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A Breed of Heroes
A Breed of Heroes is a 1981 novel by Alan Judd.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide.
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A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel ''A Good Man in Africa'' and directed by Bruce Beresford.
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A. J. Cronin
Archibald Joseph Cronin, MBChB, MD, DPH, MRCP (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish novelist and physician.
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Academic tenure
A tenured appointment is an indefinite academic appointment that can be terminated only for cause or under extraordinary circumstances, such as financial exigency or program discontinuation.
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Act of Love (novel)
Act of Love is a 1981 serial killer horror novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale.
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language.
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker.
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Alan Gould
Alan Gould (born 22 March 1949) is a contemporary Australian novelist, essayist and poet.
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Alan Jenkins (poet)
Alan Jenkins (born 1955 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) is an English poet.
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Alan Judd
Alan Judd is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.
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Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist.
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Alec Waugh
Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher.
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Alicia Austin
Alicia Austin (born 1942) is a US fantasy and science fiction artist and illustrator.
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Alvin Schwartz (children's author)
Alvin Schwartz (April 25, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York – March 14, 1992 in Princeton, New Jersey) was the author of more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers.
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Amber Reeves
Amber Blanco White (Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a British feminist writer and scholar.
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Among the Believers
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey is a book by the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul.
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Amy Sackville
Amy Sackville (born 1981) is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
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An Open Swimmer
An Open Swimmer is the first novel by multi-award-winning Australian author, Tim Winton.
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Anja Snellman
Anja Snellman (née Kauranen, born 23 May 1954 in Helsinki) is a Finnish author.
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Anne Scott-James
Anne Eleanor Scott-James, Lady Lancaster (5 April 1913 – 13 May 2009) was an English journalist and author.
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April 23
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April 26
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Arabian Nights and Days
Arabian Nights and Days (1979) is a novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia (بانو قدسیہ‎; 28 November 1928 – 4 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist.
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Barney Simon
Barney Simon (13 April 1932 – 30 June 1995, Johannesburg) was a South African writer, playwright and director.
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Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign.
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Beth Henley
Elizabeth Becker "Beth" Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress.
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Bill Peet
William Bartlett "Bill" Peet (né Peed; January 29, 1915 – May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer and animator for Disney Studios.
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Bliss (novel)
Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey.
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Book burning
Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context.
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Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.
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Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.
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Botho Strauß
Botho Strauß (born 2 December 1944) is a German playwright, novelist and essayist.
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Brainstorms
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology is a 1981 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett.
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Burning of Jaffna Public Library
The burning of the Jaffna Public Library (யாழ் பொது நூலகம் எரிப்பு, Yāḻ potu nūlakam erippu) was an important event in the Sri Lankan civil war.
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C. L. Moore
Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.
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Carnegie Medal (literary award)
The Carnegie Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises one outstanding new book for children or young adults.
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Catherine Crook de Camp
Catherine Crook de Camp, (November 6, 1907 – April 9, 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.
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Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern (born 30 September 1981) is an Irish novelist whose work was first published in 2004.
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Charles Boyle (poet)
Charles Boyle (born in Leeds in 1951) is a British poet.
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Charles L. Grant
Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 – September 15, 2006) was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.
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Children's literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.
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Cholmondeley Award
The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom.
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Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981.
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Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night is a 1981 novel by American author William S. Burroughs.
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Clive Sansom
Clive Sansom (21 June 1910 – 29 March 1981) was an English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright.
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Colin MacCabe
Colin Myles Joseph MacCabe (born 9 February 1949) is a British academic, writer and film producer.
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Colin Robert Chase
Colin Robert Chase (1935 – October 13, 1984) was an American academic.
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Collected Poems (Tierney)
Collected Poems: Nightmares and Visions is a collection of poems by Richard L. Tierney.
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Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough (married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson;. Retrieved 2 February 2015 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and The Ladies of Missalonghi, the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy.
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Colonel Sun
Colonel Sun is a novel by Kingsley Amis published by Jonathan Cape on 28 March 1968 under the pseudonym "Robert Markham".
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Cottage garden
The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.
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Couples, Passersby
Couples, Passersby is a 1981 short story collection by the German writer Botho Strauß.
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Creation (novel)
Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal published in 1981.
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Crimes of the Heart
Crimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley.
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Cujo
Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King, about a rabid dog.
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Cynthia Freeman
Beatrice Cynthia Freeman (January 10, 1915 – October 22, 1988), pseudonym of Bea Feinberg, was an American novelist.
