1985 in literature explained
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985.
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
- Carol Ann Duffy – Standing Female Nude
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
- January 1 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet, playwright, and civil servant (born 1913)
- January 5 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian-born American poet and critic (born 1914)
- February 6 – James Hadley Chase, English thriller novelist (born 1906)[4]
- February 19 – Carl Joachim Hambro, Norwegian novelist, essayist and philologist (born 1914)[5]
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and philosopher (born 1921)
- April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh writer (born 1891)
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German political theorist (born 1888)
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- D. I. Suchianu, Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (born 1895)
- April 25 – Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born 1909)
- May 1 – Denise Robins, English romantic novelist (born 1897)
- May 12 – Josephine Miles, American poet and literary critic (born 1911)
- May 18 – Hedley Bull, Australian economist (cancer, born 1932)[6]
- May 25 – Robert Nathan, American novelist and poet (born 1894)
- June 8 – Hu Feng (胡风), Chinese novelist (born 1902)
- June 16 – Ernst Orvil, Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born 1898)
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Nobel laureate (born 1917)
- July 8 – Leslie Paul, Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1905)
- July 29 – Judah Waten, Australian novelist (born 1911)[7]
- August 14 – Alfred Hayes, English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born 1911)
- August 30 – (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, English-born American novelist (born 1900)[8]
- September 1 – Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and broadcaster (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893)[9]
- September 17 – Fran Ross, African American satirist (born 1935)
- September 22 – D. J. Opperman, South African Afrikaans poet (born 1914)
- September 27 – Leonard Gribble, English novelist (born 1908)
- October 1 – E. B. White, American children's writer and writer on style (born 1899)[10]
- October 11 – Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (born 1925)
- October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian journalist and inventor (born 1899)
- October 31 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek poet (born 1903)
- November 3 – J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English historian (born 1916)
- November 4 – Hilda Vaughan, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born 1892)
- November 6 – Sara Woods, British crime fiction writer (born 1922)
- November 11 – James Hanley, English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born 1897)[11]
- November 25
- November 27 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (born 1902)
- December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet (born 1922)
- December 5 – Mihail Celarianu, Romanian poet and novelist (born 1893)
- December 7 – Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and critic (born 1895)
Awards
Claude Simon
Australia
no award given out this year
- C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry
Kevin Hart, Your Shadow; Rosemary Dobson, The Three Fates
Doris Brett, The Truth about Unicorns
Christopher Koch, The Doubleman
Canada
France
Yann Queffélec, Les Noces barbares[13]
Spain
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
United Kingdom
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
Dannie Abse, Peter Redgrove, Brian Taylor
Graham Mort, Adam Thorpe, Pippa Little, James Harpur, Simon North, Julian May
Robert Twigger
Douglas Dunn, Elegies
United States
Liz Rosenberg, The Fire Music
Robert Penn Warren
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
James Lapine for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, Sunday in the Park With George
Alison Lurie – Foreign Affairs
Carolyn Kizer: Yin
Fiction: Raymond Abbott, Stuart Dybek, Wright Morris (fiction/nonfiction), Howard Norman, James Robison, Austin Wright (fiction/nonfiction)
Poetry: Douglas Crase, Jorie Graham, Linda Gregg, James Schuyler
Elsewhere
Pau Faner Coll – Flor de sal
Notes and References
- News: The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty. Bustillos. Maria. 2015-03-17. The New Yorker. 2019-10-07. en. 0028-792X. 2019-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20191007212915/https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty. live.
- Book: Glenn Deer. Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority. 1994. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 978-0-7735-1159-0. 110. 2021-01-03. 2023-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041642/https://books.google.com/books?id=oazw0sDhO_kC&pg=PA110. live.
- Book: Nicholas Birns. Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead. 1 December 2015. Sydney University Press. 978-1-74332-436-3. 231. 3 January 2021. 15 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041645/https://books.google.com/books?id=FIMRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231. live.
- Book: The Annual Obituary. 1988. St. Martin's. 978-0-912289-82-3. 56-57. 2021-01-12. 2023-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041646/https://books.google.com/books?id=70sYAAAAIAAJ. live.
- Hambro, Johan (1984). C. J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67. .
- Book: Robert Ayson. Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power. 24 September 2012. Palgrave Macmillan. 978-0-230-36389-2. 196.
- Web site: Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note . . 2022-10-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221031050812/https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346552937/findingaid . live .
- Book: John Arthur Garraty. Mark Christopher Carnes. American National Biography. 1999. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-512783-6. 206. 2021-03-27. 2023-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041650/https://books.google.com/books?id=YHIRAQAAMAAJ. live.
- Book: World Book, Inc. Staff. The World Book Year Book. February 1986. World Book, Incorporated. 978-0-7166-0486-0. 516. 2021-03-27. 2023-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041640/https://books.google.com/books?id=9EN9g4G5d3YC. live.
- Book: Jill C. Wheeler. E. B. White. 1 January 2013. ABDO Publishing Company. 978-1-61480-938-8. 21. 27 March 2021. 15 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041644/https://books.google.com/books?id=B-96AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21. live.
- Book: Gibbs, Linneae . James Hanley: A Bibliography . 1980.
- Santo, Aricò L. (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
- Book: Douglas W. Alden. Peter C. Hoy. Christine M. Zunz. French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885. September 1989. Susquehanna University Press. 978-0-941664-99-8. 11458. 2021-01-03. 2023-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20230415041641/https://books.google.com/books?id=yySSPhUSBDAC&pg=PA11458. live.