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Overview of the events of 1977 in literature
Overview of the events of 1977 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977 .
February 20 – An episode of Doctor on the Go , co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman , marks the beginning of Adams' career as a writer for BBC radio.[1]
March 4 – Andrés Caicedo commits suicide by overdose, aged 25, about a month after the publication of his novel ¡Que viva la música! ("Let Music Live!", translated as Liveforever ) in his hometown of Cali , Colombia .[2]
April 27 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld , Argentine comic book writer born 1919 ), is kidnapped by the military authorities; he is believed to have died in detention a few months later.[3]
July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem, "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name " by James Kirkup , in a case (Whitehouse v Lemon ) at the Old Bailey in London, on behalf of Mary Whitehouse 's National Viewers and Listeners Association . John Mortimer appears for the defence. It is the first such prosecution since 1921 and will be the last before the offense is abolished in 2008.[4] [5]
September 15 – Christopher Tolkien , with Guy Gavriel Kay , completes and publishes his late father's work, The Silmarillion .
Fall – Philosophy and Literature appears as an academic journal founded at Johns Hopkins University . It explores connections between literary and philosophical studies, presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature.
October – Norman Mailer punches Gore Vidal in the face at a New York City party.[6]
December 31 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii are detained in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison , Kenya, six weeks after the première of their political Kikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) at the open-air Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre . While imprisoned, Ngũgĩ will write the first modern novel in Kikuyu, Devil on the Cross (Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ ), on prison-issue toilet paper .[7]
New books [ edit ]
Fiction [ edit ]
Ales Adamovich , Janka Bryl and Uladzimir Kalesnik – Я из огненной деревни (Belarusian: Я з вогненнай вёскі; Out of the Fire)
Jorge Amado – Tieta do Agreste
Eric Ambler – Send No More Roses
Jay Anson – The Amityville Horror
Margaret Atwood – Dancing Girls
Richard Bach – Illusions
Richard Bachman – Rage
Leland Bardwell – Girl on a Bicycle
Caroline Blackwood – Great Granny Webster
Gerd Brantenberg – Egalias døtre (The Daughters of Egalia , 1985, also Egalia's Daughters , 1986)
Terry Brooks – The Sword of Shannara
Andrés Caicedo – ¡Que viva la música!
J. M. Coetzee – In the Heart of the Country
Robin Cook – Coma
Robert Coover – The Public Burning
Basil Copper – And Afterward, the Dark
L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Aquilonia
Edmund Crispin – The Glimpses of the Moon
Michel Déon – The Foundling's War
Kay Dick – They: a sequence of unease
Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly [8]
Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer
Buchi Emecheta – The Slave Girl
Howard Fast – The Immigrants
Timothy Findley – The Wars
Leon Forrest – The Bloodworth Orphans
John Fowles – Daniel Martin [9]
Marilyn French – The Women's Room
Jane Gardam – Bilgewater
Helen Garner – Monkey Grip
Pauline Gedge – Child of the Morning
Richard Gordon – The Invisible Victory
Günter Grass – The Flounder (Der Butt)
Mark Helprin – Refiner's Fire
Hammond Innes – The Big Footprints
Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life
Elias Khoury – الجبل الصغير (al-Jabal al-saghir , The Little Mountain)
Stephen King – The Shining
Derek Lambert – Blackstone on Broadway
John le Carré – The Honourable Schoolboy
Ernest Lehman – The French Atlantic Affair
Robert Ludlum – The Chancellor Manuscript
Brian Lumley – The Horror at Oakdeene and Others
Ngaio Marsh – Last Ditch
George R. R. Martin – Dying of the Light
Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds
Larry McMurtry – Terms of Endearment
Robert Merle – Fortune de France
Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
Iris Murdoch – The Sea, the Sea
Péter Nádas – The End of a Family Story
John Neal – The Genius of John Neal: Selections from His Writings (edited by Benjamin Lease and Hans-Joachim Lang)[10]
Patrick O'Brian – The Mauritius Command
Ellis Peters – A Morbid Taste for Bones
Barbara Pym – Quartet in Autumn
Ruth Rendell – A Judgement in Stone
Alun Richards – Ennal's Point [11]
Harold Robbins – Dreams Die First
Paul Scott – Staying On
Erich Segal – Oliver's Story
Irwin Shaw – Beggarman, Thief
M. P. Shiel – Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
Sidney Sheldon – Bloodline
Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony
Elizabeth Smart – A Bonus
Botho Strauß – Devotion
Remy Sylado – Gali Lobang Gila Lobang
Craig Thomas – Firefox
J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973) – The Silmarillion
Melvin Van Peebles – The True American, A Folk Fable
Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor )
P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975) – Sunset at Blandings
Christopher Wood – James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me
Children and young people [ edit ]
Non-fiction [ edit ]
February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer , American novelist
March 4 – Dan Wells , American horror and science fiction author
May 2 – Alessandro D'Avenia , Italian writer[25]
July 18 – Alfian Sa'at , Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
August 24 – John Green , American author and YouTube vlogger[26]
