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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1980.

Events

• March 6 – Marguerite Yourcenar becomes the first woman elected to the Académie française.
• June 5
  • The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a production at the Aldwych Theatre, London, of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel by David Edgar.
  • Willy Russell's comedy Educating Rita opens in a Royal Shakespeare Company production with Julie Walters in the title rôle, at The Warehouse in London.
• August 25 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind (Bumi Manusia), the first of a tetralogy of historical novels, the Buru Quartet, is published in Indonesia after Toer's release from ten years' political imprisonment. It is banned in the country the following year.
• September – A production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Peter O'Toole in the lead opens at the Old Vic Theatre, London. It is often seen one of the disasters in theatre history.
• September 23 – The Field Day Theatre Company presents its first production, the première of Brian Friel's Translations, at the Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland.
• November 27 – The English playwright Harold Pinter marries the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser after divorcing the actress Vivien Merchant.
• December 8 – Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon to death in New York City while carrying a copy of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, which he claims "is my statement."
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  • Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer (published 1979), tops The New York Times Best Seller list.
  • Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate («Жизнь и судьба», completed 1959) is published for the first time, in Switzerland.
  • The first Tibetan-language literature journal, Tibetan Literature and Art (Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyu rtsal), is published by the Tibet Autonomous Region Writers Association (TARWA); it features short stories.
  • The National Library of Indonesia is created by a merger.

New books

Fiction

• Douglas Adams – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

• Warren Adler – The War of the Roses

• Woody Allen – Side Effects

• V. C. Andrews – Petals on the Wind

• Jean M. Auel – The Clan of the Cave Bear

• Thomas Berger – Neighbors

• Anthony Burgess – Earthly Powers

• Ramsey Campbell, editor – New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

• Bruce Chatwin – The Viceroy of Ouidah

• Mary Higgins Clark – The Cradle Will Fall

• J. M. Coetzee – Waiting for the Barbarians

• Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman

• Pat Conroy – The Lords of Discipline

• Basil Copper – Necropolis

• L. Sprague de Camp

• • Conan and the Spider God

• • The Purple Pterodactyls

• Mircea Diaconu – La noi, când vine iarna

• E. L. Doctorow – Loon Lake

• Marguerite Duras – L'Homme assis dans le couloir

• Allan W. Eckert – Song of the Wild

• Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa)

• Shusaku Endo (遠藤 周作) – The Samurai (侍)

• Ken Follett – The Key to Rebecca

• Frederick Forsyth – The Devil's Alternative

• Mary Jayne Gold – Crossroads Marseilles 1940

• William Golding – Rites of Passage

• Graham Greene – Dr. Fischer of Geneva

• Douglas Hill

• • Day of the Starwind

• • Deathwing Over Veynaa

• Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp – The Treasure of Tranicos

• Hammond Innes – Solomon's Seal

• P. D. James – Innocent Blood

• Stephen King – Firestarter

• Judith Krantz – Princess Daisy

• Björn Kurtén – Dance of the Tiger

• Manuel Mujica Láinez – El gran teatro

• Derek Lambert – I, Said the Spy

• John le Carré – Smiley's People

• Madeleine L'Engle – A Ring of Endless Light

• Robert Ludlum – The Bourne Identity

• James A. Michener – The Covenant

• Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) – Pinball, 1973 (1973 年のピンボール, Sen-Kyūhyaku-Nanajū-San-Nen no Pinbōru)

• Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) – Coin Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ)

• Cees Nooteboom – Rituals

• Robert B. Parker – Looking for Rachel Wallace

• Pepetela – Mayombe

• Ellis Peters – Monk's Hood

• Tom Phillips – A Humument: a treated Victorian novel (1st trade edition)

• Belva Plain – Random Winds

• Paulette Poujol-Oriol – Le Creuset (The Crucible)

• Marin Preda – Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni (The Most Beloved of Earthlings)

• Barbara Pym (died 1980) – Crampton Hodnet (written 1940)

• Herman Raucher – There Should Have Been Castles

• Mordecai Richler – Joshua Then and Now

• Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping

• Salman Rushdie – Midnight's Children

• Sidney Sheldon – Rage of Angels

• Gay Talese – Thy Neighbor's Wife

• Walter Tevis – Mockingbird

• John Kennedy Toole (suicide 1969) – A Confederacy of Dunces

• Gene Wolfe – The Shadow of the Torturer

• Roger Zelazny

• • Changeling

• • The Last Defender of Camelot

Children and young people

• Richard Adams
  • The Girl in a Swing
  • The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
• Vivien Alcock – The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
• Lynne Reid Banks – The Indian in the Cupboard
• Jill Barklem – Brambly Hedge series:
  • Spring Story
  • Summer Story
  • Autumn Story
  • Winter Story
• Ruskin Bond – The Cherry Tree
• Matt Christopher – Wild Pitch
• Roald Dahl – The Twits
• Thomas M. Disch – The Brave Little Toaster
• Buchi Emecheta – Titch the Cat
• Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Spooks and Spectres
• Thomas Meehan – Annie: An old-fashioned story
• Robert Munsch – The Paper Bag Princess
• Susan Musgrave
  • Gullband
  • Hag Head
• Ruth Park – Playing Beatie Bow
• Avril Rowlands – God's Wonderful Railway
• Marjorie W. Sharmat – Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport
• Mary Stewart – A Walk in Wolf Wood

