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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of1985.

Events

February 25 –Sue Limb's parodicpastiche of theLake Poets,The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere, begins broadcasting onBBC Radio 4 in the U.K.
March 1 – TheGNU Manifesto byRichard Stallman is published for the first time, and becomes a fundamental philosophical source within thefree software movement.^[1]
August 11 – A memorial to the poetHugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home atLangholm, Scotland.
unknown dates – Three notable novels in English by female authors are published during the year:Margaret Atwood'sThe Handmaid's Tale,^[2]Jilly Cooper'sRiders, the first of theRutshire Chronicles, andJeanette Winterson'sOranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

New books

Fiction

Isaac Asimov –Robots and Empire
Margaret Atwood –The Handmaid's Tale^[2]
Jean M. Auel –The Mammoth Hunters
Iain Banks –Walking on Glass
Clive Barker –The Damnation Game
Greg Bear
- Blood Music
- Eon
M. C. Beaton –Death of a Gossip
Thomas Bernhard –Old Masters: a comedy (Alte Meister: Komödie)
Anthony Burgess –The Kingdom of the Wicked
Orson Scott Card –Ender's Game
Jilly Cooper –Riders^[3]
Bernard Cornwell –Sharpe's Honour
Don DeLillo –White Noise
Friedrich Dürrenmatt –The Execution of Justice (Justiz)
Bret Easton Ellis –Less than Zero
John Fowles –A Maggot
Carlos Fuentes –The Old Gringo (Gringo Viejo)
William Gaddis –Carpenter's Gothic
Gabriel García Márquez –Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera)
Alasdair Gray –The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
Graham Greene –The Tenth Man
Amy Hempel –Reasons to Live
Frank Herbert –Chapterhouse: Dune
John Irving –The Cider House Rules
Garrison Keillor –Lake Wobegon Days
Stephen King –Skeleton Crew
László Krasznahorkai –Satantango
Ursula K. Le Guin –Always Coming Home
Doris Lessing –The Good Terrorist
Cormac McCarthy –Blood Meridian
Larry McMurtry –Lonesome Dove
John D. MacDonald –The Lonely Silver Rain
James A. Michener –Texas
Brian Moore –Black Robe
Iris Murdoch –The Good Apprentice
Ellis Peters –An Excellent Mystery
Caryl Phillips –The Final Passage
Carl Sagan –Contact
Sidney Sheldon –If Tomorrow Comes
Sue Townsend –Rebuilding Coventry
Anne Tyler –The Accidental Tourist
Andrew Vachss –Flood
Kurt Vonnegut –Galápagos
Jeanette Winterson –Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Roger Zelazny –Trumps of Doom

Children and young people

Chester Aaron –Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Pamela Allen –A Lion in the Night
Chris Van Allsburg –The Polar Express
Frank Asch –I Can Blink
Robert Cormier –Beyond the Chocolate War
Roald Dahl –The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Virginia Hamilton (withLeo and Diane Dillon) –The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Patricia MacLachlan –Sarah, Plain and Tall
Laura Numeroff –If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Pat O'Shea –The Hounds of the Morrigan
Cynthia Rylant –A Blue-Eyed Daisy
Jacqueline Wilson –How to Survive Summer Camp (novel)
Elizabeth Winthrop –The Castle in the Attic

Drama

Peter Brook andJean-Claude Carrière (adapted) –Mahabharata
Christopher Hampton (adapted) –Les Liaisons Dangereuses
David Hare andHoward Brenton –Pravda
Wallace Shawn –Aunt Dan and Lemon
Sam Shepard –A Lie of the Mind
Neil Simon –Biloxi Blues
August Wilson –Fences

Poetry

Carol Ann Duffy –Standing Female Nude

Non-fiction

Bill Bryson –The Palace under the Alps and Over 200 Other Unusual, Unspoiled and Infrequently Visited Spots in 16 European Countries
Roger Caron –Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot
Allen Carr –The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Michael Denton –Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Elaine Dundy –Elvis and Gladys
Julien Gracq –The Shape of a City
G. L. Harriss (editor) –Henry V: The Practice of Kingship
Ernest Hemingway –The Dangerous Summer
David Lowenthal –The Past Is a Foreign Country
Walter A. McDougall –...The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age
Tim O'Brien –The Nuclear Age
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley –Elvis and Me
David Robinson –Chaplin: His Life and Art
Oliver Sacks –The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Roger Scruton –Thinkers of the New Left
Gary Soto –Living Up the Street

Births

February 7 -Justina Ireland, American science-fiction and fantasy author of young-adult fiction
April 24 –Alexander Zeldin, British playwright and director
September 24 –Eleanor Catton, New Zealand novelist^[4]
September 30 –Téa Obreht, Yugoslav-born American novelist writing in English
Alisa Ganieva, Russian fiction writer and critic

