__notoc__ 1978 în literatură — 1979 în literatură — 1980 în literatură Anul 1979 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative.
Evenimente
Cărți noi Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ((Ghidul autostopistului galactic) V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance Raymond Briggs - Fungus the Bogeyman Octavia Butler - Kindred Orson Scott Card - A Planet Called Treason Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories L. Sprague de Camp și Lin Carter - Conan the Liberator Thomas Flanagan -Year of the French Alan Dean Foster -Alien William Golding - Darkness Visible William Goldman - Tinsel Arthur Hailey - Overload Douglas Hill - Galactic Warlord Sian James - A Small Country Philippe Jullian - Montmartre Stephen King - The Dead Zone Russell Kirk - The Princess of All Lands Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting John le Carré - Smiley's People Morgan Llywelyn - Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru Robert Ludlum - The Matarese Circle Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song Dambudzo Marechera - The House of Hunger V. S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River Jerry Pournelle - Janissaries Harold Robbins - Memories of Another Day Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer Mary Stewart - The Last Enchantment Peter Straub - Ghost Story William Styron - Sophie's Choice Jack Vance - The Face Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird Elizabeth Walter - In the Mist and Other Uncanny Encounters William Wharton - Birdy Kit Williams - Masquerade Raymond Williams - The Fight for Manod Robert Anton Wilson - Schrodinger's Cat Tom Wolfe - The Right Stuff Christopher Wood - James Bond and Moonraker Roger Zelazny -Roadmarks Trevanian -Shibumi
Teatru
Peter Shaffer - Amadeus Sam Shepard - Buried Child
Poezie
Non-ficțiune
Nașteri
Decese
Premii Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură: Odysseas Elytis