Drama

• Howard Brenton – The Romans in Britain
• Andrea Dunbar – The Arbor
• David Edgar (adaptation) – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• Ronald Harwood – The Dresser
• Ron Hutchinson – The Irish Play
• Kenneth Ross – Breaker Morant
• Willy Russell – Educating Rita
• Sam Shepard – True West

Poetry

• Valerio Magrelli – Ora serrata retinae
• Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse

Non-fiction

• Tony Benn – Arguments for Socialism
• Pierre Berton – The Invasion of Canada
• Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark – Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
• David Bohm – Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• L. Sprague de Camp – The Ragged Edge of Science
• L. Sprague de Camp (as editor) – The Spell of Conan
• Graham Chapman et al. – A Liar's Autobiography
• Marilyn Ferguson – The Aquarian Conspiracy
• Stanley Fish – Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
• Julien Gracq – Reading Writing
• Graham Greene – Ways of Escape
• Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman – No One Here Gets Out Alive
• János Kornai – Economics of Shortage (Hiány)
• Paul H. Lewis - Paraguay Under Stroessner
• Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers – Grimoire of Armadel translation from French (posthumous)
• Michael Medved and Harry Medved – The Golden Turkey Awards
• Tom O'Carroll – Paedophilia: The Radical Case
• Carl Sagan – Cosmos
• Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Jack Cox - Nicaragua Betrayed
• Ram Swarup – The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods
• Alvin Toffler – The Third Wave
• Bertram Myron Gross - Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America

Births

• January 1 - Satya Vyas, Indian (Hindi language) writer
• May 1 - Jacek Dehnel, Polish poet, writer and translator
• - Cristina Nemerovschi, Romanian writer
• May 27 - Majlinda Nana Ramai, Albanian pedagogue, writer and researcher
• June 5 - Nestan Kvinikadze, Georgian writer, scriptwriter and journalist
• October 29 - Louie Jon Agustin Sanchez, Philippine poet, fiction writer, critic and journalist
• November 23 - Ishmael Beah, Siera Leonean author and human rights activist

Deaths

• January 3
  • Joy Adamson, Silesian-born conservationist and writer living in Kenya (murdered, born 1910)
  • George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and critic (born 1915)
• January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (cancer, born 1913)
• February 25 – Caradog Prichard, Welsh poet and novelist in Welsh (born 1904)
• March 12 – Eugeniu Ștefănescu-Est, Romanian poet, novelist and cartoonist (born 1881)
• March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927)
• March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915)
• April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905)
• April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, French Cuban novelist and writer (cancer, born 1904)
• May 7 – Margaret Cole, English political writer, biographer and activist (born 1893)
• May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian novelist (asphyxiation, born 1922)
• June 7
  • Salvator Gotta, Italian writer (born 1887)
  • Henry Miller, American novelist (born 1891)
• June 20 – Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (born 1892)
• June 27 – Carey McWilliams, American author, editor and lawyer (born 1905)
• July 1 – C. P. Snow, English novelist and scientist (born 1905)
• July 6 – Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (born 1903)
• July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (born 1913)
• July 17 – Traian Herseni, Romanian social scientist and journalist (born 1907)
• July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English-born theater critic (pulmonary emphysema, born 1927)
• August 8 – David Mercer, English dramatist (born 1928)
• August 10 – Gareth Evans, British philosopher (lung cancer (born 1946)
• September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American novelist and essayist (born 1890)
• November 9 – Patrick Campbell, Irish journalist and wit (born 1913)
• December 2 – Romain Gary (Roman Kacew), French novelist (suicide, born 1914)
• December 8 – John Lennon, English musician, songwriter and author (murdered, born 1940)
• December 12 – Ben Travers, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist (born 1886)
• December 21
  • Marc Connelly, American playwright (born 1890)
  • Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist (born 1912)
• December 27 – Todhunter Ballard, American genre novelist (born 1903)
• December 31 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (born 1911)

Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Czesław Miłosz

Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Inaugural award to Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog; the award is initially given to Paul Radley, who, in 1996, admits that his manuscript was actually written by his uncle.
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: David Campbell, Man in the Honeysuckle
• Miles Franklin Award: Jessica Anderson, The Impersonators

Canada

• See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

• Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation
• Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
• Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche

United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
• Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Peter Dickinson, City of Gold
• Cholmondeley Award: George Barker, Terence Tiller, Roy Fuller
• Eric Gregory Award: Robert Minhinnick, Michael Hulse, Blake Morrison, Medbh McGuckian
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert B. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
• Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?

United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Edward Albee
• Caldecott Medal: Barbara Cooney, Ox-Cart Man
• Dos Passos Prize: Graham Greene
• Nebula Award: Gregory Benford, Timescape
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems

Elsewhere

• Hugo Award for Best Novel: Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
• Premio Cervantes : Juan Carlos Onetti
• Premio Nadal: Juan Ramón Zaragoza, Concerto grosso

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