Books - 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 Big U
  - Neal Stephenson (debut novel)
• Brother in the Land - Robert Swindells
• 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
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy
  (collected edition) - Bob Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
• Lincoln: A Novel - Gore Vidal
• Love and War - John Jakes
• Hotel du Lac
  - Anita Brookner
• The Lover
  - Marguerite Duras
• Money
  - Martin Amis
• Neuromancer
  - William Gibson
• The Outsider - Howard Fast
• The Practice Effect
  - David Brin
• Random Hearts
  - Warren Adler
• Role of Honour
  - John Gardner
• A Shock to the System - Simon Brett
• The Sicilian - Mario Puzo
• Slow Learner: Early Stories
  - Thomas Pynchon
• Stanley and the Women - Kingsley Amis
• The Talisman
  - Stephen King, Peter Straub
• Thinner - Richard Bachman (nom de plume for Stephen King)
• The Tie That Binds
  - Kent Haruf
• The Wasp Factory
  - Iain Banks
• White Noise - Don DeLillo
• The Witches of Eastwick
  - John Updike

New drama

• Howard Barker - Scenes from an Execution
• David Mamet - Glengarry Glen Ross

Non-fiction

• Morrill Cody & Hugh Ford - The Women of Montparnasse, the Americans in Paris
• Lee Iacocca - Iacocca: An Autobiography
• Steven Levy - Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Births

Deaths

• February 22 - Jessamyn West, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• See 1984 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: William Gibson, Neuromancer
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Jaroslav Seifert
• Prix Goncourt: Marguerite Duras, L'Amant
• Prix Médicis French: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Le Diable en tête
• Prix Médicis International: Elsa Morante, Aracoeli
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: William Kennedy - Ironweed
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mary Oliver: American Primitive
• Whitbread Best Book Award: James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women

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