The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
1982 Literary Facts
Bienvenido N. Santos publishes The Praying Man
Tom Stoppard publishes The Real Thing
LaVyrle Spencer publishes The Endearment
Peter Blue Cloud publishes Elderberry Flute Song
Terry Brooks publishes The Elfstones of Shannara
Paul Theroux publishes The Mosquito Coast
Jimmy Breslin publishes Forsaking All Others
Desmond Tutu publishes Crying in the Wilderness: The Struggle for Justice in South Africa
Louis Aragon dies
Louise Bennett publishes Selected Poems
Richard Rodriguez publishes Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
Gloria Naylor publishes The Women of Brewster Place
The Pulitzer Prize in poetry is awarded to the late Sylvia Plath for Collected Poems
Sue Grafton publishes “A” Is For Alibi
Robert Fulghum publishes A Soldier’s Play
Richard Condon publishes Prizzi’s Honor
Gabriel García Márquez publishes Cronica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)
Lewis Grizzard publishes They Tore out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Charles Fuller receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for A Soldier’s Play
Richard Hugo dies
Thomas Keneally publishes Schindler’s Ark
David Edgar produces The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Marsha Norman publishes Night, Mother
Virginia Hamilton publishes Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Maurice Kenny publishes Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues, b. March 11, 1607, d. October 18, 1646: Poems
David Edgar receives an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
David Eddings publishes Pawn of Prophecy
A. R. Gurney Jr. publishes The Dining Room
Charles Johnson publishes Oxherding Tale
Nella Larsen’s The Far Side is published
Archibald MacLeish dies
Alice Walker publishes The Color Purple
Lawrence Durrell publishes Constance, or, Solitary Practices
Angela Davis publishes Women, Race and Class
Ngaio Marsh dies
John A. Williams publishes !Click Song
Britain and Argentina wage the Falklands War after Argentinian forces seized the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Israeli troops move into Lebanon and lay seige to Beirut
Galway Kinnell publishes Selected Poems
Thomas Keneally receives the Booker Prize for Schindler’s Ark
Augusto Roa Bastos is expelled from his native Paraguay by the government of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who labels Roa Bastos a “subversive”
Ramón Sender dies
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Marya Zaturenska dies
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Philip K. Dick dies
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Peter Weiss dies
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Djuna Barnes dies
Kenneth Rexroth dies
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John Cheever dies
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Okot p’Bitek dies
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Frederic Dannay dies
John Gardner Jr. dies
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Howard Sackler dies
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