1978 in literature
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See also: 1977 in literature, other events of 1978, 1979 in literature, list of years in literature.
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Events
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New books
- 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
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Births
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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
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Awards
- 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