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D. J. Enright
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D. M. Thomas
Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935), is a British novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
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David F. Case
David F. Case (1937 - 3 February 2018) is an American writer of short stories and novelist.
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David Garnett
David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was a British writer and publisher.
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December 10
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December 26
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Der Kontrabaß
Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass) is a play by Patrick Süskind.
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Djinn (novel)
Djinn is a novel by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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Dos Passos Prize
The John Dos Passos Prize is awarded annually to the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career.
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Douglas Hill
Douglas Arthur Hill (6 April 1935 – 21 June 2007) was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer.
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Dumas Malone
Dumas Malone (January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, biographer, and editor noted for his six-volume biography on Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson and His Time, for which he received the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for history.
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Durandal (novel)
Durandal is a novel of historical fiction by Harold Lamb.
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Ebla
Ebla (إبلا., modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.
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Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.
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Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.
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Edward Bond
Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter.
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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family.
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Elliot S. Maggin
Elliot S. Maggin, also spelled Elliot S! Maggin (born 1950), is an American writer of comic books, film, television, and novels.
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Encore for Eleanor
Encore for Eleanor is a children's picture book written by Bill Peet about a circus elephant who loves the spotlight even after retirement.
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Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Evil (novel)
Ondskan ("The Evil") is a Swedish novel by Jan Guillou.
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Evil Angels (novel)
Evil Angels is a 1981 novel by the French writer Pascal Bruckner.
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February 17
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February 23
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Footprints on Sand
Footprints on Sand: a Literary Sampler is a 1981 collection of writings by science fiction authors L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, illustrated by C. H. Burnett, published by Advent.
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François-Olivier Rousseau
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
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Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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George Barr (artist)
George Edward Barr (born January 30, 1937 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) is an American science fiction and fantasy artist.
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George's Marvellous Medicine
George's Marvellous Medicine (known as George's Marvelous Medicine in the US) is a book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor.
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Giovanni Pettinato
Giovanni Pettinato (30 April 1934 in Troina – 19 May 2011 in Rome) was a paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language, His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by P. Matthiae in 1974–75.
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God Emperor of Dune
God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981, the fourth in his ''Dune'' series of six novels.
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Golem XIV
Golem XIV is a science fiction novel written by Polish author Stanisław Lem, published in 1981.
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Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom is a children's novel by the English author Michelle Magorian, published by Kestrel in 1981.
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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
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Gorky Park (novel)
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith.
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1903 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.
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Harold Lamb
Harold Albert Lamb (September 1, 1892 – April 9, 1962) was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist.
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Harold Robbins
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels.
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Heroes and Hobgoblins
Heroes and Hobgoblins is a 1981 collection of poetry by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Tim Kirk.
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Hugo Award for Best Novel
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.
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Hugo Brandt Corstius
Hugo Brandt Corstius (29 August 1935 – 28 February 2014) was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.
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Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels.
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Ian Gregson (poet)
Ian Gregson (born 1953) is an English poet and writer.
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Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.
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Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a politician, farmer and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia; today Zimbabwe) from 1964 to 1979.
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If There Be Thorns
If There Be Thorns is a novel by Virginia C. Andrews which was published in 1981.
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Ill Seen Ill Said
Ill Seen Ill Said is a short novel by Samuel Beckett.
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Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (also spelled Kadaré; born 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist and playwright.
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Jack Vance
John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.
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Jacob Have I Loved
Jacob Have I Loved is a children's novel by Katherine Paterson.
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Jaffna
Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
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James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
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James Clavell
James Clavell (10 October 1921 – 6 September 1994), born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was a British (and later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.
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James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991) was an American poet.
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.
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Jan Guillou
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (born 17 January 1944) is a French-Swedish author and journalist.
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Janet Lunn
Janet Louise Lunn, (née Swoboda; December 28, 1928 – June 26, 2017) was a Canadian children's writer.
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January 9
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Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (born 5 July 1925) is a French author, traveler and explorer.
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Jefferson and His Time
Jefferson and His Time is a six-volume biography of US President Thomas Jefferson by American historian Dumas Malone, published between 1948 and 1981.
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Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge (born April 2, 1948 as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author.
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Joe R. Lansdale
Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer, author, martial arts expert, and martial arts instructor.
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John Crowley
John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction.
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John Gardner (British writer)
John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English spy and thriller novelist, best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also for his series of Boysie Oakes books and three continuation novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.
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John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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John Krizanc
John Krizanc (born 1956) is a Canadian playwright who established an international reputation with his non-linear work, Tamara.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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Josep Pla
Josep Pla i Casadevall (8 March 1897, Palafrugell, Girona, Spain - 23 April 1981, Llofriu, Girona, Spain) was a Spanish journalist and a popular author.
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Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States.
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Judy Blume
Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American writer known for children's and young adult (YA) fiction.
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July 10
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Jumanji (picture book)
Jumanji is a 1981 fantasy children's picture book, written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg.
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June 15
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Kalldewey, Farce
Kalldewey, Farce is a 1981 play by the German writer Botho Strauß.
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Karen Russell
Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels.
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Kathleen Jamie
Professor Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is an award winning Scottish poet and essayist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.
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Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.
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Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is awarded annually as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for a book of collected poems or for a single poem of substantial length published in book form.
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
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Kit Williams
Christopher "Kit" Williams (born 28 April 1946) is an English artist, illustrator and author best known for his 1979 book Masquerade, a pictorial storybook which contains clues to the location of a golden (18 carat) jewelled hare created by Williams and then buried "somewhere in Britain".
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L. Sprague de Camp
Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray.
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Larry Shue
Larry Howard Shue (July 23, 1946 – September 23, 1985) was an American playwright and actor, best known for writing two often-performed farces, The Nerd and The Foreigner.
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Last Legionary
The Last Legionary series is a series of five books written by Canadian author Douglas Hill.
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Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – February 7, 1998) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Leïla Slimani
Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a Franco-Moroccan writer and journalist.
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Licence Renewed
Licence Renewed, first published in 1981, is the first novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.
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Little Miss
"Little Miss" is a song written and recorded by Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, of the American country music duo Sugarland.
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Little, Big
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981.
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Loitering with Intent
Loitering with Intent is a novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark.
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Louis Auchincloss
Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath, The New York Times.
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Lucien Bodard
Lucien Bodard (9 January 1914 – 2 March 1998) was a French reporter and writer on events in Asia.
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Madwand
Madwand is a 1981 fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny.
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Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.
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March 20
Typically the March equinox falls on this date, marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere.
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March 29
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March 7
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor.
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Mark Abley
Mark Abley (born 13 May 1955) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer.
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Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist and memoirist.
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Martin Cruz Smith
Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942) is an American mystery novelist.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886), was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle."Woodward, C. Vann.
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Chesnut's Civil War is an annotated collection of the diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut, an upper-class planter who lived in South Carolina during the American Civil War.
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Masquerade (book)
Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams, published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jeweled golden hare, created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams.
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Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
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May 18
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May 30
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May 8
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May 9
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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Mazes and Monsters (novel)
Mazes and Monsters is a 1981 novel by Rona Jaffe.
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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi
Zia Fatehabadi, (ضِیا فتح آبادی), born Mehr Lal Soni (1913–1986), was an Urdu ghazal and nazm writer.
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Michael de Larrabeiti
Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer.
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Michael Hague
Michael Hague (born September 8, 1948) is an American illustrator, primarily of children's fantasy books.
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Michel Déon
Michel Déon (4 August 1919 – 28 December 2016) was a French novelist and literary columnist.
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Michelle Magorian
Michelle Magorian (born 6 November 1947) is an English author of children's books.
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie.
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Miguel de Cervantes Prize
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes) is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.
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Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".
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Miracle Monday
Miracle Monday is a novel written by Elliot S. Maggin, starring the DC Comics superhero Superman.
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Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie
Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie is a 1981 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail.
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Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).
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Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ,; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Nan Shepherd
Nan (Anna) Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 23 February 1981) was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet.
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Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.
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Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
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Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").
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Noble House
A Noble House is an aristocratic family or kinship group, usually British or European, either currently or historically of national or international significance, and usually associated with one or more hereditary titles, the most senior of which will be held by the "Head of the House" or patriarch.
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Norman Nicholson
Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson, OBE (8 January 1914 – 30 May 1987), was an English poet associated with the Cumbrian town of Millom.
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NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo (pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele, born 12 October 1981 in Tsholotsho) is a Zimbabwean author, and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (2012–14).
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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.
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October 3
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Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde
Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde (written in 1981) is a book dedicated to peculiarities of the Dutch language.
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Other People (novel)
Other People is a novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1981.
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Outside Over There
Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
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Pascal Bruckner
Pascal Bruckner (born 15 December 1948 in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Patricia Lynch
Patricia Lynch (c. 1894 – 1972) was an Irish children's writer and a journalist.
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Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind (born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his internationally famous novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published during 1985.
