__notoc__ 1979 în literatură — 1980 în literatură — 1981 în literatură Anul 1980 în literatură a implicat o serie de evenimente și cărți noi semnificative.
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Cărți noi Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Richard Adams The Girl in a Swing The Iron Wolf and Other Stories Warren Adler - The War of the Roses Woody Allen - Side Effects Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear Thomas Berger - Neighbors Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers Ramsey Campbell, editor - New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah Mary Higgins Clark - The Cradle Will Fall J. M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians Larry Collins și Dominique Lapierre -The Fifth Horseman Pat Conroy - The Lords of Discipline Basil Copper - Necropolis Roald Dahl - The Twits L. Sprague de Camp Conan and the Spider God The Purple Pterodactyls Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster E. L. Doctorow - Loon Lake Allan W. Eckert - Song of the Wild Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose Ken Follett - The Key to Rebecca Frederick Forsyth - The Devil's Alternative Mary Jayne Gold - Crossroads Marseilles 1940 William Golding - Rites of Passage Douglas Hill - Deathwing Over Veynaa Douglas Hill - Day of the Starwind Robert E. Howard și L. Sprague de Camp - The Treasure of Tranicos L. Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth P. D. James - Innocent Blood Stephen King - Firestarter Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy Björn Kurtén - Dance of the Tiger John le Carré - Smiley's People Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Spooks and Spectres James A. Michener - The Covenant
Robert B. Parker - Looking for Rachel Wallace Belva Plain - Random Winds Marin Preda - Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni Herman Raucher - There Should Have Been Castles Mordecai Richler - Joshua Then and Now Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children Sidney Sheldon - Rage of Angels Gay Talese - Thy Neighbor's Wife Walter Tevis - "Mockingbird" John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer Roger Zelazny Changeling The Last Defender of Camelot
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Premii Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură: Czesław Miłosz