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Calendar of Literary Facts
1982
- Augusto Roa Bastos is expelled from his native Paraguay by the government of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who labels Roa Bastos a “subversive”
- Nella Larsen’s The Far Side is published
- Charles Johnson publishes Oxherding Tale
- A. R. Gurney Jr. publishes The Dining Room
- David Eddings publishes Pawn of Prophecy
- David Edgar receives an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Maurice Kenny publishes Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues, b. March 11, 1607, d. October 18, 1646: Poems
- Virginia Hamilton publishes Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
- Marsha Norman publishes Night, Mother
- David Edgar produces The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Archibald MacLeish dies
- Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple
- Lawrence Durrell publishes Constance, or, Solitary Practices
- Thomas Keneally receives the Booker Prize for Schindler’s Ark
- Djuna Barnes dies
- Galway Kinnell publishes Selected Poems
- Israeli troops move into Lebanon and lay seige to Beirut
- Britain and Argentina wage the Falklands War after Argentinian forces seized the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- John A. Williams publishes !Click Song
- Ngaio Marsh dies
- Angela Davis publishes Women, Race and Class
- Thomas Keneally publishes Schindler’s Ark
- Richard Hugo dies
- Bienvenido N. Santos publishes The Praying Man
- The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded to the late Sylvia Plath for Collected Poems
- Terry Brooks publishes The Elfstones of Shannara
- Gloria Naylor publishes The Women of Brewster Place
- Richard Rodriguez publishes Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Paul Theroux publishes The Mosquito Coast
- Louise Bennett publishes Selected Poems
- Louis Aragon dies
- Desmond Tutu publishes Crying in the Wilderness: The Struggle for Justice in South Africa
- Peter Blue Cloud publishes Elderberry Flute Song
- Sue Grafton publishes “A” Is For Alibi
- Charles Fuller receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for A Soldier’s Play
- Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Tom Stoppard publishes The Real Thing
- Lewis Grizzard publishes They Tore out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
- Gabriel García Márquez publishes Cronica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)
- Richard Condon publishes Prizzi’s Honor
- Robert Fulghum publishes A Soldier’s Play
- LaVyrle Spencer publishes The Endearment
- Jimmy Breslin publishes Forsaking All Others
- Philip K. Dick dies (March 2)
- Frederic Dannay dies (September 3)
- Kenneth Rexroth dies (June 6)
- Ayn Rand dies (March 6)
- Peter Weiss dies (May 10)
- John Gardner Jr. dies (September 14)
- Howard Sackler dies (October 14)
- Ramón Sender dies (January 15)
- John Cheever dies (June 18)
- Okot p’Bitek dies (July 19)
- Marya Zaturenska dies (January 19)