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Paul Theroux
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).
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Pedro García Cabrera
Pedro García Cabrera (19 August 1905 – 20 March 1981) was a Spanish writer and poet.
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens.
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Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist.
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Peter Whelan
Peter Whelan (3 October 1931 – 3 July 2014) was a British playwright.
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Philip Gross
Philip Gross (born 1952) is a poet, novelist, playwright and academic, based in Britain.
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Philip Toynbee
Theodore Philip Toynbee (25 June 1916 – 15 June 1981) was a British writer and communist.
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Pierre Berton
Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a television personality and journalist.
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Premio Nadal
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta.
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Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (Le prix Goncourt,, The Goncourt Prize) is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year".
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Prix Médicis
The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.
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Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.
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Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike.
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Raja Gidh
Raja Gidh (راجه گدھ) by Bano Qudsia is an Urdu novel.
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Raymond Carver
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.
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Régine Deforges
Régine Deforges (15 August 1935 – 3 April 2014) was a French author, editor, director, and playwright.
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Red Dragon (novel)
Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981.
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René Barjavel
René Barjavel (24 January 1911 – 24 November 1985) was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel.
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Richard L. Tierney
Richard Louis Tierney (born August 7, 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.
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Robert B. Parker
Robert Brown Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer of fiction, primarily of the mystery/detective genre.
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.
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Robert Garioch
Robert Garioch Sutherland, (9 May 1909 – 26 April 1981), was a Scottish poet and translator.
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Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler (born January 20, 1945) is an American fiction writer.
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Robert Westall
Robert Atkinson Westall (7 October 1929 – 15 April 1993) was an English author and teacher best known for fiction aimed at children and young adults.
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Rockaby
Rockaby is a short one-woman play by Samuel Beckett.
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Roger Crowley
Roger Crowley (born 1951) is a British historian and author known for his books on maritime history.
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Roger Hargreaves
Charles Roger Hargreaves (9 May 1935 – 11 September 1988) publishing as Roger Hargreaves, was an English author and illustrator of children's books, best remembered for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers.
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Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
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Rona Jaffe
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1931 – December 30, 2005) was an American novelist who published numerous works from 1958 to 2003.
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Roy Fisher
Roy Fisher (11 June 1930 – 21 March 2017) was a British poet and jazz pianist.
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Rumer Godden
Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden.
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Ruth Park
Rosina Ruth Lucia Park AM (24 August 191714 December 2010) was a New Zealand–born Australian author.
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Saint Peter's Fair
Saint Peter's Fair is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in July – September 1139.
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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.
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Samuel R. Delany
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Scarlet Dream
Scarlet Dream is a collection of science fiction short stories by C. L. Moore with illustrations by Alicia Austin.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.
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September 12
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September 3
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September 30
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Sharpe's Eagle (novel)
Sharpe's Eagle is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1981.
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Sharpe's Gold (novel)
Sharpe's Gold is the ninth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell first published in 1981.
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Simon Rae
Simon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (12 or 13 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire, and a trained physician.
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Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.
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Strata (novel)
Strata is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett.
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Structuralism
In sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.
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Sunjeev Sahota
Sunjeev Sahota (born 1981) is a British novelist whose first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011 and whose second novel, The Year of the Runaways, was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize and was awarded a European Union Prize for Literature in 2017.
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.
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Tales from the Nightside
Tales from the Nightside is a collection of stories by American writer Charles L. Grant.
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Tamara (play)
Tamara is a play of 1981 by John Krizanc about the painter Tamara de Lempicka.
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Tankred Dorst
Tankred Dorst (19 December 1925 – 1 June 2017) was a German playwright and storyteller.
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Tar Baby (novel)
Tar Baby is a novel by the American author, Toni Morrison, first published in 1981.
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Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
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The Accrington Pals (play)
The Accrington Pals is a 1981 play by Peter Whelan.
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The Alleys of Eden
The Alleys of Eden is the first published novel of Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler, first published in 1981.
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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35.
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The Book of Dreams (Jack Vance novel)
The Book of Dreams is a science fiction book by American author Jack Vance, the fifth and last novel (1981) in the "Demon Princes" series.
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The Borrible Trilogy
The Borrible Trilogy is a series of young adult books written by English writer Michael de Larrabeiti.
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The Cat and the King
The Cat and the King (1981) is a work of historical fiction about the court of French King Louis XIV (1638–1715) by novelist Louis Auchincloss.
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The Changing Land
The Changing Land is fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, first published in 1981.
