1980 in literature
See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature.
Awards
- Booker Prize: William Golding, Rites of Passage
- See 1980 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Nebula Award: Gregory Benford, Timescape
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Czeslaw Milosz
- Premio Cervantes : Juan Carlos Onetti
- Prix Goncourt: Yves Navarre, Le Jardin d'acclimatation
- Prix Médicis French: Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Cabinet-portrait who refused the prize, thus it was given to Jean Lahougue's Comptine des Height
- Prix Médicis International: Andre Brink, Une saison blanche et sèche
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Donald Justice, Selected Poems
- Whitbread Best Book Award: David Lodge, How Far Can You Go?
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