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The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.

New books[]

  • Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
  • Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge
  • Jean M. Auel - The Valley of Horses
  • Lynne Reid Banks - The Indian in the Cupboard
  • Michael Bishop - Blooded on Arachne
  • William Boyd - An Ice-Cream War
  • Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two
  • Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
  • Aileen Crawley - The Bride of Suleiman
  • Roald Dahl - The BFG
  • L. Sprague de Camp - The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Barbarian
  • August Derleth - The Solar Pons Omnibus
  • Ken Follett - The Man from St. Petersburg
  • John Gardner - For Special Services
  • Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote
  • Gwenyth Hood - The Coming of the Demons
  • Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
  • John Jakes - North and South
  • Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
  • David Kesterton - The Darkling
  • Stephen King - Different Seasons, Pet Sematary and The Running Man
  • W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe
  • Judith Krantz - Mistral's Daughter
  • Morgan Llywelyn - The Horse Goddess
  • Robert Ludlum - The Parsifal Mosaic
  • Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession
  • Russell McCormmach - Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
  • George R. R. Martin - Fevre Dream
  • James Merrill - The Changing Light at Sandover
  • James A. Michener - Space
  • Timothy Mo - Sour Sweet
  • Harry Mulisch - The Assault
  • Chris Mullin - A Very British Coup
  • Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game
  • Elizabeth Smart - The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals
  • Danielle Steel - Crossings
  • Alice Walker - The Color Purple
  • Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice - Water Witch
  • Gene Wolfe - The Citadel of the Autarch
  • Roger Zelazny - Eye of Cat and Dilvish, the Damned

New drama[]

  • Peter Flannery - Our Friends in the North
  • Michael Frayn - Noises Off
  • Stephen MacDonald - Not About Heroes
  • Frank McGuinness - The Factory Girls
  • Tom Stoppard - The Real Thing

Poetry[]

Main article: 1982 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

  • Irving Abella and Harold Troper - None is Too Many.
  • Martin Amis - Invasion of the Space Invaders
  • Carol Gilligan - In a Different Voice.
  • Edward James - The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000.
  • Gary Kinder - Victim: The Other Side of Murder.
  • Audre Lorde - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.
  • John Naisbitt - Megatrends.
  • Tom Peters - In Search of Excellence.
  • Margaret Trudeau - Consequences.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • February 18 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime writer and theatre director
  • March 2 - Philip K. Dick, American writer
  • March 6 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author
  • June 6 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic
  • June 18 - John Cheever, American writer
  • September 14 - John Gardner, American novelist

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

  • See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Dominique Fernandez, dans la main de l'Ange
  • Prix Médicis French: Jean-François Josselin, L'Enfer et Cie
  • Prix Médicis International: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

United Kingdom[]

  • Booker Prize: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Margaret Mahy, The Haunting
  • Cholmondeley Award: Basil Bunting, Herbert Lomas, William Scammell
  • Eric Gregory Award: Steve Ellis, Jeremy Reed, Alison Brackenbury, Neil Astley, Chris O'Neill, Joseph Bristow, John Gibbens, James Lasdun
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
  • Whitbread Best Book Award: Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Hugo Award for Best Novel: Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
  • Premio Nadal: Fernando Arrabal, La torre herida por un rayo

External links[]

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