October 16 – Laura Wade , English playwright
September 5 – Tena Štivičić , Croatian playwright
September 15 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Nigerian novelist
November 12 – Richelle Mead , American young-adult novelist
January 5 – Artur Adson , Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889 )[27]
January 14 – Anaïs Nin , French-Cuban erotic novelist and diarist (born 1903 )[28]
January 18 – Carl Zuckmayer , German playwright (born 1896 )[29]
January 26 – William Glynne-Jones , Welsh novelist and children's writer (born 1907 )
February 19 – Anthony Crosland , British author and politician (born 1918 )[30]
February 27 – John Dickson Carr , American crime novelist (born 1906 )[31]
March 4
March 15 – Hubert Aquin , French Canadian novelist, essayist and political activist (suicide, born 1929 ))
April 7 – Jim Thompson , American fiction writer (born 1906 )
April 11 – Jacques Prévert , French poet and screenwriter (born 1900 )[32]
May 9 – James Jones , American novelist (heart failure, born 1921 )
July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov , Russian/American novelist (born 1899 )
July 15 – Konstantin Fedin , Russian writer (born 1892 )
July 20 – Friedrich Georg Jünger , German writer (born 1898 )
August 13 – Henry Williamson , English naturalist and novelist (born 1895 )[33]
August 20 – Gurbaksh Singh , Punjabi novelist (born 1914 )[34]
August 26 – H. A. Rey , German-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1898 )
September 1 – Ștefan Tita , Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (born 1905 )
September 4 – E. F. Schumacher , German-born economist (born 1911 )
September 12 – Robert Lowell , American poet (heart attack, born 1917 )[35]
October 27 – James M. Cain , American novelist and newspaperman (born 1892 )
November 10 – Dennis Wheatley , English occult novelist (born 1897 )[36]
November 30
December 9 – Clarice Lispector , Brazilian novelist (ovarian cancer, born 1920 )
December 22 – Frank Thiess , German novelist (born 1890 )
United Kingdom [ edit ]
United States [ edit ]
Rest of the World [ edit ]
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 .
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^ M. Elizabeth Ginway; J. Andrew Brown; J. Brown (5 December 2012). Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-137-28122-7 .
^ "11 July 1977: Gay paper guilty of blasphemy" . BBC News . Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2013-06-29 .
^ Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (England and Wales).
^ United States Commission on Civil Rights (1978). Battered Women: Issues of Public Policy : a Consultation Sponsored by the United States Commission on Civil Rights . Commission on Civil Rights. p. 427.
^ Remo Verdickt; Emiel Roothooft (September 1, 2023). "Prison Left Me Laughing: A Conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o" . Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 3 June 2024 .
^ Richard D. Mullen (1992). On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from Science-fiction Studies . SF-TH Incorporated. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-9633169-0-5 .
^ Ellen Pifer; Professor of English and Comparative Literature Ellen Pifer (1986). Critical Essays on John Fowles . G.K. Hall. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8161-8759-1 .
^ Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J., eds. (2012). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture . Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 296. ISBN 9781611484205 .
^ Smith, Dai (2004-06-19). "Alun Richards (obituary)" . The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2013-06-29 .
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^ Die Kaapse bibliotekaris: The Cape librarian . Library Service. 1979. p. 6.
^ "My favourite book as a kid: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones" . the Guardian . 8 April 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2022 .
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^ "Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Abigail's Party" . BBC News . 2002-07-25. Retrieved 2012-06-29 .
^ Directory of Playwrights, Directors, Designers . John Offord. 1983. p. 87.
^ John Leonard (December 1, 1977). "Books of the Times" . The New York Times .
^ Parsons, Nicholas (1985). The Book of Literary Lists . London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99171-2 .
^ "D'Avenia Alessandro - Biografie scrittori, poeti, artisti - Wuz.it" . www.wuz.it . Archived from the original on January 13, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015 .
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^ Anaïs Nin (1994). Conversations with Anaïs Nin . Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-87805-719-1 .
^ Ian Herbert (1981). Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage . Gale Research Company. p. 749. ISBN 978-0-8103-0235-8 .
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^ Winks; Robin W. Winks (1998). Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage . Scribner's Sons. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-684-80519-1 .
^ Gale Cengage (2002). Modern French Poets . Gale Group. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7876-5252-4 .
^ Anne Williamson (1995). Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic . Alan Sutton. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-7509-0639-5 .
^ The Sikh Review . Sikh Cultural Centre. 1977. p. 2.
^ Robert Lowell (1988). Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs . University of Michigan Press. p. 11. ISBN 0-472-10089-0 .
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