1977 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1977.
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Events
- 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.
- March 4 – Andrés Caicedo's novel ¡Que viva la música! ("Let Music Live!", translated as Liveforever) is published in his hometown of Cali, Colombia. This afternoon he commits suicide by overdose, aged 25.
- 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.[1][2]
- 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.
- December – 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.
Uncertain date
- V. S. Naipaul declines the offer of a CBE.
New books
Fiction
- 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
- 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
- Michel Déon – The Foundling's War
- Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly
- 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
- Marilyn French – The Women's Room
- Pauline Gedge – Child of the Morning
- Günter Grass – The Flounder (Der Butt)
- Mark Helprin – Refiner's Fire
- Shirley Hughes – Dogger
- 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
- 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
- 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[3]
- 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
- 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
- Richard Adams – The Plague Dogs[4]
- Sandra Boynton – Hippos Go Berserk!
- Helen Cresswell – The Bagthorpe Saga
- Willi Glasauer – Le Journal Enseveli (The Buried Newspaper)
- Rumer Godden – The Rocking Horse Secret
- Diana Wynne Jones – Charmed Life
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Enchantments and Curses
- C. L. Moore (with Alicia Austin) – Black God's Shadow
- Bill Peet – Big Bad Bruce
- Maurice Sendak – Seven Little Monsters
- Barbara Smucker – Underground to Canada (also Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railway)
- Peter Spier – Noah's Ark
Drama
- Robert Bolt – State of Revolution
- Roger Hall – Middle-Age Spread
- Tony Harrison (adapter) – The Mysteries
- Mike Leigh – Abigail's Party[5]
- Heiner Müller – Die Hamletmaschine (written)
- Mary O'Malley – Once a Catholic
- Dennis Potter – Brimstone and Treacle
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii – Ngaahika Ndeenda
Poetry
Non-fiction
- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. – The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
- Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia
- Robert Coles – Children of Crisis
- Esther Deans – Esther Deans' Gardening Book: Growing Without Digging
- Len Deighton – Fighter: the True Story of the Battle of Britain
- Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time Of Gifts
- Jim Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
- Michael Herr – Dispatches
- Edith Holden (died 1920) – The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady[6]
- R. C. Majumdar – The History and Culture of the Indian People, vol. 11
- Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise – Days and Nights in Calcutta
- V. S. Naipaul – India: A Wounded Civilization
- David M. Potter – The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
- E. F. Schumacher – A Guide for the Perplexed
- A. T. Q. Stewart – The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609–1969
- Lawrence Stone – The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800
- Peter Ustinov – Dear Me
Births
- February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American novelist
- August 24 – John Green, American author and YouTube vlogger[7]
- October 16 – Laura Wade, English playwright
- September 15 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist
- November 12 – Richelle Mead, American young-adult novelist
Uncertain date
- Tena Štivičić, Croatian playwright
Deaths
- January 14 – Anaïs Nin, French-Cuban erotic novelist and diarist (born 1903)
- February 27 – John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (born 1906)
- March 4
- Andrés Caicedo, Colombian novelist and cinéaste (suicide, born 1951)
- Alexandru Ivasiuc, Romanian novelist (killed in earthquake, born 1933)
- 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)
- May 9 – James Jones, American novelist (heart failure, born 1921)
- July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist (born 1899)
- August 26 – H. A. Rey, German-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1898)
- September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German-born economist (born 1911)
- September 12 – Robert Lowell, American poet (heart attack, born 1917)
- October 27 – James M. Cain, American novelist and newspaperman (born 1892)
- November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English occult novelist (born 1897)
- November 30
- Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and novelist (born 1893)
- Terence Rattigan, English dramatist (bone cancer, born 1911)
- December 9 – Clarice Lispector, Brazilian novelist (ovarian cancer, born 1920)
- December 22 – Frank Thiess, German novelist (born 1890)
Uncertain dates
- William Glynne-Jones, Welsh novelist and children's writer (born 1907)
- Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer (disappearance, born 1919)
- Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari, Punjabi novelist (born 1914)
Awards
France
- Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
- Prix Médicis International: Héctor Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons – Argentina
Spain
- Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Alejo Carpentier
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
- Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests
- Knighthood for services to the theatre: Peter Hall
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson
- Whitbread Best Book Award: Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time
United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Saul Bellow
- Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science: Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
- Pulitzer Prize for History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1861 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher).
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography: John E. Mack: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
Rest of the World
- Miles Franklin Award: Ruth Park, Swords and Crowns and Rings
- Premio Nadal: José Asenjo Sedano, Conversación sobre la guerra
- Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
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References
- "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).
- Smith, Dai (2004-06-19). "Alun Richards (obituary)". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
- Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
- "Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Abigail's Party". BBC News. 2002-07-25. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
- Parsons, Nicholas (1985). The Book of Literary Lists. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99171-2.
- Braun, Eric (2015-01-01). John Green: Star Author, Vlogbrother, and Nerdfighter. Lerner Publications. p. 40. ISBN 9781467772617.
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