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      This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1977.


      Events


      February 20 – An episode of Doctor on the Go, co-written by Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman, marks the beginning of Adams' career as a writer for BBC radio.
      March 4 – Andrés Caicedo commits suicide by overdose, aged 25, about a month after the publication of his novel ¡Que viva la música! ("Let Music Live!", translated as Liveforever) in his hometown of Cali, Colombia.
      April 27 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentine comic book writer born 1919), is kidnapped by the military authorities; he is believed to have died in detention a few months later.
      July 11 – The English magazine Gay News is found guilty of blasphemous libel for publishing a homoerotic poem, "The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name" by James Kirkup, in a case (Whitehouse v Lemon) at the Old Bailey in London, on behalf of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers and Listeners Association. John Mortimer appears for the defence. It is the first such prosecution since 1921 and will be the last before the offense is abolished in 2008.
      September 15 – Christopher Tolkien, with Guy Gavriel Kay, completes and publishes his late father's work, The Silmarillion.
      Fall – Philosophy and Literature appears as an academic journal founded at Johns Hopkins University. It explores connections between literary and philosophical studies, presenting ideas on the aesthetics of literature, critical theory, and the philosophical interpretation of literature.
      October – Norman Mailer punches Gore Vidal in the face at a New York City party.
      December 31 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii are detained in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, Kenya, six weeks after the première of their political Kikuyu language play Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) at the open-air Kamiriithu Community Education and Cultural Centre. While imprisoned, Ngũgĩ will write the first modern novel in Kikuyu, Devil on the Cross (Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ), on prison-issue toilet paper.


      New books




      = Fiction

      =
      Ales Adamovich, Janka Bryl and Uladzimir Kalesnik – Я из огненной деревни (Belarusian: Я з вогненнай вёскі; Out of the Fire)
      Jorge Amado – Tieta do Agreste
      Eric Ambler – Send No More Roses
      Jay Anson – The Amityville Horror
      Margaret Atwood – Dancing Girls
      Richard Bach – Illusions
      Richard Bachman – Rage
      Leland Bardwell – Girl on a Bicycle
      Caroline Blackwood – Great Granny Webster
      Gerd Brantenberg – Egalias døtre (The Daughters of Egalia, 1985, also Egalia's Daughters, 1986)
      Terry Brooks – The Sword of Shannara
      Andrés Caicedo – ¡Que viva la música!
      J. M. Coetzee – In the Heart of the Country
      Robin Cook – Coma
      Robert Coover – The Public Burning
      Basil Copper – And Afterward, the Dark
      L. Sprague de Camp
      The Hostage of Zir
      The Queen of Zamba
      L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Aquilonia
      Edmund Crispin – The Glimpses of the Moon
      Michel Déon – The Foundling's War
      Kay Dick – They: a sequence of unease
      Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly
      Joan Didion – A Book of Common Prayer
      Buchi Emecheta – The Slave Girl
      Howard Fast – The Immigrants
      Timothy Findley – The Wars
      Leon Forrest – The Bloodworth Orphans
      John Fowles – Daniel Martin
      Marilyn French – The Women's Room
      Jane Gardam – Bilgewater
      Helen Garner – Monkey Grip
      Pauline Gedge – Child of the Morning
      Richard Gordon – The Invisible Victory
      Günter Grass – The Flounder (Der Butt)
      Mark Helprin – Refiner's Fire
      Hammond Innes – The Big Footprints
      Erica Jong – How to Save Your Own Life
      Elias Khoury – الجبل الصغير (al-Jabal al-saghir, The Little Mountain)
      Stephen King – The Shining
      Derek Lambert – Blackstone on Broadway
      John le Carré – The Honourable Schoolboy
      Ernest Lehman – The French Atlantic Affair
      Robert Ludlum – The Chancellor Manuscript
      Brian Lumley – The Horror at Oakdeene and Others
      Ngaio Marsh – Last Ditch
      George R. R. Martin – Dying of the Light
      Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds
      Larry McMurtry – Terms of Endearment
      Robert Merle – Fortune de France
      Toni Morrison – Song of Solomon
      Iris Murdoch – The Sea, the Sea
      Péter Nádas – The End of a Family Story
      John Neal – The Genius of John Neal: Selections from His Writings (edited by Benjamin Lease and Hans-Joachim Lang)
      Patrick O'Brian – The Mauritius Command
      Ellis Peters – A Morbid Taste for Bones
      Barbara Pym – Quartet in Autumn
      Ruth Rendell – A Judgement in Stone
      Alun Richards – Ennal's Point
      Harold Robbins – Dreams Die First
      Paul Scott – Staying On
      Erich Segal – Oliver's Story
      Irwin Shaw – Beggarman, Thief
      M. P. Shiel – Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk
      Sidney Sheldon – Bloodline
      Leslie Marmon Silko – Ceremony
      Elizabeth Smart – A Bonus
      Botho Strauß – Devotion
      Remy Sylado – Gali Lobang Gila Lobang
      Craig Thomas – Firefox
      J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973) – The Silmarillion
      Melvin Van Peebles – The True American, A Folk Fable
      Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (La tía Julia y el escribidor)
      P. G. Wodehouse (died 1975) – Sunset at Blandings
      Christopher Wood – James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me


