1980 in literature

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Events

• Marguerite Yourcenar was the first woman to be elected to the Académie française
• Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer ( 1979), reached No. 1 on the bestseller list of the New York Times.
• September - The performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole eröffenet the season at the Old Vic Theatre, London, by some as one of the biggest disaster of the theater scene viewed.

New releases

Fiction

• Richard Adams The Girl in a Swing
• The Iron Wolf and Other Stories

• Thomas Berger - Neighbors
• Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers
• Ramsey Campbell, (ed. ) - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• Orson Scott Card - Enders Game
• Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah
• Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall
• JM Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
• Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre - The Fifth Horseman
• Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline
• Basil Copper - Necropolis
• Roald Dahl - The Twits
• L. Sprague de Camp Conan and the Spider God
• The Purple Pterodactyls

• Changeling
• The Last Defender of Camelot

Drama

• Howard Brenton - The Romans in Britain
• Kenneth Ross - Breaker Morant
• Willy Russell - Educating Rita
• Sam Shepard - True West

Poetry

• Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Non-fiction

• Pierre Berton - The Invasion of Canada
• Paul Carell - The prisoner. Life and survival of German soldiers behind barbed wire
• Graham Chapman et al. - A Liar's Autobiography
• L. Sprague de Camp - The Ragged Edge of Science
• L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Spell of Conan
• Graham Greene - Ways of Escape
• Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman - No One Here Gets Out Alive
• Michael Medved & Harry Medved - The Golden Turkey Awards
• Carl Sagan - Cosmos
• Detlev Schwennicke (ed. ) - European pedigrees. Genealogical tables on the history of the European states. New Edition, Vol I.
• Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave

Born

• JANUARY 26: Nora - Eugenie Gomringer, Franconian poet and performance artist
• JANUARY 29: Óttar M. Norðfjörð, Icelandic writer
• FEBRUARY 11: Christian Rosenau, German poet and musician
• FEBRUARY 12: Nicolai Lilin, Russian writer
• FEBRUARY 19: Melanie Arns, German writer
• February 22: Sigrid Brandstetter, Austrian singer, actress and author
• February 24: Manou Mansour, French poet
• MARCH 13: Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Swedish writer
• 20 March: Mikk Murdvee, Estonian conductor, violinist and writer
• April 07: Sebastian Brock, German writer
• APRIL 10: Anna Godbersen, American author
• APRIL 28: Vincent Eugene Noel, Polish -born German writer and playwright

• 0 JULY 8: Riikka Pulkkinen, Finnish writer
• July 17: Gesa Schwartz, German writer
• July 23: Filippa of Sayn- ​​Wittgenstein, German photographer and diarist († 2001)
• August 25: Tilman Birr, German author, songwriter and cabaret artist
• SEPTEMBER 8: Kadri Kõusaar, Estonian writer, film director and journalist
• September 20: Judith Schalansky, German writer and book designer
• October 20: Christiane Hagn, German writer
• NOVEMBER 25: Licia Troisi, Italian fantasy writer
• November 13: Judith Zander, German writer
• December 03: Zlata Filipović, Bosnian writer
• December 27: Nadia Anjuman Persian poet and journalist of Afghan nationality of the people of the Tajiks († 2005)
• No date: Theresa peasant, German journalist and author
• No date: Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean author
• No date: Paul Brodowsky, German author, playwright and literary critic
• No date: Nina Bussmann, German writer
• No date: Lydia Daher, German poet and singer
• No date: Milena Michiko Flašar, Austrian writer
• No date: Nora Hecker, German theater director and author
• No date: Marina Jenkner, German filmmaker and author
• No date: Oliver Kluck, German writer and playwright
• No date: Lea Saskia Laasner, Swiss writer
• No date: Reif Larsen, American author
• No date: Sebastian Meschenmoser, German artist and children's book author
• No date: Henning Mützlitz, German writer
• No date: Kerstin Pflieger, German writer
• No date: Max Scharnigg, German writer
• No date: Barbara Schinko, Austrian writer
• No date: Natasha Solomons, British writer
• No date: Thomas Vaucher, a Swiss author, musician, actor and teacher

