1982 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1982.
- February 17 – Philip K. Dick ignores advice to go immediately to hospital. A fortnight later, after two strokes, he is pronounced brain-dead and disconnected from his life-support machine.[1]
- March 18 – A legal case brought on behalf of Mary Whitehouse against theater director Michael Bogdanov concerning alleged indecency in a performance of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre in London is dropped after the Attorney General intervenes.[2][3]
- June 25 – In Island Trees School District v. Pico (457 U.S. 853 (1982)), the Supreme Court of the United States concludes that "local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to 'prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.'"
- September – Banned Books Week is instituted in the United States.
- October 7 – After Sue Townsend's comic character Adrian Mole is introduced (as Nigel Mole,[4] aged 13¼, living in the East Midlands of England) in a BBC Radio 4 play, the book The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, is released; it sells 1.9 million copies in three years.[5]
- unknown dates
- La Bicyclette bleue (The Blue Bicycle) by Régine Deforges is a runaway success and becomes one of France's all-time bestselling novels.[6]
- The Oxford Shakespeare, under the general editorship of Stanley Wells, begins publication.
- Dorling Kindersley, formerly a book packager, begins publishing.
New books
Fiction
- Brian Aldiss – Helliconia Spring (First of the Helliconia trilogy)
- Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus)
- Isaac Asimov – Foundation's Edge
- Jean M. Auel – The Valley of Horses
- René Barjavel – La Tempête[7]
- Julian Barnes – Before She Met Me
- Saul Bellow - The Dean's December
- Michael Bishop – Blooded on Arachne
- William Boyd – An Ice-Cream War[8]
- José Cardoso Pires – Balada da Praia dos Cães[9]
- Arthur C. Clarke – 2010: Odyssey Two
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Company
- L. Sprague de Camp – The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid
- L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan the Barbarian
- August Derleth – The Solar Pons Omnibus
- Marguerite Duras – The Malady of Death
- Zee Edgell – Beka Lamb[10]
- Stanley Elkin – George Mills
- Buchi Emecheta – Destination Biafra[11]
- Penelope Fitzgerald – At Freddie's
- Ken Follett – The Man from St. Petersburg
- John Fowles – Mantissa
- Max Frisch – Bluebeard[12]
- John Gardner – For Special Services (James Bond novel)
- Graham Greene – Monsignor Quixote[13]
- Robert A. Heinlein – Friday
- L. Ron Hubbard – Battlefield Earth
- Hammond Innes – The Black Tide
- Kazuo Ishiguro – A Pale View of Hills
- John Jakes – North and South
- Thomas Keneally – Schindler's Ark
- David Kesterton – The Darkling
- Stephen King
- W. P. Kinsella – Shoeless Joe
- Judith Krantz – Mistral's Daughter
- Peter Kreeft – Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley
- Derek Lambert – The Red Dove
- Robert Ludlum – The Parsifal Mosaic
- Colleen McCullough – An Indecent Obsession
- Russell McCormmach – Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
- Ngaio Marsh – Light Thickens
- George R. R. Martin – Fevre Dream
- James Merrill – The Changing Light at Sandover
- James A. Michener – Space
- Timothy Mo – Sour Sweet
- Harry Mulisch – The Assault
- Chris Mullin – A Very British Coup
- Gerald Murnane – The Plains
- Ellis Peters – The Virgin in the Ice
- Sidney Sheldon – Master of the Game
- Anne Tyler – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Kurt Vonnegut – Deadeye Dick
- John Wain – Young Shoulders
- Alice Walker – The Color Purple
- Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice – Water Witch
- Gene Wolfe – The Citadel of the Autarch
- Roger Zelazny
Children and young people
- Chris Van Allsburg – Ben's Dream
- Gillian Cross – The Demon Headmaster (first in an eponymous series of six)[14]
- Roald Dahl – The BFG
- Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone – The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
- Margaret Mahy – The Haunting
- Michael Morpurgo – War Horse[15]
- Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat Stays at Home
- Bill Peet – The Luckiest One of All
- Claude Roy (illustrated by Willi Glasauer) – The Cat who Talked in Spite of Himself (Le chat qui parlait malgré lui)
- Viveca Sundvall – En ettas dagbok[16]
- Sue Townsend – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Drama
- Caryl Churchill – Top Girls
- Andrea Dunbar – Rita, Sue and Bob Too
- Peter Flannery – Our Friends in the North
- Michael Frayn – Noises Off
- Athol Fugard – "Master Harold"...and the Boys
- Elfriede Jelinek – Clara S, musikalische Tragödie
- Maryat Lee and the people of Hinton, West Virginia – A Double-Threaded Life: The Hinton Play
- Doug Lucie – Hard Feelings
- Stephen MacDonald – Not About Heroes[17]
- Frank McGuinness – The Factory Girls
- Peter O'Donnell – Mr. Fothergill's Murder
- Tom Stoppard – The Real Thing
- August Wilson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Non-fiction
- Irving Abella and Harold Troper – None is Too Many
- Martin Amis – Invasion of the Space Invaders
- Luc Brisson – Plato the Myth Maker[18]
- Beth Chatto – The Damp Garden
- Mark Ellingham (editor) – The Rough Guide to Greece
- Bruce Feirstein – Real Men Don't Eat Quiche[19]
- Eduardo Galeano – Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire), vol. 1
- Carol Gilligan – In a Different Voice
- Sita Ram Goel – How I Became a Hindu
- Rhys Isaac – The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790
- Ryszard Kapuściński – Shah of Shahs (Szachinszach)
- Gary Kinder – Victim: The Other Side of Murder
- Audre Lorde – Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
- Elaine Morgan – The Aquatic Ape[20]
- John Naisbitt – Megatrends
- Fernando Pessoa (died 1935) – The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa)
- Tom Peters – In Search of Excellence
- Erin Pizzey – Prone to Violence
- Richard Rodriguez – Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (autobiography)
- Richard Rorty – Consequences of Pragmatism
- Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the Earth[21]
- Margaret Trudeau – Consequences
- Rebecca West – 1900
Births
- January 9 – Nora Bossong, German poet and writer
- January 14
- Joe Dunthorne, Welsh novelist and poet
- Luke Wright, English poet
- February 5 – Lauren Gunderson, American playwright
- February 23 – Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Ukrainian poet, children's writer, translator and editor
- March 24 – Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir, Icelandic children's fiction writer[22]
- April 21 – Claybourne Elder, American actor, singer and writer[23]
- May 10 – Jeremy Gable, English-American playwright
- June 29
- Colin Jost, American actor, screenwriter and comedian[24]
- Ott Sepp, Estonian actor, singer, writer and television presenter
- July 8 – James Graham, English playwright
- July 16 – Angel David Revilla, Venezuelan journalist and writer