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The Claw of the Conciliator
The Claw of the Conciliator is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1981.
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The Comfort of Strangers
The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan.
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The File on H.
The File on H. is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare.
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The Flame Knife
The Flame Knife is a 1955 fantasy novella by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
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The Glitter Dome
The Glitter Dome is a 1984 American made-for-HBO crime drama film starring James Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow.
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The Great Betrayal
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith is a 1997 autobiography written by Ian Smith, focusing on his time as Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, later Rhodesia (April 13, 1964 – June 1, 1979).
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The Hand of Zei
The Hand of Zei is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the second book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna.
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The Heart of a Woman
The Heart of a Woman (1981) is an autobiography by American writer Maya Angelou.
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The Hotel New Hampshire
The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1981 coming of age novel by John Irving and his fifth published novel.
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The Island on Bird Street
The Island on Bird Street (האי ברחוב הציפורים; The Island on Birds Street) is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's book by Israeli author Uri Orlev, which tells the story of a young boy, Alex, and his struggle to survive alone in a ghetto during World War II.
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The Leper of Saint Giles
The Leper of Saint Giles is a medieval mystery novel by Ellis Peters, set in October 1139.
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The Liberators (Suvorov)
The Liberators by Viktor Suvorov (original Russian title: Освободитель) is a partly autobiographical description of life in the Soviet Army during the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.
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The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast is a 1986 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, and River Phoenix.
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The Mosquito Coast (novel)
The Mosquito Coast is the most successful novel by American author Paul Theroux.
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The Nerd
The Nerd is a two-act comedy written by American actor/playwright Larry Shue.
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The Notebook of Trigorin
The Notebook of Trigorin is a play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, adapted from Anton Chekhov's drama The Seagull (1895).
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The Root Cellar
The Root Cellar is a children's historical novel by Janet Lunn that is set in the 1980s, although much of the action takes place in the 1860s.
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The Scarecrows
The Scarecrows is a young-adult novel by Robert Westall, published by Chatto & Windus in 1981.
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The Snow Queen
"The Snow Queen" (Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
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The Sword of the Lictor
The Sword of the Lictor is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, first released in 1982.
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The Third Grave
The Third Grave is a fantasy horror novel by author David Case.
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The War of the End of the World
The War of the End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
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The White Hotel
The White Hotel is a novel written by the English poet, translator and novelist D. M. Thomas.
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Thomas Berger (novelist)
Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist.
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Thomas Harris
William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter.
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Tiger Eyes
Tiger Eyes is a young adult novel written by Judy Blume in 1981 about a 15-year-old girl attempting to cope with the unexpected death of her father.
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Tim Winton
Tim (Timothy John) Winton (born 4 August 1960) is an Australian writer of novels, children's books, non-fiction books, and short stories.
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Timothy Findley
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
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Une rose au paradis
Une rose au paradis is a science-fiction novel written by René Barjavel, and first published in 1981.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev (אורי אורלב; born 24 February 1931) is an Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin.
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Uri Zvi Greenberg
Uri Zvi Greenberg (אורי צבי גרינברג; September 22, 1896 – May 8, 1981) was an acclaimed Israeli poet and journalist who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
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V. C. Andrews
Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.
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V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), is an Indo-Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship.
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Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning, CBE (née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist; she is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was appointed a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Viktor Suvorov
Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, Влади́мир Богда́нович Резу́н, born April 20, 1947, in Barabash, Primorsky Krai, and known as Viktor Suvorov (Ви́ктор Суво́ров), is a Russian writer and a former Soviet military intelligence officer who defected to the United Kingdom.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a 1981 collection of short stories by American writer Raymond Carver, as well as the title of one of the stories in the collection.
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Where Are You Dying Tonight?
Where Are You Dying Tonight? is a 1981 novel by the French writer Michel Déon.
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William Boyd (writer)
William Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.
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William Saroyan
William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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Woza Albert!
Woza Albert! is a political satire play that imagines the second coming of Christ during the apartheid-era in South Africa.
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101 Uses for a Dead Cat
101 Uses for a Dead Cat, by Simon Bond (1947—2011), was a bestselling collection of macabre cartoons.
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1887 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1887.
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1892 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1892.
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1893 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1893.
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1896 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1896.
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1897 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1897.
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1898 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1898.
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1902 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.
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1905 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1905.
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1908 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1908.
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1909 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1909.
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1910 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1910.
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1916 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1916.
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1981 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1981 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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1981 Whitbread Awards
Winner.
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2002 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_literature
