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The year 1978 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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Events
- The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, a humorous award given annually to books with unusual titles is created. The first winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
New books
- John L. Parker - Once a Runner
- Kingsley Amis - Jake's Thing
- Martin Amis - Success
- Richard Bach - Illusions
- Beryl Bainbridge - Young Adolf
- Anthony Burgess - 1985
- Taylor Caldwell - Bright Flows The River
- Chantal Chawaf - Rougeâtre
- John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
- Brian Cleeve - Judith
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman - Half in Shadow
- L. Sprague de Camp
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg - Conan the Swordsman
- Samuel R. Delany - Empire: A Visual Novel
- Don DeLillo - Running Dogs
- Phyllis Eisenstein - Born to Exile
- Howard Fast - Second Generation
- Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle
- Ernest J. Gaines - In My Father's House
- Günter Grass - Die Flunder - (The Flounder)
- Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
- John Irving - The World According to Garp
- Marshall Jevons - Murder at the Margin
- Ismail Kadare - Ura Me Tri Harqe (The Three-Arched Bridge)
- Stephen King - The Stand
- Stephen King - Night Shift (collection of short stories, most previously published elsewhere)
- Christopher Koch - The Year of Living Dangerously
- Judith Krantz - Scruples
- Madeleine L'Engle - A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Robert Ludlum - The Holcroft Covenant
- John D. MacDonald - The Empty Copper Sea
- Ian MacClennan - Billy Bobby
- David Malouf - An Imaginary Life
- James A. Michener - Chesapeake
- Alice Munro - Beggar Maid
- Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
- Robert B. Parker - The Judas Goat
- Elizabeth Peters - Street of the Five Moons
- Belva Plain - Evergreen
- Mario Puzo - Fools Die
- Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
- Hubert Selby Jr. - Requiem for a Dream
- Whitley Strieber - The Wolfen
- Thomas Sullivan - Diapason
- Rosemary Sutcliff - Song for a Dark Queen
- John Updike - Coup
- Philip Van Rensselaer - That Vanderbilt Woman
- Herman Wouk - War and Remembrance
- Richard Yates -A Good School
- Frank Yerby - Hail the Conquering Hero
- Roger Zelazny - The Courts of Chaos
New drama
Poetry
- Robert Minhinnick - A Thread in the Maze
- John Tripp - Collected Poems
Non-fiction
- Roger Caron - Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
- Lord David Cecil - A Portrait of Jane Austen
- Charlotte Chandler - Hello, I Must Be Going!
- Christina Crawford - Mommie Dearest
- Gerald Durrell - The Garden of the Gods
- John Gall - Systemantics
- H. R. Haldeman - The Ends of Power
- Mollie Katzen - Moosewood Cookbook
- Richard Nixon - The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
- David Rorvik - In His Image: The Cloning of a Man
Births
- June 26 - Eric Shapiro, novelist
- date unknown
- David Llewellyn, screenwriter
- Rachel Trezise, novelist and short story writer
Deaths
- January 12 - Robert Harbin, author of many books on origami
- March 1 - Paul Scott, Raj Quartet author
- March 24 - Leigh Brackett, science fiction writer
- April 14 - F. R. Leavis, literary critic
- May 1 - Sylvia Townsend Warner, poet and novelist
- May 12 - Louis Zukofsky, modernist poet
- September 15 - Edmund Crispin, crime writer
- September 28 - Pope John Paul I, author of Illustrissimi under his real name of Albino Luciani
- November 15 - Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
- date unknown - Walter C. Alvarez, medical author
Awards
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year is first awarded. The winner is Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
Canada
- See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France
- Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
- Prix Médicis French: Georges Perec, La vie mode d'emploi
- Prix Médicis International: Aleksandr Zinovyev, L’Avenir radieux - Russia
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
- Cholmondeley Award: Christopher Hope, Leslie Norris, Peter Reading, D.M. Thomas, R.S. Thomas
- Eric Gregory Award: Ciaran Carson, Peter Denman, Christopher Reid, Paul Wilkins, Martyn A. Ford, James Sutherland-Smith
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Maurice Gee, Plumb
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy
United States
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Peter Taylor
- Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems
Elsewhere
- Premio Nadal: Germán Sánchez Espeso, Narciso
- Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
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