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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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