      = Children and young people

      =
      Chinua Achebe
      The Drum
      The Flute
      Richard Adams
      The Plague Dogs
      The Ship's Cat
      Sandra Boynton – Hippos Go Berserk!
      Helen Cresswell – The Bagthorpe Saga
      Willi Glasauer – Le Journal Enseveli (The Buried Newspaper)
      Rumer Godden – The Rocking Horse Secret
      Shirley Hughes – Dogger
      Diana Wynne Jones – Charmed Life
      Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Enchantments and Curses
      C. L. Moore (with Alicia Austin) – Black God's Shadow
      Bill Peet – Big Bad Bruce
      Maurice Sendak – Seven Little Monsters
      Barbara Smucker – Underground to Canada (also Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railway)
      Peter Spier – Noah's Ark
      Judith Viorst – Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday


      = Drama

      =
      Robert Bolt – State of Revolution
      Roger Hall – Middle-Age Spread
      Tony Harrison (adapter) – The Mysteries
      Mike Leigh – Abigail's Party
      Heiner Müller – Die Hamletmaschine (written)
      Mary O'Malley – Once a Catholic
      Dennis Potter – Brimstone and Treacle
      Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Ngugi wa Mirii – Ngaahika Ndeenda
      John Wells – The Immortal Haydon


      = Poetry

      =

      Frank Belknap Long – In Mayan Splendor


      = Non-fiction

      =
      Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. – The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
      Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia
      Robert Coles – Children of Crisis
      vol. 4, Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos
      vol. 5, The Privileged Ones: The Well-off and the Rich in America
      Esther Deans – Esther Deans' Gardening Book: Growing Without Digging
      Len Deighton – Fighter: the True Story of the Battle of Britain
      Patrick Leigh Fermor – A Time Of Gifts
      Jim Fixx – The Complete Book of Running
      Robert B. Gottlieb – Thinking Big
      Michael Herr – Dispatches
      Edith Holden (died 1920) – The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
      R. C. Majumdar – The History and Culture of the Indian People, vol. 11
      Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise – Days and Nights in Calcutta
      V. S. Naipaul – India: A Wounded Civilization
      David M. Potter – The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861
      E. F. Schumacher – A Guide for the Perplexed
      A. T. Q. Stewart – The Narrow Ground: Aspects of Ulster 1609–1969
      Lawrence Stone – The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800
      Peter Ustinov – Dear Me


      Births


      February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American novelist
      March 4 – Dan Wells, American horror and science fiction author
      May 2 – Alessandro D'Avenia, Italian writer
      July 18 – Alfian Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
      August 24 – John Green, American author and YouTube vlogger
      October 16 – Laura Wade, English playwright
      September 5 – Tena Štivičić, Croatian playwright
      September 15 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist
      November 12 – Richelle Mead, American young-adult novelist


      Deaths


      January 5 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889)
      January 14 – Anaïs Nin, French-Cuban erotic novelist and diarist (born 1903)
      January 18 – Carl Zuckmayer, German playwright (born 1896)
      January 26 – William Glynne-Jones, Welsh novelist and children's writer (born 1907)
      February 19 – Anthony Crosland, British author and politician (born 1918)
      February 27 – John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (born 1906)
      March 4
      Andrés Caicedo, Colombian novelist and cinéaste (suicide, born 1951)
      Mihai Gafița, Romanian editor, literary historian and children's novelist (killed in earthquake, born 1923)
      Alexandru Ivasiuc, Romanian novelist (killed in earthquake, born 1933)
      March 15 – Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, essayist and political activist (suicide, born 1929))
      April 7 – Jim Thompson, American fiction writer (born 1906)
      April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (born 1900)
      May 9 – James Jones, American novelist (heart failure, born 1921)
      July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist (born 1899)
      July 15 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (born 1892)
      July 20 – Friedrich Georg Jünger, German writer (born 1898)
      August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist and novelist (born 1895)
      August 20 – Gurbaksh Singh, Punjabi novelist (born 1914)
      August 26 – H. A. Rey, German-born American children's writer and illustrator (born 1898)
      September 1 – Ștefan Tita, Romanian polygraph and journalist activist (born 1905)
      September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German-born economist (born 1911)
      September 12 – Robert Lowell, American poet (heart attack, born 1917)
      October 27 – James M. Cain, American novelist and newspaperman (born 1892)
      November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English occult novelist (born 1897)
      November 30
      Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and novelist (born 1893)
      Terence Rattigan, English dramatist (bone cancer, born 1911)
      December 9 – Clarice Lispector, Brazilian novelist (ovarian cancer, born 1920)
      December 22 – Frank Thiess, German novelist (born 1890)


      Awards


      Nobel Prize in Literature: Vicente Aleixandre


      = Canada

      =
      1977 Governor General's Awards


      = France

      =
      Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
      Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
      Prix Médicis International: Héctor Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons – Argentina


      = Spain

      =
      Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Alejo Carpentier


      = United Kingdom

      =
      Booker Prize: Paul Mark Scott, Staying On
      Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
      Eric Gregory Award: Tony Flynn, Michael Vince, David Cooke, Douglas Marshall, Melissa Murray
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
      James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 – The Longed-For Tempests
      Knighthood for services to the theatre: Peter Hall
      Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Norman Nicholson
      Whitbread Best Book Award: Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time


      = United States

      =
      American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Saul Bellow
      Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway
      Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
      Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science: Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
      Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
      Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
      Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
      Pulitzer Prize for History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1861 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher).
      Pulitzer Prize for Biography: John E. Mack: A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence


      = Rest of the World

      =
      Miles Franklin Award: Ruth Park, Swords and Crowns and Rings
      Premio Nadal: José Asenjo Sedano, Conversación sobre la guerra
      Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici


      Notes


      Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.


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