1978 in literature

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Events

Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
Bloodlines - Sidney Sheldon
Bright Flows The River - Taylor Caldwell
Chesapeake - James A. Michener
Coup - John Updike
Empire: A Visual Novel - Samuel R. Delany
Evergreen - Belva Plain
Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
Fools Die - Mario Puzo
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
A Good School - Richard Yates
Hail The Conquering Hero - Frank Yerby
The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum
Illusions - Richard Bach
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
In My Father's House - Ernest J.Gaines
Jake's Thing - Kingsley Amis
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon
Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford
Night Shift - Stephen King (collection of short stories, most previously published elsewhere)
Running Dogs - Don DeLillo
Scruples - Judith Krantz
Second Generation - Howard Fast
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
Success - Martin Amis
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle
That Vanderbilt Woman - Philip Van Rensselaer
War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
The Wolfen - Whitley Strieber
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Young Adolf - Beryl Bainbridge
The Ends of Power - H. R. Haldeman

Booker Prize: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
See 1978 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
Nebula Award: Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Nobel Prize for Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Prix Goncourt: Patrick Modiano, Rue des boutiques obscures
Prix Médicis French: Georges Perec, La vie mode d'emploi
Prix Médicis International: Alexandre Zinoviev, L’Avenir radieux - Russia
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
Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente