Literature year 1985
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- Orson Scott Card , Ender's Game , The Big Game , Category: Best Novel
- Robert Silverberg , Sailing to Byzantium , Sea trip to Byzantium , Category: Best short novel
- George RR Martin , Portraits of His Children , Pictures of His Children , Category: Best Story
- Nancy Kress , Out of All Them Bright Stars , Category: Best Short Story
- William Gibson , Neuromancer , Neuromancer , Category: Best Novel
- John Varley , PRESS ENTER [] , press input also: press enter also: terminal , category: best short novel
- Octavia E. Butler , Bloodchild , Blutsbrut also: Blood ties , Category: Best story
- David Brin , The Crystal Spheres , Die Kristallhüllen , Category: Best Short Story
- Larry Niven , The Integral Trees , The Floating Forest , Category: Best SF Novel
- Robert A. Heinlein , Job: A Comedy of Justice , Das neue Buch Job , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
- Kim Stanley Robinson , The Wild Shore , The Wild Shore , Category: Best First Novel
- John Varley, PRESS ENTER [] , press input also: press enter also: terminal , category: best short novel
- Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild , Blutsbrut also: Blood ties , Category: Best story
- Lucius Shepard , Salvador , Category: Best Short Story
- Fritz Leiber , The Ghost Light , Category: Best Collection
- Michael Bishop , Light Years and Dark , Category: Best Anthology
- Herbert W. Franke , The Cold of Space , Category: Best Novel
- Wolfgang Jeschke , Nekyomanteion , Category: Best Story
- Carl Amery , Only one summer treat her mighty ones , Category: Best short story
- Philip K. Dick , Valis , Category: Best Foreign Work
- Horst Pukallus , Category: Best Translator
- Joachim Körber , Bibliographical Lexicon of Utopian-Fantastic Literature , Special Prize
- Tim Powers , Dinner at Deviant's Palace , At table in Deviant's Palace
- Booker Prize : Keri Hulme , The Bone People .
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Teddy Kollek
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Hermann Burger , Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein
- Prix Goncourt : Yann Queffélec , Les Noces barbaren
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama : James Lapine for the dramatic artwork; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park with George
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Alison Lurie - Foreign Affairs
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry : Carolyn Kizer : Yin
- Arthur Ellis Award : Howard Engel , Murder Sees the Light
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : David Ricardo Williams , Duff: A Life in the Law
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Audrey Thomas , Intertidal Life
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Kenneth J. Rea , The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario 1939-1975
- Toronto Book Awards : Warabe Aska , Who Goes to the Park ; JMS Careless , Toronto to 1918 ; Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls
- Premio Nadal : Pau Faner Coll , Flor de sal
- Georg Brandes Prize : Hans Hertel , Verdenslitteraturhistorie
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Svend Åge Madsen
- Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Hanne Marie Svendsen , Guldkuglen
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Anna Sophie Seidelin , Genfortælling af Det nye Testamente
- Critics' prizes (Norway) : Tor Åge Bringsværd , GOBI barndommens måne
- Governor General's Award : Fred Wah , Waiting for Saskatchewan
New releases
Fiction
- Old Masters (novel) - Thomas Bernhard
- Barefoot over glass - Iain Banks
- Contact (Roman) - Carl Sagan
- Duet for three - Joan Barfoot
- Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert
- The rabbi's grandson - Herman Wouk
- Women in front of a river landscape - Heinrich Böll
- A dangerous encounter - Ernst Jünger
- God's Work and the Devil's Contribution (Book) - John Irving
- The Big Game (Book) - Orson Scott Card
- Happy Birthday, Turk! (Novel) - Jakob Arjouni
- The camp of the saints - Jean Raspail
- Horn's end - Christoph Hein
- Ingrid Babendererde. Maturity examination 1953 - Uwe Johnson
- Children of the Earth # Ayla and the Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel
- Love in the times of cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
- Love is a heavenly power - Jürg Federspiel
- Oranges aren't the only fruit - Jeanette Winterson
- The Opodeldoks - Sepp Strubel and Paul Maar
- The perfume - Patrick Süskind
- The Maid's Report - Margaret Atwood
- Black Rock (novel) - Brian Moore
- Skeleton Crew - Stephen King , consisting of the volumes:
- Trapeze - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Path into the Wild - Larry McMurtry
- The waves choke the wind - Arkady and Boris Strugazki
Non-fiction
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (German translation) - Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Hacker Bible - Chaos Computer Club
- The power of stupidity - André Glucksmann
drama
Born
- June 10: Takis Würger , German journalist and book author
- June 16: Joël Dicker , Swiss writer
- July 16: Birgit Birnbacher , Austrian writer
- September 24: Eleanor Catton , New Zealand writer
Exact date unknown
- Caoilinn Hughes , Irish poet and writer
- Sabrina Janesch , German-Polish writer
- Pierre Jarawan , German writer and slam poet
- Widad Nabi , Kurdish-Syrian poet
- Ferdinand Schmalz , Austrian playwright, prose writer and theater scholar
Died
- January 2 : Jacques de Lacretelle , French writer (* 1888 )
- February 4 : Werner Helwig , German writer (* 1905 )
- February 22nd : Salvador Espriu , Catalan writer (* 1913 )
- March 7th : Tamara Ramsay , children's book author (* 1895 )
- March 23 : Anton Levien Constandse , Dutch author, editor, publisher, free thinker (* 1899 )
- March 26 : Anders Cleve , Finnish writer (* 1937 )
- April 1 : Jonny Rieger , German writer (* 1908 )
- April 9 : Karl Neumann , German writer for children and young people (* 1916 )
- April 27 : Friedrich Märker , German writer and publicist (* 1893 )
- May 5 : Carter Brown , Australian crime writer (born 1923 )
- May 8 : Theodore Sturgeon , science fiction author (* 1918 )
- June 5 : Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin , Irish writer (* 1932 )
- June 6 : Kurt Ranke , Germanist and folklorist (narrative researcher) (* 1908 )
- July 2 : Josef Mühlberger , German writer and journalist (* 1903 )
- July 16 : Heinrich Böll , German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1917 )
- August 1 : Alois Carigiet , Swiss artist, painter and children's book author (* 1902 )
- August 24 : Morrie Ryskind , American author (* 1895 )
- August 30 : Taylor Caldwell , English writer (* 1900 )
- September 19 : Italo Calvino , Italian writer (* 1923 )
- October 3 : Heinz Kindermann , Austrian literary and theater scholar (* 1894 )
- November 11th : James Hanley , British writer (* 1897 )
- November 25 : Elsa Morante , Italian writer (* 1918 )
- December 6 : Günter Steffens , German writer (* 1922 )
- December 6th : Hans Sachse , German doctor and Goethe researcher (* 1906 )
- December 7th : Robert Graves , British writer and poet (* 1895 )
- December 17 : Otto Gotsche , German politician and writer (* 1904 )
- December 23 : Gina Kaus , Austrian writer, translator and screenwriter (* 1893 or 1894 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1985/
- ↑ Keri Hulme's Bone People Wins Booker Prize - New Zealand History Online. Retrieved December 30, 2011.