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

Events

New books

  • Isabel Allende - La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
  • Martin Amis - Invasion of the Space Invaders
  • 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
  • Arthur C. Clarke -
  • Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
  • Aileen Crawley - The Bride of Suleiman
  • 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
  • John Jakes - North and South
  • Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark
  • David Kesterton - The Darkling
  • Stephen King - Different Seasons 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
  • George R. R. Martin - Fevre Dream
  • James Merrill - The Changing Light at Sandover
  • James A. Michener - Space
  • 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
  • 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

    Non-fiction

  • Irving Abella and Harold Troper - None is Too Many.
  • Carol Gilligan - In a Different Voice.
  • Edward James - .
  • Audre Lorde - .
  • John Naisbitt - Megatrends.
  • Tom Peters - In Search of Excellence.
  • Margaret Trudeau - Consequences.

    Births

  • Deaths

  • March 2 - Philip K. Dick, writer
  • March 6 - Ayn Rand, author
  • June 18 - John Cheever, writer

    Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Gabriel García Márquez
  • Hugo Award for Best Novel: Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

    Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Fay Zwicky, Kaddish and Other Poems

    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
  • 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

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Lawrence Joseph, Shouting at No One
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Bernard Malamud
  • Nebula Award for Best Novel: Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

    Elsewhere

  • Premio Nadal: Fernando Arrabal, La torre herida por un rayo

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