , Unicorn Variations , Category: Best Collection
- Terry Carr , The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 12 , Category: Best Anthology
- Thomas RP Mielke , Das Sakriversum , Category: Best Novel
- Thomas Ziegler , The Voices of the Night , Category: Best Story
- Herbert W. Franke , Breath of the Sun , Category: Best Short Story
- Brian Aldiss , Helliconia Spring , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Horst Pukallus , Category: Best Translator
- Heinrich Wimmer, (Corian Verlag) for special publishing courage, special prize
- William Gibson, Neuromancer , Neuromancer
- Booker Prize : Anita Brookner , Hotel du Lac
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Octavio Paz
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Erika Pedretti , The model and its painter
- Prix Goncourt : Marguerite Duras , L'Amant
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama : David Mamet , Glengarry Glen Ross
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : William J. Kennedy - Ironweed
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Mary Oliver - American Primitive
- Arthur Ellis Award : Eric Wright (writer) , The Night the Gods Smiled
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Donald H. Akenson , The Irish in Ontario
- Toronto Book Awards : Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled
- Dagger Award : Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled
- Premio Nadal : Mary Oliver , American Primitive
- Georg Brandes Prize : Poul Behrendt
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Thomas Bredsdorff
- Critic prizes (Denmark) : Henrik Nordbrandt , 84 graduated
- Weekendavisens literaturpris : Poul Behrendt , Bissen og dullen
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Jan Kjærstad , Homo Falsus
New releases
Fiction
- The rise to the stars - Isaac Asimov
- The Mayor of Furnes - Georges Simenon
- The Savior from Mars - Philip José Farmer
- Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
- Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
- The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
- The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
- The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
- The lover - Marguerite Duras
- Moise and the World of Reason - Tennessee Williams
- Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Pallmann - Hans Blickensdörfer
- Random Hearts - Warren Adler
- Rituals - Cees Nooteboom
- The horrors of ice and darkness - Christoph Ransmayr
- The Sicilian - Mario Puzo
- Sophiechen and the giant - Roald Dahl
- The talisman - Stephen King , Peter Straub
- Thinner - Richard Bachman (pseudonym Stephen Kings )
- Lamentation for the dead - Werner Helwig
- The unknown grandfather - Günter Görlich
- The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
- The fourth protocol - Frederick Forsyth
- The Wave - Morton Rhue
- The Wind of Evil ( three diamonds ) - Tony Hillerman
- Sign of doom - Wassil Bykau
drama
Poetry
- A hundred thousand billion poems - Raymond Queneau (German by Ludwig Harig )
Non-fiction
Born
- June 18: Andrus Kasemaa , Estonian poet and writer
- June 21: Theresa Hannig , German writer
- July 3rd: Lyubko Deresch , Ukrainian writer
- July 11: Marie Lu , Sino-American writer
Exact date unknown
- Alina Herbing , German writer
- Bijan Moini , German lawyer and writer
- Nihat Özdal , Turkish poet
- Philipp Stadelmaier , German film critic, film scholar, essayist and playwright
- Senthuran Varatharajah , German writer of Tamil origin
- Claire Vaye Watkins , American writer
Died
- January 1 : Paula Grogger , Austrian writer (* 1892 )
- January 2 : Klaus Mehnert , journalist and university professor (* 1906 )
- January 5 : Giuseppe Fava , Italian writer and playwright (* 1925 )
- January 29 : Edzard Schaper , German writer and translator (* 1908 )
- January 30 : Walter A. Berendsohn , German literary scholar (* 1884 )
- February 5 : Manès Sperber , Austro-French writer, social psychologist and philosopher (* 1905 )
- February 6 : Jorge Guillén , Spanish poet (* 1893 )
- February 16 : Charles Oulmont , French writer (* 1883 )
- February 21 : Mikhail A. Scholokhov , Soviet writer (* 1905 )
- February 23 : Uwe Johnson , German writer (* 1934 )
- March 12th : Heinz Oskar Wuttig , German writer and screenwriter (* 1907 )
- March 14th : Hovhannes Shiraz , Armenian poet (* 1915 )
- March 24th : William Voltz , German writer (* 1938 )
- April 15 : Alexander Trocchi , Scottish writer (* 1925 )
- April 21 : Marcel Janco , Romanian artist and writer (* 1895 )
- April 21 : Manuel Mujica Láinez , Argentine writer and journalist (* 1910 )
- May 16 : Irwin Shaw , American writer (* 1913 )
- May 19 : John Betjeman , British poet, publicist and journalist (* 1906 )
- July 2 : Bedřich Fučík , Czech literary critic, editor and translator (* 1900 )
- July 8 : Franz Fühmann , German writer (* 1922 )
- August 3 : Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Tendryakov , Russian writer (* 1923 )
- August 8 : Walter Tevis , American writer (* 1928 )
- August 14 : John Boynton Priestley , English writer (* 1894 )
- August 25 : Rudolf Harms , German writer (* 1901 )
- August 25 : Truman Capote , American writer (* 1924 )
- August 25 : Rudolf Harms , German writer (* 1901 )
- August 26th : Hans Tügel , German actor, director, radio play speaker and author (* 1894 )
- September 2 : Amir Gilboa , Israeli poet (* 1917 )
- September 3 : Jan Zábrana , Czech writer, poet and translator (* 1931 )
- September 7th : Liam O'Flaherty , Irish writer (* 1896 )
- September 19 : Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss Catholic clergyman and writer (* 1904 )
- September 30th : Helen Dore Boylston , American writer (* 1895 )
- October 5 : Hugo Kükelhaus , German writer, educator, philosopher and artist (* 1900 )
- October 10 : Rudolf Adolph , German writer (* 1900 )
- October 19 : Henri Michaux , French writer and painter (* 1899 )
- October 31 : Eduardo De Filippo , Italian actor and playwright (* 1900 )
- November 10 : Xavier Herbert , Australian writer (* 1901 )
- November 13 : Chester Himes , American writer (* 1909 )
- November 16 : Paul Pörtner , German writer (* 1925 )
- November 18 : Monika Sperr , German writer (* 1941 )
- November 20 : Faiz Ahmed Faiz , Urdu poet (* 1911 )
- December 5 : Viktor Borissowitsch Schklowski , Russian writer (* 1893 )
- December 14 : Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 (* 1898 )
- December 23 : Joan Lindsay , Australian writer (* 1896 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1984/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/oct/31/archive-1984-why-should-booker-play-safe Hermione Lee: Why should the Booker play safe? . In: The Guardian , October 21, 1984. Retrieved December 30, 2011.