The Eighties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Literature: Major Literary Awards

Nobel Prizes in Literature
1980: Czesuaw Miuosz, Poland and United States
1981: Elias Canetti, United Kingdom (born in
Bulgaria)
1982: Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
1983: William Golding, United Kingdom
1984: Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakia
1985: Claude Simon, France
1986: Wole Soyinka, Nigeria
1987: Joseph Brodsky, United States (born in the
Soviet Union)
1988: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt
1989: Camilio José Cela, Spain

Pulitzer Prizes

1980
Fiction:The Executioner’s Songby Norman Mailer
Drama:Talley’s Follyby Lanford Wilson
History:Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of
Slaver yby Leon F. Litwack
Biography:The Rise of Theodore Rooseveltby Edmund
Morris
Poetry:Selected Poemsby Donald Justice

1981
Fiction:A Confederacy of Duncesby John Kennedy
Toole
Drama:Crimes of the Heartby Beth Henley
History:American Education: The National Experience,
1783-1876by Lawrence A. Cremin
Biography:Peter the Great: His Life and Worldby
Robert K. Massie
Poetry:The Morning of the Poemby James Schuyler

1982
Fiction:Rabbit Is Richby John Updike
Drama:A Soldier’s Playby Charles Fuller
History:Mar y Chestnut’s Civil Waredited by
C. Vann Woodward
Biography:Grant: A Biographyby William McFeely
Poetry:The Collected Poemsby Sylvia Plath

1983
Fiction:The Color Purpleby Alice Walker
Drama:’night, Motherby Marsha Norman

History:The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

by Rhys L. Isaac

Biography:Growing Upby Russell Baker

Poetry:Selected Poemsby Galway Kinnell

1984

Fiction:Ironweedby William Kennedy

Drama:Glengarr y Glen Rossby David Mamet

History: No award

Biography:Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of

Tuskegee, 1901-1915by Louis R. Harlan

Poetry:American Primitiveby Mary Oliver

1985

Fiction:Foreign Affairsby Alison Lurie

Drama:Sunday in the Park with Georgeby Stephen

Sondheim and James Lapine

History:Prophets of Regulationby Thomas McCraw

Biography:The Life and Times of Cotton Matherby

Kenneth Silverman

Poetry:Yinby Caroline Kizer

1986

Fiction:Lonesome Doveby Larry McMurtry

Drama: No award

History:... the Heavens and the Earth: A Political

Histor y of the Space Ageby Walter A. McDougall

Biography:Louise Bogan: A Portraitby Elizabeth

Frank

Poetry:The Flying Changeby Henry Taylor

1987

Fiction:A Summons to Memphisby Peter Taylor

Drama:Fencesby August Wilson

History:Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling

of America on the Eve of the Revolutionby Bernard

Bailyn

Biography:Burning the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr.,

and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceby

David J. Garrow

Poetry:Thomas and Beulahby Rita Dove

1988

Fiction:Belovedby Toni Morrison

Drama:Driving Miss Daisyby Alfred Uhry

History:The Launching of Modern American Science,

1846-1876by Robert V. Bruce