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The year 1979 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 New books
2 New drama
3 Poetry
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

New books

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance
Raymond Briggs - Fungus the Bogeyman
Octavia Butler - Kindred
Orson Scott Card - A Planet Called Treason
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Liberator
Thomas Flanagan -Year of the French
John Fowles - The Tree
Arthur Hailey - Overload
Douglas Hill - Galactic Warlord
Sian James - A Small Country
Philippe Jullian - Montmartre
Stephen King - The Dead Zone
Russell Kirk - The Princess of All Lands
Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
John le Carré - Smiley's People
Morgan Llywelyn - Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru
Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle
Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
Dambudzo Marechera - The House of Hunger
V. S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River
Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries
Harold Robbins - Memories of Another Day
Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer
Mary Stewart - The Last Enchantment
Peter Straub - Ghost Story
William Styron - Sophie's Choice
John Updike - The Coup
Jack Vance - The Face
Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird
Elizabeth Walter - In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters
William Wharton - Birdy
Kit Williams - Masquerade
Raymond Williams - The Fight for Manod
Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff
Christopher Wood - James Bond and Moonraker
Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks

New drama

Peter Shaffer - Amadeus
Sam Shepard - Buried Child

Poetry

Main article: 1979 in poetry

Kingsley Amis - Collected Poems

Non-fiction

David Attenborough - Life on Earth
L. Sprague de Camp, editor - The Blade of Conan
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Henry Kissinger - White House Years
Jean-François Lyotard - The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Stephen Pile - The Book of Heroic Failures
Clark Ashton Smith - The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
Margaret Trudeau - Beyond Reason

Births

March 28 - Benjamin Percy, short story writer

Deaths

February 9 - Allen Tate, poet and essayist
February 25 - John L. Wasserman, critic
March 26 - Jean Stafford, short story writer and novelist
May 10 - J. B. Morton, columnist ("Beachcomber")
May 14 - Jean Rhys, novelist
June 3 - Arno Schmidt, novelist
June 7 - Forrest Carter, author
July 6 - Malcolm Hulke, TV writer
July 29 - Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet
October 17 - S. J. Perelman, humorist
October 18 - Virgilio Piñera, poet and short-story writer
December 19 - Donald Creighton, historian
date unknown
- Dilys Cadwaladr, poet
- Sir George Clark, historian
- Goronwy Rees, journalist

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: William Golding, Darkness Visible
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography

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