1977 in literature
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See also: 1976 in literature, other events of 1977, 1978 in literature, list of years in literature.
Events
New books
- The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
- Beggarman, Thief - Irwin Shaw
- Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon
- A Bonus - Elizabeth Smart
- The Chancellor Manuscript - Robert Ludlum
- Child of the Morning - Pauline Gedge
- The Complete Book of Running - Jim Fixx
- Daniel Martin - John Fowles
- Dreams Die First - Harold Robbins
- The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carré
- How to Save Your Own Life - Erica Jong
- Illusions - Richard Bach
- The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brian
- Oliver's Story - Erich Segal
- The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
- The Public Burning - Robert Coover
- Rage - Richard Bachman
- Refiner's Fire - Mark Helprin
- A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
- The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
- The Shining - Stephen King
- The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Slave Girl - Buchi Emecheta
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me - Christopher Wood
- Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
- The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
- The True American, A Folk Fable - Melvin Van Peebles
- The Wars - Timothy Findley
- Rocky Marciano. Biography of A First Son - Everett M. Skehan
New drama
Births
Deaths
- January 14 - Anaïs Nin, novelist and diarist
- February 27 - John Dickson Carr, crime novelist
- April 7 - Jim Thompson, pulp fiction author
- April 11 - Jacques Prévert, poet
- July 2 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian/American novelist
- September 4 - E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful author
- September 12 - Robert Lowell, poet
- October 27 - James M. Cain, novelist, newspaperman
- November 10 - Dennis Wheatley, occult novelist
- November 30 - Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- December 22 - Frank Thiess, German writer
Awards
- Booker Prize: Paul Scott, Staying On
- Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Vicente Aleixandre
- Prix Goncourt: Didier Decoin, John l'enfer
- Prix Médicis French: Michel Butel, L'Autre Amour
- Prix Médicis International: Hector Bianciotti, Le Traité des saisons - Argentina
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Merrill, Divine Comedies
- Pulitzer Prize for History: David M. Potter: The Impending Crisis, 1841-186 (Completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher).
- Viareggio Prize: Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
- 1977 Governor General's Awards
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