Deaths

January 1 –Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet, playwright, and civil servant (born1913)
January 5 –Alexis Rannit,Estonian-born American poet and critic (born1914)
February 6 –James Hadley Chase, English thriller novelist (born1906)^[5]
February 19 –Carl Joachim Hambro, Norwegian novelist, essayist and philologist (born1914)^[6]
March 15 –Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and philosopher (born1921)
April 4 –Kate Roberts, Welsh writer (born1891)
April 7 –Carl Schmitt, German political theorist (born1888)
April 17
- Basil Bunting, English poet (born1900)
- D. I. Suchianu, Romanian essayist, translator, social scientist and film theorist (born1895)
April 25 –Uku Masing, Estonian religious philosopher, linguist and writer (born1909)
May 1 –Denise Robins, English romantic novelist (born1897)
May 12 –Josephine Miles, American poet and literary critic (born1911)
May 18 –Hedley Bull, Australian economist (cancer, born1932)^[7]
May 25 –Robert Nathan, American novelist and poet (born1894)
June 8 –Hu Feng (胡风), Chinese novelist (born1902)
June 16 –Ernst Orvil, Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright (born1898)
July 16 –Heinrich Böll, German novelist, Nobel laureate (born1917)
July 8 –Leslie Paul, Anglo-Irish novelist (born1905)
July 29 –Judah Waten, Australian novelist (born1911)^[8]
August 14 –Alfred Hayes, English-born American novelist, poet and screenwriter (born1911)
August 30 – (Janet)Taylor Caldwell, English-born American novelist (born1900)^[9]
September 1 –Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and broadcaster (Plaid Cymru) (born1893)^[10]
September 17 –Fran Ross, African American satirist (born1935)
September 22 –D. J. Opperman, South African Afrikaans poet (born1914)
September 27 –Leonard Gribble, English novelist (born1908)
October 1 –E. B. White, American children's writer and writer on style (born1899)^[11]
October 11 –Alex La Guma, South African novelist and political activist (born1925)
October 24 –László Bíró, Hungarian journalist and inventor (born1899)
October 31 –Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek poet (born1903)
November 3 –J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English historian (born1916)
November 4 –Hilda Vaughan, Welsh novelist and short story writer (born1892)
November 6 –Sara Woods, British crime fiction writer (born1922)
November 11 –James Hanley, English-born novelist and dramatist of Irish extraction (born1897)^[12]
November 25
- Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (born1905)
- Elsa Morante, Italian novelist (born1912)^[13]
November 27 –Fernand Braudel, French historian (born1902)
December 2 –Philip Larkin, English poet (born1922)
December 5 –Mihail Celarianu, Romanian poet and novelist (born1893)
December 7 –Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and critic (born1895)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature:Claude Simon

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: no award given out this year
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry:Kevin Hart,Your Shadow;Rosemary Dobson,The Three Fates
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry,Kevin Hart,Your Shadow
Mary Gilmore Prize:Doris Brett,The Truth about Unicorns
Miles Franklin Award:Christopher Koch,The Doubleman

Canada

See1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt:Yann Queffélec,Les Noces barbares^[14]
Prix Médicis French:Michel Braudeau,Naissance d'une passion
Prix Médicis International:Joseph Heller,God Knows

Spain

Miguel de Cervantes Prize:Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

United Kingdom

Booker Prize:Keri Hulme,The Bone People
Carnegie Medal forchildren's literature:Kevin Crossley-Holland,Storm
Cholmondeley Award:Dannie Abse,Peter Redgrove,Brian Taylor
Eric Gregory Award: Graham Mort,Adam Thorpe,Pippa Little,James Harpur,Simon North,Julian May
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:Robert Edric,Winter Garden
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:David Nokes,Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed
Newdigate Prize:Robert Twigger
Whitbread Best Book Award:Douglas Dunn,Elegies

United States

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize:Liz Rosenberg,The Fire Music
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry,Robert Penn Warren
Frost Medal:Robert Penn Warren
Nebula Award:Orson Scott Card,Ender's Game
Newbery Medal forchildren's literature:Robin McKinley,The Hero and the Crown
Pulitzer Prize for Drama:James Lapine for book;Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics,Sunday in the Park With George
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:Alison Lurie –Foreign Affairs
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:Carolyn Kizer:Yin
Whiting Awards (inaugural year):

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

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels:Teddy Kollek
Premio Nadal:Pau Faner Coll –Flor de sal

References

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^Flood, Alison (3 June 2015)."Jilly Cooper's Riders: why the toned-down cover?".The Guardian. Retrieved7 May 2020.
^Nicholas Birns (1 December 2015).Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead. Sydney University Press. p. 231.ISBN 978-1-74332-436-3.Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved3 January 2021.
^The Annual Obituary. St. Martin's. 1988. pp. 56–57.ISBN 978-0-912289-82-3.Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved2021-01-12.
^Hambro, Johan (1984).C. J. Hambro: Liv og drøm (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 67.ISBN 82-03-11347-8.
^Robert Ayson (24 September 2012).Hedley Bull and the Accommodation of Power. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 196.ISBN 978-0-230-36389-2.
^"Waten, Judah Papers (National Library of Aus.) – Biographical Note".National Library of Australia.Archived from the original on 2022-10-31.
^John Arthur Garraty; Mark Christopher Carnes (1999).American National Biography. Oxford University Press. p. 206.ISBN 978-0-19-512783-6.Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved2021-03-27.
^World Book, Inc. Staff (February 1986).The World Book Year Book. World Book, Incorporated. p. 516.ISBN 978-0-7166-0486-0.Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved2021-03-27.
^Jill C. Wheeler (1 January 2013).E. B. White. ABDO Publishing Company. p. 21.ISBN 978-1-61480-938-8.Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved27 March 2021.
^Gibbs, Linneae (1980).James Hanley: A Bibliography.
^Santo, Aricò L. (1990).Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
^Douglas W. Alden; Peter C. Hoy; Christine M. Zunz (September 1989).French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature Since 1885. Susquehanna University Press. p. 11458.ISBN 978-0-941664-99-8.Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved2021-01-03.

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