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1981 in literature

See also: 1980 in literature, other events of 1981, 1982 in literature, list of years in literature.

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February 24 - Jean Harris[?] is convicted of murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower[?], the author of the bestselling The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet[?]

Arabian Nights and Days[?] - Naguib Mahfouz
La Bicyclette Bleue[?] (The Blue Bicycle) - Régine Deforges
Bliss[?] - Peter Carey
Creation - Gore Vidal
Cujo - Stephen King
Distant Star[?] - Samuel R. Delany
Famous Last Words[?] - Timothy Findley
Flames Across the Border[?] - Pierre Berton
The Glitter Dome[?] - Joseph Wambaugh[?]
Goodbye, Janette[?] - Harold Robbins
Gorky Park[?] - Martin Cruz Smith[?]
Hotel New Hampshire[?] - John Irving
An Indecent Obsession[?] - Colleen McCullough[?]
Masquerade - Kit Williams
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
No Time for Tears[?] - Cynthia Freeman[?]
Nobel House[?] - James Clavell
Red Dragon[?] - Thomas Harris[?]
Tar Baby[?] - Toni Morrison
The Third Deadly Sin[?] - Lawrence Sanders[?]

January 6 - A.J. Cronin, writer

Nobel Prize for Literature: Elias Canetti
Newberry Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson[?], Jacob Have I Loved
Booker Prize: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Chidlren
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Beth Henley[?], Crimes of the Heart
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Schuyler[?]: The Morning of the Poem

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