1984 in literature

Events

• The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is read by many people, as that year has come.
• Of Mice and Men, the novel by John Steinbeck, was removed from Tennessee public schools when the School Board Chair promised to remove all "filthy books" from public school curricula and libraries.

New Books

• L'Amant - Marguerite Duras
• The Aquitaine Progression[?] - Robert Ludlum
• The Butter Battle Book[?] - Dr. Seuss
• Empire of the Sun[?] - James Ballard[?]
• First Among Equals[?] - Jeffrey Archer
• The Fourth Protocol[?] - Frederick Forsyth[?]
• Full Circle[?] - Danielle Steel
• Iacocca: An Autobiography[?] - Lee Iacocca
• Lincoln: A Novel[?] - Gore Vidal
• Love and War[?] - John Jakes[?]
• Hotel du Lac[?] - Anita Brookner
• The Lover - Marguerite Duras
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• The Outsider - Howard Fast
• The Practice Effect - David Brin
• The Sicilian[?] - Mario Puzo
• The Talisman[?] - Stephen King, Peter Straub[?]
• The Tie That Binds - Kent Haruf[?]
• The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
• White Noise[?] - Don DeLillo
• The Witches of Eastwick[?] - John Updike
• The Women of Montparnasse, the Americans in Paris[?] - Morrill Cody[?] & Hugh Ford[?]

Births

Deaths

• February 22 - Jessamyn West[?], writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Jaroslav Seifert
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Kennedy[?] - Ironweed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mary Oliver[?]: American Primitive