Died

• January 05: Walter Lehmbecker, German senior teacher, local historian and writer (* 1898)
• January 08: Kuroda Saburō, Japanese poet ( b. 1919 )
• 09 January: Mário - Henrique Leiria, Portuguese writer and painter ( b. 1923 )
• January 11: Barbara Pym, British writer (* 1913)
• JANUARY 23: Lily Schwengersbauer Cords, German writer (* 1890)
• JANUARY 28: Ciril Kosmač, Slovenian (b. 1910)
• FEBRUARY 4: Laye Camara, Guinea-Bissau (b. 1928)
• February 15: Albert Simonin, French writer, screenwriter, author of detective novels and lexicographer of slang ( b. 1905 )
• FEBRUARY 17: Oscar Paulini, German writer Transylvanian Saxon origin (* 1904)
• FEBRUARY 21: Alfred Andersch, German writer (* 1914)
• February 22: Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer of Expressionism and the Wiener Moderne ( * 1886)
• 02 March: Iwaszkiewicz, Polish writer, musicologist and translator (* 1894)
• March 08: Frederick Hecht, an Austrian chemist and writer (* 1903)
• MARCH 12: Heinrich Malzkorn, German writer, painter and conservationist (* 1892)
• March 10: Vasco de Lima Couto, Portuguese poet and actor ( b. 1923 )
• March 14: Gerhard W. Menzel, German writer (* 1922)
• 20 March: Illés Kaczér, Hungarian journalist and writer (* 1887)
• MARCH 23: Bill S. Ballinger, American writer (* 1912)
• MARCH 26: Roland Barthes, French philosopher, writer and literary critic ( born 1915 )
• MARCH 31: Vladimír Holan, Czech poet ( b. 1905 )
• April 01: Kosuke Gomi, Japanese writer ( b. 1921 )
• April 01: Ernst Johann, German writer and journalist (* 1909)
• April 10: Antonia White, British writer (* 1899)
• APRIL 12: Hanna Stephan, German writer (* 1902)
• APRIL 14: Gianni Rodari, Italian writer and children's book author (* 1920)
• April 15: Jean -Paul Sartre, French novelist, playwright, philosopher and writer ( b. 1905 )
• APRIL 21: Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter ( b. 1928 )
• April 24: Alejo Carpentier, Cuban- French writer (* 1904)
• May 01: Eugen Gürster, German dramatist, literary critic, writer and diplomat
• 06 May: María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (* 1910)
• May 09: Joseph Breitbach, German - French writer and journalist (* 1903)
• MAY 16: Marin Preda, Romanian writer (* 1922)
• MAY 16: Walther Schmieding, German culture journalist and writer ( b. 1928 )
• MAY 24: NO Scarpi, Austro -Swiss translator, columnist, anecdotes collector and director (* 1888)
• MAY 25: Herbert neighbor, German writer ( b. 1930 )
• 0 JUNE 4: Georg Strnadt, Austrian writer and dialect poet (* 1909)
• June 07: Henry Miller, American novelist and painter (* 1891)
• June 18: Jochen Blume, German actor, radio drama and voice actor, and playwright (* 1910)
• June 30th: Galina Iossifowna Serebrjakowa, Russian writer ( b. 1905 )
• 01 July: Charles Percy Snow, English scientist and writer ( b. 1905 )
• 02 July: Sócrates Nolasco, Dominican writer, essayist and historian, Siplomat and politician ( * 1884)
• July 05: Thaddeus Troll, German writer and Swabian dialect poet (* 1914)
• 06 July: Mart Raud, Estonian writer, poet and dramatist (* 1903)
• 09 July: Vinícius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, guitarist and diplomat (* 1913)
• JULY 19: Manuel Castilla, Argentine librarian, journalist and writer ( born 1918 )
• July 19: Margaret Craven, American writer (* 1901)
• JULY 19: Wolfgang Frank, German writer (* 1909)
• JULY 23: Olivia Manning, English writer ( born 1911 )
• JULY 30: Kurt Menke, German children's author ( b. 1921 )
• August 12: Tachihara Masaaki, Japanese writer ( b. 1926 )
• August 14: Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright and screenwriter (* 1911)
• August 17: Gwen Bristow, American writer and journalist (* 1903)
• August 22: George R. Stewart, American writer, linguist and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley ( * 1985)
• AUGUST 28: Kambayashi Akatsuki, Japanese writer (* 1902)
• September 08: Hermann Claudius, German poet and storyteller ( b. 1878 )
• September 08, Maurice Genevoix, French writer (* 1890)
• 09 September: John Howard Griffin, American author (* 1920)
• September 15: Juha Mannerkorpi, Finnish playwright and novelist ( born 1915 )
• SEPTEMBER 18: Katherine Anne Porter, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner (* 1890)
• September 22: Kawakami Tetsutaro, Japanese writer (* 1902)
• SEPTEMBER 25: Marie Under, Estonian writer (* 1883)
• September 30: Vojtěch Cach, Czechoslovak writer and playwright (* 1914)
• October 14: Louis Guilloux, French writer (* 1899)
• October 14: Mary O'Hara, American author and composer (* 1885)
• October 24: César Tiempo, Argentine journalist, actor and writer of Ukrainian origin (* 1906)
• OCTOBER 27: José Rodrigues Migueis, Portuguese (b. 1901)
• October 31: Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer ( b. 1905 )
• November 03: Ludwig Hohl, Swiss writer (* 1904)
• November 04: Elsa Faber by Bockelmann, German writer and poet fairy tale (* 1890)
• 06 November: Erik Asklund, Swedish author and screenwriter ( b. 1908 )
• 07 November: Adrienne Thomas, German writer (* 1897)
• 07 November: Wolfgang Weyrauch, German writer (* 1904)
• November 21: Walter Rilla, German actor and writer (* 1894)
• November 23: Karel Novy, Czech writer and journalist (* 1890)
• December 02: Romain Gary, French writer, diplomat and translator (* 1914)
• December 05: Mary Lavater- Sloman, Swiss writer (* 1891)
• 06 December: Margot Bennett, English author of Scottish origin (* 1912)
• December 18: Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet (* 1902)
• DECEMBER 21: Marc Connelly, American journalist, playwright and writer (* 1890)
• December 22: Thomas Valentin, German writer (* 1922)
• December 25: Olav Dalgard, Norwegian director, literary critic, literary historian and writer (* 1898)
• December 27: Willis Todhunter Ballard, American writer (* 1903)
• December 30th: Volker von Törne, German writer ( b. 1934 )
• December 31: Maria Monk Tegeder, German poet (* 1903)
• Date unknown: Adolfo Costa du Rels, Bolivia (b. 1891)
• Date unknown (August): William E. Livonia, German lyricist and poet ( b. 1938 )
• Date unknown ( end of June ): Lorenz Lotmar, Swiss writer ( b. 1945 )
• Date unknown: Fritz Nolle, German writer (* 1899)
• Date unknown: Hermann Pirich, German writer and journalist (* 1906)
• Date unknown: Karin Thimm, German journalist and writer ( born 1931 )