See also: 1981 in literature, other events of 1982, 1983 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1982 in literature, other events of 1983, 1984 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

Events

• La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.

Régine Deforges (born on August 15, 1935) is a French author, editor, director, and playwright. ...

New books

• The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals - Elizabeth Smart
• The Bride of Suleiman - Aileen Crawley
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Consequences - Margaret Trudeau
• Crossings - Danielle Steel
• The Darkling - David Kesterton
• Different Seasons - Stephen King
• For Special Services - John Gardner
• Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
• The Horse Goddess - Morgan Llywelyn
• La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) - Isabel Allende
• In Search of Excellence - Tom Peters
• An Indecent Obsession - Colleen McCullough
• The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
• Invasion of the Space Invaders - Martin Amis
• The Man from St Petersburg - Ken Follett
• Master of the Game - Sidney Sheldon
• Mistral's Daughter - Judith Krantz
• Monsignor Quixote - Graham Greene
• None is too many - Irving Abella and Harold Troper
• North and South - John Jakes
• The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000 - James Edward
• The Parsifal Mosaic - Robert Ludlum
• The Running Man - Stephen King
• Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
• Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella
• Space - James A. Michener
• The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill
• 2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
• The Valley of Horses - Jean M. Auel

For the U.S. kidnap victim, see Elizabeth Smart (born 1987) Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 - March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. ... This article is about the novel. ... Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author whose most famous novel, The Color Purple, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. ... Margaret Sinclair Trudeau (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was the wife of Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. ... Danielle Steel (b. ... Different Seasons (1982) is a novella collection by Stephen King containing the following stories: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (subtitled: Hope Springs Eternal) Apt Pupil (subtitled: Summer of Corruption) The Body (subtitled: Fall From Innocence) The Breathing Method (subtitled: A Winters Tale) Three movies, The Shawshank Redemption (based on... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. ... Berkley Books American paperback edition. ... This article concerns the British author of spy thrillers John Gardner. ... Foundations Edge Foundations Edge is a novel by Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. ... Dr. Isaac Asimov enthroned with symbols of his lifes work (Rowena Morrill) Isaac Asimov (c. ... Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Llona (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer whose books have been translated into many languages. ... In Search of Excellence is an international bestselling book written by Tom Peters and Robert H. Warerman Jr, first published in 1982. ... Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is a business management guru of the late 1970s to the present. ... Colleen McCullough (born Tuesday, June 1, 1937) is an internationally acclaimed Australian author. ... The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1980 childrens book written by British author Lynne Reid Banks. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born in Oxford, August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis. ... Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. ... Sidney Sheldon (born February 11, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American screenwriter and novelist. ... Judith Krantz (born January 9, 1937), is an American novelist, who writes in the romance genre. ... A novel by Graham Greene, published in 1982. ... This article is about the writer Graham Greene. ... Irving M. Abella, born 1940 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. ... John Jakes (born on March 31, 1932) is a writer of fiction. ... Prince James Francis Edward Stuart or Stewart (June 10, 1688 - January 1, 1766) was a claimant of the thrones of Scotland and England (September 16, 1701 - January 1, 1766) who is more commonly referred to as The Old Pretender. ... Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was the author of 29 spy fiction novels. ... The Running Man (1982) is a science fiction novel by Stephen King, written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. ... Schindlers List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindlers List as well). ... Thomas Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally, is an Australian novelist. ... Joseph Jefferson Shoeless Joe Jackson (July 16, 1889 - December 5, 1951) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox. ... William Patrick Kinsella (born May 25, 1935, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a noted novelist who mainly wrote about Canadas First Nations and baseball. ... Space is a novel by James A. Michener published in 1982. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. ... The cover of The Changing Light at Sandover shows the ballroom of James Merrills childhood home in the 1930s The Changing Light At Sandover is a 560-page poem by James Merrill (1926-1995). ... poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ... 2010: Odyssey Two, is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (January 1982) and also a motion picture (1984) by Peter Hyams entitled simply 2010, or sometimes 2010: The Year We Make Contact. ... Arthur C. Clarke Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, probably most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Valley of Horses is a historical fiction novel by Jean M. Auel. ... Jean Marie Auel (born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is a writer, who is best known for the Earths Children books, a series of books set in prehistoric Europe which explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. ...

Births

Deaths

• March 2 - Philip K. Dick, writer
• March 6 - Ayn Rand, author
• June 18 - John Cheever, writer

March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... Philip K. Dick Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often known by his initials PKD, or by the pen name Richard Phillips, was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... Ayn Rand (February 2, 1905–March 6, 1982; first name pronounced (IPA) (rhymes with mine)), born Alissa Alice Zinovievna Rosenbaum, was a popular and controversial American philosopher and novelist, best known for her philosophy of Objectivism and her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was a U.S. novelist and masterful short story writer. ...

Awards

• Booker Prize: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
• See 1982 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Gabriel García Márquez
• Prix Goncourt: Dominique Fernandez, dans la main de l'Ange
• Prix Médicis French: Jean-François Josselin, L'Enfer et Cie
• Prix Médicis International: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Updike - Rabbit Is Rich
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems
• Whitbread Best Book Award: Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill