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The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.

New books[]

  • Alan Dean Foster - Splinter of the Mind's Eye
  • John L. Parker - Once a Runner
  • Kingsley Amis - Jake's Thing
  • Richard Bach - Illusions
  • Beryl Bainbridge - Young Adolf
  • William Peter Blatty - The Ninth Configuration
  • Judy Blume - Wifey
  • Charles Bukowski - Women
  • Anthony Burgess - 1985
  • Taylor Caldwell - Bright Flows The River
  • Chantal Chawaf - Rougeâtre
  • John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
  • C.J. Cherryh - Well of Shiuan
  • Brian Cleeve - Judith
  • Mary Elizabeth Counselman - Half in Shadow
  • L. Sprague de Camp
    • The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
    • The Great Fetish
  • L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - Conan the Swordsman
  • Samuel R. Delany - Empire: A Visual Novel
  • Don DeLillo - Running Dog
  • Nelson DeMille - By the Rivers of Babylon
  • Phyllis Eisenstein - Born to Exile
  • J. G. Farrell - The Singapore Grip
  • Howard Fast - Second Generation
  • Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle
  • Ernest J. Gaines - In My Father's House
  • Günter Grass - Die Flunder - (The Flounder)
  • Graham Greene - The Human Factor
  • Donald Hamilton - The Silencers
  • Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
  • James Herbert - The Spear
  • William Hjortsberg - Falling Angel
  • John Irving - The World According to Garp
  • Marshall Jevons - Murder at the Margin
  • James Jones - Whistle
  • Ismail Kadare - Ura Me Tri Harqe (The Three-Arched Bridge)
  • M. M. Kaye - The Far Pavilions
  • Stephen King - The Stand
  • Stephen King - Night Shift (collection of short stories, including Children of the Corn)
  • Christopher Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
  • Larry Kramer - Faggots
  • Judith Krantz - Scruples
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - The Eye of the Heron
  • Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  • Robert Ludlum - The Holcroft Covenant
  • John D. MacDonald - The Empty Copper Sea
  • Ian MacClennan - Billy Bobby
  • David Malouf - An Imaginary Life
  • Richard Matheson - What Dreams May Come
  • Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden
  • James A. Michener - Chesapeake
  • Alice Munro - Beggar Maid
  • Larry Niven - The Magic Goes Away
  • Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
  • Andrew J. Offutt - Conan and the Sorcerer
  • Robert B. Parker - The Judas Goat
  • Elizabeth Peters - Street of the Five Moons
  • William Luther Pierce - The Turner Diaries
  • Belva Plain - Evergreen
  • Mario Puzo - Fools Die
  • Mary Renault - The Praise Singer
  • Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
  • Hubert Selby Jr. - Requiem for a Dream
  • Whitley Strieber - The Wolfen
  • Thomas Sullivan - Diapason
  • Rosemary Sutcliff - Song for a Dark Queen
  • John Updike - The Coup
  • Philip Van Rensselaer - That Vanderbilt Woman
  • Gore Vidal - Kalki
  • William Wharton - Birdy
  • Herman Wouk - War and Remembrance
  • Richard Yates -A Good School
  • Frank Yerby - Hail the Conquering Hero
  • Roger Zelazny - The Courts of Chaos

New drama[]

  • David Hare - Plenty
  • Ira Levin - Deathtrap
  • Mary O'Malley - Once a Catholic

Poetry[]

Main article: 1978 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg - Tabu Homosexualität
  • Roger Caron - Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
  • Lord David Cecil - A Portrait of Jane Austen
  • Charlotte Chandler - Hello, I Must Be Going!
  • Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
  • Gerald Durrell - The Garden of the Gods
  • John Gall - Systemantics
  • H. R. Haldeman - The Ends of Power
  • Mollie Katzen - Moosewood Cookbook
  • Richard Nixon - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
  • David Rorvik - In his Image: The Cloning of a Man[1]

Births[]

  • June 26 - Eric Shapiro, novelist
  • July 23 - Lauren Groff, author
  • date unknown
    • David Llewellyn, screenwriter
    • Rachel Trezise, novelist and short story writer

Deaths[]

  • January 12 - Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
  • March 1 - Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
  • March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
  • April 14 - F. R. Leavis, literary critic
  • May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
  • May 12 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
  • September 15 - Edmund Crispin, crime writer
  • September 28 - Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
  • November 15 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
  • date unknown - Walter C. Alvarez, medical author

Awards[]

Canada[]

  • See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
  • Prix Médicis French: Georges Perec, La vie mode d'emploi
  • Prix Médicis International: Aleksandr Zinovyev, L’Avenir radieux - Russia

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Premio Nadal: Germán Sánchez Espeso, Narciso
  • Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente

References[]

  1. ↑ Rorvik, David Michael (1978). In his Image: The Cloning of a Man. New York City: J. B. Lippincott. ISBN 978-0397012558.  The author (Rorvik) intentionally left the word "his" uncapitalized in the title of this book. See Talk:David Rorvik

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